BBC Sky at Night: eQuinox Review

BBC Sky at Night Magazine, a leading global authority on astronomy, conducted a comprehensive review of the Unistellar eVscope eQuinox for its September issue. The review was completed by Jamie Carter, an experienced astronomy hobbyist and author of “A Stargazing Program for Beginners: A Pocket Field Guide” (Springer, 2015). Among Carter’s observations:

“Like the original eVscope from 2020, the eVscope eQuinox is a 4.5-inch, f/4 reflector that comes with a camera sensor that tracks and stacks images in real-time to produce rich-colour views of deep-sky objects. In that respect, it’s just like the ground-based optical telescopes used by professional astronomers.”
“While the average 4.5-inch reflector will give you disappointing deep-sky views of galaxies, globular clusters and nebulae from urban areas, the eQuinox’s image-processing power can counter the effects of light pollution.”
“The eQuinox is extremely simple to set up and although its Autonomous Field Detection software makes initial alignment easy, it’s fastest when the scope has first been manually pointed at a star-filled region of sky. The app is user-friendly and makes it simple to select targets.”
“The eQuinox is an easy-to-use telescope that works very well in brightly lit urban areas, with the bonus of having a scientific aspect. It’s a new type of telescope inspired by professional, ground-based telescopes – after all, the science of astronomy is doing just fine without eyepieces.”