In the 1970s, Celestron's Schmidt-Cassegain telescopes brought astronomy as a hobby to everyone and laid the foundations for Celestron's leadership as the world's best telescope manufacturer. Celestron's trademark orange tube telescope combines advanced features and superior optics into one easy-to-use system. The NexStar telescope is the perfect choice for the first serious enthusiast's telescope, offering excellent stargazing at an economical price.
The NexStar's primary mirror has enough light gathering power to clearly see the best objects in the solar system: Saturn's rings, Jupiter's cloud swirls and lunar objects.The fully automatic GoTo tripod with its database of 40,000 celestial objects automatically finds and tracks the selected target.SkyAlign technology automatically aligns the telescope for faster deployment. Pointing is easy even if you don't know the night sky - finding three bright targets calibrates the tripod easily.The convenient single-arm tripod conveniently unpacks into lightweight, compact sections, making transport easy, even in small vehicles.
Transporting the telescope to a remote observation site is easy, and setting it up even in your own backyard is quick.
Alignment methods include SkyAlign, Auto 2-Star Align, 1-Star Align, 2-Star Align, Solar System Align.
- Opening: 203mm
- Optical construction:Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Firing distance: 2032mm
- Objective 1 focal length 25mm / magnification 81x
- Mirror: 1.25"
- Display: Starpointer
- Footing Type: Single Fork Arm Altazimuth
- Angle Angle: Yes
- Accessory: Tripod Steel Legs
- Power Requirements: 8-AA batteries (sold separately)
- High Usable Magnification: 480x
- Lowest Usable Magnification: 29x
- Restrictive Star Magnification: 14
- Field of view (compared to human eye): 843x
- Field of view: 0.63°
- Linear field of view 1000m: 10m
- Ophthalmoscope coverage: 64mm
- Resolution (Rayleigh) arc seconds: 0.69
- Optical coating: Starbright XLT
- Tube length:432mm
- Total weight of the tube system: 15.08kg
