The maker of both the Stellina and Vespera – two of the best smart telescopes available – will this week launch on Kickstarter a completely different kind of product that partly uses a smartphone to ...

Vaonis has diligently been working on mobile telescope products over the past few years. The company released their Stellina and Vespera telescopes and now they’ve announced an even more affordable ...

Meanwhile, if do-it-yourself astronomy is more of interest, abandon the idea of a smart telescope and go straight for a Dobsonian telescope like the Celestron StarSense Explorer 8” Dobsonian, which is ...

It's safe to say that French smart telescope innovator Vaonis took the internet by storm last year with the launch of the book-sized Hestia. Now the company has returned to its Vespera model for a ...

A telescope with no eyepiece? Or a camera with a massive lens attached? This refractor telescope-cum-camera uses sophisticated techniques to carve through light pollution and make astronomy possible ...

The best smart telescopes have come a long way in the past five years, evolving from curious gadgets into serious astrophotography tools. The Vaonis Vespera Pro sits in the middle of this new class of ...

An easy-to-use and futuristic-looking robotic solution for beginners in light-polluted cities, the Vaonis Vespera Observation Station features impressive live image-stacking for galaxies and nebulae, ...

When I aimed my Vaonis Vespera Pro smart telescope at the Eastern Veil Nebula, the last thing I expected was to be greeted by an eerie figure resembling a Xenomorph from "Alien". Using a dual-band ...

A Kickstarter for the first system to ever turn smartphones into smart telescopes has crossed the $2 million mark with just under a week left to go. The Hestia system, which already has over 8,000 ...

Trying to use a smartphone camera to take pictures of the cosmos is a bit like attempting to cross the Atlantic ocean in a pedalo – you’ll get some of the way there but before too long the limitations ...