Celestron hail their StarSense Explorer line as the very first “to make use of a smartphone to analyse the night sky and calculate its position in real time”. We tested the mettle of the 70mm ...

For us in the Pacific Northwest, the weather is starting to get good. Warmer nights lead to better stargazing opportunities, as I won’t have to worry about freezing to death just to look at ...

Choosing a first telescope is a difficult task for a fledgling amateur astronomer. Frequently, newcomers pick telescopes with computerized go-to controls, only to discover after a lot of frustration — ...

A great value all-rounder with the added convenience of alignment by smartphone, this large yet affordable Dobsonian telescope offers sharp and immersive views of galaxies, nebulae but also planets ...

If you’ve ever tried to map distant stars or planets using a smartphone or tablet app, you know the apps have been pretty amazing for years but are constrained by the devices’ tiny, light-limited ...