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The NexStar GPS series is the culmination of years of engineering research and development delivering the ultimate instrument in GoTo technology. For the first time in a commercial telescope, Celestron combines an integrated Global Positioning System with its legendary Schmidt-Cassegrain optics to deliver the most advanced telescope on the market today. The NexStar GPS is so Picture of M20 advanced that after you turn it on, the internal GPS receiver links up and acquires information from orbiting GPS satellites. With this information the system automatically downloads the date and time and pinpoints its exact location on Earth. All the information the NexStar needs to orient itself with the sky and point to your first alignment star. No need to enter the date, time, longitude and latitude or even know the position of north. Once aligned, the NexStar has a key on the hand control to allow direct access to each of the catalogs in its user-friendly database. Messier objects, NGC Galaxies or planets, the NexStar database has over 40,000 celestial objects to choose from. To make navigating through this expansive database quicker and easier, NexStar has user-definable database filter limits. With the "filter limits" feature the NexStar database will display only those objects that are above the horizon for your exact date, time and location.

Celestron knows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That's why Celestron designed the NexStar GPS telescopes from the ground up with features and performance that add up to a whole lot more telescope than anything else out there. Celestron is the only manufacturer to offer carbon fiber optical tubes, meticulously matched and hand-figured optical systems and high efficiency StarBrightTM coatings.

"The optics in the NexStar loaned to us were some of the finest I can recall in a Schmidt-Cassegrain, but if anything the optics in the scope we purchased at random were even better."
Sky & Telescope, February 2002

Celestron's scratch resistant carbon fiber optical tubes provide excellent thermal expansion properties over aluminum that help maintain the sharp focus needed for stunning CCD imagery. Couple these mechanical features with other performance features like a designated autoguider port, permanent periodic error correction and equatorial alignments, and your NexStar GPS would please any serious amateur or college astronomy program.

"We ran through the alignment procedure during evening twilight and observed throughout the entire night without missing a beat…and every object that we commanded the scope to point at ended up in the field of a low-power eyepiece."
Sky & Telescope, February 2002

"When it comes to an advanced instrument outfitted with all of the bells and whistles, the NexStar GPS is a leader in the field thanks to its easy set-up, ergonomically friendly design, crisp optics, and intelligent options. Any amateur astronomer who enjoys an automated tour across the sky, astrophotography, or even a casual star-hop across the universe (and that's just about all of us) will find that the high-tech NexStar GPS provides good old-fashioned fun."
Astronomy, January 2003