A high quality, economical 9x50 finderscope with fully coated lenses and a 5.8° field of view.  It comes with a mounting bracket for C8 type telescopes.

Finderscopes are secondary scopes, used to help locate objects in the main telescope.  Those finderscopes with larger objective lens diameters are able to locate fainter stars, and of course weigh more, too.

A star diagonal, a term commonly associated with 90° mirror diagonals such as this, lets you view objects that are at a 90° angle from the direction the telescope is pointing.  This allows comfortable viewing when the telescope is at or near the zenith(directly overhead).

Celestron's erect image diagonals are Amici prism designs, meaning that images are upright and laterally correct.  This design, however, instead renders images which are laterally reversed-but are brighter than an erect image diagonal.&3160 When maxing out your magnification capacity given your telescope and seeing conditions, that bit of brightness is pretty important.

The visual back comes standard with most Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes of 5.0" to 8.0" diameters.  It screws on to the rear threading to reduce the cavity to take accessories of 1.25", such as star diagonals and tele extenders.

This adpapter allows you to link your telescope drive directly to the cigarette lighter receptacle of your car, for a quick and easy 12v DC power source in one step.
Cord is 25ft in length.

Celestron's been at the cutting edge of computerized telescope technology for more than twenty years, and they've now taken this further with the NexRemote™ telescope control software.  It allows the user to control their Celestron computerized telescope from their personal computer, even remotely!  This software was developed for Celestron's telescopes using the NexStar control system, including the NexStar "i" Series, Advanced Series, NexStar GPS Series and CGE Series units.

Note! CD-Rom ONLY; this does NOT include a NexRemote remote control.

The RS-232 serial cable connects into the Nexstar hand control or on some models, into the port on the drive base, and the other end connects into a computer.One end of the cable is a phone type jack, (RS-232) and the other end is a standard serial computer input.

With CD ROM software this cable will enable your computer laptop or desktop to interface and control the telescope by pointing and clicking on sky maps shown on the computer monitor. With certain telescopes the cable allows downloading additional data from the Celestron website into the database of the Nexstar computer hand control.