New 'Enhanced Vision Telescope' Amplifies Cosmic Light for Skywatchers

A new backyard telescope accumulates and intensifies light, bringing the shapes and colors of cosmic objects into clearer view for amateur astronomers, the instrument's makers say. The Enhanced Vision Telescope (eVscope) uses optics and electronics to increase celestial objects' brightness in the eyepiece in real time, according to representatives of Unistellar, the French startup behind the instrument. "Can you imagine finally being able to see colors and shapes of galaxies, live and directly t