Meet the New Vespera Telescope from Vaonis_fr - here's Astroguyz on his recent test of the newest smartscope on the market -
Standing just 15” high and weighing in at 11 lbs The Vespera is an alt-az system mounted on a single swing arm. Like the Stellina, the Vespera is controlled by Vaonis’ new and upgraded Singularity App, available for both Iphone and Android. The App allows users to plan their observing session, control the telescope and take and share images. The user can also manually load coordinates, handy for adding in new novae or comets into the database.
Using the Vespera in the field is a simple process; after hooking the scope up to the phone’s WiFi and initializing the station, Vespera will begin to hunt for familiar star patterns in the sky. The system works off of satellite GPS and a method known as ‘plate-solving,’ comparing star patterns in the sky with its memory database.
Note that the WiFi connection also temporarily kills the mobile data connection for the phone. Our field test suggests that the WiFi is good up to about 25 feet away, and the Vespera can be paired with multiple devices .Portability makes the Vespera a joy to use. The scope is light enough for an easy hilltop hike, and sets up quickly.
. In fact, we’d go as far as to say the tiny Vespera nearly does as well as its much larger sibling Stellina in terms of astro-imaging.What we don’t like- As mentioned, the Vespera is extremely slow in terms of initialization, fine-focusing, target acquisition and imaging; all of this is automatic, but a bit tedious; a live view feature would be great.
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