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product_id: 551492860
title: "22480 StarSense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Smartphone App-Enabled Telescope Works with StarSense App to Help You Find Nebulae, Planets & More – iOS/Android Compatible"
brand: "celestron"
price: "4708 Lei"
currency: RON
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
category: "Celestron"
url: https://www.desertcart.ro/products/551492860-22480-starsense-explorer-114mm-tabletop-dobsonian-smartphone-app-enabled-telescope
store_origin: RO
region: Romania
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# Smartphone-guided star tracking 114mm aperture Newtonian reflector Stable Dobsonian mount with Teflon bearings 22480 StarSense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Smartphone App-Enabled Telescope Works with StarSense App to Help You Find Nebulae, Planets & More – iOS/Android Compatible

**Brand:** celestron
**Price:** 4708 Lei
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🌌 Unlock the universe with a tap—stargazing made smart and stunning!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 22480 StarSense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian Smartphone App-Enabled Telescope Works with StarSense App to Help You Find Nebulae, Planets & More – iOS/Android Compatible by celestron
- **How much does it cost?** 4708 Lei with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ro](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/551492860-22480-starsense-explorer-114mm-tabletop-dobsonian-smartphone-app-enabled-telescope)

## Best For

- celestron enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted celestron brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Rock-Solid Stability:** Manual tabletop Dobsonian base with smooth Teflon bearings ensures steady, precise movements.
- • **Bright, Detailed Views:** 114mm parabolic mirror captures crisp images of moons, planets, and deep-sky wonders.
- • **Quick Setup & Portability:** Lightweight, compact design with easy assembly—ready to explore the cosmos in minutes.
- • **Personalized Night Sky Tours:** App generates a custom list of tonight’s visible objects based on your exact location and time.
- • **Effortless Celestial Navigation:** Smartphone app with patented StarSense tech guides you to stars & planets—no experience needed.

## Overview

The Starsense Explorer 114mm Tabletop Dobsonian by Celestron combines a powerful 114mm Newtonian reflector with patented smartphone-guided StarSense technology. Its intuitive app analyzes star patterns in real time, providing personalized celestial tours and easy navigation for beginners and pros alike. Featuring a stable Dobsonian mount with smooth Teflon bearings and a compact, portable design, this telescope delivers crisp views of planets, moons, and deep-sky objects with minimal setup. Perfect for millennial stargazers craving a high-tech yet approachable gateway to the night sky.

## Description

Celestron revolutionises the Tabletop Dobsonian telescope with StarSense Explorer. This innovative telescope combines sky recognition technology and your smartphone to analyse and track celestial objects in real time. The user-friendly app interface and detailed tutorials make stargazing feel like having a personal tour guide. Say goodbye to complex star charts and imprecise planetarium apps. With StarSense Explorer, locating objects becomes easy, fast, and highly accurate. Setup is a breeze, and within minutes you'll confidently navigate the night sky. Just place your phone in the StarSense dock, launch the app, and perform a quick alignment. The app then generates a list of visible celestial objects specific to your location. Arrows guide your telescope as you move it towards the selected object, and a green bullseye indicates when it's ready to view. With its 114mm parabolic primary mirror, this telescope offers light-gathering capabilities for detailed views of celestial wonders like Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the Orion Nebula. The stable Tabletop Dobsonian base provides a sturdy foundation and is compact and lightweight for easy transportation. Smooth motion in altitude and azimuth is ensured by Teflon bearings, while the integrated altitude "brake" system allows for tension adjustment. StarSense Explorer is compatible with: Android - The minimum supported operating system is Android 12 and iOS - The minimum supported operating system is iOS 18. The minimum supported iPhone models are iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max.

