Why do planets appear so small?
Vespera is a telescope mainly adapted to deep sky objects: galaxies, clusters, nebulae… The telescope has a focal length of 200mm, which is too small to make the observation of planets interesting. Unfortunately, there is currently no material to observe everything at once. We made this choice to allow the user to observe the largest number of objects.
The planets are still available in the catalog of objects. You will be able to distinguish the bands of Jupiter, as well as the rings of Saturn.
* Comets are available through manual pointing and solar photography will be available as soon as the filter is released (estimated release date: Fall 2022)
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