Celestron StarSense Explorer DX5" SCT

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.

• Unleash the power of your smartphone to take you on a guided tour of the night sky—no telescope experience required.
• Award-winning and patent-pending StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time.
• StarSense Explorer app automatically generates a list of objects currently visible. View planets, brighter nebulae and galaxies, star clusters, and double stars from the city. Or take your telescope to darker skies to view faint, deep sky objects.
• Manual altazimuth mount with smooth, dual-axis slow-motion controls 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.
• 5" Schmidt-Cassegrain optical tube with StarBright XLT coatings and enough light gathering ability to view all the best celestial objects
• Includes 25mm and 10mm eyepieces, StarSense smartphone dock, a red dot finderscope (in case you want to use the telescope without your phone), an erect image diagonal, and a sturdy, full-height tripod.

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. For a complete compatibility list, click here. 

Technical Specifications

• Optical Design: Schmidt-Cassegrain
• Aperture: 125mm (5")
• Focal Length: 1250mm 
• Focal Ratio: f/10
• Finderscope: StarPointer red dot finderscope
• Star Diagonal: Erect image 90° (1.25")
• Highest Useful Magnification: 295x
• Lowest Useful Magnification: 18x
• Limiting Stellar Magnitude: 13
• Optical Coatings: StarBright XLT
• Optical Tube Length: 330mm
• Optical Tube Weight: 2.26 kg
• GPS: Uses phone's GPS

Delivery

• Optical tube
• Mount and tripod (preassembled)
• 25mm and 10mm eyepieces
• Erect image diagonal
• StarPointer finderscope
• Accessory tray
• StarSense Explorer phone dock