Celestron NexStar 130 SLT Computerized Telescope by Celestron
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Digital camera reviews of Celestron NexStar 130 SLT Computerized Telescope
Digital camera Review: Buyer Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
Just unpacked this last night. Did not work. Called tech support thismorning and that was no help. There only suggestion was to send it back to them. I guess I did not do a thorough a job of researching as I thought I did. My bust.Digital camera Review: Celestron NexStar
Summary: 5 Stars
Very simple to install and simple to operate. This was a great buy for beginner and immediate users.Digital camera Review: Celestron's lack of customer support
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't know how good the telescope is. I bought it for, and had it shipped to, my son who lives in Colorado. He had a problem with closing the battery compartment after the batteries are inserted. He sent an email to Celestron and it was never answered. He tried calling them (long distance, no 800 number) and they didn't answer their telephone within 25 minutes.
As I said, I can't rate the telescope, but Celestron gets only one star.
Digital camera Review: Fairly good scope for the money
Summary: 3 Stars
I may have been spoiled by the Zhumell 10" Dob, but I feel that this telescope will show me what I want to see and more as long as conditions are ideal. I have tried to get alignment by using the Skyalign feature but after 5 attempts I have never been able to get that to work. Auto two star alignment seems to work well. That is what I have been using in place of Skyalign but I feel that aligning on three objects rather than two would give me more accuracy so I am a little miffed about Skyalign not working. I may check for an software update for the handheld controller to see if this helps but I have to have the proprietary cable to hook it up to the computer to flash it so that will be another 15 to 20 smackers and they don't tell you that you will need a usb to RS232 adapter if you want to hook it up to a USB port another 40 smackers or so. These should be included in the package. I am a little po'd at Celestron for that. So far, I have not been able to collimate this scope to my liking. Spider in the front of the scope does not have fine adjustment screws and manual does not say anything about collimating the secondary mirror, only the primary mirror and I believe that is where my problem is. Items look sharp up to about 120x and after that trying to get a sharp image is next to impossible. Anyway I suspect improper collimation is the cause. So far I've only tried collimation through a laser collimater so it is probably suspect. For what it is worth, I've seen nebula and star clusters and planetary objects quite good but not as good as my Zhumell 10". I know, I know that is comparing apples to oranges. All in all a decent starter scope. I would like to get it out of town and into a dark desert to see what I can really see with it. And I would like to get it properly collimated. I think this would make all the difference. Still waiting on the power adapter. That is backordered for months.Digital camera Review: Good Attempt
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a telescope newb, bought this for a family member as a gift as they aren't as technically competent I was hoping the computerized bit would alleviate that issue. I also expected a scope at this price to have performed better. I couldn't get it to align using skyalign. i got it to work on a two-star alignment but even then when i asked it to go to different celestial bodies it would be inaccurate. i had highly accurate gps coordinates and times as well as trying it in many places on many stars on quite a few nights. in addition the mount is wobbly, almost never calms down, and does not come with a collimation tool which would be a cheap part to add, leaving the images just slightly blurry. about the only thing this was awesome for was looking at the moon, easy to find, track and see. images were clear and very cool, but certainly not worth the money to look at the moon each night. cool idea, not ready yet, or mine was broken.