The $4,000 Stellina Smart Telescope Makes Shooting the Stars a Snap
The Stellina is a smart telescope from Vaonis that works alongside a phone or tablet with the app and helps users to find and share the sights of the universe instantly.
The Stellina is a smart telescope from Vaonis that works alongside a phone or tablet with the app and helps users to find and share the sights of the universe instantly.
Last year, Vaonis launched an astrophotography system called Stellina. Expensive and a bit bulky, it wasn't for everyone. However, the company's latest camera/telescope hybrid, called Vespera, offers many of the same features as Stellina for a quarter the cost: $1,000.
The folks at French startup Vaonis recently put their robotic camera telescope Stellina through its most intense test yet: capturing a 208,000-photo mosaic of the night sky, without any need for human input or astrophotography expertise. The result is breathtaking.
Astrophotography is one of the more difficult and expensive genres of photography you can get hooked on, especially if you want to capture deep space imagery. But a new robotic camera/star-tracker/telescope called Stellina wants to change all that.