DWARFLAB Dwarf II Smart Digital Telescope - Portable, Ultralight, and Packed with Advanced Features for Astronomy Star Parties, Birding, for Adults and Kids, Beginners and Advanced Players (Classic)

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I love the Dwarf , but the presenters even described the interface as "rough" . Maybe the software should have been perfected before releasing it . After all the new interface does look better . Its just a shame about the limited target list . ( yes i know we can enter co-ordinates but thats fidly and time consuming and something that goes against the concept of simplicity of the product for the user ) If you are looking for a traditional astronomical observing experience, a regular telescope like a large dobsonian would be best for you. That's a wrong comparison, because it suggests a big scope cannot be equipped with a modern sensor. Besides, to quote Scotty: Ye cannae change the laws of physics, captain". A big instrument captures more photons and has a higher resolution than a smaller. My APM 80 mm F/6 triplet is optically outstanding, but cannot match the resolution the 8" C8 has on planets. There is simply no contest. A 30mm scope will not show as much detail as, and will capture 4 times fewer photons from the same area in the sky than a 60 mm, this means the S/N is half as good. Resolution-wise, a little 30 mm lens will not be able to capture the moon like this: Still, the Dwarf II was mostly trouble-free, and it never failed to get to a chosen target. It's impressive in design and execution.

The battery that comes with the Dwarf II is a 5,600 mAh rechargeable unit. If you buy the fancier model, you'll get an extra battery. Each battery lasts a few hours and is easily changeable in the field. The whole telescope, with a battery inside, can charge from a USB-C cable and power source (not supplied). Using the Dwarf II Under the Stars My expectations were not high. This is a small little telescope, and I'm used to working around the big stuff. You won’t be winning NASA APODs or Astronomy Photographer of the Year with the images, but neither would you with any of the more expensive smart telescopes.Connect your smartphone/tablet with DWARF II via WiFi, then you can wirelessly control DWARF II through DWARFLAB App (available in Android & iOS) and take pictures/videos. We will provide API and developer documentation, so you can even run your own programs on DWARF II. Sort of but even a modest 3 inch refractor with a CMOS camera can easily out perform the Palomar 200 inch scope with its photographic plates, who knows what technology will come next.. The Dwarf II provides an internal catalog of interesting objects that are available, and I suggested M13, the great star cluster in the constellation of Hercules. I tapped my selection and the little telescope started moving. To my great surprise, I could see the cluster in the center of the frame.

When your session is done, you can rotate the optical assembly down into the telescope base to protect the lenses. Very clever. It will be interesting, though, to see the Dwarf 2 actually come out and what people can do with them. Other measurements such as the PV and RMS are important too. With these measurements, the lower the number the better as it shows less curvature on the lens. The flatter an optical lens, the better it will perform. The PV rating (Peak To Valley) is a measurement from the highest point (Peak) to the lowest point (Valley). From this we get the RMS (Root, Mean, Square). This is a similar figure to the PV and measured exactly the same way. The RMS is basically an average height difference from the PV so again, the lower the better. As you can see form the example below, we measured an RMS of just 0.027 wave which is a very good value.To start your imaging session, put the telescope on its included tabletop tripod or use a standard photo tripod, which I did. Turn it on, and its LED lights start to glow, showing your battery level and if you're connected. One other key difference is that smart telescopes usually have no eyepiece for you to look through (except for the Unistellar eVscope 2), but rather you view images on your phone (or laptop).

Thats enough philosophising for a Bank Holiday and, besides, I suspect the 90 day monsoon is about to hit SW England… It may not have been mentioned that much in SGL but it has been selling like hot cakes over in the US and has generated a bit of a frenzy over on the CloudyNights (CN) forum. CN can be a bit pedantic about posts in the wrong forum sections, so because the Dwarf can be used for EAA you can't post any post processing comments in that section (those are moved to the image processing section(s).We also measure the Power with our systems which is essentially the error from the reference sphere to the test optic. The reference sphere we use on our system is a very high quality sphere so the closer to zero the Power, the less error between the 2 elements thus ensuring a higher quality optical surface. Also they are updating the list of targets to , wait for it , 500 objects !!!! assuming 250 of those will be in the southern hemisphere , thats 250 for us in the NH .

It may not be the finest smart telescope around, but if you can get a good second-hand price (Unistellar no longer sells this model) then it’s worth considering because it still offers incredible images of faint galaxies, nebulae and star clusters despite light pollution. Since it’s a reflector telescope it will occasionally need collimating (see below).Read our full Unistellar eVscope review. What is collimating?But for astrophotography, smart telescopes are really disrupting a pursuit that had a relatively high barrier to entry in terms of the money you needed to spend and the amount you had to learn. Although I thought the images I got were beyond my expectations, there's an active Facebook group that submits photos, and I found some good ones from people who were taking images in better weather than I've had during our monsoon season. The moon was full, so I gave it a try. I thought the picture was good. The Dwarf II autofocused (there's manual focus too), and I could see good detail on the surface of the moon, even the bright crater Tycho and some of its rays. Not to be confused with the best computerized telescopes, smart telescopes are motorized and come equipped with both artificial intelligence (AI) and camera sensors. They use AI to align themselves with the night sky, providing apps that make it easy to ‘go to’ any object you want at the touch of a button. However, what makes the best smart telescopes so addictive is that they also take incredible images of all kinds of objects in the night sky.