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StarSense Explorer DX 100AZ Smartphone App-Enabled Refractor Telescope Lunar Edition

StarSense Explorer DX 100AZ Smartphone App-Enabled Refractor Telescope Lunar Edition

Item #: 22468-DS

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  • Unleash the power of your smartphone to take you on a guided tour of the night sky—no telescope experience required.
  • Award-winning and patented StarSense sky recognition technology uses your smartphone to analyze star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time.
  • 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.
  • A manual altazimuth mount with smooth, dual-axis slow-motion controls makes it easy to follow the onscreen arrows to your desired target. When the bullseye turns green, it’s ready to view in the telescope’s eyepiece.
  • 100mm (4”) refractor with fully coated optics and enough light gathering ability to view all the best celestial objects.
  • Includes 25mm and 10mm eyepieces, StarSense smartphone dock, erect image diagonal, a StarPointer™ red dot finderscope (in case you want to use the telescope without your phone), a Moon filter, a Map of the Moon, and a sturdy, full-height tripod.

Specifications

Optical Tube Info:
Optical Design: Refractor
Aperture: 100mm (4")
Focal Length: 660mm (25.98")
Focal Ratio: f/6.6
Focal Length of Eyepiece 1: 25mm (0.98")
Magnification of Eyepiece 1: 26x
Focal Length of Eyepiece 2: 10mm (0.39")
Magnification of Eyepiece 2: 66x
Barlow Lens: Not Included
Finderscope: StarPointer™ red dot finderscope
Star Diagonal: Erect image 90° (1.25")
Optical Tube: Aluminum
Highest Useful Magnification: 241x
Lowest Useful Magnification: 15x
Limiting Stellar Magnitude: 12.5
Resolution (Rayleigh): 1.37 arc seconds
Resolution (Dawes): 1.14 arc seconds
Light Gathering Power (Compared to human eye): 212x
Optical Coatings: Fully coated glass optics
Optical Tube Length: 812.8mm (32")
Optical Tube Diameter: 118mm (4.64")
Optical Tube Weight: 5 lbs (2.26 kg)
Dovetail CG-5 Dovetail Bar
Mount Info:
Mount Type: Manual Alt-Azimuth
Height adjustment range (includes mount and tripod): Aluminum, 1244.6mm (49") max height
Accessory Tray: Yes
Tripod Weight: 9.2 lbs (4.17 kg)
Slew Speeds: Manual
GPS: Uses phone's GPS
Dovetail Compatibility: CG-5
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: 14.2 lbs (6.44 kg)
Included Items: Optical tube
Mount and tripod (preassembled)
25mm and 10mm eyepieces
Erect image diagonal
StarPointer finderscope
Moon Filter
Moon Map
Accessory tray
StarSense Explorer phone dock
Additional Information
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Included Celestron Technologies

  • StarSense Explorer
  • Starry Night

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. This special Lunar Edition 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 and imprecise planetarium apps 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 move the telescope. When the object is ready to view, the bullseye turns green.

Smartphone Compatibility

StarSense Explorer works with most modern smartphones; it is compatible with Android 12 and later, as well as iOS 18 and newer, including iPhone XR and newer models.  Users with older phones can still use this app, but will not be able to reinstall the app if they uninstall it. For a complete compatibility list, click here.

Patented StarSense Sky Recognition Technology

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 system can accurately tell you when your target is visible in the eyepiece.

High-quality Altazimuth Mount with Slow-motion Control

An ultra-stable altazimuth mount provides a sturdy foundation for StarSense Explorer DX. Slip clutches and geared slow-motion controls in both axes help you move the telescope smoothly and zero in on your target. As celestial objects appear to drift across the night sky, you’ll be able to follow them with just a few turns of the knobs. It’s all anchored by an adjustable, full-height tripod.

Dazzling Views with High-quality Optics

With a large 100mm (4”) objective lens, this telescope has enough light-gathering ability to bring out impressive detail in celestial objects. You can expect sharp, bright views of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, cloud bands and Great Red Spot, the rings of Saturn, the trapezium in the Orion Nebula, and the beautiful Pleiades Open Star Cluster.

Special Edition Accessories

In addition to the StarSense smartphone dock, this exclusive Lunar Edition comes with two eyepieces (25mm and 10mm), an erect image diagonal, a finderscope, a Moon filter, and an Observer’s Map of the Moon. The two eyepieces provide different magnifications, allowing you to switch between low and high power for detailed views. The 90-degree erect image diagonal enables daytime use for observing birds, wildlife, landscapes, and more. The mounted finderscope helps you quickly locate and center objects in the eyepiece. The Moon filter and map make exploring the lunar surface easy and enjoyable.

Perfect for the City or Dark Sky Sites

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

But when you take the telescope to an even slightly darker location, more objects become visible. With this 4” refractor and relatively dark skies, fainter deep-sky objects like nebulae and star clusters are easily within reach.

The entire telescope kit weighs just 15 pounds, so it’s perfectly portable and easy to bring on your next camping trip or to a remote observing site.

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