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Celestron NexStar 8 SE Telescope

4.3 out of 5 stars 270 customer reviews
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  • 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, StarBright XLT high transmission coatings come standard
  • StarPointer finderscope to help with alignment and accurately locating objects
  • Quick-release fork arm mount, optical tube and accessory tray for no-tool setup
  • SkyAlign allows you to align on any three bright celestial objects, making for a fast and easy alignment process
  • Nearly 40,000-object database with 200 user-definable objects and expanded information on over 200 objects
  • 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, StarBright XLT high transmission coatings come standard
  • StarPointer finderscope to help with alignment and accurately locating objects
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Style:8-inch  |  Product Packaging:Standard Packaging
Product Dimensions 42 x 23.7 x 13 inches
Item Weight 16 pounds
Shipping Weight 48.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
ASIN B000GUFOC8
Item model number 11069
Batteries 8 AA batteries required.
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4.3 out of 5 stars 270 customer reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank #2,186 in Camera & Photo
#49 in Camera & Photo > Binoculars & Scopes > Telescopes
Date first available at Amazon.com November 1, 2003

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat scope with a lot of "wow" power
By G. Smith on September 10, 2007
Style Name: 6-inchPackage Type: Standard Packaging Verified Purchase
We used our scope for the first time recently. I had read the manual and a lot of online materials before we received our scope so I was somewhat familiar with how to use it. I input our location using our place's longiture and latitude and used the unit's "two star" alignment setting since I could only make out two bright stars in our light-polluted location (Tokyo, Japan). After this, I input "Jupiter" into the hand controller and the scope slewed to the planet and placed it right in the center of the eyepiece's field of view. My family and I spent the next hour letting the scope swing around to various stars and binary systems that I couldn't see with my unaided eyes but showed up beautifully in the eyepiece. I recommend taking a look at Albireo in the list of "named stars" on the hand controller very highly.

I knew that a telescope, much like a camera, is a device that needs accessories. Therefore, before I bought the scope I purchased (used) a 9mm ocular, a barlow lens, a better star diagonal and a battery pack to power this thing. The car battery adapter I purchased with the scope. A lot of people don't use a case so I can understand why Celestron didn't include one with this to keep the price down. One of those plastic storage boxes should work well if you use the foam that comes with the scope to keep it in place.

The optics of the telescope and the special coatings on the optics are a great improvement over what I experienced 20 years ago with my first 5" SCT scope. The images are sharp and this scope is suitable for both planetary viewing and deep space objects. However, the deep space objects will require you to find a dark site to be really visable. Our first night of viewing included a look at M13, a globular cluster.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery nice scope, but please read about customer service.
By R. Bunch on January 23, 2007
Style Name: 8-inchPackage Type: Standard Packaging
The five stars represent my opinion about the scope. I'm a novice at astronomy, so I can't really make any comparisons. I can tell you, however, that this scope does everything I've ever read about it. I pulled it out of the box and put it together and it went to work just the way the book said. I've done some solar viewing and a little digital astrophotography. My major purpose for this scope is in the area of deep-sky astrophotography without spending multiple thousands of bucks. It may be a little overkill for a novice like myself, but I wanted a scope that I wouldn't outgrow, and one that is easy to accessorize. The only thing I can nit-pick on this scope is the motor drives on the mount. They work fine, but they make a little too much noise, and the sound indicates to me that the gear train is not high quality components. It does seem to run very smooth, though! And accurate, every time! If YOU take the time to accurately set it up and aim it, then IT will put what ever you ask for right in the middle of your field of view. The battery holder is a little tight on the 2000mah NiMH AA batteries that I bought for it, but since I plan to use the AC adapter I bought for it, that's not really a big problem. I wish Celestron had designed the bubble-level INTO the base of the mount rather than just leave it loose for the user to install with the double stick tape on it's bottom. I bought a larger level from an RV store and epoxied it to the top of the battery cover. It seems to be very accurate and my alignment seems to work every time. I recommend a good variety of eyepiece filters, a solar filter for the main aperture, a 45deg. upright diagonal, and several eyepieces to cover the range from about 4mm to 32mm.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOptics are an A+ with some minor ease of use issues
By Phil Schorr on December 27, 2012
Style Name: 8-inchPackage Type: Standard Packaging
The Celestron 8SE is a fantastic intermediate telescope. I have been using it now for roughly 3 weeks and feel I can give a decent review at this point. It arrived in perfect condition and took no time at all to assemble, perhaps 20 minutes from box to first light. I had some issues when I first tried to align the telescope, but these were easily sorted out. I am not sure why you need to enter in your location and then also enter in the timezone and whether daylight savings is observed. This tripped me up initially because I entered in EDT instead of EST because I had forgotten that standard time is fall/winter and daylight time is spring/summer. Once I corrected this mistake, the computer aligned no problem using either the solar system or two star alignment methods. It would be nice if Celestron would just ask you which city you live in and the date and allow the computer to automatically know the timezone and daylight savings time practices at that location. Annoying, but definitely not a deal breaker.

Within 5 minutes, I was able to slew the scope to Jupiter, the Orion Nebula, and the moon. All views were EXCELLENT. You can easily see the cloud bands on Jupiter and 4 of the moons using the 25mm eyepiece. I'd say the sweet spot for planetary viewing was around 150-200x, which I acheived using the included 25mm eyepiece and a 2x barlow. This seems to give me optimal brightness, contrast, and magnification. My seeing conditions have been terrible, so I am sure that you could go higher under better conditions, but even at this magnification the view is amazing. When looking at the moon, you can easily approach the highest useful magnification of the telescope (roughly 400x) while maintaining a crisp, sharp view of the craters.Read more ›
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