Celestron’s StarSense Explorer 102

CELESTRON HAS LONG PIONEERED ways to quickly and accurately help us find our way around the sky. The company was the first to introduce Go To pointing on commercial telescopes, and over the years it improved the necessary alignment routines required to ensure its telescopes were accurately pointing towards celestial targets.

One issue with most alignment routines is that the user still needs to have a cursory knowledge of the sky to initialise the telescope before it can find comets, galaxies and star clusters. Which star is Arcturus that the Go To computer is asking me to point to? Is that Jupiter or Sirius overhead? While the answer to these questions may be trivial for an experienced amateur, the same can’t be said for a novice with a new telescope. Identifying these objects can be the make-or-break moment determining whether amateur astronomy becomes a hobby for them or not.

But now there’s a new way to get started exploring the night sky, thanks to Celestron’s new line of StarSense Explorer telescopes.

The StarSense Explorer is different to any