Celestron StarSense Explorer - パソコン用

I would recommend this product with six stars if the app had half the functionality of Celestron’s SkyPortal freeware, and ten stars if it lived up to the SkySafari engine that runs them both. I manage a large lending library of telescopes for my local club, and own a dozen telescopes ranging from $250 up to $7500, but bought this one for outreach and pure curiosity to try out the mounted app-driven interface. It could be the perfect storm, and to be honest, I’m not sure why Celestron chose to 1) attach it to their lowest line of hobby-killer junk telescopes and 2) dumb down and cripple the utility of the app so as to make it only useful in the most basic and prescriptive way. I should be shocked, but guess that I’m not, since the platform represents a potential threat to their own top of the line go-to tech. As sold, its an enabling tool with *so* much potential, but in practice, the functionality of the app and cell phone mount (let’s face it, the only reason to try the thing out) is so dumbed down as to be nearly useless. Two stars because it works, but soooo disappointed. Rookie move, Celestron.

This app is the best astronomy app I’ve ever had.Im going to get the celestron StarSense explorer.The problem I realized was that when it moves your view you don’t move the phone so it won’t move ur telescope.so it does 0 help whatsoever. When u have arrows you move it to where it should go so when u move ur telescope the phone moves with it so when u look through the telescope u see it what u wanted instead of nothing.Also I haven’t had a astronomy app with so many objects. :)

I've been using telescopes for 50 years and set up a DX 102 starsense explorer for a friend who bought this as a beginner scope. Let's start with the good. For a beginning achromat it is solid and very good quality. The red dot finder is great. The alt-az mount is sturdy and mount head movement is smooth and stays where you put it. Also very good assembly instructions. Now the app. I think the app itself is actually great as a tool for seeing what's out there. It has great graphical interface, a ton of information about the objects you're looking at. Unfortunately the whole smart-phone to telescope alignment and telescope orientation using that patented LISA algorithm or whatever does not seem to work very consistently if at all. I did get the telescope to orient initially and tried moving it to M42 and it was about 1 field width off. Then I tried improving telescope alignment and after that the telescope would not locate at all. Nice idea but just doesn't work well enough at least so far from what I have seen

This app is necessary with the new Celestron StarSense Explorer DX telescopes and you need to have one with their special phone mounts in order to use this app to its fullest. The plate solving features work great! I really like the nightly challenge objects list. I like that it makes me semi competent at finding objects and seeing awesome things that I would have a really tough time finding otherwise. I think this app does what it aims to do really well. If only I could have more clear nights to make use of it, although this has really come in handy even in less than ideal conditions. Like all things that are new, it is not without its kinks, but nothing I can’t work around!

I saw in the reviews a lot of people are saying it’s off but you have to point the telescope at a clear part of the sky and wait until the telescope position is found I had the same problem but I figured it out

The telescope is completely fine but this app however is not. I understand that things are opposite when you look in the view finder BUT I was looking for Mars which I could see with my eyes but the app was telling me to point the telescope in the opposite direction and down. What if I really needed help locating an object with this app that I couldn’t find on my own? It would be of no help. I still have things to learn as this is my first telescope but because it is more for beginners and I wish it would have a better app that is actually helpful.

This app is completely useless. I don’t know what sweatshop they used to make it but it’s ducking pathetic