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Celestron - PowerSeeker 114EQ Telescope - Manual German Equatorial Telescope for Beginners - Compact and Portable - Bonus Astronomy Software Package - 114mm Aperture
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Brand | Celestron |
Model name | 21045 |
Optical tube length | 21 inches |
Eyepiece lens description | Barlow |
Objective lens diameter | 11.4 Centimetres |
Telescope mount description | Equatorial Mount |
Product Dimensions | 94D x 40.6W x 25.4H Centimetres |
Focus type | Manual Focus |
Finderscope | Reflex |
Item weight | 8.62 Kilograms |
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- PERFECT ENTRY-LEVEL TELESCOPE: The Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ is an easy-to-use and powerful telescope. This 114mm Newtonian Reflector offers enough light gathering ability to see planets, the Moon's craters, distant stars, the Orion Nebula, and more.
- MANUAL GERMAN EQUATORIAL MOUNT: With its slow-motion altitude rod, the German Equatorial mount allows you to navigate the sky with ease. Find celestial objects quickly and follow them smoothly & accurately as they appear to drift across the night sky.
- COMPACT AND PORTABLE: The ideal telescope for adults and kids to use together, the PowerSeeker is compact, lightweight, and portable. Take it to your favorite campsite, a dark sky observing site, or simply the backyard.
- MULTIPLE ACCESSORIES: The Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ Telescope comes with 2 quality eyepieces (20mm and 4mm) plus a 3x Barlow lens to triple the power of each. You'll also receive a FREE download of one of the top-rated astronomy software programs.
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- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 93.98 x 40.64 x 25.4 cm; 8.62 kg
- Date First Available : June 14 2010
- Manufacturer : Celestron
- Place of Business : FENTON, MO, 63026 US
- ASIN : B0000Y8C2Y
- Item model number : 21045
- Country of origin : China
- Department : Unisex Adult
- Best Sellers Rank: #67,342 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
- #10 in Catadioptric Telescopes
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Easy to assemble | 3.8 | — | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 |
For beginners | 3.6 | — | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 3.3 |
Portability | — | — | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 3.7 |
Easy to use | 3.5 | — | — | 4.3 | 4.3 | — |
Sold by | Amazon.ca | Amazon.ca | Dianfan-US | BANJOO US | BANJOO US | Gskyer Inc |
focus type | Manual Focus | Manual Focus | Manual Focus | Manual Focus | Manual Focus | Manual Focus |
eye piece lens | Barlow | — | Plossl | — | — | Barlow |
objective lens diameter | 114 millimeters | 102 millimeters | 90 millimeters | 80 millimeters | 80 millimeters | 130 millimeters |
aperture diameter | 114 millimeters | 102 millimeters millimeters | 90 millimeters millimeters | 80 millimeters millimeters | 80 millimeters millimeters | — |
exit pupil diameter | — | 10.2 millimeters | 0.38 millimeters | — | 0.13 millimeters | — |
telescope mount | Equatorial Mount | Altazimuth Mount | Altazimuth Mount | — | Altazimuth Mount | Equatorial Mount |
lens coating | Fully Coated | — | — | Fully Multi-Coated | Fully Multi-Coated | Fully Multi Coated |
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Amazon.ca Product Description
Whether you’re an amateur astronomer or becoming more comfortable with using a telescope, you’ll love the technology and user-friendly features packed into Celestron’s PowerSeeker Newtonian Reflector telescope. The Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ is a powerful yet easy-to-use telescope. Our PowerSeeker Series telescopes for astronomy beginners have been designed with a combination of value, quality, power, and user-friendly features. They are built to enhance the experience for beginners but are also exceptional for mid-level experienced astronomers. This 114EQ telescope features powerful magnification and easy-to-use controls that allow users to obtain crisp views of the Moon, the rings of Saturn, and Jupiter’s Galilean moons.
