22461 StarSense Explore DX 130 Newtonian Reflector Telescope with Smartphone App-enabled Technology - includes Two Eyepieces, Phone Dock and Height-adjustable Tripod, Black

The product is amazing and it is sooo good but the only thing that the laser pointer was broken so I don’t really think that it helps so much but yeah I recommend to get this product and i saw Jupiter and Saturn and venus by the help of the app

I am speechless ... I am completely beginner... and I managed to see Jupiter and Saturn after 30 minutes of unboxing ... and guess what , from my backyard.. I middle of city . I almost lost hope in this hobby because of my massive failure with my previous referactor ( computerized GO TO by the way ) .. which I owned for several months and I only could see the moon with it ... to this insanely good telescope... the App is amazingly easy and smart... and in few minutes, I am there is the solar system.... I can't wait to take this amazing device to dark side of city ... I can't imagine what more I could see . Strongly recommend for beginner 100% .

Product was broken on arrival. Loose pieces of glass rattling around inside before the box was opened. Warranty is not of any use apparently!!??

the most frustrating thing for those of us who are new is not being able to locate objects easily, that's why the StarSense Explore app seemed like the solution, but it fell far short of my expectations, the app if you configure it well moves with your telescope, and shows you the area to look at with a point, however it is not precise and your manual movement needs to be very exact, the tripod is not 100% stable so it is difficult for the telescope to stay in the same point without moving .. honestly I prefer a thousand times more the Sky Watcher Heritage 150, much cheaper, and download an app and move it manually, unfortunately this telescope is not available on amazon ... well, if you have doubts about falling into the same frustration, I recommend a GoTo Wireless telescope, 100% integration with the app and locate objects automatically .. they are a little more expensive but really worth it, and some are on sale.

I've always been interested in astronomy. Got a decent little refractor scope when I was in elementary school, and received a little 3" SCT for a graduation gift because Halley’s Comet was due back the following year (yes, I'm old). Life happened and I paused that hobby, but always wanted to go back. Finally took the plunge and looked through many forum posts and pages of reviews until I settled on getting the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as my return ticket to backyard astronomy. I am really glad I did. I live in a major city with lots of light pollution. There's a street light right behind my house, my neighbors (all our houses are fairly close together) have high wattage security lights, etc. So I wasn't expecting much. Figured I would need to plan some nights out at places away from the city. But of course when the scope arrived I wanted to try it out right away. Putting it together took about 30 minutes, but I was purposely going slow so that I was sure I got everything right. The only hiccup was when I was "attaching" the accessory tray to the tripod. The instructions make it seem like you're screwing it into the cross braces of the tripod, but there are no threads or nuts in the holes. So you're just cranking the screws all the way into the tray so that when you position the tray over the cross braces, the screws go down through those holes keeping the cross braces from closing on you unexpectedly. I'm guessing it's designed that way so you don't have to unscrew everything to get the tripod closed. Just lift out the tray. Getting the red dot finder sighted in was easy. I did it during the day as noted in the setup guide. The ease with which I was able to find things later that night let me know it was working perfectly. My first surprise was how much I could see even with all of the light pollution. Naked eye viewing around here I maybe see 50 or so stars. The planets from Mercury to Saturn are usually pretty visible. Since Saturn was sitting right there in the southern sky that night, I started with it. I had never seen the rings of Saturn through the dinky little scopes I'd had in the past. That night I saw them clearly for the first time (too bad they're nearly edge-on now). It was awesome. From there I was like a kid in a candy store. Jupiter with the just-past-full moon right above it came up, so I spent a lot of time on them. And then the Pleiades. Once I put the red dot finder on something, it was in the eyepiece and the slow motion controls made it easy to keep it there. That was about the time I remembered the other major feature of this scope - the Starsense Explorer app. I opened the cover over the mirrored portion of the phone holder. Started the app and placed the phone in the holder, then followed the quick instructions on getting it setup. I pointed the scope at Vega which was shining brightly in the west, told the app that was the star I was looking at by zooming in on it on the phone, hit done and in 5 seconds the app told me it knew where it was. Testing it out, I told it to take me back to Saturn, and in 10 seconds I was seeing the ringed planet again. I went to go back to Vega and chanced across something that looked interesting. In the low power 25mm eyepiece it was a bright start that looked like it had a partner. Popped in the 10mm eyepiece and used the slow motion controls to get back on it, and saw it was a very pretty double star. One was bright orange-gold while the other was a cooler blue. I checked the app and it told me I was looking at Albireo/Beta Cygni. I hadn't ever heard of it. Clicked on the info and there was even an audio explanation of the stars. Awesome. Figuring out I could just slew the scope around and then check the app for what was interesting in that section of sky, I was off to the races again. I forget how many things I looked at - more double stars (I definitely recall looking at the double double/epsilon lyrae), Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, and could even just make out a blurry cloud that was Andromeda. All from my very light polluted front and back yards. I did buy a phone mount to go with it, but hadn't even looked at that mount yet. I didn't get the scope for any kind of astrophotography, but figured I might want to take a few pix here and there. Now I wanted to show my wife and kids what I got to see, so I set about connecting it up. It's really difficult to get it lined up correctly with the eyepiece, but I got there in the end. I attached a couple of the better photos, but they're all terribly over-exposed and a little blurry as it was hard to get the phone camera to focus. Just know that this was done basically out-of-the-box after just a couple hours of use. No special camera or photo app or good viewing conditions. I was having a blast. The summary: This scope is perfect for a beginner (or a not-quite beginner that hasn't done any backyard astronomy for a looooong time). The price was less than I was expecting when I started looking, but it doesn't feel cheap. And I didn't want to break the bank in case this wasn't as fun as I recalled (it's even more fun/exciting/satisfying than I remembered). And the performance to me is exceptional. I've had it for two weeks now and I've been out every night that the weather has let me. I've gotten a couple upgraded eyepieces and a 2X barlow, and it's only gotten more fun. The app is extremely useful letting me get on what I want to look at in seconds, or as a source of info when I just want to start randomly touring the sky. And newtonians are a simple design, after looking over the hardware I don't think I'll have any problems when any maintenance (like collimation) is needed.

