{"id":169804,"date":"2023-08-16T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/vaonis-hestia-kickstarter-to-turn-smartphones-into-smart-telescopes-crosses-2-million-with-a-week-to-go"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:23:52","slug":"vaonis-hestia-kickstarter-to-turn-smartphones-into-smart-telescopes-crosses-2-million-with-a-week-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/vaonis-hestia-kickstarter-to-turn-smartphones-into-smart-telescopes-crosses-2-million-with-a-week-to-go","title":{"rendered":"Vaonis\u2019 Hestia Kickstarter to turn smartphones into smart telescopes crosses $2 million with a week to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vaonis-hestia-kickstarter-to-turn-smartphones-into-smart-telescopes-crosses-2-million-with-a-week-to-go2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further boosting this ethos of accessibility is the fact that Hestia will be compatible with both iOS and Android phones. Dupuy pointed out that even a smartphone that is around five years old will work with Hestia for taking images of the sun and the moon, but to see more deep field objects like nebulas, a more recent and more sensitive smartphone such as an iPhone 12 or 13 may be required.<\/p>\n<p>Vaonis, launched in 2016, is no stranger to introducing astronomy equipment via a Kickstarter campaign. In 2020 they successfully launched the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vaonis-vespera-observation-station-smart-telescope-review\"> Vespera smart telescope<\/a> after a fund-raising program. The difference between Hestia and previous projects is this smartphone telescope project is much more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was possible to better in terms of price,\u201d Dupuy said. \u201cWe wanted to use all the image processing experience we have gained to develop an app and to create a very affordable new product.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further boosting this ethos of accessibility is the fact that Hestia will be compatible with both iOS and Android phones. Dupuy pointed out that even a smartphone that is around five years old will work with Hestia for taking images of the sun and the moon, but to see more deep field objects like nebulas, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}