Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have some few problems with the telescope. The 10mm eyepiece isn’t good enough to see big objects in space. It’s suppose to be good enough to see further. Pls make the 10mm eyepiece more better so that I’m able to study astronomy.

Great starter for you want to get into this sort of stuff, just a sure to buy more lenses for it for better enjoyment.

Love this Telescope. It’s perfect for beginners and intermediate users. Bought it for my daughter and she was able to quickly get it setup and started stargazing within 15 min once it was assembled. Assembly took about 20 min. Photo of the moon was taken with an iPhone through the lens eye piece. Such a great purchase.

Easy to install and easy to use with a smart phone.

Easy to use and you get amazing views of the moon!

Very happy with my purchase, can you see the Moon very clearly! I'm excited for better weather to explore the night skies!

Best beginner telescope. Clear enough to see crater markings on moon.

The actual telescope is a fine starter option, and smart sense is awesome. The porblem comes down to the tripod, it is so wobbly that it is almost impossible to properly view anything. I would go with a donsonian mount for better experiences.

Amazing! Great for beginners although kinda priceyn but so far the best!

This is soo pretty! Plus easy to install, haven’t used it for long but so far so good!

The Celestron Starsense Explorer 130mm DX telescope is absolutely the best! The purchase from Bestbuy and the extremely fast shipping was excellent!!!!! I can't recommend this amazing telescope enough! 5 stars all the way!!!!!

We are extremely pleased with our telescope!! I've wanted one for years and i have so enjoyed so far!!

Phenomenal telescope, words of advice, get better eye pieces including a Barlow lens

Bought this for my daughter’s birthday. And it did not disappoint. Great product for the price.

Love this set up! Easy to yaw and the software on your phone that the scope uses is great! Easy to set up and use. I was looking ag the rings of Saturn and the Orion Nebula in no time!

Starsense 130mm Explorer" is your partner to navigate the Night Sky.

Its so frustrating to wait all that time for my telescope, to find out that the tripod is broken, i dont know, im suspecting that its either was used before or it was broken during the shipping.

Set up the telescope and couldn't see anything. So We watched every video we could find on how to work it to see what we were doing wrong and still NOTHING. Complete waste of money. Very disappointing. Would not recommend.

I’ve enjoyed seeing Jupiter, Saturn, craters on the moon, and stars and clusters. I’d say you’ll need better eyepieces than the ones they give you. The app is pretty handy for finding your targets, however, I do have some trouble getting it aligned since I live in the city and skies are not always clear. The tripod works well, has a tray to put things on, very basic. I did have to buy the pads to suppress the tiny shakes coming from my balcony. This is great for beginners, I feel that you might be able to find cheaper alternatives for 5 inch newtonians, but if you prefer Celestron, this would do well.

This is my first real telescope and my first time reviewing one so take my review with a grain of salt. As someone who recently took a strong interest in astronomy and look all over for a high quality but still affordable telescope you options do become rather limited in the affordable range. This was the highest end Telescope Best Buy sold on their website (going strictly by the 130mm number and price compared to the other Celestron telescopes on here) and the price was just at the limit of the money I wanted to spend for my first telescope. And I will say I am loving this telescope a few months later. Comes with everything needed to get started observing the stars and planets. I would recommend using the moon on a clear night to really get a full grasp on what you can see with it. Now keep your expectations in place, don’t buy this telescope and think you will see Saturn and Jupiter like they appear in pictures from Hubble or Voyager. But you will still be able to see them and with the two eye pieces with plenty of clarity in a way you just can’t with the naked eye. It comes with two eye pieces with different magnification and it’s a good place to start. You can buy more eye pieces which I will be doing shortly for more viewable and filters. So I can’t speak on them yet but with what is included for the price and ease of use and for beginners just starting out. And the app which once you get it aligned and learn how to use it with the telescope helps finding objects in the sky with extreme ease. Overall highly recommend this for people just starting out.