I used the Vaonis Vespera 3 for weeks and here’s who I would recommend it to — full review
The Singularity app used to control Vespera 3 stacks each image as it goes, but keeps them in sight as an optional time-lapse, so you can see exactly why you’re spending so much time on one object.
Key points
- The Vespera 3 also has CovalENS, Vaonis’s mosaic imaging system, which captures adjacent sections of sky to produce a larger image.
- (Image credit: Jamie Carter) At $2,490/£2,199, this is hardly an impulse purchase for the beginner who’s curious about astronomy – you could buy several perfectly capable smart telescopes for the same money.
- The color in M42 via the Vespera 3 was particularly striking: stars looked sharp, the background was pleasingly clean, but the colors had a richness you don’t always see from less expensive models.
The Vaonis Vespera 3 does that exceptionally well, but after spending several nights with it, I’m convinced it’s designed for a rather different kind of buyer.
I’ve spent a lot of time with smart telescopes, from relatively inexpensive Seestar models to the original Vaonis Vespera and the Vespera Pro.
Additional details
- I sometimes spent longer than I’d have liked waiting for the telescope to get ready, but once it began photographing the sky, the Vespera 3 reminded me why I love smart telescopes so much.
- Instead of having to call it a night or start again every time the weather interrupts an imaging session, you can return to a target and continue building the image over weeks — or years.
- Even better, the Vespera 3’s PerseverENS feature lets you add data to an existing observation over multiple nights (it’s actually called multi-night observation in the app).
- Yet I found myself increasingly impressed by what the Vespera 3 could achieve, particularly when I returned to the same object over several nights.
- Why I kept returning to the same objects over several nights The Vespera 3 uses a Sony IMX585 sensor to produce 8.3MP images.
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