Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ 5.1-inch Newtonian reflector
Jun 16, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: JAMIE CARTER
Our experts review the latest kit
Sometimes, computerised Go-To telescopes aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Yes, they can automatically slew to an object in the night sky that otherwise a beginner would struggle to find, but such motorised scopes still need to be aligned with bright stars. For beginners, whose only way of navigating the night sky is by using a smartphone app, that can be tricky. So why not just use that app to align the telescope? That’s the thinking behind Celestron’s StarSense technology, which provides a free app and a carefully designed adaptor to fuse old and new techniques and create a novel way of exploring the night
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