If you've ever tried afocal astrophotography, the BeaverLAB Finder TW2 may be for you. Holding a smartphone camera up to the lens of a telescope is tricky, and while it is possible to create spectacular images of the moon, it's trial and error. Step forward the BeaverLAB Finder TW2, a refractor telescope that eschews smartphone telescope adapters and goes instead for something that makes it unique: its own digital camera.
Does that make the Finder TW2 a smart telescope? No, it does not. This is a dashcam-style camera piggybacking on a manual telescope. The concept may be novel, but it lacks the niceties of a smart telescope – chiefly its inability to self-align or a motorized mount to automatically slew to objects and keep them in the field of view.
