What YOU can SEE with a $4,000 SMART Telescope (Unistellar eVscope 2 Review)

Great review, thanks. Will you be doing a review of the Vaonis Vespera 2 or Pro scopes?

For £4 grand? No chance. Not worth it. I get the attraction of the whole plug-n-play setup, but there are far too many cons in terms of light gathering and raw optical capability that a similar (albeit less approachable) traditional scope + camera setup can attain. As others have mentioned, there's nothing here that gives the user the 6x price premium over the competition in terms of quality of result. Also, it bothers me that they've had a typo on their main product page for some time now. When your product lists a mirror as its primary optical component, it helps if you can spell "mirror". :-/

These are not planets. NASA lies and lies.

This is on the level of what I get with a DSLR, cheap mechanical tracker and vintage telephoto lens. So about 1k total. Meaning the other 3k are for the convenience of auto-stacking, GOTO, etc. Definitely not for me, but I understand the logic behind it, although the marketing is despicable.

Vespera blows this away and it's only $1500..

Thanks for sharing. I’ve seen those telescopes. Glad I never bought one. I bought a 8 inch Dobsonian by apertura around 635 and bought some extras spent around 870.00 very happy highly recommend it

This is very poor for the price, my Seestar does better

A fair review. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve got the Seestar S50. My Galaxy and Nebulae images are much better in the Seestar than what you showed. The planets are pretty close as I get 2 bands on Jupiter. I do have better skies in Maui but I’m close to a major street so there is still lots of light pollution. And of course price makes this no contest.

Stars are so far away, they are actually a point source of light. When looking at individual stars in your EVscope, what you’re observing is the sensor being overexposed.

I just found your channel and Joined/Subscribed. As someone who was entranced by the night sky (taking astronomy classes during the summer ages 10-12) and still remembering seeing the rings of Saturn through the telescope of a friend of my uncle as a 9yo, please keep your love and enthusiasm.

This is weird but I had dream about u Damon, today. What are u doing there ?😂😂

Ill stick to my vaonis vespera which takes amazing images.

Finally an honest review.

Honestly, my $499 Seestar s50 takes better images without processing. After processing, the Seestar s50 blows that $4000 scope away.

Excellent review. The real killer is Jupiter and Saturn. Probably the 2 most viewed objects (not counting the moon, which I’m surprised you didn’t include in your review) people want to see in a telescope. I’d be embarrassed to show those planets to anyone with that telescope. Especially one the goes for over $4K.
An inexpensive 90mm or 102mm refractor would give better quality views for less than 1/10 the cost.
I’ve got a Celestron 102mm Star Sense refractor which I just checked can be bought for under $400. and when used with your smart phone gives you a simple way to find objects in the sky, and very nice views of Jupiter and Saturn, even the Orion Nebula.
Again, excellent review. Thanks for the post. 👍🏻🍻😎

i had the original equinox...great kit..but sold it just recently...now have a dwarf 2...and thinking of getting seestar next

Ive been seeing a lot of strange lights in the night sky consistently for a few months now in Somerset UK. They appear after 3am and stay for an hour or so. I've been able to capture quite a lot of footage on my phone and it's on my channel if you'd like to see. Would love to speak to anyone else who may have seen these lights. Many thanks.

Never stop bro, I also want to have a telescope and point it to the eternity ❤

Can you sub ples

I live in my country's capital, can't really see anything but I can go to my grandma's and watch. I don't have a telescope, wish I had one.
Respect!👍

Watching review of $4000 telescope with ₹500 in my pocket 😂😢

My dwarf 2 (~$400ish) gets better pics than this!

Hi mate, just wanted to say your channel is great and every time I watch a video of yours I find myself inspired, gazing up at the sky that night in wonder. Keep it up!

Hello sir, I will be buying my first telescope. Should I get a 10 or 12 inch dobsonian? Is it worth giving 150 dollars more for the 12-inch dobsonian, or should I buy the 10-inch

amazing love the content dude i found you a few months ago and recently your videos have popped into my recommended and it's always amazing and interesting keep it up

It’s the Balenziaga of electronic telescopes. 😂

I love my evostar and dwarf.❤ 1/10th the cost.

My seestar seems about the same but was only $500

I went outside in -15 Canada and saw Jupiter and its 4 Galilean moons for the first time in my life!

It was amazing!!!! You never want to stop looking at it💜💜

The telescope is a celestron AstroMaster LT 70 , I used a 6mm.

I just wanted to share this with everyone here lol 😄

I my opinion bit of a scam....sorry to say that :( To get people interested in the wonders of the universe let them first watch a crescending moon with a simple ( but good quality ) 90-102mm refractor and a decent eyepiece, I will never forget the reactions of many people 😉, than show them Jupiter and Saturn on a quit night with little to none air turbulence, priceless. Those 2 planets are priceless! Than show them some more easy starclusters like the 7 Sisters, and maybe on a good night the vague silhouet of Andromeda! I live in the Netherlands and we do not have that many good nights. But showing people the night sky with logical steps ( moon -> planets -> star clusters -> galaxy ) will make them understand what size and distance means for the visual eye. Astrophotography for me, maybe in the future but I really like visual observing. With refractors and bigger reflectors as well, to find and see the faint nebulas/galaxies is so cool.

