Celestron – StarSense Explorer 130mm Tabletop Dobsonian Smartphone App-Enabled Telescope – Works with StarSense App to Help Y

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 58 ratings

Price: 359.99

Last update: 02-11-2025


About this item

Smartphone-Powered Stargazing: Unleash the power of your iPhone or Android device to locate and explore celestial objects like stars, planets, galaxies, and nebulae with Celestron's patented StarSense Sky Recognition Technology.
Effortless Setup: This tabletop Dobsonian telescope features a manual altazimuth mount with smooth Teflon bearings and a sturdy base for stability, making it easy to assemble and use.
Exceptional Optics: The high-quality 130mm Newtonian reflector with a large parabolic primary mirror provides impressive light-gathering capabilities and detailed views of deep-sky objects.
Guided Astronomy: The companion app generates a personalized list of the best celestial objects to observe based on your time and location, taking the guesswork out of your stargazing sessions.
Portable Powerhouse: With a compact design and a weight of just over 14 pounds, this telescope is highly portable, allowing you to enjoy both urban and dark-sky observations.

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Elisamuel Dejesus
    5.0 out of 5 stars Planets, moons and stars… oh my!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023
    Scope arrived with the base unassembled, laminated particle board. It is pretty sturdy after it is put together, and an impressive site to see. Not too large for my 12yr old to handle, but large enough to let in sufficient light for star and planet gazing. The lens caddy for the base is meant to take on and off so the screws cannot be over tightened as they only go in so far.

    The laser pointer/finder slides right on, is easy to adjust, and works pretty well! I was able to align it with the scope within minutes. Do this during the day… Saturn was in view last night and I aligned the scope with Saturn using the laser finder and it appeared right in the lens’s field of view! It was the first time I ever witnessed Saturn and it’s rings through a telescope and it was pretty exciting. I added a 2x Barlow lens adapter and was able to get a zoomed in view that was even more impressive. I was even able to make out one of it’s orbiting moons.

    It takes a little patience getting used to adjusting the scope while viewing targets as everything you see appears in reverse. To track targets while looking through the lens, you will need to move the scope in the opposite direction (right goes left, left goes right, up goes down, down goes up). It’s easy to do, just takes some practice.

    The Starsense app works as expected and I was able to get it working without a lot of extra effort. I’m pretty satisfied and makes the setup look professional.

    I can’t wait to see what else we can spot in the night sky! This is our first telescope so we cannot compare it to anything else, but based on our experience last night, I would have no problems recommending it!
  • jaime
    5.0 out of 5 stars Works fine
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2024
    Amazon did a great job with delivering it. The product is very good but there instructions on siding the telescope are very confusing if it hadn't meant for you too I'd probably still be trying to figure out some things or sending it back to you guys, but it seems to be working fine and if somebody is interested in getting a quality telescope as a starter, it's a good choice.
  • Gerald Roy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great scope for the price.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2024
    Don't care much for the Dobsonian mount, easy to operate, but doesn't move smoothly. The StarSense software works well in dark skies, but not so much in my backyard. The scope itself is great, just needs to be matched with a different mount.
  • 268 SPR
    1.0 out of 5 stars Seeing Black!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
    It took 3+ hours to assemble. Have yet to see anything but black. Have looked at several u tube videos to make sense of the issues to no avail. The collateral advertised as simple and user friendly and can start seeing the stars immediately. Ha! Not so! Very disappointed!!’
  • W. Workman
    5.0 out of 5 stars StarSense Explorer telescope
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024
    Great Celestron reflector telescope for beginner and experienced alike.
  • P. T. Barker
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good telescope for beginners using an iPhone X
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2024
    Very easy to assemble and use. Well made and good optically. The StarSense Explorer app is a joy to use, even for beginners. Craters on the Moon, rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, double stars, currently visible comets, and even some deep sky objects can be seen thanks to this app. But I'm not giving the scope 5 stars because the app doesn't work with two different recent Android phones I tried. Celestron's tech support was unable to help with this. I bought a used iPhone X for it and it works great. The two eyepieces that come with it are adequate, but the Celestron zoom eyepiece (available separately) gives greater flexibility in magnification.
  • Cy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Almost Perfect
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2024
    Value for the price is incredible for what comes out of the box. The first thing my daughter saw was Jupiter and it's moons. The assembly was awful as mine didn't come with instructions or parts list and finding this particular models instructions wasn't the easiest thing to do requiring a slow tedious process of using a third party website riddled with ads to look at the pdf page by page. This also comes with an app that I think comes with code in the provided paperwork so you can make use of the app with all features, but we also can't use that and reaching out to the manufacturers website has produced no response. So if you don't mind detective work and the app not being included, it's still a great telescope.
  • CH
    5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn’t disappoint
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024
    Really impressed by the overall design and quality. I’m looking forward to seeing the new world. I’ve wanted one.

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