Do you need a smart telescope? You do if you fancy taking images of deep-sky objects like galaxies, star clusters and nebulae, but live in a light-polluted town or city. Cue the Dwarf 3 (£418 / $520), a smart telescope that is exceptionally small. Weighing a mere 1.3 kg / 2.87lbs, it’s light and narrow and, crucially, able to fit into a camera bag.
Its big trick is to take short exposures of “faint fuzzies” such as galaxies, nebulae and globular clusters and stack them in real-time, improving them with every additional image. It can also shoot the moon and the sun, the latter thanks to a solar filter shaped like a pair of solar eclipse glasses that snap into place across the Dwarf 3’s two lenses — one a 3.4mm wide-angle (principally for finding objects) and one a 35mm zoom.