Hicimos la compra del StarSense Explorer DX 130. Es nuestro primer telescopio y es muy fácil su uso. La app de StarSense es un poco complicada, no es tan sencillo que se conecte y ubique su posición, entonces vas a batallar un poco, pero una vez que logras conectarlo, es muy intuitivo. De cualquier manera el telescopio es buenísimo aún sin la aplicación. Las fotos adjuntas son: las de la luna son con los dos lentes que vienen incluidos, sin filtros y sin edición, tal cual se ve directamente. Las fotos son tomadas con un iPhone 12. La otra es del eclipse en Mazatlán, es la foto del sol en su fase total, para este compramos un filtro solar. Como pueden ver, se ve súper súper bien, si estás iniciando, es maravilloso lo que se alcanza a ver. Recomiendo ver muchos videos en YouTube para poder armarlo y calibrarlo/conectarlo. Hay canales muy buenos en donde dan tips excelentes. Recomiendo mucho la compra.

OTTIMO PRODOTTO, IMBALLATO PERFETTAMENTE, FACILE DA MONTARE E DA UTILIZZARE.

Sehr gutes Teleskop. Habe es gebraucht bekommen und es war wie neu. Mit der StarSense App dazu und der praktischen "Navigationseinheit" klappt es wirklich erstaunlich gut. Gerade für Anfänger in der Beobachtung. Habe mir ein paar bessere Okkulare geholt, das ist wirklich notwendig (wideview sehr empfehlenswert). Einzig das Stativ könnte etwas stabiler sein und die Feinarretierung sanfter. Alles in allem für den Preis super Einstiegsgerät.

Llegó colimado y en perfectas condiciones, lo compré junto con el kit de accesorios astromaster, que trae una barlow 2x y 2 lentes oculares mas, además de los filtros que vienen bien para la luna. Se ven las bandas de júpiter y sus 4 lunas