The telescope’s sturdy and durable German Equatorial mount and slow-motion rod deliver smooth and accurate pointing. Move the slow-motion altitude rod in an up/down fashion to pinpoint and track your object. The 3x Barlow lens is added to triple the magnification power of the included 20mm and 4mm eyepieces. We’ve included an accessory tray to store accessories conveniently and a free download of our BONUS Starry Night Basic Edition astronomy software with information on 36,000 celestial objects, printable sky maps, and more. The software can be used on your Mac, PC or laptop. It’s the best way to learn about the night sky and plan your next observing session. Additional accessories include a tripod.
You can purchase this Celestron telescope with confidence from the world’s #1 telescope brand, based in California since 1960. You’ll also receive a 2-year warranty and unlimited access to technical support from our team of US-based experts.
Tom Johnson founded Celestron in 1960 after building a telescope to share the night sky with his sons. Since then, Celestron has established itself as the world’s #1 telescope brand. Celestron telescopes are used by scientists in world-class research observatories and even aboard the International Space Station.
From the Manufacturer
The astromaster 70eq telescope uses all coated glass optics and Newtonian reflectors to produce bright, clear images of the Moon and planets. It is quick and easy to set up and features a permanently mounted star pointer. Provides erect image optics that are Great for terrestrial and astronomical use. This telescope also comes outfitted with a quick release dovetail attachment and a German equatorial mount with setting circle to help you accurately locate and track sky objects. The rugged, pre-assembled tripod offers 1.25 inch steel tube legs for a rigid and stable platform. Also included is a deluxe accessory tray and theskyx-first light edition astronomy software with a 10,000 object database, printable sky maps, and 75 enhanced images.
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The EQ 127 and most all other models with the short fat ("folded") tubes use a "Bird-Jones" design. Stay away from those! By design they will only ever be "sort of sharp" in one small area of the field of view - impossible to focus! (check out Bird Jones issues on google) Get a long tube like this!
The Equitorial mount is of good quality. It can be a bit humbling to learn to use but makes it much easier to track a target once set up. Targets are always moving in (and out of) the field of view due to the motion of all celestial bodies and this will track them precisely with the turn of a single knob opposed to a pan/tilt mount.
The eye pieces are adequately good but only 2 are included (plus a barlow). If you like what you see but want better you may consider upgraded eyepieces. They are easy to find in this common 1.25 inch standard size and made a good improvement in my experience.
This turned out to be exactly what I wanted: not too big, well priced, powerful and functional.
After a few disappointments with others I finally found the right one!
Put yourself somewhere between those 2 extremes and you will get MUCH more value and enjoyment. I took the time to actually learn about things like diff eyepieces, max useful magnification, the ecliptic, north star alignment, right ascension and declination, etc. I set it up in my living room before taking it outside and actually practiced leveling it, aligning it, and moving it along the RA and dec axes for a cpl days before I got a clear night.
This was definitely worth the time. At my current level of expertise and experience, I’m very satisfied and impressed so far with what it can do. I’ve clearly watched Mars rising, the moons of Jupiter dancing around, and looked through the rings of Saturn. I’ve also watched the shadows inside the craters of the moon, and learned that I should use a filter when looking at it under high magnification if I don’t want to be blind in one eye for 20 minutes lol. Next on the list are some cool deep-sky objects, but I have more learning to do first. For me, this is a journey and I fully know that I will eventually start noticing its shortcomings and want to move up to a bigger and better scope – and I will - but for where I am right now, it’s beautiful and I am super thrilled and entirely pleased and satisfied with this unit.
My 2 cents on some complaints I’ve read here and elsewhere:
Eyepieces: they work fine, but def not top-of-the-line units. The 4mm and 20mm sizes are kinda at the two extremes of magnification possibilities. I anticipated this and also bought a semi-decent set of Plossl eyepieces covering the range between those two. Cost me an additional $100+ but amazingly worth it. It’s fun and informative to view things through several different mag levels. If you know that using a 3X Barlow lens with the 4mm eyepiece will give you 750X mag, and that this is well beyond the useful max for the scope size, you won’t be disappointed with the blurry blob it gives you lol. You will learn instead to greatly appreciate good resolution and clarity in the more practical and functional mag ranges it can give you so effectively.
