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<\/p>\nCyril Dupuy, the founder of smart telescope maker Vaonis, has set a new record by capturing Europe’s highest-altitude image of the sun with one of the company’s telescopes during an expedition to scale Mont Blanc earlier this year.<\/p>\n
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Wanting to see sunspots or far away galaxies? The Vaonis Vespera<\/a> is a smart telescope for beginner astronomers. For a more indepth look, read our review of the telescope. <\/a><\/p>\n Dupuy set off with a cohort of three astronomy<\/a> enthusiasts on April 29 to begin a grueling two-day climb up the slopes of the famous Mont Blanc mountain, located in the Alps bordering Italy and France. Carried alongside the usual mountaineering provisions was a peculiar item\u2014 a Vaonis’ Vespera Pro smart telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Climbing a mountain and exploring the sky share the same spirit: a drive to rise above,” said Dupuy in a statement detailing the challenging ascent. “The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable.”<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The smartphone-controlled Vaonis’ Vespera Pro smart telescope has a simple outward design, eschewing the use of traditional eyepieces while featuring a single touch sensitive button on its pill-like outer shell. Pressing that button wakes the telescope up, prompting one side of its pill-like body to rotate upwards to reveal a technological eye designed to capture the planets, stars<\/a> and deep-sky objects that populate the universe.<\/p>\n The Vespera Pro smart telescope pictured in the snows of Mont Blanc. (Image credit: Vaonis)<\/p>\n Dupuy’s goal was to forge a path to the mountain’s summit \u2014 some 4,806 meters (15,767 ft) above sea level <\/a>\u2014 where he would set up the Vespera Pro to capture a high-altitude image of the sun’s ever changing surface. The team also hoped to use the telescope’s high resolution sensor to capture light from the remote Malin 1 galaxy, located roughly 1.2 billion light-years<\/a> from Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Inspired by the Janssen Observatory built atop Mont Blanc in the late 19th century, I decided to follow in trailblazer Jules Janssen’s footsteps and capture from the Alpine skies a unique image of the sun<\/a> as well as the largest known spiral galaxy<\/a>, a nod to Janssen’s research – though this time armed with 21st-century technology,” continued Dupuy.<\/p>\n The sun’s surface, as captured using the Vaonis’ Vespera Pro smart telescope close to the peak of Mont Blanc. (Image credit: Vaonis)<\/p>\n Each member of the team shouldered a 35 lb (16 kg) backpack \u2014 along with the compact 11 lb (5 kg) smart telescope \u2014 and set themselves against the freezing mountain slopes. Ultimately, a dangerous snow bridge would put pay to Dupuy’s bid for the summit, leading the team to deploy the Vespera Pro telescope close to the well-known Vallot shelter, 14,100 feet (4,300 meters) above sea level.<\/p>\n The distant light of the Malin 1 galaxy is labelled near several closer spiral galaxies. (Image credit: Vaonis)<\/p>\n From this lofty vantage point, Dupuy was able to successfully capture the surface of our parent star in impressive detail, capturing a cluster of sunspots<\/a> form on the western edge of the sun’s disk, 93 million miles (150 million km) away. The team also captured the faint light of Malin 1, along with a swarm of other galaxies that share the same patch of sky between the constellations<\/a> Virgo, Leo and Coma Berenices.<\/p>\n Be sure to check out our guides to the best smart telescopes available in 2025<\/a>, which includes a range of Vespera smart scopes including the Vaonis Vespera II<\/a>, which we lauded as an inexpensive beginner telescope capable of producing amazing deep-sky images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyril Dupuy, the founder of smart telescope maker Vaonis, has set a new record by capturing Europe’s highest-altitude…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ViCLT2LwMnkYRuEKAGEJT7.jpg\")
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