Celestron Starsense Explorer Review & Test | Celestron Starsense Explorer LT 114AZ - DX 130AZ

Buy Product here: . . I ordered my telescope from Amazon on February 5, 2020. It arrived about a week later as promised by Amazon. The box was in perfect condition. So was everything in the box. We live in Atlanta and since the scope arrived through yesterday we have had 7 days with semi clear sky. Not a great time to have purchased a telescope. But I digress. The assembly of the tripod and the telescope was pretty simple. The directions are good and easy to follow. Once the setup was complete I moved on to aligning the FinderScope. The directions say to take the scope outside and find a fixed object at least a quarter of a mile away. In Atlanta with the hills and trees that is a challenge. I was able to zero in on an object about 200 yards away (1/8 if a mile) and set up the ScopeFinder. Next you are asked to download the app to your phone. The process was very easy – be sure to keep the orange card with the access code to access the telescope control. Next you place your phone in the StarSense dock and adjust the dock to get your phone centered on the StarSense mirror. All you need now is a clear night sky. Again, more waiting here in Atlanta. Finally, a partly clear sky so outside we went. We started out easy with the moon. We opened the app, picked the moon and the screen on the phone told us which way we needed to move to find the moon. Obviously we knew where the moon was be we wanted to see how the software worked. This is the coolest part of the StarSense Explorer.