Vaonis Hestia smartphone-based telescope

Add your phone to this manual device to turn it into a smart scope

JEMIE CARTER

VITAL STATS • Price $399 (Ultimate pack) • Optics Six lenses in three groups • Aperture 30mm (1.2-inch) • Focuser Manual focus ring • Field of view 1.8† • Magnification 25x • Limiting magnitude 7–8 • App control Gravity (iOS and Android) • Extras Tripod with pan-and-tilt head, solar filter, solar pointer, carry case • Dimensions 17 × 24 × 5.5cm • Weight 850g • Supplier: Vaonis • Tel +33 4 84 98 00 21 • www.vaonis.com The Vaonis Hestia is designed as a convenient way to capture astrophotos using a smartphone as a viewfinder. Roughly the size of a lunchbox or a weighty novel, it promises to be a travelfriendly telescope that can be taken anywhere and used any time. We tested the ‘Ultimate pack', which includes the Hestia,…

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