CELESTRON StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ Smartphone-Enabled Telescope

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, providing a personalized tour guide of the night sky.

The StarSense Explorer app generates a list of the best objects to view based on your exact time and location, allowing you to explore planets, brighter nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters from the city, as well as fainter, deep sky objects from darker sites. The manual altazimuth mount with smooth, dual-axis slow-motion controls makes it easy to follow the on-screen arrows to your desired target, and when the bullseye turns green, the object is ready to view in the telescope's eyepiece.

The StarSense Explorer features a high-quality 130mm Newtonian reflector with a 5" primary mirror that boasts highly reflective coatings and ample light-gathering ability to view craters on the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy, and Pleiades Open Star Cluster.

Patented StarSense Sky Recognition Technology sets the StarSense Explorer apart, using a Lost in Space Algorithm (LISA) similar to the ones satellites use in orbit to correctly orient themselves. This technology helps the app match the star patterns it detects overhead to its internal database, providing accurate positioning information, unlike other astronomy apps that rely solely on the phone's gyros and accelerometers.

With the StarSense Explorer, you can unleash the power of your smartphone to embark on a guided tour of the night sky, no telescope experience required. Simply follow the on-screen arrows to locate stars, planets, and more, with the confidence that the patented technology is accurately guiding you to your desired target.

Celestron, a leading telescope brand in California since 1960, backs the StarSense Explorer with a 2-year US warranty and unlimited support from their team of US-based experts, allowing you to buy with confidence. Dock, launch, and explore the night sky like never before with the revolutionary StarSense Explorer.

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