Finder scope: No defense here. I have to fully agree with the complaints on this. The view field is super narrow and it’s tedious as heck to aim and look through. I had become accustomed to the cheap red-dot finder on my little scope, and simply put that on the new 127EQ instead. I much prefer it for ease, simplicity and accuracy. New ones are not that expensive and I’d def recommend that inexpensive upgrade to make your life easier.
The EQ mount: It honestly works amazing for me, and I’m soooo happy to be able to track stuff so effectively and accurately. Properly aligning it beforehand is a must, though. I read the instructions, and watched youtube vids for advice, and it’s super easy and quick once you grasp the method and purpose. It’s so easy and satisfying to quickly bring objects back in your field of view with only a quick twist of a knob.
The spherical mirror: This was a common criticism in a lot of the professional forums I read. I learned that it allows a longer focal length inside a more compact tube, (vs the parabolic mirror) but requires a corrective lens to compensate for it. The pros mostly say that this budget design leads to aberrations around the edges of your viewing fields. At my current level of experience, this is a total non-issue for me – I might notice it after many more years experience, but right now, I’m like “What are you talking about? – this is amazing” lol. It apparently makes collimation a little more tedious because you have to remove the corrective lens first, but I’ve watched the vid, and it looks way easier than some people make it sound. Note the scope was perfectly collimated right out of the box and I haven’t yet had to attempt this.
Bottom line: I’d go 5 stars if it wasn’t for the finder scope. Beyond that, I’m completely satisfied, impressed and thrilled with what I got for my very reasonable cash output (even including the extra eyepieces). Order fulfillment by Amazon was smooth, quick and reliable as expected.
EDIT/ADDITION: It's really easy to collimate. Honestly, removing the corrector lens adds about 3 minutes to the whole process. :)
When the package arrived, I could tell that the telescope would be quality - the box weighed over 30 pounds. Almost everything is made of metal - the telescope body, clamps, mount, tripod, eyepieces and adjusters. There are few plastic pieces here and there, like the flexible adjuster extensions and some parts of the tripod, but otherwise, everything feels sturdy and well-made.
The main point of contention with an equatorial-mount telescope is the setup. If you follow the quick setup guide closely, you should have no problem getting everything put together - just take your time. The trickiest part of the setup is lining up the small finder scope with the main telescope. Here's a tip: during the daytime, find a distant object somewhere on the horizon. Try to line the object up the best you can with the main telescope. Next, locate the object in the finder scope and centre the cross-hairs on it. It may take a some fine tuning, but once you got both scopes lined up, it's much easier to point the telescope at something in the sky.
Once the scopes were lined up, I was able to point the telescope at the moon for some amazing views. I recommend looking at a partial moon so that you can see variations in the shadows; the 127EQ is very capable of spotting craters and fine details with its default eyepiece - my girlfriend and I were very impressed! We have yet to try the included 3x Barlow eyepiece, but it should offer up some incredibly-detailed views.
We haven't learned how to properly set up the EQ mount in order to track stars and constellations yet, but it doesn't seem to be too difficult if you're willing to learn something new. There are lots of videos on the internet about how to properly align the telescope with the stars, but I could see that being a turn-off for someone who wants something instantaneous or automatic.
Overall this is a great telescope, but it might be a bit intimidating to use for some. Put the effort into though and it's well worth it.
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El lente que trae de 20mm es de muy buena calidad y en verdad los planetas se ven geniales. El lente de 4mm ya no tanto, recomiendo comprar uno mejor.
La montura ecuatorial es perfecta y resistente
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