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The Unistellar Odyssey smart telescope made me question what stargazing means
The age-old pursuit of looking at the heavens is finally getting an upgrade.
Companies like Unistellar and Vaonis are pioneering a new generation of scopes that throw classic astronomy norms and concepts out the window in favor of a seamless setup and remarkable image quality. This is among the more advanced of the classic style of "smart" telescopes, an equatorial mount that, once correctly aligned (more on that in a moment), can find celestial objects and track them across the sky using a device called a SynScan 6. The SynScan and the Sky-Watcher use a technology broadly called "GoTo," a general term for a mount that can find celestial objects in the sky.
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