VERDICT

Delivering the goods

We took a tour of the suggested targets, ranging from Venus to galaxies (including M81 and M82, M65 and M66), globular clusters M5 and M13, the Beehive Cluster M44 and later in the night the Ring Nebula and Veil Nebula among many others. One thing to note is that the eVscope’s field of view is 30 arcminutes, so although you can just about fit the Moon in the view, large targets such as the Pleiades and the Andromeda Galaxy are only partly viewable. There are lots of targets to choose from, however, and we were able to view and image Comet Atlas at a time when others could not view it with larger instruments.

To see these targets slowly appearing in colour in both the eyepiece and smartphone view was a revelation.

The eVscope is certainly an amazing step forward and requires so little effort from the user that anyone can use it. That ease of use does come at a price, however, which may put some observers off.

Assembly Build & Design

Ease of use Features

Optics

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