I get lots of scopes to repair from a certain source who sends me their customer returns. The first thing is to find out if they're really broken (often they're not, the customer had second thoughts and returned it with some random complaint).
Tonight I worked with a Celestron Origin. This is a $4000 telescope with no eyepiece. It's instead a permanent f/2 camera on a 6 inch Celestron RASC tube with a stock Celestron Evolution alt-ax mount. No hand controller, no alignment tools, nothing.
You turn it on, link your phone to it with an app. It automatically plate solves in a few locations, fully determines it's orientation, and then points to wherever you want. Then it takes images, autofocuses, live stacks them, and puts them on your phone screen.
From placing it down (I didn't even bother with a tripod), to have the attached image, was 10 minutes of total time. I've never used it before. This is 6x10 second live stacked images, unguided, and taken from a mount sitting on a picnic table. I didn't even adjust the pointing, that was where it pointed, without any correction from me. I didn't touch the scope except to turn on the power button. Built in focuser, built in dew heater, built in filter slot, saves images onboard and sends them to your phone automatically, you can also cast it to a TV apparently.
Technology is going to obsolete astronomy.
