Description
- Unleash the power of your smartphone to take you on a guided tour of the night sky—no telescope experience required.
- Patented, award-winning StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate the telescope’s position in real-time.
- A 150mm parabolic primary mirror helps you make the most of StarSense technology. Locate faint, deep-sky objects in seconds and see them in more detail than ever before.
- A sturdy tabletop Dobsonian-style base that 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.
- StarSense Explorer Powered by SkySafari™ 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 see even more.
- Includes a 25mm and 10mm Kellner eyepiece, the StarSense smartphone dock, a StarPointer™ red dot finderscope, an eyepiece rack, and a collimation cap.
Specifications
| Optical Tube Info: | |
|---|---|
| Optical Design: | Newtonian Reflector |
| Aperture: | 150mm (5.9″) |
| Focal Length: | 750mm (29.5″) |
| Focal Ratio: | f/5 |
| Focal Length of Eyepiece 1: | 25mm (0.98″) |
| Magnification of Eyepiece 1: | 30x |
| Focal Length of Eyepiece 2: | 10mm (0.39″) |
| Magnification of Eyepiece 2: | 75x |
| Highest Useful Magnification: | 354x |
| Lowest Useful Magnification: | 21x |
| Limiting Stellar Magnitude: | 13.4 |
| Light Gathering Power: | 459x 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 Secondary Mirror: | 47mm (1.85″) |
| Tube Material: | Steel |
| Focuser: | 1.25″ rack-and-pinion |
| Finderscope: | StarPointer™ red-dot finderscope |
| Resolution Rayleigh: | 0.92 arcseconds |
| Resolution Dawes: | 0.77 arcseconds |
| Optical Tube Dimensions: | 723.9mm (28.5″) long x 190.5mm (7.5″) diameter |
| Optical Tube Weight: | 9 lbs (4.08 kg) |
| Mount Info: | |
| Mount Type: | Altazimuth Tabletop Dobsonian base |
| Base Material: | Particle board with melamine surfaces and edge trim, CARB compliant |
| Base Dimensions: | 482.6mm x 482.6mm x 469.9mm (19″ 19″ x 18.5″) |
| Base Weight: | 16 lbs (7.26 kg) |
| Slew Speeds: | Manual |
| Software: | Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software and StarSense Explorer App |
| Total Telescope Kit Weight: | 25 lbs (11.33 kg) |
| Included Items: | Optical tube Dobsonian Base 25mm and 10mm eyepiece StarPointer™ red-dot finderscope StarSense Explorer dock StarSense Explorer unlock code Eyepiece rack Collimation Cap Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software |
| Additional Information | |
| Solar Warning |
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| California Prop 65 |
WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm – www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
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