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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Once the Zygo test report has been completed, the optical alignment is thoroughly tested and tuned to ensure they are spot on before they leave us. I moved onto Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula. The last several weeks in Arizona have been hot and humid, and I've been dodging rain. I got only three minutes of M8, and I was surprised how well it came out. The Classic edition includes a DWARF II, a carrying bag, a tripod, a replaceable battery and a 64GB microSD card. My expectations were not high. This is a small little telescope, and I'm used to working around the big stuff. 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.

I've got plenty of expensive equipment I've gathered over the years, and I get published in the popular astronomy magazines. Still, I'd love a telescope like this one to use when I just don't feel like setting up something elaborate or something I can't travel with. 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 There are now six different smart telescopes on the market, including the Dwarf II. You can read a detailed comparison here of the Best Smart Telescopes.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). 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. Connect your smartphone/tablet with DWARF II via WiFi, then you can wirelessly control the telescope through DWARFLAB App (available in Android & iOS) and take pictures/videos. Note: Please ensure that your phone/tablet supports Bluetooth 4.0 & WiFi 5GHz 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. The Deluxe edition includes all items that are included in the Classic edition, plus one extra battery, one UHC filter, two ND (solar) filters and a filter adapter.

In this article, I am going to show you how it works and compare it to the other smart telescopes on the market. 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. 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). Please note, 365Astronomy offers only the Deluxe bundle at the moment as we believe that most customers would sooner or later buy the additional accessories anyway. Depending on the demand and customer interest, we might decide to offer the Classic edition and the optional accessories separately in the future. Dwarf II Features Versatile to Take Shots of DSO, Birds and AnimalsThe next step is to bring the Dwarf II app up, and you'll see an option to connect to the telescope using both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 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. M8 really needed hours, but I couldn't get them due to our awful weather. The image was helped by my using the nebula filter, which also cuts out light pollution. A great way to see if collimation is the problem is to point the telescope at a bright star and adjust the focus so that the star is out of focus and showing as a big blob. Look closely and you will see a bright outer ring surrounding a dark central disc. If the dark disc is not in the center of the bright ring then the optics are not aligned and you need to collimate. 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 .

Thats enough philosophising for a Bank Holiday and, besides, I suspect the 90 day monsoon is about to hit SW England… DWARF II is a compact smart telescope with dual camera and AI power. You can take shots of deep sky objects, Galaxy and Nebula. Watch and record videos of birds and animals. Dwarf IIEasy to Control with Your Mobile DeviceOther 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. Slightly fiddly processes: The setup and calibration processes are pretty easy to follow but they are not seamless.