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The Celestron 114LCM is a 114mm Newtonian reflector on a motorized alt-azimuth mount with a GoTo hand controller. It finds and tracks thousands of objects after a three-star SkyAlign routine, so beginners skip star charts. Its 114mm aperture is the largest in Celestron's LCM beginner line and gathers enough light for the Moon, planets and brighter deep-sky targets. Against manual starter scopes it trades simplicity for the GoTo mount; against larger GoTo reflectors it is lighter and easier to carry but shows less detail on faint galaxies.
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Owners treat the 114LCM as a friendly first GoTo scope that gets newcomers observing quickly. Many praise the alignment routine and tracking, while others note the stock eyepieces and mount's limits.
The Celestron 114LCM is a computerized telescope that locates celestial objects for you automatically. It uses the same star locating technology as Celestron's observatory-grade telescopes, so no star maps are needed. It has the largest optics in the LCM beginner telescope family.
To set it up, perform the SkyAlign procedure by centering any three bright objects in the eyepiece. The telescope then calculates the time, date and location and orients itself with the night sky. Pick any star, planet, galaxy or nebula from the hand control's database, and the telescope centers it in the eyepiece within seconds and tracks it across the sky. The Sky Tour button generates a list of the best celestial objects currently visible.
It can show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and the craters of the Moon. It can also show deep-space objects such as the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades Star Cluster. The free Celestron SkyPortal app for iOS and Android plays audio descriptions of hundreds of popular objects while you observe.
