Employing a Petzval-inspired lens for a flat field with sharp stars edge-to-edge, the Vespera Pro 2 Smart Telescope from Vaonis is a powerful yet easy-to-use tool for exploring and photographing the night sky. Smart and fully automated, the Vespera Pro is controlled by a mobile app, with imagery viewed on a tablet or phone rather than through an optical eyepiece. It turns automatically to the celestial object you want to see and tracks it to compensate for the earth's rotation while you observe and take photos. No astrophotography expertise is required, but experts will find sophisticated imaging tools for creating beautiful images. It comes with a tripod, and its battery will run for 11 hours on a charge.
No Expertise Necessary
Vespera Pro 2 simplifies astrophotography with automatic pointing, tracking, and focusing, coupled with advanced image enhancement (referred to as stacking). In just a few minutes, you'll have everything set up and ready to go.
Tools for Experienced Astrophotographers
Choose your field of view and framing to capture the perfect shot. Capture calibration frames, customize camera acquisition settings, and retrieve 16-bit raw image files to leverage your skills with your favorite astronomy image processing software.
Sensor and Lenses
The Vespera Pro 2 features a Petzval-inspired apochromatic quadruplet configuration with field correction. Images are captured by a Sony SMX676 Starvis 2 sensor with a 2.0µ pixel size.
CovalENS Mosaic and Panorama Mode
Double your field of view from the native 1.6 x 1.6 to 3.2 x 3.2° with CovalENS mosaic and panorama mode. CovalENS can also increase the native 12.5MP image resolution to an effective 50MP. You can alter the framing to capture what you want in your image and have access to image enhancement tools such as automatic stacking.
BalENS Image Processing Engine
BalENS plays on the balance of signal dynamics, boosting weaker elements and calming the brighter ones to capture fainter astronomical objects and finer details within celestial images. BalENS also flattens the background, ensuring uniformity across the entire field of view.
Stray Light Shielding
You can't ask your whole neighborhood to switch off their lights. So Vespera 3 features an optical baffle that blocks stray light and delivers better performance in urban environments.
Multi-Night Mosaics
Accurate framing, exposure time, gain, mosaic progress, stacking progress: everything is saved from night to night. Just hit Resume and keep collecting.
Unsupervised Astrophotography
Preserve your sleep while your celestial safari continues. The Plan My Night feature lets you schedule your smart telescope to automatically carry out a sequence of observations. Works seamlessly with Mosaic Mode and Multi-Night Capture.
Memory and Power Supply
The Vespera Pro 2's Power is supplied by a built-in battery that charges via USB-C and has a runtime of 11 hours.
Included Essentials
The Vespera Pro 2comes with a preinstalled hygrometer sensor that activates an anti-fog system when a certain temperature and humidity threshold is reached.
Tall Carbon Fiber Tripod
Included is a lightweight carbon fiber tripod with three-section legs, a maximum height of 35.8 inches, and a maximum payload of 30.8 pounds, for comfortable observing in any position.
SkyColor Image Editing App
SkyColor Studio offers a suite of easy-to-use image editing tools that let you enhance and customize the images captured with Vespera Pro 2 in just a few minutes.
Automatic Calibration for Darker Skies
Automatic image calibration allows Vespera Pro 2 to reduce digital noise and optimize observation quality, while keeping the capture process simple. Generate a Universal Master Dark once and use it forever, whatever the temperature and the camera exposure and gain settings.