Unistellar lets backyard astronomers see galaxies with AI-based Odyssey Smart Telescope

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Unistellar is extending its pursuit of backyard astronomers with the launch of a new generation of its AI telescopes dubbed the Odyssey Smart Telescope.

This new generation from Marseille, France and San Francisco-based Unistellar is being unveiled at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The promise is to bring the cosmos closer than ever before through a transformative stargazing experience for both seasoned astronomers and enthusiastic novices on a cosmic journey from the comfort of their homes, even amidst urban landscapes, the company said.

I wrote in a review of Unistellar‘s telescopes and how it is getting a lot easier to be a backyard astronomer. Citizen science helped through crowdfunding for the company, and now after shipping its first-generation products, Unistellar enables us to look at the night sky with a powerful telescope and see galaxies, clusters of stars and nebulae even with tons of light pollution from the city.

“Now we are ready to unveil generation two,” said Unistellar’s Franck Marchis, chief science officer, in an interview with VentureBeat.

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Machine learning and AI come in very handy in removing the light pollution from images so that you don’t have to go to a remote place to view some of the marvels of the night sky. This is one more example of how AI is changing everyday products and what we can do with them. I verified this from my own backyard recently as I used Unistellar‘s eQuinox 2 telescope to view the night sky.

The first generation was directed at people