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• 6-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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 44.7 pounds | | Package Length:
| 32.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 26.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 44.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Good for the price.Aug 03, 2009
I was quite pleased when I saw Saturn through this telescope first. Watching planet is fun all the time. It is easy to use. This is good as it is for beginners. However, I wish I had bought the 8 inch one. Urban area where I live is not ideal for sky watching. Watching deep sky objects with this one is fairly limited unless you go to a rural area, which I haven't done.
2 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Nextstar 6 SESep 08, 2008
I bought this telescope in June. The mount had some issues and had to be repaired, twice. Celestron finally got it back to me. This scope is spetacular. The optics are top notch, the focus is crisp and not fussy, and the tracking is stable even when changing it's balance by switching an eyepiece for a CCD camera. I was able to image with my Starshooter II on my first night.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Causes Spontaneous Happy Dances At 2 AMAug 31, 2008
We purchased the Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope in time for my son's birthday in August. He is a serious student of Astronomy with great encouragement by his high school teacher. The Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope is a terrific investment and the perfect education outlet. The 6" telescope is working just fine for us, but knowing what we know now, I would have purchased the 8" Celestron NexStar, only because the viewing capabilities with the 6" are so incredible, we can just imagine how much more we would be able to see with the 8" telescope. My son takes the telescope with us on Boy Scout Troop expeditions now, which has proven to be great way to wind down the day.
The only trouble we have had with the telescope is achieving the initial alignment. We can find bright enough objects in three different directions, and the "on board" computer seems to work pretty quickly, but so far we only get a message saying that the alignment process failed, after several minutes of "computer contemplation." My son is certain that this is something he can remedy. Getting the viewfinder aligned with the lens should be a first step priority.
On our first night out we had a brilliant full moon to work with, and seeing inside the impact craters was truly amazing. But on the same night we found Jupiter, and with a 2X Barlow lens we could see the planet, in color, including the cloud bands around the planet. My six-foot baby boy was doing the Happy Dance at 2 AM on a quiet gravel road. He woke up all the critters, and we had to go home!
34 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 Great scope with a lot of "wow" powerSep 10, 2007
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. It was there but the local light pollution required me to use "averted vision" to see it.
I highly recommend this product for those who want to get into Astronomy at a reasonable price. There are bigger scopes out there but the prices and size of these telescopes make this one a great compromise on size, performance and "bang for the buck." I don't think that you will be disappointed. You will need a few accessories but buy those as you need them.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
really nice instrumentSep 08, 2007
This is my second nexstar scope. My first was a six years old refractor. This one is a vast improvement. Optical quality is excellent, the tripod is rock solid, and the sky align technology can't be beat. Also, the quality of the included eyepiece is really nice.
For the reviewer who thinks it should ship with such accessories as a carry bag, etc...well, in a perfect world, yes, but none of the other major telescope vendors include such things. Until it becomes competitively necessary for them to give away for free what is now a lucrative accessory market, they won't.
Nice scope. You won't be disappointed. Good mix of optical quality and portability
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