Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ

 

The StarSense Explorer telescope 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.

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.

StarSense Explorer uses patent-pending 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 reorient themselves, helps the app match star patterns it detects overhead to its internal database.

Even if you live in a light polluted city location, StarSense Explorer is advanced enough to be able to pick out Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Orion Nebula, double stars, and a few more of the most famous celestial objects.

The minimum SmartPhone requirements and a list of already tested models is available here: https://starsenseexplorer.simcur.com/

 

The Optics of the AC 70/700:

With its 70mm aperture, this refractor collects 100 times more light than the naked eye and substantially more light than a typical beginner telescope possessing an only slightly smaller aperture of 60mm. This means it also has a higher resolution and, with a maximum magnification of 140X, can already show you the larger surface features when observing planets such as Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. It is also very rewarding to observe the moon: One can beautifully observe the cratered landscape of the moon, which always looks different depending upon the moon's current phase. It is also interesting for nature watching in daylight - made possible by using an erecting lens or an Amici prism. Focusing takes place by means of a rack and pinion focus wheel at the focuser. This allows the image sharpness to always be precisely adjusted and to remain fixed during observing.

The optics are also highly suitable for use as a guide scope for astrophotography or guiding in conjunction with a larger telescope.

 

SPECIFICATIONS

Optics

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Type
Refractor
Type of build
Achromat
Aperture (mm)
70
Focal length (mm)
700
Aperture ratio (f/)
10
Resolving capacity
1,97
Limit value (mag)
11
Light gathering capacity
100
Max. useful magnification
140
lens design
Doublet
Tube weight (kg)
1,63
tube diameter (mm)
760
Tube length (mm)
810
Tube material
Aluminium
Coating
Starbright XLT

Focuser

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Type of build
Gear rack
Connection ( to eyepiece)
1.25

Mount

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Type of build
Single tine
Mounting type
Azimuthal
Motors
no
Weight (kg)
4,2
GoTo control
PushTo

GoTo control

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GPS
yes
WIFI
no
with hand paddle
no
Alignment method
StarSense Explorer

Tripod

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Type
Tripod
Accessory plate
yes
Max. tripod height (cm)
130
Weight (kg)
1,72
Material
Aluminium

Included accessories

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1.25'' eyepieces
25mm, 10mm
Barlow Lens
2x
Finder scope
Red dot finder
Dew Shield
yes
Deviating optics
1.25", 90° star diagonal

General

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Series
StarSense Explorer

Area of application

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Astrophotography
yes
Moon & Planets
yes
Nature Observation
no
Nebulae & galaxies
yes
Sun
no (Only with appropriate Sun filter)

Recommended for

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Beginners
yes
Advanced
no
Observatories
no