Celestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope For Sale
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Celestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope:
$273.99
Hot DigitalCelestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian TelescopeUsedSKU: 22480_FCLNFeatures
- 114mm smartphone app-enabled tabletop telescope
- Ideal for amateur astronomers and beginners
- Stable Tabletop Dobsonian base provides a sturdy foundation
- Features patented StarSense Sky Recognition technology
- Works with iPhone 6 and up, and Android 7.1.2 or later
- Integrated altitude ‘brake’ system allows adjusting the tension
- Compact, lightweight, and travel-friendly
- Equipped with carry handles for easy transportation
- The base’s low-profile makes accessing the eyepiece easier
Product Description
Celestron has reinvented the Tabletop Dobsonian telescope with StarSense Explorer—the first 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian that uses your smartphone to analyze the night sky and calculate its position in real-time. This 114mm aperture 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 and easy procedure), StarSense Explorer generates a list of celestial objects currently visible. Make your selection and arrows appear on-screen, guiding you as you move the telescope. When the object is ready to view in the eyepiece, the bullseye turns green. As you observe, listen to hundreds of audio descriptions and view detailed information about thousands of objects within the app’s robust database.
High-Quality Altazimuth Base
The stable Tabletop Dobsonian base provides a sturdy foundation for StarSense Explorer. The tabletop base is compact, lightweight, and easy to transport, making it perfect for travel. The base’s low-profile makes accessing the eyepiece easier for some observers (especially children). You can also place the base on a stable platform, like a table or hood of a car, to raise it to a comfortable viewing height. Consider adding the optional tripod for even more viewing options. Teflon bearings provide smooth motion in both altitude and azimuth. The integrated altitude ‘brake’ system allows you to adjust the tension along the altitude axis to ensure the smoothest motion, even with slight imbalances. As celestial objects appear to drift across the night sky, you’ll be able to follow them easily. The optical tube connects to the base via tube rings. It’s easy to adjust the tube’s position in the rings so the focuser is in the best viewing position. The base features an eyepiece rack to keep your extra eyepiece(s) close at hand.
Dazzling Views with Excellent Optics
With a large 114mm aperture parabolic primary mirror, this telescope has enough light gathering ability to bring out detail in celestial objects. 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 Pleiades Open Star Cluster. You'll be able to discern subtle details while viewing the Moon and planets, as well as faint galaxies and nebulae. This telescope features a 1.25-inch rack-and-pinion focuser that accepts 1.25-inch eyepieces and dust covers for the front of the tube and the focuser.
Perfect for the City or Dark Sky Sites
Even if you live in a light-polluted city location, the Celestron StarSense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian is advanced enough to easily pick out Jupiter, Saturn, open star clusters like the Pleiades, double stars like Alberio, the Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy, and more of the best and brightest celestial objects. But if you can take the telescope to an even slightly darker location, more objects will become visible. With this 114mm Dobsonian and relatively dark skies, hundreds of fascinating objects are well within your reach. The StarSense Explorer Tabletop Dobsonian is equipped with carry handles, making it easy to transport to your observing site.
What's in the Box
- Celestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Smartphone App-Enabled Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope
- 17mm and 10mm Kellner Eyepiece
- StarSense Smartphone Dock
- StarPointer Red Dot Finderscope
- Eyepiece Rack
- Collimation Cap
- Optical Tube
- Dobsonian Base
- Starsense Explorer Dock
- Starsense Explorer Unlock Code
- Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software
Specifications
Celestron Starsense Explorer 114mm Smartphone App-Enabled Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope
General
- Optical design: Newtonian reflector
- Aperture: 4.48 inch (114 mm)
- Focal length: 17.71 inch (450 mm)
- Focal ratio: f/4
- Focal length of eyepiece 1: 0.67 inch (17 mm)
- Magnification of eyepiece 1: 26x
- Focal length of eyepiece 2: 0.39 inch (10 mm)
- Magnification of eyepiece 2: 45x
- Highest useful magnification: 269x
- Lowest useful magnification: 16x
- Limiting stellar magnitude: 12.8
- Light gathering power:265x as compared to the human eye
- Optical coatings: Aluminum with SiO2 overcoat
- Mirror material: Standard optical glass for primary and secondary mirrors
- Minor axis of the secondary mirror:1.36 inch (34.5 mm)
- Tube material: Steel
- Focuser: 1.25-inch rack-and-pinion
- Finderscope: Starpointer red-dot finderscope
- Resolution Rayleigh: 1.21 arcseconds
- Resolution Dawes: 1.02 arcseconds
- Optical tube dimensions (L x D): 18.5x 5.5 inch (469.9 x 139.7 mm)
- Optical tube weight: 4.2 lb (1.9 kg)
Mount Information
- Mount type: Altazimuth Dobsonian base
- Base material: Particle board with melamine surfaces and edge trim, CARB compliant
- Base dimensions: 15 x 15 x 15.5 inch (381 x 381 x 393.7 mm)
- Base weight: 8.4 lb (3.81 kg)
- Slew speeds: Manual
- Software: Celestron starry night basic edition software and StarSense explorer app
- Total telescope kit weight: 12.6 lb (5.71 kg)
- Included items:
- Optical tube
- Dobsonian base
- 17 mm and 10mm eyepiece
- Starpointer red-dot finderscope
- Starsense explorer dock
- Starsense explorer unlock code
- Eyepiece rack
- Collimation cap
- Celestron starry night basic edition software
- Solar warning:
- Never look directly at the sun with the naked eye or with an optic (unless you have the proper solar filter). Permanent and irreversible eye damage may result.
- Never use your optic to project an image of the sun onto any surface. Internal heat build-up can damage the optic and any accessories attached to it.
- Never leave your optic unsupervised. Make sure an adult who is familiar with the correct operating procedures is with your optic at all times, especially when children are present.
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