Celestron – StarSense Explorer LT 114AZ Smartpho
Original price was: $239.95.$175.49Current price is: $175.49.
Price: $239.95 - $175.49
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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. It’s like having your own personal tour guide of the night sky. Dock, Launch, Explore Leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium apps, and computerized 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 (a quick, 2-minute procedure), 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. Smartphone Compatibility StarSense Explorer works with most modern smartphones, including iPhone 6 and up and most devices running Android 7.1.2 or later manufactured since 2016. StarSense Sky Recognition Technology StarSense Explorer uses 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. While other astronomy apps may claim that they can help you find objects, they rely exclusively on the phone’s gyros and accelerometers, which aren’t as accurate as LISA technology. No other app can accurately tell you when your target is visible in the eyepiece.
UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR SMARTPHONE: Let your iPhone or Android phone take you on a guided tour of the night sky—no telescope experience required. Just follow the arrows to locate stars, planets & more
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 list of 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 114MM NEWTONIAN REFLECTOR: The 4.5″ primary mirror features highly reflective coatings and enough light gathering ability to view craters on the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula.
13 reviews for Celestron – StarSense Explorer LT 114AZ Smartpho
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Original price was: $239.95.$175.49Current price is: $175.49.
Bryan King –
Great Telescope!
Great value for the money. Easy assembly and use. I have not at this time looked into the software but the ‘scope works great as is!!
Daniel D –
Highly recommend
10000000/10 recommend for first time telescope users this was so easy to use and has been fun to use.
airong sun –
Great.
I think that overall the telescope is a great buy. It’s that for me the unlock code for the app didn’t work
yesenia fuentes –
Saturn rings and jupiter stripes
You can see the rings of Saturn and stripes on jupiter. This is probably the smallest telescope that let’s you do that. I recommend buying the celestron zoom 8-24mm eye piece, much better quality then the 2 included
Jacqueline Taylor –
The App does not work.
I had no experience with astronomy, but thought I would try this because the app seemed like it will really help the novice user. First the unlock code for the Starsense app that came with telescope wasn’t valid. It took a few days of back and forth emails with IT to get a valid code. The quality of telescope is okay, however calibrating the red dot in the finder scope was not easy at all, as the screws to adjust it are plastic and cheap and despite my best efforts it just would not align properly. The movement of the dot was not consistent due to the cheap threads on the elevation and lateral adjustments for the red dot. Also, you really need to tighten the thumb screws down super tight where the finder scope mounts to the telescope. On mine they kept coming loose and it would go out of calibration.The last straw really was once I finally got a valid code for star sense app, torqued down the the finder scope, I was ready to view the night sky! Well the app never was able to find the telescope and kept giving me an error. I was really patient with this hole process, but I tried it several times and it just would not work. In the end I returned the whole thing. I’ll guess I’ll wait to develop a new hobby till I can afford a cope with its own software and motorized for finding objects.The other thing here I learned is this scope isn’t very powerful and is best served only looking at planets and the moon. But I don’t know for sure because mine never worked.
Terry Kissinger –
Great telescope
I have had this telescope a while now. I have wrestled in its use… my fault not the telescope. Someday, I will master its use. Worth the money!
BikeWolf –
Good for viewing the moon not much else
Claims of being a good first telescope i disagree with them.Where to begin? I bought the telescope based on some the reviews and the feature using the phone app to help view different celestial bodies. I also wanted something that was more compact. And instead of having to look from the end of the barrel, I could look from the side of the barrel.I found the packaging to be sufficient to protect it and it came in good shape. Putting the telescope together was very easy, and I had no problems.Some of the flaws that I ran into that made me give this a less than stellar rating, start with the adjustments and the tightening of certain screws. The lock screw that helps tighten the telescope and prevent it from revolving, where it connects to the tripod. As soon as you attempt to tighten it a little bit, it automatically forces the telescope to shift just a little bit, but takes it off of the celestial body you happen to be viewing. This was very frustrating because I was trying to keep it from shifting, as I was looking through the eyepiece.The other 2 features causing me great frustration in trying to be able to locate any celestial body. The star sense app does not give an accurate view or assistance in locating the celestial body you’re hoping to find. I attempted multiple times to adjust The Star sense locator, but to no avail. The other thing I found was every time I mount and unmount the cell phone into the star sense, locator device, it forces it out of alignment immediately.There’s a red dot locator also mounted on the telescope. I’ve had no luck in trying to adjust the red dot into any manner where it will help me. Pinpoint the celestial body that I’m hoping to view. It has become a waste of time for me to use that at all.In order to locate anything, it has to be of a larger celestial body. Like the moon so far, that’s been the only celestial body that I’ve been able to identify and to locate it, I’ve had to actually use the eye peace viewing tube without the magnifying eyepiece in place.I will compliment that the construction of the telescope and tripod and all feel of a good quality and sturdy and for the price. It was not bad based on pricing of other telescopes out there of this same design.Once I was able to focus on the moon, I found the image to be clear.At this moment, I’m indecisive if I want to keep it or send it back. I’m leaning towards sending it back because of the frustrations that i’ve had trying to locate celeste body’s using what was supposed to be an easy design feature with the star sense app.
Ander –
Opinión Personal
Me gustó mucho, es recomendable, pero deberían incluir un lente erector para observar la ciudad ya que la imagen se ve invertida
Me parecieron excelentes, buen tamaño –
Buen diseño y excelente calidad
cendrillon039 –
Télescope super pratique , grace au portable, on sait vraiment ce qu’on voit. Vivement cet été pour voir encore mieux le ciel !
Manu U. –
Gran telescopio para iniciarse con la ayuda de la app
laxman kachare –
Best product ever.thank you Amazon.
Cliente de Amazon –
Es muy facil de armar y con la aplicación del celular se pueden localizar los objetivos. Lo recomiendo ampliamente para principiantes