Unistellar’s AI telescope lets you view galaxies in the night sky from the city

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It’s getting a lot easier to be a backyard astronomer. Citizen science has come to telescopes, and 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.

And 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. Marseilles, France-based Unistellar makes this easy, as you connect your smartphone to the telescope and use the phone to control where it’s pointing and to see the images on your phone screen.

It isn’t cheap at $2,500, but the telescope is packed with a lot of technology that makes this casual viewing possible. The eQuinox 2 has a star database of 37 million stars, and it can see more than 5,000 celestial objects that include clusters of lots of stars. That’s a lot more powerful than just pointing your iPhone into the dark sky using an app like Night Sky.

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