"The Hestia isn't really a telescope at all, but it aligns your smartphone camera with its ocular to collect and focus the light directly into your smartphone's camera sensor. A six-lens optical design featuring a 30mm objective and 25x magnification allows you to see the planets and stars through the lens of your smartphone (you can check out the list of compatible phones on the company's ), making the sky accessible to anyone."
"What really makes the sky come alive is Hestia's free app, Gravity. Also: New photographer? Here's the camera I recommend (and no, it's not a Sony) This well-designed app shows you a map of the sky, allowing you to pick a planet or a star cluster, and uses your phone's GPS to guide you where to aim the device so you can capture a photo."
A $300 tabletop telescope reveals lunar craters and Saturn's rings but struggles for smartphone photography. Vaonis Hestia aligns a smartphone camera to its ocular, directing focused light into the phone sensor. A six-lens optical design with a 30mm objective and 25x magnification enables planetary and stellar views through many compatible phones. Hestia weighs under two pounds, mounts to a tripod, and secures most smartphones over its ocular. The free Gravity app maps the sky, uses GPS guidance to aim the device, and offers camera modes for scenery, sun, moon, deep sky, and planets. Capturing optimal images requires some practice.
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