Celestron Starsense Explorer 127 AZ

Celestron Starsense Explorer 127 AZ

Award-winning and patented Celestron StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time.

Celestron 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 view faint, deep sky objects.

Manual altazimuth mount with altitude slow motion adjustment with a sliding rod 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.

127mm (5”) Newtonian reflector with highly reflective coatings and enough light gathering ability to view all the best celestial objects.

Includes 25mm and 10mm eyepieces, 2x Barlow Lens, Celestron StarSense smartphone dock, a red dot finderscope (in case you want to use the telescope without your phone), and a full-height tripod.

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. Celestron 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.

Dock, Launch, Explore

Leave complicated star charts, imprecise planetarium apps, and computerized mounts behind. With Celestron 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 Celestron 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.

Smartphone Compatibility

Celestron 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.

Patented StarSense Sky Recognition Technology

Celestron StarSense Explorer uses patented 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 orient themselves, helps the app match star patterns it detects overhead to its internal database.

While other astronomy apps may claim that they can help you find objects, they rely exclusively on the phone’s gyros and accelerometers, which aren’t as accurate as LISA technology. No other app can accurately tell you when your target is visible in the eyepiece.

Sturdy Altazimuth Mount

Celestron StarSense Explorer LT’s simple altazimuth mount makes it easy to move the telescope to find your target. An altitude slow motion adjustment with a sliding rod helps you fine tune the telescope’s pointing position and follow targets as they appear to drift across the night sky. It’s all anchored by an adjustable, full-height tripod.

Dazzling Views with High Quality Optics

With a large 127mm (5”) objective lens, 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 beautiful Pleiades Open Star Cluster.

Perfect for the City or Dark Sky Sites

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.

But if you can take the telescope to an even slightly darker location, more objects will become visible. With this 5” Newtonian and relatively dark skies, the Andromeda Galaxy, Hercules Open Star Cluster, and so many more are easily within your reach.

The entire telescope kit weighs just 11.4 pounds, so it’s perfectly portable and easy to bring on your next camping trip or to a remote observing site.

Everything You Need to Observe Immediately

When you unbox your new StarSense Explorer LT, you’ll find:

127mm Newtonian reflector optical tube

StarSense dock for your smartphone

Low powered (25mm) and high powered (10mm) eyepiece

2x Barlow lens to double the power of each eyepiece

StarPointer red dot finderscope, perfect for using the telescope during the day or without the StarSense Explorer app

Altazimuth mount with slow motion control rod

Full-height tripod with an accessory tray to keep you organized

Specification

Optical Design: Newtonian Reflector

Aperture: 127mm (5″)

Focal Length: 1000mm (39.3″)

Focal Ratio: f/7.87

Focal Length of Eyepiece 1: 25mm (0.98″)

Magnification of Eyepiece 1: 40x

Focal Length of Eyepiece 2: 10mm (0.39″)

Magnification of Eyepiece 2: 100x

Barlow Lens: 2x (1.25″)

Finderscope: StarPointer™ red dot finderscope

Optical Tube: Steel

Highest Useful Magnification: 300x

Lowest Useful Magnification: 18x

Limiting Stellar Magnitude: 13

Resolution (Rayleigh): 1.1 arc seconds

Resolution (Dawes): .91 arc seconds

Light Gathering Power (Compared to human eye): 329x

Secondary Mirror Obstruction: 41mm (1.6″)

Secondary Mirror Obstruction by Diameter: 32%

Secondary Mirror Obstruction by Area: 10%

Optical Coatings: Glass mirrors coated with aluminum and SiO₂

Optical Tube Length: 457.2mm (18″)

Optical Tube Diameter: 165.1mm (6.5″)

Optical Tube Weight: 3.44 kg

Mount Type: Manual Alt-Azimuth

Height adjustment range (includes mount and tripod): Aluminum, 1320.8mm (52″) max height

Tripod Leg Diameter: 31.75mm (1.25″) steel

Accessory Tray: Yes

Tripod Weight: .72 kg

Slew Speeds: Manual

GPS: Uses phone’s GPS

Dovetail Compatibility:                None

Power Requirements: None (Recommend PowerTank Glow to keep phone charged while using App)

Alignment Procedures: Use StarSense Explorer App

Software: StarSense Explorer App, SkyPortal App, and Celestron Starry Night Basic Edition Software

Total Kit Weight: 5.17 kg

In The Box

Optical tube

Mount and tripod (preassembled)

25mm and 10mm eyepieces

2x Barlow Lens

StarPointer finderscope

Accessory tray

StarSense Explorer phone dock