Nikon and Unistellar announced a master joint development agreement supporting digital astronomical telescope development with Nikon’s optical technologies: Nikon and Unistellar announce a master joint development agreement July 8, 2021 Supporting digital astronomical telescope development with Nikon’s optical technologies TOKYO – Nikon Corporation (Nikon) has announced a master joint development agreement with Unistellar SAS, France (CEO: Laurent Marfisi, hereinafter Unistellar), a company that handles telescopes for the consumer digital astronomical telescope field. Unistellar was established in 2015 with the aim of developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer digital astronomical telescopes. Unistellar’s telescopes can determine the user’s observation position utilizing GPS, and are equipped with Autonomous Field Detection technology that can automatically point at the targeted celestial objects by comparing them in the viewfield with a built-in coordinate database. This technology, which eliminates the time spent searching for celestial targets, and a dedicated app for smart devices, make it much easier for people without specialized knowledge to use a telescope intuitively and perform astronomical observation. In addition, by enabling image processing during observation based on Enhanced Vision technology, clear viewing is realized even in areas such as cities where the night sky is bright and greatly affected by light pollution. Allowing galaxies, nebulae and comets to be observed in vivid colors brings excitement for observers, including children. Via the dedicated app, the user can communicate with astronomers around the world interactively, and share observed data, which has recently led to remarkable contributions to cutting-edge research by general citizen scientists. Nikon first...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Thursday, 8 July, 2021