A great value all-rounder with the added convenience of alignment by smartphone, this large yet affordable Dobsonian telescope offers sharp and immersive views of galaxies, nebulae but also planets ...

This is an optically excellent telescope with a rugged, lightweight computerized mount. Intended for serious amateurs, it is suitable for all types of visual astronomy and some astrophotography. If ...

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 ...

This story is part of our continuing coverage of CES 2020, including tech and gadgets from the showroom floor. Align your camera’s phone with the mirror in Celestron’s StarSense telescopes, and you’ll ...

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 ...

When I was a teenager, new to observing the sky, I spent a year wandering across the Milky Way armed with nothing more than a pair of 7×50 binoculars. Then a miracle happened: I received a Celestron 8 ...

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 ...