Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image shows the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 114AZ with a smartphone attached against a backdrop of a brick wall A Newtonian ...

Choosing a first telescope is a difficult task for a fledgling amateur astronomer. Frequently, newcomers pick telescopes with computerized go-to controls, only to discover after a lot of frustration — ...

For us in the Pacific Northwest, the weather is starting to get good. Warmer nights lead to better stargazing opportunities, as I won’t have to worry about freezing to death just to look at ...

Perhaps nothing has revolutionized amateur astronomy more than go-to telescopes with motorized drives that find and track any of thousands of deep-sky objects. No longer must users rely on a celestial ...

If you’ve ever tried to map distant stars or planets using a smartphone or tablet app, you know the apps have been pretty amazing for years but are constrained by the devices’ tiny, light-limited ...

The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ Newtonian reflector telescope uses a planetarium app to find heavenly bodies, but targeting it is a surprisingly manual affair. Here's our review When you ...

The entry-level for Celestron's excellent StarSense sky recognition app-aligned telescopes is a decent option for observing the moon and planets but lacks the quality in both build and optics to ...

A Newtonian reflector with a 4.5-inch/114mm aperture, the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 114AZ was designed for getting high magnification of bright objects in the night sky. Aimed at beginners, the ...

Celestron hail their StarSense Explorer line as the very first “to make use of a smartphone to analyse the night sky and calculate its position in real time”. We tested the mettle of the 70mm ...