Tag: unistellar
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The Unistellar Odyssey smart telescope made me question what stargazing means
It’s been 300 years since Galileo and Isaac Newton started fiddling around with lenses and parabolic mirrors to get a better look at the heavens. But if you look at many of the best amateur telescopes today, you’d be forgiven for thinking they haven’t progressed much since. Though components have certainly improved, the basic combination…
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Communal stargazing using your phone: The Unistellar eQuinox 2, reviewed
When we reviewed the Unistellar eVscope a couple of years ago, we came away impressed. It offered a communal stargazing experience that takes our ubiquitous smartphones and turns them into a way to view the heavens. Unistellar’s newest offering is the eQuinox 2, a lower-cost alternative to eVscope 2, taking all of the features from…