Easy to control app

At the heart of the eVscope is the all-important Unistellar app that controls every aspect of the telescope with the touch of a finger. The mount sets up a Wi-Fi network and you join it with your smartphone. The app then recognises the scope and works out where it’s pointing by automatically plate solving the star field. Once done, it confirms the Go-To function, and live view is activated so you can tap on the explore tab to chose from the suggested targets.

The initial view may appear quite dim with no sign of the object, but you can tap to activate an ‘Enhanced Vision’ mode and very quickly the view is transformed both in the eyepiece and on screen. You can make manual adjustments to improve the view and then save the image to your phone’s photos and also share later with the citizen science project.

There is more to explore in the app, including an option to input coordinates to find targets not in the suggested list. It’s easy to lose yourself exploring them, forgetting you are using a small telescope.