 |
| Who knows where the eVscope anomaly is located... it's a mystery the best minds in the astronomical world have yet to solve! We know, when fully functioning, other eVscopes are cited by owners to be an absolute wizard in automatic alignment, and doing everything for you including taking stacked and processed token photos. The updated app is said to now take full frame rectangular images with a greater FOV. It even does automatic dark frame subtraction and has superior goto and guiding accuracy, as they claim. Light pollution is combated with 3 second stacked exposures using a low noise level SONY IMX224 CMOS detector with a resolution of 1.2 million pixels (1305x977). The scope can give views like a 40-inch classical telescope according to observer testimonial and digital light gathering ability is up to 100 times more than a classical telescope. |
This is the digital eVscope telescope by Unistellar, changing the world! The telescope calibrates itself - you don't need to do polar alignment or find and center calibration stars. The telescope is automatic. This is fantastic for people living in light polluted urban core cities where stars may not be visible. It's great for skyscraper dwellers on a balcony that have over half of the night sky blocked by the skyscraper, side walls, and an overhanging roof partition.
Evscope Slated for Operation
This is the story of the Unistellar Evscope after the card with new software was installed. Unfortunately, the telescope has exactly the same problem and is stuck on the purple power light. Unistellar assures me the telescope will be replaced with priority and the details are being worked out.
Card Replacement
Sky Conditions
We are currently undergoing a period exceptional skies after midnight, with improving darkness until 4:30-5:00 am local time. Venus is rising and Orion is high in the sky with the Great Orion Nebula ideally placed for observing. It would be a great first light object for a new telescope. There are numerous bright stars for telescope focus and mirror calibration. Generally it rains in the daytime and clears late in the night. Rain cleans the sky of dust and pollution and often the transparency reaches a high point. We look forward to getting a perfectly working eVscope before either typhoons startup or the rainy Monsoon season begins.
