Features of the NexStar 5SE
-- Schmidt Cassegrain with 125mm aperture and 1250mm focal length
-- internal focusing mechanism by moving the primary mirror
-- Schmidt-Cassegrain thread for attaching a broad variety of accessories (a.k.a. SC-thread, 2" thread, UNC2"-24)
-- compact Starpointer red dot finder
-- extremely compact dimensions, ideal for transportation
-- the telescope can be used in table-top mode without a tripod, or it can be put on the supplied field tripod
-- state-of-the-art GoTo mount with 40,000+ object database
-- the telescope and the mount can be split easily and stored separately. The tube can be placed on other mounts, and other tubes can be placed on the NexStar mount.

Sky Align - Your Easy Way To The Stars

GoTo capable telescopes take a lot of the responsibility off your shoulders. They will automatically slew to thousands of objects, leaving you the time to do what you're out to do for: Observing! Each GoTo telescope must be aligned before it can be used properly. This procedure used to be complicated and required knowledge of at least a couple of dozen brighter stars. With Celestron's revolutionary new Sky Align this procedure has become ultra-simple:

Step 1 ... Just enter date, time and observing location.
Step 2 ... Point the telescope at three bright stars - you don't need to know which stars they are! Even planets and the moon will work.

Once you have finished this simple procedure you are ready to start observing. The telescope will slew to any object you might fancy within a moment's notice, driven by powerful servo motors.

Additional flexibility: You can change the instrument according to your needs:

You can directly attach other instruments to the NexStar mount. The instrument only needs to have a Vixen-style dovetail plate (available separately if you don't already have one) and a short enough tube length.

One example: With our compact Side-by-side mounting plate you can attach a camera and a little guide scope for astro imaging.