New water-resistant, lightweight design • Built-in sliding sunshade • Durable, all-metal chassis • Multicoated optics

The Celestar 8 is engineered for unsurpassed optical performance in an affordable, full featured Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope of large enough aperture to do serious deep-sky observing. This telescope is carefully crafted and manufactured in the U.S.A. for dependable quality of the highest caliber. It offers the lowest price ever for a Celestron fork mounted 8" telescope.

The Celsetron NexStar™ 5 is very easy to set up. Just set it on a table top or tripod and you're ready to go! The telescope needs to be aligned to two stars to work, but if you don't know any stars, don't worry. The NexStar™ 5 does. It will automatically point to the stars for you. Within minutes you're observing! The back illuminated hand control is easy to use. At the touch of a button you can select a catalog, change the slew (motion) rate, get information on an object, or simply tell if an object is visible. The NexStar's™ database contains over 18,000 objects including all of the popular catalogs the RNGC, the SAO, the Caldwell, and the Messier catalog.

This ultra portable telescope is ideal for traveling or for setting up quickly anywhere. A handy but sturdy table tripod mount provides steady viewing. This compact telescope is small but powerful -- study lunar details, Saturn and its rings, Jupiter and its belts and moons, and hundreds of deep-sky object including galaxies, nebulae and star clusters.

Optical Design: Achromatic Refractor • Optical Diameter: 114mm (4.5") • Focal Length: f/ration 910mm f/8 • Resolving Power (arc seconds): 0.9 • Optical Coatings: Multi-Coated • Limiting Visual Magnitude: 12.6 • Maximum Practical Visual Power: 350X • Optical Tube Dimensions (Diameter x Length): 5.7" x 38" • Batteries (user supplied): 10 x AA • Tripod: Aluminum, fully adjustable

Builds on the original ETX concept to create the most advanced electronically-controlled telescope ever produced in its price range • User-friendly features that started the ETX revolution.

495 Autostar handbox • Two control motors (one for each telescope axis) • Battery pack (accepts 10 user-supplied AA-size batteries) • Coil cords