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Unistellar eVscope 2

Unistellar's flagship smart telescope, with a Nikon-designed electronic eyepiece so you can still put your eye to the scope. The eVscope 2 blends automated deep-sky imaging with a premium, shareable experience, at a premium price.

75/ 100
Polaris Score
#1 of 5 premium smart telescopes with eyepieces
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Aperture
114mm
Focal Length
450mm
Focal Ratio
f/4
Mount Type
Integrated Alt-Az GoTo
Optical Design
Smart Reflector
Pixel Size
2.4µm
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What it's built forOpen these in the simulator →

This telescope was built to capture, not to squint.

Point it, tap a target, and it stacks a live image on your phone — color and faint detail no eyepiece will show you. The trade is simple: the experience lives on a screen, not at an eyepiece.

Fully automated captureStacks live in the app
The view people remember

Andromeda, wider than the Moon.

A vast soft oval with a blazing core — two and a half million light-years of galaxy, spilling well past the field of view under a genuinely dark sky.

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01What it's good at

What it's best at — and the trade-offs.

114 mm at f/4 plus enhanced-vision processing produces bright, colorful deep-sky views.
Best at
✓114 mm at f/4 plus enhanced-vision processing produces bright, colorful deep-sky views.
✓A high-resolution Nikon OLED eyepiece brings back the through-the-scope feeling smart scopes usually lose.
✓Full automation handles pointing, tracking and stacking with no setup.
✓Strong light-pollution performance and citizen-science tools built into the app.
Trade-offs
!Even the eyepiece view is an electronic display, not direct light.
!It is optimized for deep sky, so planets stay small.
!You are committed to Unistellar's closed app and ecosystem.
!The price is very high for the aperture on paper.
02In plain English

What These Numbers Mean

114mm · f/4 · 450mm FL · Integrated Alt-Az GoTo
Aperture
114 mm
Four and a half inches of aperture, which is what allows this system to reach genuinely faint galaxies and nebulae during a live session rather than only the brightest showpieces.
Focal length
450 mm
A wide field that frames large nebulae, open clusters and the bigger galaxies comfortably. Planets and small targets are not what the design is optimised for.
Focal ratio
f/4
Fast optics keep individual frames short, so the stacked image builds visibly within seconds and a faint object becomes recognisable in a couple of minutes.
Optical design
Sealed smart reflector with electronic eyepiece
The difference from the eQuinox 2 is the Nikon-designed OLED eyepiece: you put your eye to the telescope and see the live stacked image directly rather than only on a phone. It restores the feeling of looking through a telescope to a fully digital system.
Weight
9 kg complete
About 20 lb with the integrated mount and tripod, so it travels in a backpack but is not a casual carry. The eyepiece and larger aperture are what you are carrying the extra weight for.
Mount
Integrated alt-azimuth GoTo
Self-aligning by plate-solving, then automatic finding and tracking with no alignment routine. Alt-azimuth tracking limits it to stacking short frames, which suits the live-observing model it is built around.
03The Polaris Score

How it scores, and why.

75/100 · #1 of 5 premium smart telescopes with eyepieces
75/ 100
Unistellar eVscope 2
#1 of 5 premium smart telescopes with eyepieces
Performance
80
Ease of use
88
Portability
75
Upgrade potential
35

Polaris weighs optical capability, how easy the scope is to live with, how portable it is, and how far it takes you before you outgrow it — not list price or brand.

04Who it's for

An honest fit check.

Buyers who want a smart scope that keeps an eyepiece experience
Buy it if you
✓Buyers who want a smart scope that keeps an eyepiece experience
✓City observers battling light pollution
✓Users who value premium build and citizen science
Look elsewhere if you
!Budget buyers (it is among the most expensive smart scopes)
!Planetary detail chasers (a fast, short deep-sky optic)
!Traditional visual observers who want real, unprocessed optical views
05The numbers

Full specifications.

13 measured and stated values
Optics
Optical DesignSmart Reflector
Aperture114mm
Focal Length450mm
Focal Ratiof/4
Mount & drive
Mount TypeIntegrated Alt-Az GoTo
Physical
Weight9 kg
Imaging
Pixel Size2.4µm
Sensor Width5.97mm
Sensor Height4.48mm
More
controlMobile App (Unistellar) + digital eyepiece
imagingLive stacking + OLED digital eyepiece
SensorSony IMX347
TrackingAutomatic GoTo + tracking
Editor’s Take

The eVscope 2 is a "smart telescope," an automated tube with a camera instead of an eyepiece, run from your phone. It points itself, tracks, and stacks short exposures live so faint targets brighten into detailed, colourful galaxies in a minute or two (electronically-assisted astronomy), cutting through city light. What sets it apart from the eQuinox is a built-in OLED electronic eyepiece you look into, so it feels like looking through a telescope even though you see the processed image. Point-and-see results in any sky, no optics to upgrade.

— The Skynocular verdict
06Alternatives

For a different goal, start here.

2 alternatives, each mapped to the goal it wins at
More affordable

Unistellar eQuinox 2

Same 114 mm smart telescope and Unistellar app, about $1,800 less, it drops the OLED electronic eyepiece and is controlled from your phone.

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Budget pick

ZWO Seestar S50

A fraction of the price to try smart astrophotography, with a smaller 50 mm aperture and lighter build.

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Its premium build and electronic eyepiece keep it enjoyable for outreach and quick looks for years, but serious deep-sky users typically graduate to a larger or more open system rather than leaning on the sealed 114 mm optic long term.