Home » Gadgets » Smartphone Enabled Telescope Gadgets Smartphone Enabled Telescope July 31, 2020 121 Winner of an IHS Markit Innovation Award at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, this is the telescope that uses your smartphone to analyze the night sky and guide you through a list of visible celestial objects. A free app interacts with your smartphone’s built-in camera, GPS, and gyroscopes to provide you with a handheld map of the heavens, guiding you where to aim the telescope for quickly locating and viewing nearby stars, planets, and deep sky objects. The telescope provides a view of night objects in precise clarity with an 80 mm aperture and a refractor optical design with a 900 mm focal length that yields a maximum usable magnification of 189X. With 25mm and 10mm eyepieces, 2X Barlow lens, and a red dot finderscope for telescope use without a smartphone.
