Odyssey PRO - UNISTELLAR Smart Telescope (with Eyepiece), 85mm f/3.9 (320mm) Digital & Computerized, App-Controlled Motorized Alt-Az, Enhanced Vision, RAW/FITS Export, 64GB, 5h Battery (Black)

Odyssey is an excellent telescope. It packs amazing technologies, bigger aperture in a portable format. It does very well in many different situations including my apartment balcony. It is the telescope that got me interested back in amateur astronomy. However, it is expensive, and in the absence of a better manual mode, it may leave you desiring more. Pros 1. It is very portable. 2. Yet it has a good aperture. 3. It is effortless to set up and start looking when the sky is clear. 4. The images are great But 1. What about when the sky is not clear? I live in the Pacific Northwest where it rains most days (and nights). 2. For an amateur astronomer, the fun is in the ability to navigate the sky. If it is to pick up a target and the telescope does all the work, will I learn something from this experience? 3. But to iterate, some preparation and planning is still required using apps and books on a not so clear sky which makes it more fun. So, below are some of my suggestions. Improvements requested Following improvements would make it a stellar telescope 1. More manual control options while taking pictures. It looks like bright individual stars saturate the pixels that cover the companion double star. The telescope has the resolution to capture many double stars but cannot at this point. It may require a separate mode to view double stars. 2. Identification of stars in the pictures. If the telescope is oriented, it already knows the stars being viewed through it at any time. It is about presenting the information to the user. Users can look up star charts but this would make an identified star would much easier. 3. Presenting more details of a suggested object on the Unistellar app without clicking it — Like an actual picture, elevation, and orientation. 4. Better tracking algorithm — If Unistellar is unable to get a clear view of the overhead sky because clouds obscure it, it may start orienting itself towards a suggested target based on an internal compass and have the user perform minor adjustments. It may also get a clear path of the sky considering the user is trying to get to a visible part of the sky. If the moon is present, I prefer to point to it as the first thing to ensure everything is set up correctly. Some additional requests to make it super stellar 1. An additional 180-degree wide-view camera to know the complete sky including real-time cloud cover and a rectangle box to indicate where the telescope is currently pointing. This would make it an excellent remote observation station as we do not have to be physically there. 2. An optional planetarium overlay if required to help people navigate the sky. 3. The manual mode to help point and pick a point in the sky to start observing that place. Instead of being based on feeding some points (like RA & DEC), it should use the user to click on a portion of the sky map. Important Points 1. Image Quality: Odyssey’s image quality is far superior owing to its bigger aperture (83 mm compared to S50’s 50mm) and better sensor (3.4 megapixel vs S50’s 2 megapixel). Odyssey has a great optical tube assembly. The images from Odyssey have much less noise and better color representation. 2. Imaging Time: Owing to the bigger aperture, the Odyssey can take quality images in less time. Odyssey could get the same quality images of a star cluster in less than 2 minutes and most deep sky object is about 5 minutes. 3. Transportation: The S50 is lightweight at at ~7 Kg(14 lb) including both the optical tube and the tripod. 4. Field Assembly and Set-up: Odyssey has a tripod with retractable legs making the telescope to be set up at a much higher level and adjust to any ground unevenness. Odyssey keeps the bubble marker at a side even when the optical tube is fixed and is much more intuitive. 5. Initial telescope set-up: On a clear sky night Odyssey sets itself up very easily. However, on a cloudy sky with patchy visibility, Odyssey gets stuck. It is unable to orient as the sky directly overhead is covered with clouds. However, when pointed to a clear sky patch manually, it could get a grip on itself. 6. Telescope with kids: We usually go with kids to watch. Kids like to watch the photos being live stacked. However, they get bored after about 20 minutes. 7. Telescope with blocked surroundings: With taller buildings, trees, and cars around, a taller tripod helps Odyssey. 8. Images with light pollution: Odyssey performs even if it does not have a light pollution filter. Odyssey can show more number of objects and much faster with stacking. 9. Daytime use: Odyssey cannot be used during daytime to view scenery. Further, the solar filters are a separate purchase. 10. Coping with unexpected moves: At one of the observations, the sprinkler system turned on and I had to stop the observation and move to a different place a few feet away while the telescopes were still turned on. Fortunately, the water was never going to sprinkle at my position but it would not hurt to be cautious. Odyssey needed a restart. 11. App: Unistellar’s app does not do justice yet to the powerful telescope. But it seems the Unistellar team is working on it. 12. Others: Odyssey does not have a dew heater yet. In all my sessions, I did not need one. The surrounding temperature was in lower-50 degrees Fahrenheit. 13. Cost: Odyssey is expensive. Unistellar could have made their product $1000 cheaper to be very tempting.

