A Kickstarter for the first system to ever turn smartphones into smart telescopes has crossed the $2 million mark with just under a week left to go.
The Kickstarter campaign was launched last month by Vaonis, maker of Stellina and Vespera telescopes, to develop the new Hestia system that uses the power of smartphone sensors to photograph the stars. Though high-performance, the sensors on most phones have limited capabilities for astronomy due to their small lens size. Hestia boosts this capability, increasing brightness up to 25 times and sharpness up to 5 times.
