Celestron StarSense Explorer 127 AZ

Celestron StarSense Explorer 127 AZ

Celestron has reinvented the manual telescope with the StarSense Explorer - it's 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 its user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials. It's like having your own personal guide to the night sky.

Dock, launch, explore

Leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium programs, and computerized mounts behind. With StarSense Explorer, finding objects has never been easier, faster, or more accurate. Within minutes of setting up the telescope, you'll be able to navigate the sky with confidence. Simply place your phone in the unique StarSense Dock and launch the StarSense Explorer app. After aligning your phone with the telescope's optics (which is done in two minutes), StarSense Explorer generates a list of currently visible celestial objects. Make your selection, and arrows will appear on the screen to help you move the telescope. When the object is visible in the eyepiece, the crosshairs turn green.

Smartphone Compatibility

The StarSense Explorer works with most current smartphones, including iPhone 6 and newer and most devices running Android 7.1.2 or later manufactured since 2016.

StarSense Explorer uses patent-pending technology and your smartphone to determine exactly where the telescope is pointed in the night sky. A lost-in-space algorithm (LISA), like that used by satellites in orbit to correctly reorient themselves, helps the app match the star patterns it detects with its internal database.

While other astronomy apps claim to be able to help you find objects, they rely solely on the phone's compass, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, which are not as accurate as the LISA technology. No other app can tell you exactly when your target is visible in the eyepiece.

Robust azimuthal mount

The StarSense Explorer LT's intuitive azimuthal mount makes it easy to adjust the telescope to the target. A fine drive for the elevation axis helps you fine-tune the telescope to the object and track targets as the Earth rotates away under the night sky. Everything sits on a large, height-adjustable tripod.

Perfect views with high-quality optics

With its large 127 mm (5") objective, this telescope has enough light-gathering power to see details in celestial objects. You can expect sharp, bright views of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, its cloud bands and its Great Red Spot, as well as Saturn's rings or the Trapezoidal stars in the Orion Nebula. Don't miss the beautiful open star cluster of the Pleiades!

Perfect for the city, as well as dark locations.

Even if you live in a location with slightly brighter skies with moderate light pollution, the StarSense Explorer is powerful enough to spot Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Orion Nebula, double stars, and some more of the most famous celestial objects.

However, if you can move the telescope to a slightly darker location, even more objects will become visible. With this 5-inch Newtonian telescope and relatively dark skies, the Andromeda Galaxy, the globular cluster M13 in Hercules, and many others are easily visible.

The entire telescope weighs only 5.17 kg, making it perfectly portable and easy to take along on your next camping trip or to a remote observing site.