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Buy Celestron Telescope

The Celestron Nexstar 8 is built around ease of use. The 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain optics offer images twice as bright as a 5-inch telescope, and feature Starbright multicoating. The auto-align feature accesses a database of 18,000 objects, and there’s even a tour function that seeks out various regularly occurring astronomical events, depending on the month.

The Nexstar 8 offers nine different slew speeds, an RS-232 serial port for connection to a PC, computer hand control, a focal ratio of f10, and a focal length of 2032mm.

Customer Review: Great !!
It is a really spectacular telescope!! After having spent about 20 minutes to achieve a precise collimation, the images are almost perfect. The location of celestial objects is very good. I recommend an ocular of 35 mm and a Ultima barlow.

Customer Review: If You Can Afford The N8GPS Get It
I bought this scope as a gift for my Mom. She caught the backyard astronomy bug after looking through my Nexstar 11 GPS a few times. I wanted to get her a scope that was easy to use and fairly lightweight, but with more than a 5″ appature so that she’d actually be able to see details on deep sky objects as opposed to blurs. This scope delivers and is a great value for the money. However, it’s goto accuracy - - while beating the competition at the same price point - - is not nearly as good as the accuracy of Celestron’s higher end telescopes. There is a $500-1000 price difference between this scope and the N8GPS model, but I think the more expensive scope is actually a better value. This scope is really a terrific instrument, but if the extra money is not an issue I think most enthusiasts would be happier with the Nexstar 8 GPS (the one that looks like the N11GPS - with the carbon tube). It’s got better gears, a sturdier mount, dual fork arms, and simply performs to perfection every time.

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