This $99,000 Smart Telescope is Your Own Personal Observatory

The Telescope That Turns Your Backyard Into the Edge of the Universe

For those of us that have ever used a home telescope, we’ll know the fun of seeing the stars on a cloudless night. However, the Vaonis Hyperia is a machine that seems to ask:

“Why just look at the stars when you can bring them closer?“

Designed as a digital observatory originally for one of Paris’s great science museums, Hyperia now stands as a new vision for how we engage with the night sky.  

Selling for $99,000, it’s wildly expensive as home telescopes go, and quite the bargain when through the lens… of an institutional telescope.

At first glance, Hyperia is impressive because of scale alone. At around six feet tall when deployed and outfitted with precision optics developed in collaboration with Canon, it bridges the gap between elegant design and serious astronomy.

Powerful lenses, a wide aperture, finely tuned coatings, and an extra large full-frame sensor mean it doesn’t simply point at distant objects, it reveals them with amazing depth and clarity.  

But what makes Hyperia truly intriguing isn’t just stellar specs. It’s the way it fuses automation with wonder.

The images it produces feel like fine art, in the most expressive sense. The starscapes and stellar dust feel like elaborate paintings.

Controlled through an intuitive app, the telescope tracks objects across the sky, compensating for Earth’s subtle motion so that long exposures can unfold without error.

Built-in livestream capabilities let classrooms, planetariums, or your own circle of curious friends watch the heavens together.  

In a world where many of us experience nature through screens, devices like Hyperia ask something both old and profound: What if we make time for awe again? 

This complex array of lenses combine to bring you amazing depth and clarity.

Hyperia is definitely one of those flagship products that are destined to grab attention.

But at its heart, it’s a simple (yet powerful) tool designed to lift your eyes a little higher, and see things that in a way our naked eyes can’t see alone.

By lowering the barrier (in relative terms) between you and deep space, this is much more than just a piece of fancy gear. More a reminder that curiosity deserves access to tools that are both beautiful and brilliant.