CPC Series Computerized Telescopes
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CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
sku: 11073-XLT price: $1,999.00 USD
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CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
sku: 11074-XLT price: $2,499.00 USD
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CPC 1100 GPS (XLT)
sku: 11075-XLT price: $2,799.00 USD
Overview
The telescopes of tomorrow are here today! New alignment technology, advanced engineering, and a bold new design at a price that is out of this world!
Celestron's new CPC Series with revolutionary SkyAlign Alignment
Technology re-defines everything that amateur astronomers are looking for — quick and simple alignment, GPS, unsurpassed optical quality, ease of set-up and use, ergonomics, enhanced computerization and, most important, affordability.
Internal GPS
The CPC Series' internal GPS receiver automatically downloads the date and time from orbiting satellites and pinpoints its exact location on Earth. This eliminates the need for you to manually enter the date, time, longitude and latitude.
Celestron's Revolutionary SkyAlign
Once the CPC's internal GPS has established the telescope's position, aligning the telescope is as easy as 1-2-3! Simply locate and use hand control to manually point (slew) the telescope to three bright celestial objects. You do not need to know the names of the stars — you may even pick the moon or bright planets! Celestron's NexStar® software technology will model the night sky to determine the position of every star, planet and celestial object above the horizon. Once aligned, the remote hand control allows direct access to each of the celestial catalogs in its user-friendly database.
Celestial Object Database
The CPC database contains over 40,000 celestial objects including Messier objects, the Caldwell Catalog, as well as NGC Galaxies, nebulae and planets. User-definable filter limits make navigating through this expansive database quicker and easier. Filter Limits let you filter out objects that are outside of your local horizon (ie, if trees or mountains were in the way).
Identify feature tells you what you're looking at, but it can also be a very fun way to tour around the sky. Just point the telescope up somewhere and ask it to identify Messier objects (for instance) and it will show you the 5 nearest Messier objects to your position and let you GOTO them. You can keep doing this for different parts of the sky or for different object types -- it is a lot of fun.
There's also "Solar Sys Align" that lets you align on the sun or moon for daytime observing -- it is easy to use this to see planets or bright stars in the day.
Innovative Features
The new CPC Series telescopes, like our acclaimed Advanced Series and premium CGE Series telescopes feature meticulously matched and hand-figured optical systems. In addition, all CPC models are diffraction limited and available with StarBright and StarBright XLT High Performance Optical Coatings. With the introduction of the CPC Series, Celestron has “gone back to the drawing board” and re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented a telescope family that provides superior quality, unsurpassed ease of use, and incomparable value. All CPC models ship standard with our NexRemote telescope control software.
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Images
Milky Way Over Mount Begbie, British Columbia
A fisheye projection composite was created using Hugin.
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Robert_Sean
The Pleiades, Seven Sisters, M 45
Constellation: Taurus
Apparent Magnitude: 2.86 to 5.65
Est. Distance: 442 ly
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
The Orion Nebula (M 42, NGC 1976) and The Running Man (NGC 1977)
Apparent Magnitude: 3.0
Est. Distance: 1270 ly
De Mairan's Nebula:
Object: Reflection and Emission Nebula
Apparent Magnitude: 9.0
Est. Distance: 1.6 kly
The Running Man:
Object: Reflection Nebula
Apparent Magnitude: 7.0
Est. Distance: 1.5 kly
Constellation: Orion
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, Caldwell 19
Constellation: Cygnus
Apparent Magnitude: 7.2
Est. Distance: 4000 ly
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
Andromeda Galaxy, M 31, NGC 224
Constellation: Andromeda
Apparent Magnitude: 4.4
Est. Distance: 2.54 Mly
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
Horsehead (Barnard 33, IC 434) & Flame Nebula (NGC 2024)
Object: Dark / Diffuse Nebulae
Constellation: Orion
Apparent Magnitude: 11.0
Est. Distance: 1500 ly
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
Crab Nebula, M 1, NGC 1952
Constellation: Taurus
Apparent Magnitude: 8.4
Est. Distance: 6500 ly
Note: On the outside of this frame I also captured a transiting
asteroid: 19 Fortuna of 225 km in diameter. My first "discovered"
asteroid!
Due to the requirements of the site I've posted the animation on
my website:
http://milikito.no-ip.com/astrophotos/Fortuna.html
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
Pacman Nebula, NGC 281
Constellation: Cassiopeia
Apparent Magnitude: 7.0
Est. Distance: 9.5 kly
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Alvaro_Vaquero
President Barack Obama looking through a CPC 800
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by admin
Michelle Obama looking through a Celestron CPC 800
captured using CPC 800 GPS (XLT)
submitted by admin
Jupiter 01 October 2009
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Modified NexStar hand controller - switch for LCD off & dim
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Jupiter 09 September 2009, Io transit #3
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Jupiter 09 September 2009, Io transit #2
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Jupiter 09 September 2009, Io transit
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Mars Rotation January 2008
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
CPC-9.25 set-up for planetary imaging
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Jupiter 18 August 2009
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by Andrew Bray
Crestent Moon 07/25/2009
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by ladip63
Cresent Moon 07/25/2009
captured using CPC 925 GPS (XLT)
submitted by ladip63
m42
captured using CPC 1100 GPS (XLT)
submitted by reinders
Orion Trapezium
captured using CPC 1100 GPS (XLT)
submitted by reinders
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