Does it have bandpass/solar/lunar filters?

Dude I like your videos, but this smart scope is way over priced.. the little seestar has better photos. For 500 dollars.. they should have put a much better camera sensor in this. For that price it could easily have a full frame sensor and internal filter wheel.. additionally it’s alt ax vice we mount… you could build a red cat 61 build w AM3 for almost same price

I own the less expensive Unistellar and the ZWO SeeStar. I have owned the Dwarf II (don’t buy it). I like my SeeStar the best.

Hi Damon, four grand…. four grand, four thousand pounds… wow. you can buy a fantastic setup for the same if not very similar money, and end up with much better results… still.. a top end smartphone costs what, £1500-£1700..
It seems a lot. it is a lot.. great review by the way. I think I’d plump for an EQ6r and a W/Optics refractor and really have fun.

I think that these "Smart" telescopes take the fun away of telescopes.

Just done the maths, my rig cost less. second hand heq5 and second hand redcat51, zwo533mcpro, zwo120mini, asiair mini, l extreme filter and a power station, for a little over 3k gbp. with practice, it takes me less than 15 min to set up at a dark site. Granted these smart scopes are plug and play, but i wonder if they will leave people wanting more after a couple of months ( if clouds play ball ). The advantage of a mount and OTA, is that you can change the OTA or camera, for a different field of view

Yeah! Good to see you again. Good review!
Your face when you see your girlfriend
😂😂😂😅

Good sir, The dwarf IIs new firmware came out, curious what you think.

least portable of all.

WOW! 2k views in just 6 hours?! That’s impressive

Your design and layout skills are beyond amazing 👏

In the USA this scope is $4875.00, or after tax over $5,000.00. My new Seestar S50 is doing as good or better a job than this scope. The resolution is almost 4x’s better than the S50 but it does not show in your examples.
Thanks for the review and saving me $4500 dollars.

For $4000 you could build a legit rig that would outperform this:
SW GTI mount
533mm or MC
3-400mm apo aith EAF
Operating system for 3-500$ and have cash to spare and it would be a legit rig

So I can buy eight SeeStars for its price. lol Just sad.

eVscope 1 was pretty much a scam and it seems eVscope 2 is no different. This is $250 in parts sold as a $4899 premium product.
eVscope 1 had three major problems - the price ($3000), incredibly low field of view (not even enough to fit the entire Moon in frame and insultingly low image resolution (1305x977 or 1.27MPx). The latter two problems were caused by the choice of image sensor which was a cheap sensor used in planetary cameras - Sony IMX224 (available for $16 currently and likely no more than $50 at the time).
Now eVscope 2 comes with a slightly bigger, 4.09MPx Sony IMX347 sensor which retails for... $41 (likely even less in bulk). Thanks to this 'improved sensor' the field of view is only slightly better - 23% bigger vertically and 64% bigger horizontally - meaning now you can barely fit the entire Moon in frame, but capturing things like Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy, Pleiades and many more in their entirety is still completely out of the question. The image quality itself is also not that much better. And what's with the false advertising saying eVscope 2 has 7.7MPx resolution? The sensor physically only has 4.17M active pixels and 4.09M recommended pixels. They must be doing some AI upscaling and falsely advertising it as real resolution.
And all that for measly $4899. What a joke. Let me reiterate that the image sensor they use in a $4899 telsocope costs less than $41.

Last time they were also advertising eVscope 1 as having 'the capabilities of a 1-meter diameter telescope' - which is clearly bulls**t and it seems they at least dropped that piece of advertising, but it still shows you what kind of company Unistellar is - they are not above lying about their product capabilities.

Seestar S50 and even Dwarf II are both much better choices, especially when factoring in the price. Hell for educational purposes you could get almost TEN Seestars S50 for the price of a single eVscope.

Thankyou for a very good, frank and honest review. These new smart scopes are a real game changer on the few brief clear nights we get here in the UK. Assemble, power up, level, calibrate and off you go. In a few minutes you can evaluate what you’re getting and off you can go back in the warm whilst it autonomously performs its imaging run. And, if the cloud rolls in again you can easily call it a night and bring it back in again in minutes. I still love my older gear and the ritual of setting up, aligning and all that, but these new scopes really come into their own in how quick to set up and portable they are. Great for travel, holidays abroad, or outreaching with folks that have never used a visual telescope beforehand.

Not worth $4000.

i love these videos

i still think the zwo seestar is so awesome for only 500 bucks. thats the real question. its this other one REALLY worth another 3 and a half thousand dollars over it. thats a huge chuck of change.