Celestron NexStar 5 SE Telescope ReviewCelestron NexStar 5 SE Telescope Rating: 4 stars out of 5 for high quality images but low battery life
Price: $599
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Welcome to Stellar Telescope Reviews! This is my very first post and I would like to introduce myself. My name is Kevin Akana and I’m an amateur astronomer. As a matter of fact I’m as amateur as they can get! I go out with my astronomy club about once a month and usually spend a week or two every summer in some remote desert looking at the Kuiper Belt. I’m not going to claim I know everything there is to know about telescopes or astronomy, but I’m working on it! So, take all my advice with a grain of salt and do your own research! There’s a telescope out there for you! Go find it! On with my review!
The Celestron NexStar 5 SE Telescope is a 5” Schmidt Cassgrain style telescope and one of the better telescopes on the market right now. The NExStar 5 SE is great for people who wish to view objects in the night sky and those who like to take pictures of the objects they find, who knows, you might be the first person to have a picture of ET!
Some of the features I particularly like are the StarPointer finderscope. A finderscope provides a wider field of vision to help an astronomer the general area a sky object is located in. I also like that this telescope is only about 40 lbs. That may seem like a lot, but it’s still lighter than a lot of other telescopes that weigh more and see less. Trust me, when you’re lugging a 50 lb. microscope up that tall mountain to escape light pollution, you’ll wish you had bought the 10 lb. lighter telescope.
Let’s not forget one of the most important, useful, and helpful features of the Celestron NexStar 5 SE Telescope. It has a computer system with a database of about 40,000 objects. Just follow the directions to properly align and calibrate your telescope then select the object you want to look at with the keypad. It really is that simple. (I strongly recommend doing this during daylight.)
The only thing I don’t like about this telescope is the low battery life. The SkyAlign system that enables the telescope to find things in the sky for you sucks up a lot of juice.I strongly recommend buying an alternative power source if you have any major night sky viewing plans. Other than that, this is an excellent telescope.