Review: Excellent telescope for the price. - The 130mm optics give clear, sharp views of the Moon, planets and brighter deep-sky objects, and the StarSense app makes finding targets incredibly easy for beginners. Setup is quick and the Dobsonian mount is solid, though in hindsight I should have bought a tripod version — that one’s on me, not the scope. Overall, a brilliant bit of kit that’s fun, intuitive and very capable for casual stargazing
Review: Great for seeing the moon - Great piece of equipment. Got it for my son who's really developed a passion for the stars and moon. We only used it to see the moon so far as we do have lots of light pollution where we live and it gets dark quite late for the kids to be up. But looking forward to the longer nights in winter. Telescope is easy to set up, and easy to maneuver. Ive not used the app much yet so can't comment on that. The moon on the other hand looks amazing. My son loves to track the apollo landings

## Features

- UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR SMARTPHONE: Let your iPhone or Android phone take you on a guided tour of the night sky - no telescope experience required, just follow the arrows to locate stars, planets & more!
- PATENTED STARSENSE SKY RECOGINITION TECHNOLOGY: This scope uses your smartphone to analyse star patterns overhead and calculate its position in real time
- APP GENERATES A LIST OF TONIGHT’S OBJECTS TO VIEW: The app tells you what’s in the sky based on your exact time & location so you can view planets, brighter nebulae, galaxies, star clusters from the city PLUS fainter, deep sky objects from darker locations
- EASY TO SET UP AND USE: Manual tabletop Dobsonian base with Teflon altitude and azimuth bearings and a brace on the side panel for extra stability, the optical tube connects to the base via a tube cradle
- 114MM NEWTONIAN REFLECTOR: Large aperture parabolic primary mirror has enough light-gathering ability to bring out detail in celestial objects

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0CBQV7G6S |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included) |
| Best Sellers Rank | 15,724 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 29 in Telescopes |
| Brand | Celestron |
| Colour | Silver |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (250) |
| Date First Available | 2 Aug. 2023 |
| Delivery information | We cannot deliver certain products outside mainland UK ( Details ). We will only be able to confirm if this product can be delivered to your chosen address when you enter your delivery address at checkout. |
| Focus type | Manual Focus |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Included components | 17mm and 10mm eyepiece, Dobsonian Base, Optical tube, StarPointer™ red-dot finderscope, StarSense Explorer dock |
| Item Weight | 5.72 kg |
| Item model number | 22480 |
| Min Focal Length | 450 Millimeters |
| Objective Lens Diameter | 114 Millimetres |
| Package Dimensions L x W x H | 53.3 x 38.4 x 38.1 centimetres |
| Package Weight | 8.98 Kilograms |
| Part number | 22480 |
| Product Dimensions L x W x H | 38.1 x 38.1 x 57.2 centimetres |
| Size | StarSense Explorer 114mm |
| Style | StarSense Explorer 114mm |
| Telescope Mount Description | Dobsonian Mount |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Celestron
- **Eye piece lens description:** Plossl
- **Finderscope:** Built-on StarPointer™ red dot finderscope
- **Focus type:** Manual Focus
- **Model name:** StarSense Explorer 114 Tabletop Dob
- **Objective lens diameter:** 114 Millimetres
- **Optical tube length:** 470 Millimetres
- **Power source:** Battery Powered
- **Product dimensions:** 38.1D x 38.1W x 57.2H centimetres
- **Telescope mount description:** Dobsonian Mount

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: What is the Focal length of the telescope?**
A: 450MM

**Q: Minimum focus, what is the closest I can get to my subject before it becomes too blurry for a good photo?**
A: There is no specified minimum focus distance for the 114mm tabletop Dob, but 25 yards is a good guess.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent telescope for the price.
*by A***R on 7 January 2026*

The 130mm optics give clear, sharp views of the Moon, planets and brighter deep-sky objects, and the StarSense app makes finding targets incredibly easy for beginners. Setup is quick and the Dobsonian mount is solid, though in hindsight I should have bought a tripod version — that one’s on me, not the scope. Overall, a brilliant bit of kit that’s fun, intuitive and very capable for casual stargazing

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for seeing the moon
*by A***R on 4 August 2025*

Great piece of equipment. Got it for my son who's really developed a passion for the stars and moon. We only used it to see the moon so far as we do have lots of light pollution where we live and it gets dark quite late for the kids to be up. But looking forward to the longer nights in winter. Telescope is easy to set up, and easy to maneuver. Ive not used the app much yet so can't comment on that. The moon on the other hand looks amazing. My son loves to track the apollo landings

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent first telescope
*by M***E on 23 June 2025*

This is my first telescope and i goggled alot of them, i spent about a week looking for the right one and then found this and I'm not dissapointed, it was easy to set up and very easy to line up, the image quality is brilliant and the base is very sturdy though i did get a tripod as well, am already looking at the 150 version

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*Last updated: 2026-02-23*