The Vaonis Vespera is your all-in-one ticket to becoming an astrophotographer. Unlike ordinary telescopes, the Vespera does not have an eyepiece – you can't look through it! Instead, the Vespera contains a built-in imaging sensor that captures images of whatever it is pointed at, which you can view directly on your smartphone or tablet that you use to control the Vespera with Vaonis' 'Singularity' software.
We might then ask, is the Vespera a telescope or a camera? Vaonis call it an 'observation station' and technically, it's both – it sports a 2-inch (50 mm), f/4 quadruplet apochromat telescope, which means it is designed around two sets of two lenses that remove chromatic (color) aberration. At the same time, it hosts a 2.1MP color Sony STARVIX IMX462 CMOS camera sensor for recording the Vespera's clarity of view.
