 The exploration of space will go ahead and it is one of the great adventures of all time. What's up guys, this is the Dwarf II, it's a brand new release of a smart telescope. When I say telescope, it's not a telescope in the traditional sense where you have to look down an optic to see things further distance. This is an AI powered smart telescope that is connected to your phone via an app so you can actually see all of the images and videos that you are taking using this. This was released on Indiegogo not too long ago and they have started shipping. Take a look at the description for all the latest pricing information, any discounts that they have running at this time and let's go ahead and unbox this but I'm gonna go ahead and showcase to you guys in this video with all of the chapters down below, taking some photos of just like nature, wildlife, landscapes and also the main thing that most people will use this for, astrophotography. So when it is a clear night I'm gonna be pointing this up to the stars, seeing how some of the photos will come out, not just of the stars and maybe of a galaxy but also of the moon just to see how great this actually works. So pretty excited, let's go ahead jump straight in, see what comes in the box first. So there's two editions that you can buy with the smart two telescope. I have the deluxe edition which comes with this carry case, very nice carry case for the smart telescope as well, plenty of pocket space, you also have a strap inside and you have a little outside pocket just there. Also comes with this very nice high quality tripod that you can also put on to your desk. I'm gonna be mounting this on my bigger tripod when I do take it outdoors and in my back garden to shoot night sky pictures but this is a very great option if you do want to just use it from an indoor setting. The deluxe edition also comes with these filters and a filter adapter that you connect to the smart telescope. So you also have an ND filter, a UHC filter. The UHC filter reduces the negative impact of artificial lights and air glow when you are shooting at nighttime for those deep sky objects like stars. So use this when you are shooting the night skies and then the ND filter is used to reduce the exposure light to improve photo quality when you're shooting in broad daylight when it is very sunny outside and there is a lot of overly bright objects and here they are. This is the magnetic adapter that you will fit on top of the telescope lenses. I'll show that in a second but it's a very nice design, you've got a little star constellation at the back of that. Then you also have these filters, it will mention ND on the side of that as well and these filters will simply just screw into place on the adapter like so and this is the smart telescope. So it's a very nice design, there's no specifically any optic that you need to look through. Let's go through some of the design features of this so this is where you'll see there's the telephoto lens and the wide angle lens. This actually rotates linear up and down. You can rotate them manually but there's also an option to rotate it via the app which is probably going to be the most recommended. You have your power button there on the left hand side. You've got a LED ring that will also light up to show you that it's on and it's being connected and it also lights up red when you are turning this off. You've got four LED indicators there to showcase the battery life. In terms of the battery there is a compartment that allows you to have backup batteries so you can remove this like so and the battery will just pop out that. Then you also have this little mounting plate that's attached to the bottom of it. You can see it's lined up with the little lines there. This will actually rotate on the mounting plate itself so you have a horizontal linear motion controlled via the app as well. So not only can you move the lens up and down the actual telescope itself can move left and right. If you rotate the lens back down you'll see there's another slot here. This is where your SD card can go to store all your content that you've taken with this and one thing I like with devices like this sometimes you don't get a micro SD card in the box. This one is supplied with one so it comes with a Samsung Evo 64 gigabyte micro SD card. It also has the SD card adapter with it. So now I will just face the lens towards the back of my room and I will just turn this on. Just press the button once you'll see it will start lighting up green. I've charged it up fully 100%. It doesn't come with a USB-C cable in the box but because most people have tons of USB-C cables at home anyway I think that's just absolutely fine. You've got yourself the USB-C charging port just on the mounting plate there. At the bottom of the mounting plate you have yourself a quarter inch thread to mount this universally on pretty much any tripod. So now that this is on let's go ahead and connect it with the app. Okay so now just let's take a brief look at the key specifications. Starting off with the lens parameters. The focal length of the main telephoto lens is 100 millimeters so that's something to be aware of. You also have an aperture of f 4.2 for the telephoto and 2.4 for the wide and the best working distance is at minimum 4 meters and maximum distance is pretty much unlimited because you are going to be shooting into space. The resolution of the lenses as well are 8 megapixels for the telephoto and 2 megapixels for the wide. Looking at the hardware specifications you can see that this is an Sony IMX415 sensor inside the lens and you do have the replaceable 56,000 milliamp hour battery which I showed you earlier in the video which allows you to carry backups as well and it will give you many many days of long shooting sessions. And finally some of the interactive parameters with the connectivity this can connect via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth available for both iOS and Android. Like I mentioned it does have 64 gigabytes included but you can expand this up to 512 gigabytes max. This is also IP54 waterproof so if you do take this out and it is raining a little bit it should still work absolutely fine and it actually now supports two formats fits and TIFF for both JPEG and RAW images which allows you to then transfer all of the photos you've taken into your own astrophotography processing software. One example is one called Cyril which I think is quite a nice app available for both Windows and Mac so do check that out if you want to take your photography editing software to that next level. So you open up the Dwarf Lab app available both on iOS and Android hit this photo button it will start searching for it comes up with the device so you select that. Hit join so it connects to the Wi-Fi of the device. If you do get an option to upgrade to the latest firmware always recommend to do that because they always have really useful software updates. So now that is connected very quickly and easily you'll see this has a picture-in-picture you've got the wide lens