Mizar and Alcor through the eVscope eQuinox. Images can be downloaded as JPEGs or shared with data on the object and exposure time. So the eVscope eQuinox uses a Sony IMX224 CMOS image sensor to repeatedly image galaxies, nebulae, open clusters and globulars, stacking them ad infinitum to produce ever brighter, ever-better views (only) via an app on a smartphone or tablet. It’s a go-to reflector telescope for seeing deep sky objects, something that your average 4.5-inch reflector is pretty terrible at-particularly from urban areas. The mainstay of all observing, it seems unthinkable to lose the eyepiece, and yet it makes a lot of sense if you understand the concept behind the eVscope eQuinox. Images are viewed via an app instead of an eyepiece. The eQuinox lacks something every other telescope has had. An update, or rather, an alternative version of the original Unistellar eVscope from last year. Here’s a second generation of the ‘smartscope’. Who Is It For? Urban amateur astronomers, educators, and citizen scientists looking for a way to see and share images of the deep sky. This version loses the electronic eyepiece, ups the resolution and allows up to 10 smartphones and tablets to see its images as its intelligent image processing power brightens them with time. ![]() Summary: Like Unistellar’s first-generation attempt at a smartscope, the eVscope eQuinox effectively live-stacks images of deep sky objects even under light-polluted skies. Minus: expensive app occasionally crashes some objects requires patience narrow field of view Plus: bright and colorful images copes well with light pollution autonomous star-field detection alignment 12-hour battery easy to use app The eVscope eQuinox is a 4.5-inch reflector telescope with no eyepiece or computerized hand-controller.
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