Removing a small cover over a mirror, you’ll place your phone’s camera directly over the top of it. This app is used to help you quickly locate objects in the night sky. The biggest allure of the Explorer DX 130AZ is the StarSense Explorer interface. Training the laser onto a distant object (roughly 100 meters), and then using the adjusting screws to get it dead center in the finder eyepiece ensures that everything is in alignment for what comes next. On top of the telescope is the red-dot finder eyepiece I mentioned a moment ago. Check out this video below to see the unboxing and assembly of the Celestron Explorer DX 130AZ Telescope: In less time than it takes to pop a bag of popcorn, you’ll be ready to start alignment. With the main telescope body securely in place, you’ll then drop in the eye piece, red-dot finder eyepiece, and phone mount. Placing the telescope into the tripod mount assembly is as simple as unscrewing a hand-tightened hold bolt, sliding it into position, and then locking it down. A triangular tray is placed in the middle of the tripod to hold all of your accessories, lenses, and anything else you’ll want to keep an eye on. Sitting atop the tripod arms is a heavy-duty integrated mount that’ll hold the telescope itself, as well as handling the finer control arms for adjusting the device in small increments. The frame itself has two braces for each arm, with a single spike that extends down to hold steady on uneven ground. The telescope sits on top of a sturdy but lightweight aluminum frame with a slight black powder coat to hold off any scratches and for better grip for moving the device. With the DX 130AZ unpacked, it was time to assemble the device. Watching YouTube videos, Celestron showed what looked to be a simple game-like experience of getting the device calibrated, and by using your phone as a side-car for processing power, the ability to be looking at distant objects in the night sky in a matter of minutes. I’ve tried to use telescopes in the past and found them to be extraordinarily complex to sight in, making it too challenging to enjoy. What drew me to the DX 130AZ is the interface. Could this be the device to finally make it possible to explore the night sky? I’ve always been fascinated with astronomy. While we may all be stuck indoors for a while, I’ve recently picked up a Celestron Explorer DX 130AZ telescope. Reaching out and touching the sky can still be a cumbersome process as telescopes are often complicated to use for a beginner. That said, through better technologies we can embrace and better understand our world, and few worlds are as mysterious as the vast and enormous universe that extends beyond the boundaries of our imagination. We are no more the master of our universe than a bird is the master of the sky. The great philosopher Socrates once said “Man must rise above the Earth-to the top of the atmosphere and beyond-for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” and it’s as true today as it was in his time.
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