This telescope has been perfect for our family and friends! First, a little back story: About 15 years ago I purchased a $150 refractor telescope with hopes to introduce my young children to the many celestial wonders out there. I also purchased some additional eye pieces and a barlow lens on top of that. Unfortunately, my hopes were dashed as I suffered the frustrations of trying to show my children planets before they quickly exited the telescope's field of view (and the planets didn't look very good in the scope anyway). After a few attempts of observation over a few months, the telescope was eventually put into storage and never pulled out again. About 10 years later, I thought I'd try again with more sophisticated equipment. So, I purchased a Celestron NexStar 8SE hoping to take advantage of its automatic star-tracking capabilities. The Celestron NexStar 8SE worked well and tracked the stars fairly well, but required quite an effort to set up. With all the various eyepieces, filters, batteries, and other additional equipment I eventually bought to accompany the NexStar, the cost had risen to $2500 or more. And, this doesn't include the laptop we had to bring to help us view things with the NexStar. The problem with this set up is I live in the city (Bortle class 8), and as a result, we usually needed to escape into the country to fully enjoy the NexStar 8SE's capabilities. But, the size of the NexStar 8SE and all its accompanying equipment filled our car up with 3 large bins! This meant that on vacation trips out into the more dark sky areas of the US, we were forced to leave the NexStar behind due to the lack of space. And traveling with the NexStar on dirt roads often meant it had to be collimated before we could use it, which added another layer of time and effort. Enter now the Unistellar Odyssey Pro! We acquired this a few months ago and have so far enjoyed several nights at home in the City viewing faint deep-sky objects! The small size and ease of set-up and use are incredible! We're able to easily move the scope around our trees to get the views we need throughout the night. And, I wasn't expecting an amazing astrophotography unit, yet I've been pleasantly surprised with the images it has produced. Due to the type of scope this is, I wasn't expecting the planetary shots to be outstanding, but they've exceeded my expectations, and images of the deep-sky are even better. This thing even auto-focuses and self-collimates. My children, who are much older now, along with their friends, have been amazed to see these far-distant objects through this telescope and have loved being able to immediately share pics of the objects from their phones. We also purchased the Unistellar backpack, making this scope extremely portable. There is no doubt that the cost of the Odyssey Pro is expensive (and we had to stretch to purchase this one), but in our opinion, it's well worth it for our use case. It's been a great replacement for, and actually not much more costly than, the Celestron NexStar 8SE setup we had eventually built for ourselves--yet, it's so much more portable and easy to use! With the press of a button on the app, the Odyssey Pro slews to the celestial object, focuses itself, and starts stacking images of the object for an amazing view. We've been very pleased so far and look forward to exploring the skies through the upcoming seasons, all from the comfort of our home in the city!

The photo quality of the Astro subjects are excellent, and the auto search feature makes it easy for beginner to track the sky, subject, very pleased with the purchase.

Took this out last night for my first observations and was blown away at how easy this was to quickly produce amazing views. The scope assembly is reasonably light and packs up nicely into the optional backpack. My phone connected easily to the telescopes WiFi network, and then it was as simple as choosing what object in the sky I wanted to look at. The telescope slewed to the target accurately, and within minutes had amazing views to look at through the eyepiece. This is a very expensive telescope, and you can get more functionality for less cost by looking at manual options, however, the easy of use and portability, combined with the computer chip output into the eyepiece I think this will be my favorite scope for showing my friends and family things in the sky. I am already making plans to visit friends to show this off.

Ease of use is exemplary. Just plug and play. This telescope does allow deep space as well as plant viewing. I purchased without the eyepiece and have had no need for the added feature. I would recommend saving the added cost. I purchased the backpack and the expenditure was well worth the investment. I use the pack for storage and mobility. Design of the pack allows for the telescope plus added equipment. Also has sleeve that an iPad fits in! I live in a no light community so I have not checked to see if the telescope works well with increased ambiance. Great telescope for easy use.

Franchement pas déçu, deja quelques belles observations. Ce télescope est parfait pour un débutant. Installation ultra rapide. Tout ce fait automatiquement. Pour le transport le poid est top. Le premier essai (photo 1)le ciel était nuageux et j'ai quand meme reussi quelques petites observations. Puis le deuxiéme essais (photos2,3,4et5) quelques jours plus tard m'a époustouflé et le temps rester humide et venteux. Et aujourd'hui une jolie petite éclipse avec le filtre solaire associé (vous l'aurez deviner derniére photo). Si vous êtes débutant et avait le budget n'hésitez pas. La différence avec le pro est la capacité de voir a travers une lentille nikkon ce qui rend une meilleure impression de profondeur des différents objets. En effet sur ce model l'effet est plus plat sur le télephone mais déja trés satisfaisant. Fini les galéres d'installation de mise au point et de suivi. C'est tellement agréable de ne pas avoir prévu d'observations et de se motiver a la derniére minute parceque le temps est propice a faire de nouvelles recherches pour compléter son catalogue. En plus on reçoit des notifications sur les événements qui se produisent, plus d'excuses.

Bonjour, j'ai voulu faire un comparatif entre l'Odissey d'Unistellar et le Seestar S50. De ce fait, j'ai acheté l'Odissey. Maintenant sur mes premières acquisition du ciel profond, je ne suis pas convaincu ! Pourtant au niveau comparatif Seestar S50 : Aperture 50 mm - Focale 250 mm - Focal ratio f/5 - Résolution 1920 x 1080 Odissey Unistellar : Aperture 85 mm - Focal 320 mm - Focal ratio f/3.9 - Résolution 2136 x 1602 De plus, trouver des vidéos sur le traitement et l'amélioration des .FITS avec l'Odissey est quasi nul... Le traitement Vivid Vision qui est excellent (Faut bien le dire) n'a actuellement aucun script qui lui ressemble pour le post-traitement. Unistellar n'aime pas partager ses connaissances visiblement. A cet instant, je peux dire que l'Odissey d'Unistellar est un très bon scope pour du visuel assisté (Vision amplifiée) en partageant entre amis les beautés du ciel sans se fatiguer en quelques minutes, donc bien meilleur que le Seestar S50, mais pour le créatif (Si vous voulez faire du post traitement pour pas cher) ce sera le Seestar S50 qui sera bien supérieur, déjà de part cette communauté d'utilisateurs qui font et partagent leur travail avec les différents logiciels utilisés dans l'amélioration de leurs clichés, et secundo par plaisir d'amélioration de vos œuvres. La photo 1 est celle de l'Odissey La photo 2 est celle du Seestar