Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ Smartphone App-Enabled Refractor Telescope
• Use your smartphone to explore the night sky with a telescope - you don't need any experience using a telescope.
• The patent-pending StarSense technology uses your smartphone to analyse star patterns in the sky. It calculates in real time where the telescope is pointing - so it knows at all times which observation object you are targeting. Check the compatibility of your phone here.
• The StarSense Explorer app automatically generates a list of currently visible objects. View planets, brighter nebulae and galaxies, star clusters and double stars from the city, or take your telescope to a darker location to view faint deep-sky objects.
• With the manual, azimuthal mount with fine adjustment, you can easily follow the arrows on the screen to your desired target. When the crosshairs turn green, the target is already visible in the telescope's eyepiece.
• 70mm refractor with fully coated glass optics for bright, sharp images.
• Includes one each 25mm and 10mm eyepiece, 2x Barlow lens, StarSense smartphone dock, zenith mirror for an upright image, finder scope (in case you want to use the telescope without your phone) and a stand. ... Read More
Celestron has reinvented the manual telescope with the StarSense Explorer - it is the first telescope that uses your smartphone to analyse the night sky and calculate its position in real time. The 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 programmes and computer-controlled mounts behind. With StarSense Explorer, finding objects has never been easier, faster or more accurate. Within minutes of setting up the telescope, you can be confidently navigating the sky. 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
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. For a full compatibility list, click here.
Patent Pending StarSense Sky Technology
The StarSense Explorer uses patent-pending technology and your smartphone to determine exactly where the telescope is pointing 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 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 spins away under the night sky. Everything stands on a large, height-adjustable tripod.
Perfect views with high-quality optics
You can expect sharp, bright images through this 70mm refractor. The fully-coated glass optics offer increased light transmission, making details in celestial objects more clearly visible. The telescope also features a 90-degree prism for an upright image, so you can observe nature during the day with birds, wildlife, landscape and more.
Perfect for the city as well as dark locations
Even if you live in a location with slightly brightened 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 sky's most famous objects
However, if you can move the telescope to a slightly darker location, even more objects will become visible. The entire telescope weighs only 3.35 kg, making it perfectly portable and easy to take along on your next camping trip or to a remote observing location.
Everything you need to start observing right away
Supplied with the StarSense Explorer LT:
- 70 mm refracting tube
- StarSense smartphone dock
- Low (25 mm) and high (10 mm) magnification eyepiece .
- 2x Barlow lens to double the magnification of each eyepiece .
- 90-degree zenith prism for an upright image
- StarPointer finder scope, perfect for using the telescope during the day or without the StarSense Explorer App .
- Altazimuth mount with fine drive
- Large tripod with accessory storage .