there you'll also be able to see the battery percentage on the top right there and the capacity of your SD card you can also tap on the wide angle just to get that to use the larger part of the screen. Now you can use this joystick here on the bottom left and you'll see the smart telescope will start moving I'm gonna try and aim for my YouTube logo sign just here you can also control the speed of the rotation so you have a little slider here if you press that bring it down because you are going to be generally aiming this at very far away objects you might want to just reduce the speed so it captures everything perfectly in frame and you can see a little preview how it may look now I'm gonna stick to that see if I can get a bit of the text now you can see this is what it looks like at the moment you have the option to hit the focus button here this will automatically do auto focus you can also switch it to the manual focus if you like so you have the plus and minus focus buttons there going to hit auto there you go you can see it's captured it very well and I can actually read that text very clearly if you go back and look how far away that is it's done a very good job to capture that and when I'm ready just hit the shutter button and this will save it to your gallery if you want to take a look at all of the photos and videos you've taken in the gallery just hit the gallery option there and it will show up here and then you can also download this straight to your phones gallery app you also have the option to hit the settings just on the left here you can also remove the picture-in-picture just to see the settings a little bit more clearly so you can change for example the exposure time you can change the gain the white balance the infrared light then you also have the options for brightness contrast saturation and hue so when you do take photos of far away objects the coloring it might be slightly skewed from what it is in reality so you can make all of those adjustments in real time before you actually take the picture which is quite nice if you switch over you can also select from various different modes so I have it set to photo mode but you can also do a burst mode time lapse you can record a video panorama and then one of the most popular options which is astro and astro dark of course dark is as it says in the name you will take lots of dark frames of a very deep night sky just to make sure it does the layering properly to give you the best picture of your constellation or of different maybe moons and planets in the night sky if you do go into astro you have the option to select feature this is where you will see the option to do a automatic go-to which I think it is a very nice thing because it has a catalog of here where it will automatically aim at different parts of the night sky depending on what you would like it to aim at so if for example you want to aim at the moon you select this and then you can start an automatic go-to plating which basically will rotate the actual smart telescope itself to the exact direction using coordinates to the specific item in the sky that you like it to go to all you have to do is hit confirm and it will start doing that calibration make sure when you do the calibration that you don't have the magnetic filter or connected to the lens part just to put that on afterwards when you're ready to take the photos but you can see there's plenty of different constellations and galaxies that you can also aim at if you are in a location where there's not a lot of unnatural light coming from your town or your city then you know this is something where you will actually capture very good photography especially like if you go remote into like the mountainous areas for example but I'm going to be taking it from my back garden in you know quite a busy city so let's see how this will come up and I will try to aim at maybe some of the stars the constellations the moon and see what we can grab so that's a basic overview of the app very simple make sure you do read the information on their website about more detailed guides on how to get more advanced settings for astrophotography but other than that let's go ahead go outside and start seeing what this can do all right guys so now I'm outdoors I've got the telescope connected to my app and I'm going to be shooting some of these ducks here in this pond so as you guys can see from my screen recording I'm going to be zooming in one of these taking a photo so now I'm getting a three by three panorama picture you can see the telescope moving in different directions to capture that and it will automatically save it to the gallery it's getting it off the landscape in the distance with a bit of the pond so let's see how the final result comes out so even though the Sun is out the moon is still visible in the sky you can see all the up there in the distance but you can see on my screen recording I've just managed to place it I've changed the settings a little bit so I've got the exposure time it's set to its max here I've got the gain set to auto but it's currently on 50 and I've got the white balance and the infrared light past there so you can just about see it and although it is a little bit grainy because it is daytime I'm going to take a picture and then I can edit this using my Mac software to make it a little bit clearer so hopefully that gives you an idea of how close you can get to getting a shot of the moon so now I've got the ND filter on and I've pointed this directly into the Sun and as you can see from the screen recording it's coming out quite bright is quite clear I'm gonna just adjust the settings a little bit and then take a photo so that's quite a few examples that I've just shown you of shooting outdoors in daylight and now I want to switch over to doing a bit of astrophotography and then start shooting a little bit at nighttime so let's go ahead and see how that comes out okay guys so now I'm outdoors at nighttime and it is very dark here I've got my LED light on my camera just so you guys can see me I've got the telescope set up now if you are a beginner to setting up something like this for astrophotography the first step you have to do before you start shooting anything in the sky is to calibrate it if you go on to the astro section of the app you have the option to hit feature and then there's a calibration option just there now before you start calibrating it just make sure you manually point this into the sky make sure there's no obstructions around it so that it can clearly see the night sky try to aim it at a particular star something that's quite bright in the sky as well so it can lock focus onto it once it does have focus on to it then you can start the calibration that will go into something called plate solving it will go through various different steps usually will require around three or four calibrations to complete successfully and if it does you'll get a message to say it's done then you'll be able to use the go-to feature where you'll be able to point this to a particular part of