Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 5 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope

Celestron's StarSense Explorer is ideal for astronomy and stargazing beginners thanks to software which will analyse the night sky and calculate its position in real time. The app’s user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials are like having your own personal tour guide of the night sky. Connect your phone and go on a guided tour of the Universe!

Leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium apps, and computerised mounts behind. With StarSense 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, StarSense Explorer generates a list of celestial objects currently visible. Make your selection and arrows appear onscreen, guiding you as you to move the telescope. When the object is ready to view, the bullseye turns green.

StarSense Explorer uses patented technology and your smartphone to determine exactly where the telescope is pointed in the night sky. A Lost in Space Algorithm (LISA), like the ones satellites use in orbit to correctly orient themselves, helps the app match star patterns it detects overhead to its internal database.

An ultra-stable altazimuth mount provides a sturdy foundation for StarSense Explorer DX. Slip clutches and geared slow motion controls in both axes help you move the telescope smoothly and zero in your target. As celestial objects appear to drift across the night sky, you’ll be able to follow them with just a few turns of the knobs. It’s all anchored by an adjustable, full-height tripod.

With a large 5” Schmidt-Cassegrain optical tube—Celestron’s tried-and-true optical design for over 50 years—this telescope has enough light gathering ability to bring out impressive detail in celestial objects while remaining compact and lightweight. You can expect sharp, bright views of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, its cloud bands and Great Red Spot, the rings of Saturn, the trapezium in the Orion Nebula, and the beautiful Pleaides Open Star Cluster.

All air-to-glass surfaces are coated with our StarBright XLT optical coatings to visibly increase contrast and light transmission for brighter deep space views. With StarBright XLT, you’ll be able to discern subtle details while viewing the Moon and planets as well as faint galaxies and nebulae. StarSense Explorer is advanced enough to be able to pick out Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Orion Nebula, double stars, and a few more of the most famous celestial objects.

Features:

• Award-winning and patented StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time.
• 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.
• Manual altazimuth mount with smooth, dual-axis slow-motion controls 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.
• 5” Schmidt-Cassegrain optical tube with StarBright XLT coatings and enough light gathering ability to view all the best celestial objects.
• Includes 25mm and 10mm eyepieces, StarSense smartphone dock, a red dot finderscope (in case you want to use the telescope without your phone), an erect image diagonal, and a sturdy, full-height tripod..

Specification:

OPTICAL TUBE:

• Optical Design: Schmidt-Cassegrain
• Aperture: 125mm (5")
• Focal Length: 1250mm (49.21")
• Focal Ratio: f/10
• Focal Length of Eyepiece 1: 25mm (0.98")
• Magnification of Eyepiece 1: 50x
• Focal Length of Eyepiece 2: 10mm (0.39")
• Magnification of Eyepiece 2: 150x
• Finderscope: StarPointer™
• red dot finderscope
• Star Diagonal: Erect image 90° (1.25")
• Optical Tube: Aluminium
• Highest Useful Magnification: 295x
• Lowest Useful Magnification: 18x
• Optical Coatings: StarBright XLT
• Optical Tube Length: 330mm (13")
• Optical Tube Diameter: 171.45mm (6.75")
• Optical Tube Weight: 5 lbs (2.26 kg)

MOUNT:

• Mount Type: Manual Alt-Azimuth
• Height adjustment range (includes mount and tripod): Aluminium, 1320.8mm (52") max height
• Tripod Leg Diameter: 31.75mm (1.25") steel
• Tripod Weight: 3.8 lbs (1.72 kg)
• GPS: Uses phone's GPS
• Alignment Procedures: Use StarSense Explorer App
• Software: StarSense Explorer App, SkyPortal App, and Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software
• Total Kit Weight: 9 lbs (4.08 kg)
• Included Items: Optical tube
• Mount and tripod (preassembled)
• 25mm and 10mm eyepieces
• Erect image diagonal
• StarPointer finderscope
• Accessory tray
• StarSense Explorer phone dock

Available to purchase online only. Please note: this telescope can only be shipped to UK addresses.