Celestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope
Celestron has reinvented the tabletop Dobsonian telescope with Star Sense Explorer the first 114 mm tabletop Dobsonian that uses your smartphone to analyze the night sky and calculate its position in real time. This 114 mm aperture is ideal for beginners, thanks to the app's user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials. It's like having your personal tour guide of the night sky. Dock, launch, and explore leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium apps, and computerized mounts behind. With Star Sense Explorer, locating objects has never been easier, faster or more accurate. Within minutes of setting up the telescope, you'll be navigating the sky with confidence. Simply place your phone in the unique starsense dock and launch the starsense explorer app. After aligning your phone to the telescope's optics (a quick and easy procedure), Star Sense Explorer generates a list of celestial objects currently visible. Make your selection and arrows appear on-screen, guiding you as you move the telescope. When the object is ready to view in the eyepiece, the bullseye turns green. As you observe, listen to hundreds of audio descriptions and view detailed information about thousands of objects within the app's robust database. High-quality altazimuth base: The stable tabletop Dobsonian base provides a sturdy foundation for Star Sense Explorer. The tabletop base is compact, lightweight, and easy to transport, making it perfect for travel. The base's low profile makes accessing the eyepiece easier for some observers (especially children). You can also place the base on a stable platform, like a table or hood of a car, to raise it to a comfortable viewing height. Consider adding the optional tripod for even more viewing options. Teflon bearings provide smooth motion in both altitude and azimuth. The integrated altitude ��brake' system allows you to adjust the tension along the altitude axis to ensure the smoothest motion, even with slight imbalances. As celestial objects appear to drift across the night sky, you'll be able to follow them easily. The optical tube connects to the base via tube rings. It's easy to adjust the tube's position in the rings so the focuser is in the best viewing position. The base features an eyepiece rack to keep your extra eyepiece(s) close at hand. Dazzling views with excellent optics: With a large 114 mm aperture parabolic primary mirror, this telescope has enough light-gathering ability to bring out detail in celestial objects. You can expect sharp, bright views of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, its cloud bands, and the great red spot, the rings of Saturn, the trapezium in the Orion nebula, and the beautiful Pleiades open star cluster. You'll be able to discern subtle details while viewing the moon and planets, as well as faint galaxies and nebulae. This telescope features a 1.25-inch rack-and-pinion focuser that accepts 1.25-inch eyepieces and dust covers for the front of the tube and the focuser. Perfect for the city or dark sky sites: Even if you live in a light-polluted city location, the Celestron star sense explorer 114 mm tabletop Dobsonian is advanced enough to easily pick out Jupiter, Saturn, open star clusters like the Pleiades, double stars like Alberto, the Orion nebula, andromeda galaxy, and more of the best and brightest celestial objects. But if you can take the telescope to an even slightly darker location, more objects will become visible. With this 11 4 mm Dobsonian and relatively dark skies, hundreds of fascinating objects are well within your reach. The Star Sense Explorer tabletop Dobsonian is equipped with carry handles, making it easy to transport to your observing site.
- Ideal for Beginners: Unleash the power of your smartphone to take you on a guided tour of the night sky with the Celestron Starsense Explorer 12-inch smartphone app-enabled Dobsonian
- Telescope: No telescope experience is required
- StarSense Sky Recognition Technology: Patented, award-winning StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate the telescope's position in real-time
- Highly Detailed Results: A large 114 mm parabolic primary mirror with XLT coatings helps you make the most of StarSense technology. Locate faint, deep-sky objects in seconds and see them in more detail than ever before
- Tabletop Design: A sturdy tabletop Dobsonian-style base that 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
- SkySafari App: StarSense Explorer powered by the SkySafari 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 see even more
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