Vespera Pro Observation Station Telescope with CovalENS Technology, Premium Quality Optics and Starvis2 Sensor

Ten years ago, I got into astronomy and tried using a Celestron telescope. It was frustrating to use because it required all kinds of different accessories and manual tuning. Nothing seemed to work as expected, and the hobby felt overwhelmingly complicated. The experience eventually made me give up and go back to getting my astronomy fix on YouTube. In fact, it was YouTube that turned me onto the Vaonis Vespera Pro, which I decided to give a shot after watching reviews. This telescope has completely turned my opinion around, and I'm again stoked about finding clear nights to do observations.The Vespera Pro comes with a great case, though a bit large, and a good quality tripod. The tripod's legs splay out at a shallow angle, meaning the telescope can't observe from very high off the ground, so I ended up buying a video tripod to use with this scope. Setting up the telescope and getting it ready for use is extremely easy. It's not difficult to connect to the telescope, though I have to admit this is the part I dislike the most which I'll go into more detail below, and getting the telescope primed for observations couldn't be more simple. All I need is a bit of time and patience for it to get ready, which can take several minutes depending on your location/conditions. That said, the telescope is incredibly reliable. I have yet to have the telescope fail to initialize successfully.Once I begin a night of observations, the telescope never loses track of an object or fails to locate it in the sky. This thing just works. It's had me say "Wow!" out loud on more than one occasion. The images it produces are incredible too. I love watching detail gradually appear as image stacking occurs. The automatic processing performed by the telescope is of higher quality than anything I am presently able to do by manually processing the images, but I'm still an amateur. The ability to set up an observation schedule for a full night is super cool and works very well. Mosaic mode works flawlessly and is very easy to use. While the filters for this telescope are far too expensive, I love how easy they are to use. The telescope automatically recognizes which filter is placed on the scope and includes this data in your observations. Dealing with foggy images from dew is a thing of the past as this telescope automatically manages whether the dew heater is used. Multi-night observations are another perfectly built feature that makes it super easy to do exactly that. I keep saying this telescope is well-designed and easy to use, but that's because every feature truly is! I'll end my positive remarks by saying that the Pro version of this telescope is the way to go. The increased battery life and storage space are extremely nice to have. I'm regularly filling the memory up past halfway, and it's great to observe for a full night without the need for an external battery.While I love this telescope, it is not perfect. The most glaring flaw is the limited connection feature. In order to use this telescope, you have to connect to a WiFi network broadcast by the telescope. While that's easy enough, the telescope itself is not connected to the internet. This means that while I'm connected to the telescope's WiFi, I won't have an internet connection. This causes me to have to choose between watching the telescope perform its observations or using my device for things like listening to music or watching YouTube. In an ideal world, I would be able to connect the Vespera Pro to my home's WiFi network. That way when I connect my phone or tablet to my home's WiFi, the Signularity app would be able to see the telescope on my network and connect while still allowing me to use the network's internet connection. Plus, it's a huge bother to have to connect my computer to the telescope's WiFi to download images from it's memory. I have to use an FTP program to grab the images! I expected this action to be possible via USB-C, but it is not. This telescope would be much more enjoyable to use if I could connect to it via my home WiFi and it'd get a bonus mark for the ability to download images from the over USB-C. The only other critical remark I have is about the Singularity app. It's not always easy to use, particularly when it comes to finding past observations. Those seem to disappear 75% of the time and I don't understand why. They're still on the telescope's memory, so nothing is lost. I just find it odd that I have to go rooting around through the telescope to find my images rather than have the app automatically save them to my phone. More noticeable is that there's no sky map provided by the Singularity app. It does a great job showing when objects will be visible in the sky, but there's no feature that lets me browse through the sky to find objects to observe. Instead, I use a couple of other apps to browse for objects and then search for them in the Singularity app. It is also not impossible to find objects I want to observe which do not exist in Singularity's catalogue, even some objects whose magnitude are rather bright. Oh, and finally, I'll say that this telescope is useless for observing the planets. Zero detail is visible, and even the moons of Saturn and Jupiter fail to provide any kind of amazement. This is not the scope if planetary observations interest you.All said, this telescope is absolutely fantastic. I cannot name many things in my life that are as well designed and put together as the Vespera Pro. It takes an incredibly complicated and difficult-to-perform hobby and makes it accessible to amateurs like me. But the telescope also doesn't treat me like a baby or a fool. It can do some powerful stuff. Setup, use, and pack up are so quick and easy. I just can't stop remarking on how enjoyable this telescope makes looking at the sky. If you have the money, the Vespera Pro is a must-purchase device.

This product is overpriced, has very average software that is not informative or helpful most the time. The device has all kinds of technical problems they are still fixing a year later. My device only charges with a usb cable oriented one direction, doesn't matter what cable or outlet is used. Download files from it is only over wifi another horrible design choice because they decided to stick with older hardware (an old pi gen). It takes 3-6 hours to get your files off the thing instead of 20 minutes over USBc. It fails to initialize all the time even though I'm in bortle 2 dark sky community. The arm gets stuck all the time and it feels horrible having to manually close the vespera. The support is mostly victim blaming until they'll admit the device is defective. Hope you like waiting to get it back after having to send it to France. Every night this device seemed to fight me a different way. After half a year of owning it I'm looking to sell it as quick as possible and build a glass system that won't be a constant nuisance. I've never had bigger buyers remorse than with this device. I was not embellishing when I said this device almost made me stop looking at the sky.

I had the vespera 2 before I got the pro and this is what the vespera should be like. The battery life can easily last an entire night, about 9-10 hours and the storage is excellent. I can finally enable all file formats so I can. Stack manually if I chose to. It comes in a hard suit case style case and includes the vaonis extending tripod. Very basic but works. The only complaints I have is that i can’t join the vespera pro to a WiFi, I have to connect directly to it so it’s a bit inconvenient to access it at home since I have to disconnect from my home WiFi to access it. And the way you transfer files from it takes for ever. You have to be connected to it via WiFi and then ftp the files over. There is no option to transfer over usb. This is extremely disappointing. It’s all it’s missing to be the perfect smart telescope.. the quality is impressive and a bit over priced I think but I am still happy with it. The vespera 2 is unusable because of the storage and although the pro is almost double the cost, it’s includes a better sensor, longer battery life and most importantly 225gb of storage vs the 25gb so I don’t have to ftp to after every shoot. If you want a budget telescope this isn’t it. Go for the see star (which I had also) but you will notice the drop in quality is drastic. If you want in quality and convenience (less than 5 minutes to set up) this is it.

This image is a screenshot while the Vespera Pro continued stacking pictures of the image of Orion Nebula for 1 hr 43 + min in the mosaic mode having nearly finished 3 passes using the Singularity app.A picture is worth a thousand wordsThere is no data port so file download is by it's wifi. Slow

Ordered the VesperaPro from their website. Never worked. The company provides no live support. And their scheduling platform for “support” doesn’t work. This product would never initialize. When they finally responded they admitted my scope had a technical issue and would have to send back for repair. So, basically sent me a defective item form France and would not refund. What horrible customer service. Would never buy their product