About this product
Unleash the power of your smartphone to take you on a guided tour of the night sky with no telescope experience required.
Award-winning and Patent-pending StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead to calculate it's position in real-time.
The StarSense Explorer app automatically generates a list of objects currently visible. View planets, brighter nebulae and galaxies, star clusters, and double stars from the city. Or take your telescope to darker skies to view faint, deep sky objects.
The manual altazimuth mount with altitude slow motion adjustment with a sliding rod makes it easy to follow the on-screen arrows to your desired target. When the bullseye turns green, it's ready to view in the telescope's eyepiece.
Celestron has reinvented the manual telescope with StarSense Explorer - the first telescope that uses your smartphone to analyze the night sky and calculate its position in real-time. StarSense Explorer is ideal for beginners thanks to the app's user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials.
It's like having your own personal tour guide of the night sky.
StarSense Explorer works with most modern smartphones, including iPhone 6 and up, and most devices running Android 7.1.2 or later manufactured since 2016.
While other astronomy apps may claim that they can help you find objects, they rely exclusively on the phone's gyros and accelerometers, which aren't as accurate as LISA technology. No other app can accurately tell you when your target is visible in the eyepiece.
Even if you live in a light-polluted city location, StarSense Explorer is advanced enough to be able to pick out Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Orion Nebula, double stars, and more of the most famous celestial objects.
OPTICAL TUBE INFO:
- Optical Design Refractor
- Aperture 70mm (2.76")
- Focal Length 700mm (27.56")
- Focal Ratio f/10
- Focal Length of Eyepiece 1 25mm (0.98")
- Magnification of Eyepiece 1 28x
- Focal Length of Eyepiece 2 10mm (0.39")
- Magnification of Eyepiece 2 70x
- Barlow Lens 2x (1.25")
- Finderscope StarPointer™ red dot finderscope
- Star Diagonal Erect image 90° (1.25")
- Optical Tube Aluminum
- Highest Useful Magnification 165x
- Lowest Useful Magnification 10x
- Limiting Stellar Magnitude 11.7
- Resolution (Rayleigh) 1.99 arc seconds
- Resolution (Dawes) 1.66 arc seconds
- Light Gathering Power (Compared to human eye) 100x
- Optical Coatings Fully-Coated glass optics
- Optical Tube Length 812.8mm (32")
- Optical Tube Diameter 76mm (2.99")
- Optical Tube Weight 3.6 lbs (1.63 kg)
- Dovetail None
MOUNT INFO:
- Mount Type Manual Alt-Azimuth
- Height adjustment range (includes mount and tripod) Aluminum, 1320.8mm (52") max height
- Tripod Leg Diameter 31.75mm (1.75") steel
- Accessory Tray Yes
- Tripod Weight 3.8 lbs (1.72 kg)
- Slew Speeds Manual
- GPS Uses phone's GPS
- Dovetail Compatibility None
- Power Requirements None
- Alignment Procedures Use StarSense Explorer app
- Software StarSense Explorer app | SkyPortal app | Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software
- Total Kit Weight 3.35 kg
Included Items: Telescope tube | Mount/tripod (preassembled) | 25mm & 10mm eyepieces | Erect image diagonal | 2x Barlow lens | StarPointer finderscope | Accessory tray | StarSense Explorer phone dock
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