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Celestron 21045 114mm Equatorial PowerSeeker Telescope

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List Price: $167.95

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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Celestron
EAN: 0050234210454
Label: Celestron
Manufacturer: Celestron
Model: 21045
Optical Zoom: 5 unknown-units
Publisher: Celestron
Sales Rank: 9584
Studio: Celestron
Warranty: 2 years warranty

Features:

Affordable telescope for beginning astronomer; portable yet powerful
All-glass optical components with high transmission coatings for enhanced image brighness and clarity
Newtonian optical design with a 114mm aperture and 900mm focal length
Equatorial mount for tracking the sky
Includes 3x Barlow Lens (1.25"), 20mm eyepiece, 4mm eyepiece, aluminum tripod with accessory tray

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Product Description:
The PowerSeekers come in a choice of refractor or reflector, equatorial or altazimuth mount design. The PowerSeekers come with all coated glass optical components with for enhanced image brightness and clarity. The Newtonian reflectors offer larger aperture and greater light gathering power needed to resolve the faint detail of hundreds of deep-sky and other celestial objects.All PowerSeekers come on either sturdy equatorial mounts for tracking the sky, or collapsible altazimuth mounts suitable for terrestrial viewing as well as astronomical use.The PowerSeekers come with a full range of eyepieces plus a 3x Barlow lens, allowing an increase in viewing power hundreds of times greater than that of an unaided eye!The PowerSeekers PS 114 EQ is a great choice for children and families.

Amazon.com Review:
I love bargains, so I was eager to try out Celestron's new Powerseeker 114 Newtonian reflector telescope. With its 4.5-inch mirror, Celestron's Powerseeker 114 gathers three times more starlight than popular 60mm refractors. The Powerseeker package includes two eyepieces (K20 and SR4), a plastic 3x barlow, and a lightweight equatorial mount.

Optically, the Powerseeker 114 holds its own when compared with my Celestron Firstscope 114EQ. Using the K20 eyepiece included as standard equipment, about 45x magnification, it's easy to see the Andromeda Galaxy and its smaller satellite galaxy M32. When compared to 60mm refractors, the Powerseeker 114 brings out much more detail in the Orion Nebula, reveals many more stars in Perseus' Double Cluster and even brings out a few individual stars in globular clusters like M13. Saturn looks quite small at 45x with the K20 eyepiece, but using my own 7.5mm eyepiece (120x) I can easily detect the shadow cast by the planet on the rings, and even glimpse the ring's Cassini Division. When the mirrors are properly lined up or "collimated," the images are reasonably sharp up to magnifications of 225x. I find a collimation tool helps get this fine tuning just right.

As good as the optics are, however, the effect of cost-cutting shows up in the mechanical components. The focuser is plastic, the finder scope is plastic, the rings that attach the telescope to the tripod are plastic. Even when the tripod legs are clamped at their shortest setting, the telescope wobbles when I try to focus at higher magnifications. Celestron's instruction manual correctly recommends that most viewing be done in the range of 40x to 130x. So what about that 675x magnification proclaimed on the box? I'd say it's not worth the trouble.

Overall, the Celestron Powerseeker 114 is a budget priced telescope with good optical performance, especially when using the low power K20 eyepiece. If you're willing to spend a little more money, either Orion's SkyQuest XT4.5 or Celestron's Firstscope 114EQ will give you a sturdier mount, an improved finder scope, and better eyepieces. Also, for about the price of the Powerseeker 114, I like the dependable refractor design of Celestron's Firstscope 70EQ. --Jeff Phillips

Pros:

Low cost
Good optics
Serviceable K20 eyepiece

Cons:

Wobbly mount
Difficult to collimate
Plastic finder and focuser

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- its an "alright" telescope
set up of the telescope is a breeze. the instructions were clear and also had pictures for reference. it took me about 10 minutes to get it together. i see people complaining the tripod is "unstable" NOT TRUE! its called tightening it! problem solved.
the finder scope is made of plastic but hey, its not your main scope and look at what you paid for. the entire setup does feel cheap but think of it in terms of value.
the entire weight is manageable, not portable but not very heavy.
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Rating:

- A Good Telescope
Itis a wonderful product with minimum cost. I have tried to and have been able to see some spot in the Moon.
Good product.

Rating:

- A bit heavy and bulky
Celestron 21045 114mm Equatorial PowerSeeker Telescope

On my deck this telescope is somewhat shaky,
In a recent Readers Digest an article explained that ALL Telescopes are shaky to a point unless you set it up an solid ground, that took care of the shaky problem. Its hard to move everyday, with the tripod open its very difficult to get through a standard doorway, alot of work to get the legs folded up for every trip outside. the Optics is great, higher magnification is blurry but ... Read More

Rating:

- Seller 'Anacortes Telescope' - Mailed to wrong address, They Don't Care!
Amazon has documentation that the seller mailed to wrong address, yet the seller says "to bad so sad". Now I'm stuck with a telescope instead of the intended person.

Rating:

- good for price
Many of the reviews say that the mount is shakey. Understand for the price there will be limitations. Also 675x in unrealistic in most scopes. My boys still haven't opened it so my evaluation is not completely accurate. Remember not to use this scope about about 150x. That's about as high power as you can practically get. Also for looking at stars you don't want high power. They are just points and higher power reduces light gathering. I might suggest if you want to reduce the vibration see ... Read More

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