Price: $229.95 - $179.99
(as of Dec 13, 2024 12:45:09 UTC - Details)

Celestron has reinvented the manual telescope with the StarSense Explorer. This telescope uses patented sky recognition technology and your smartphone to analyze the sky and calculate its position in real time. Thanks to the app’s user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials, it’s like having your own personal tour guide of the night sky. Leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium apps, and computerized mounts behind. With the StarSense Explorer, locating objects has never been easier, faster, or more accurate. Within minutes, you’ll be navigating the sky with confidence. Place your phone in the unique StarSense dock and launch the app. After a simple, 2-minute alignment procedure, StarSense Explorer generates a list of celestial objects currently visible. Make a selection, and arrows appear on-screen, guiding you as you move the telescope. When the object is ready to view, the bullseye turns green. With a 80mm (approx. 3”) objective lens equipped with XLT optical coatings, this telescope has enough light gathering ability to deliver impressive views, especially when you bring it to a dark sky location. Enjoy sharp, bright views of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, its cloud bands, Great Red Spot, the rings of Saturn, the trapezium in the Orion Nebula, and the beautiful Pleiades Open Star Cluster. An ultra-stable altazimuth mount with full-height tripod anchors the telescope. Slip clutches and geared slow-motion controls in both axes help you scan the sky smoothly, following objects with just a turn of the knobs. The Celestron StarSense Explorer works with iPhone 6 and up and most devices running Android 7.1.2 or later manufactured since 2016. For a complete compatibility list, visit celestron.com/sse
PATENTED STARSENSE SKY RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY: This one-of-a-kind telescope uses patented, award-winning StarSense sky recognition technology and your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time.
STARSENSE EXPLORER APP: The app generates a lis tof the best objects to view based on your exact time & location. View planets, brighter nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters from the city PLUS fainter, deep sky objects from darker sites.
EASY TO SET UP AND USE: Manual altazimuth mount with slow motion 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.
HIGH-QUALITY 80MM REFRACTOR: Fully coated glass optics provide bright, sharp, clear views of craters on the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula.
UNBEATABLE WARRANTY & SUPPORT: Buy with confidence from Celestron, a leading telescope brand in California since 1960. Your purchase includes a 2-Year US Warranty and unlimited support from our team of US-based experts.
Reviewer: Tim
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent 1st telescope
Review: This is a great first telescope for anyone interested in starting astronomy. It is light weight so you can travel and carry it easily. Easy to assemble with the manual and I am not that mechanically inclined. There are a few videos on YouTube of unboxing and assembly. It gives an excellent view of the moon. You can see the craters and mountains with the 25mm and 10mm eyepieces. As far as the planets Jupiter and Saturn you can see the moons of Jupiter very clear with the 25mm, but you won't be able to see the bands around Jupiter. It looks like a big bright star. But still very impressive. With the 10mm eyepiece you can somewhat make out the bands. Saturn you can see the ring. I would suggest getting another high powered eye piece with a wide field of view because of the low field of view the planets drift fairly fast because of the earth's rotation. Star clusters come in great! Pleiades and Caldwell 13 are beautiful! For a beginning star gazer or someone not wanting to spend a lot of money this is a wonderful first telescope.

Reviewer: Heather Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Gift!!
Review: My son absolutely loves this. He is so fascinated by astonomy and has high hopes of becoming an astronomer. He carries this telescope outside almost every night and keeps track of things with the app on his phone. My favorite part is that I can keep getting him lenses and accessories to make it better. Overall great first telescope. We are able to see the rings of Saturn and comet tails! He is 15 and was able to assemble it without any help. Very light and easy to carry while staying higher quality. Would recoomend!

Reviewer: Bryan
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pretty decent beginner scope
Review: The app is easy to calibrate and use. The scopes power is a bit weak but it is about as expected since it is a beginner scope. Lunar observing is pretty fun and easy with this scope since you can see each individual crater relatively close up. I have yet to do any planetary observations but I am expecting it to be quite challenging and not very rewarding, in other words I don't expect to be able to see a whole lot. Id recommend buying a new eyepiece to go with this scope since the ones you get with the scope arent really very powerful or high quality. The telescope mount is a bit flimsy and allows the scope to shake a lot especially in light to moderate wind. Whenever I'm viewing an object at a high level of magnification I cannot touch any part of the telescope because if I do the scope will shake enough so that I literally cannot see anything through the eyepiece because it just jumps around so much. Overall, I would still recommend this scope to a beginner, it is a good way to enter this hobby since this scope is easy to use and a bit more forgiving in the sense that you don't need to know anything about astronomy before using this.

