Customer Ratings & Reviews

This was a gift. My daughter said it works great, easy set up.

Excellent and easy to use / set up! My son loves it!

Paying for the starsense app. The telescope is pretty cheap.

My son and I are very happy with it. Easy to put together.

This was a Xmas gift for my daughter and family they love it

Purchased as a Christmas gift for the hubby.. He’s still figuring it out but it seems to be decent for the price. Still figuring out the phone app. Good product for the money.

Nice telescope for beginners. Would buy again easy to use.

The packaging greatly exaggerated this telescope's capabilities. Great for viewing the moon with great detail, but the planets look like tiny dots even with the 2X barlow and the 10mm lens. No detail at all while viewing Mars. After focusing several times Mars looks like a fuzzy red pin of light. Originally had a $75 70mm travel refractor telescope and thought this would be a decent upgrade...it was not. Basically the same outcome when viewing planets. Save your money for a better telescope, unless all you really want to see is the moon. I'd say the best feature is the tripod. I'm 6ft so it was nice not having to slouch over to reach the eyepiece.

Excellent telescope. Easy to set up and easy to use.

The Celetron Starsense Explorer was easy to set up, which was great since our 9 year old is the one mostly using it. Although it was overcast the first night we used it, we were still able to see the stars of Orion! We look forward to clearer skies, since the free app showed us the potential systems that we might see!

My 6 year old nephew was able to use this telescope.

Perfect for what I need kids love it bla!!!!!!!!!!!!

awesome product for the price i havent utilized the cell phone adapter at all as i was mistaken in my assumption that it was a adapter to help record through the eyepiece when in fact its only use is to calibrate and with the apps interactive map.

We wanted a great beginner telescope to learn with. This was our choice. Celestron is not complicated and is a good overall design. We got it for Christmas and have seen terrific views including the conjunction in the sky! We really like this telescope and the way it navigates the night sky with a cell phone. Recommended!

Mobile device software not accurate with locating celestial objects. Great family fun though.

Great buy, kids loved it! Easy to assemble and use.

The celestron is a great telescope! Although it is large so you have to have a place to keep it. The interactive mobile app is great and the laser sight makes Star gazing so easy! Would recommend to anyone interested in astronomy.

This telescope will give you nice views of the moon. have not had a chance to really look for Mars or Saturn. Need to take it out of the city and try it.

I was really excited to get this, but was a little disappointed in it. I haven’t been able to get the star sense app to align perfectly yet for it to really be useful, and the red laser on the scope of mine doesn’t seem to always work. I thought the planets would of shown up a little bigger/better on it (I haven’t been able to see Saturn’s rings yet), but it does give nice views of the moon!

Love this guy My family and I use it on summer nights while camping. Its a fun little activity to do together. Plus, the scope is fantastic