the night sky whether that's a planet a moon a nebula or a galaxy so let's go ahead hit calibrate but before I do that I'm just gonna make sure I can lock focus on to something in the sky manually without using my phone now I'm just going to turn off the LED light so that it doesn't get a lot of light pollution interrupting it with the lens on the telescope okay guys as you seen the calibration was a success if you do run and if you do run into any problems with the calibration then always check to see you have the latest firmware if you don't then just make sure you upgrade and then I'll also put a link in the description below if you want to check out some of the beginner tutorials which will go into more depth documentation about how you can get this up and running if you do run into problems now that's calibrated you can see in the background here on my screen recording there is a lot of stars being shown that I can't see visibly with the naked eye I'm going to now use the auto go-to feature and with the catalogue I'm now scrolling down and I am going to shoot let's go for the m42 great Orion nebula I can see the Orion belt in the sky I'm going to hit confirm and the telescope will automatically reposition to this nebula itself so it's doing a plate solving it's now tracked its exact position and you can see there in the background it's slightly visible there if we just open up some of the settings I'm going to set the exposure time to let's say 8 rather than 1 and then I will leave the gain to 80 white balance I will leave it as automatic and infrared I will leave it as pass and what I'll do is I'll also put the UHC filter onto the lens at this point make sure you don't have the lens on when you are doing the calibration in fact let's put the exposure time down a little bit let's set it to five and then gain 80 now if you hit feature and go into the more tab you can change the format from tiff to fits and fits is a very popular astrophotography format which is going to be required when you do import it into a software like zero the count I'm going to take let's say 150 images of this layered and stacked together so I will select 150 on that I'll leave spinning two by two and I think that should be pretty much it so all I now have to do is hit the shutter button and it will start taking those 150 images so now it's starting and then there you see at the top you have the total amount 150 and this will automatically show you the current amount of the pictures taken once everything is completed you can then transfer it off from the micro SD card and place it directly into your laptop but this is only the first step of taking this type of picture what you need to do as a second step is take dark frames so that you also import that into your astrophotography software or application you don't need to take 150 of those I'm only going to take 20 to do that is very simple you point the lens manually back down into the telescope itself so it's completely hidden and then leave it on and then you also put the telescope into the carry case that came in the box just so that it's absolutely dark but you maintain the exact same settings so 5 for the exposure and 80 for the gain once you do that then when you do the layering everything will come out really clearly and it will remove all of the RGB color lines of movement as you would expect with the Earth's rotation but you can see in real time which is really good in this app the preview of how it looks whilst it's taking all of those pictures and stacking them so we'll go ahead and let this finish okay so this is almost finished you can see us at 149 one more image left and it will stop and there you have it now this is the preview in the app and as you can see there's a lot of red blue green blurs that have come out in the stacks photos don't worry about that I'm going to be transferring this over after I've taken the dark frames into my serial app which will eliminate a lot of that eliminate a lot of the blurriness and then I'm also going to be exporting it out from serial and into Photoshop just to get the curves and levels of the deep black of the space a little bit more prominent so let's fast forward and take a look at the final result and here you have it as you can see this looks absolutely great seeing a nebula like this taken just from my back garden even though there is some lights around in the garden as well on the fences and coming from the inside of my house having an image like this of a deep part of space is just phenomenal and a telescope of this size which is almost pocket size to be honest I think it's pretty amazing at what this thing can do now obviously this took some time and you know whilst I still have some battery left in the telescope I'm going to take a couple of more astrophotos in my garden whilst I'm here so let's go back into the app okay let's hit feature we'll go to see what else we have let's go ahead and take one of the moon and I will follow the same process and the same steps this is placing the moon exactly into the center frame which shows how accurate the plate solving is for the coordinates of each of these categories now of course there's some adjustments that you should make so that it's not a very bright white light so I'm going to change the settings on this okay there we go let's drop it down to 50 this time and it get a stacked image from here and here's the final result of course I've could have taken a lot more stacked images and I've could have done a lot more post-processing for this to be a little bit more clearer but as you can see for something that took just two minutes to take on the app and then relatively quickly to run the scripts in zero this actually is a very decent zoom of the moon and finally here's one more picture that I've taken this is of the Perseus cluster again following the same steps that I've used to get the picture for the Great Orion Nebula and this again comes out very well with a lot of stars in this one and you can very much see all the details that is part of this cluster which amazes me at the quality of astrophotography that you can actually produce with something just as simple to use as the dwarf 2 so I'm super impressed with the pictures like this I'm going to keep exploring all of the different categories the different clusters the different galaxies that I can and start producing more pictures because I'm a huge fan of astronomy and getting pictures like this I think it's just amazing okay so that's it guys hopefully you found this review useful of the brand new dwarf 2 smart telescope hopefully you enjoyed all of the videos and photos that I've taken and how they've come out if you did make sure to like this video if you guys have any questions of the capabilities of this smart telescope and what other use cases you may be able to use this for as always drop a comment down below make sure to check out the links in the description to see how you can purchase this get the latest pricing information and run 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