Reviewer: Elle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great starter telescope-must have!
Review: Love this scope. We are new to using a telescope and so glad I purchased this one to learn from. We have already spent hours outside just looking at the night sky! We did purchase an upgraded lens (Celestron X-cel) but the lenses that come with it are not bad either- especially if you are starting out. We used the included Iphone app download to locate planets (Saturn, Jupiter) and other constellations. The images are clear and so wonderful. You can see the rings of Saturn and Titan when conditions are good-although Titan is a little bright dot but still exciting to see. Seeing Jupiter's 4 moons and the colors is just so fascinating. The moon was absolutely beautiful to see- very detailed. We purchased some filters as well- the moon filter really helps and the blue filter is great when looking at Saturn and Jupiter. We are still learning and we have the bug- wanting a bigger telescope already but will definitely continue to learn our way around the sky with this one! The telescope arrived a day earlier than expected and no issues- packaged great- no damage. Easy to set up. If you're new to observing the sky as we are- I would suggest some great books to accompany the telescope- also sold on Amazon to assist with educating yourself on the world of astronomy. Very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone!

Reviewer: Glade L Erickson
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The app needs improvement
Review: Telescope is good quality. It comes with star app and the app is constantly struggling to connect and locate where we are. The Telescope itself has good lenses but if you are hoping for help to find planets or constellations this is not it.

Reviewer: Buyer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Stars!
Review: My husband loves looking at the stars and loves this!!

Reviewer: Deyona Saddler
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Would not work
Review: The lens did not properly work and the app would not take the code. Too late to return.

Reviewer: Crista C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great first telescope
Review: This telescope was easy to put together and it is easy to use. It has a phone mount to go with their app so you can see what stars you're looking at which is great when learning.I'd recommend this to any beginner as it's user friendly, great lens and you can add other lens/pieces to it.I was able to clearly see stars that I wasn't able to see with the naked eye. And the details on the moon are beautiful. Can't wait to see other stars and planets when the date is right.

Reviewer: Smart Homes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Para empezar en este mundo, es perfecto. Mi hijo esta super contento con el telescopio. Despues de buscar y buscar, elijió este modelo y con la seguridad de que en amazon si no estaba bien, no tendriamos problemas en la devolucion. Se ve perfectamente toda la luna, y planetas que es complicadisimo localizar y ver bien como saturno y es alucinante verlo con un telescopio tan sencillo y nada caro. Y decir, que una de las lentes esta rota, y de forma inmediata nos dieron solucion por telefono y nos enviaron la pieza super rapido de recambio. Ayudando a colocarla por telefono. Se agradece que te den un servicio tan urgente. Ademas, se puede llevar y transportar en la bolsa perfectamente, incluso en avion nos dejaron llevarlo.

Reviewer: Dr Rohan
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It is a little challenging to learn

Reviewer: Roy van Veen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Assembly is doable for any 10+ years old. It's a practical device for beginners for sure. Good starters documentation included.

Reviewer: Antonio
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: SALVE, HA ACQUISTATO QUESTO TELESCOPIO RIFRATTORE LT 80 AZ MIA MOGLIE PER IL MIO COMPLEANNO... È DAVVERO UN OTTIMO PRODOTTO PER INIZIARE!... IL SOFTWARE AIUTA MOLTISSIMO A CHI COME ME SI STA' AVVENTURANDO PER LA PRIMA VOLTA IN QUESTO SETTORE... GLI INGRANDIMENTI FUNZIONANO A DOVERE, SOLO UN PO' TRABALLANTE QUANDO CI SI SPOSTA DA UN BERSAGLIO ALL'ALTRO MA CMQ DOPO QUALCHE SECONDO SI STABILIZZA... IO LO CONSIGLIO DAVVERO A TUTTI... OTTIMO ACQUISTO!!! 🙂

Reviewer: Apple
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Red dot not working 😕