CPC 1100 GPS SCT - FREE STARSENSE AUTOALIGN
- CPC GPS XLT with StarSense AutoAlign Kit: A complete astrophotography package featuring the CPC mount, integrated StarSense AutoAlign technology for rapid, precise alignment, and a powerful Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope—all designed to help you capture breathtaking images of the night sky.
- 11” (280mm) f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain: Outfitted with StarBright XLT coatings to maximize light transmission, delivering sharp, vibrant views of celestial wonders.
- Rock-Solid Alt-Az Mount: The CPC’s dual fork arm design offers unparalleled stability and rigidity, ensuring smooth tracking and precise GoTo accuracy—perfect for both visual observers and astrophotographers.
- Impressive Instrument Capacity: The robust mount comfortably supports the 11” Schmidt-Cassegrain and additional accessories, making it ideal for advanced astronomy setups.
- Effortless Alignment with StarSense: Instantly aligns your Celestron CPC telescope in minutes, eliminating the need for manual star identification or alignment.
- Quick and Easy Setup: Achieves alignment in 3 minutes or less, allowing you to start your observing session without delay.
Overview
- CPC GPS XLT with StarSense AutoAlign Kit: A complete astrophotography package featuring the CPC mount, integrated StarSense AutoAlign technology for rapid, precise alignment, and a powerful Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope—all designed to help you capture breathtaking images of the night sky.
- 11” (280mm) f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain: Outfitted with StarBright XLT coatings to maximize light transmission, delivering sharp, vibrant views of celestial wonders.
- Rock-Solid Alt-Az Mount: The CPC’s dual fork arm design offers unparalleled stability and rigidity, ensuring smooth tracking and precise GoTo accuracy—perfect for both visual observers and astrophotographers.
- Impressive Instrument Capacity: The robust mount comfortably supports the 11” Schmidt-Cassegrain and additional accessories, making it ideal for advanced astronomy setups.
- Effortless Alignment with StarSense: Instantly aligns your Celestron CPC telescope in minutes, eliminating the need for manual star identification or alignment.
- Quick and Easy Setup: Achieves alignment in 3 minutes or less, allowing you to start your observing session without delay.
Description
CPC 1100 GPS (XLT) Computerized Telescope
General Features
- 11" diffraction limited Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
- Celestron's premium StarBright XLT coatings
- Fully computerized dual fork arm Altazimuth mount
- 9x50 finderscope to help accurately find objects
- Newly designed heavy-duty tripod makes attaching the telescope so easy you can do it in the dark; also features sturdy 2" steel legs and accessory tray
- Ergonomic design - Comfortably lift and move the telescope from location to location
- Star diagonal provides more comfortable viewing position when observing objects that are high in the sky
- Convenient remote hand control holder - Allows you to view information hands-free while using the scope
Computerized Mount Features
- Proven NexStar computer control technology
- 40,000 object database with over 100 user-definable objects and expanded information on over 200 objects
- Custom database lists of all the most famous deep-sky objects by name and catalog number; the most beautiful double, triple and quadruple stars; variable stars; solar system objects and asterisms
- Re-designed drive base and drive mechanics - Quiet operation; large drive gears, quick release clutch
- SkyAlign allows you to align on any three bright celestial objects, making for a fast and easy alignment process
- Flash upgradeable hand control software and motor control units for downloading product updates over the Internet
- Permanent PEC
- Auxiliary port for additional accessories such as Autoguider, GPS accessory
- NexRemote telescope control software and RS-232 cable included for advanced control of your telescope via computer
Become an instant astronomer, even if you’ve never used a telescope before, with the one-of-a-kind StarSense AutoAlign. Just set up the accessory, push the Align button on the hand control, and StarSense begins capturing and comparing images of the night sky against its internal database. In about three minutes, it's gathered enough information to triangulate its position and align itself. Then, press the Sky Tour button: StarSense will automatically slew to all the best stars, planets, galaxies, and more currently visible in the night sky.
How it Works
The self-alignment technology behind our award-winning SkyProdigy series is now available for most of Celestron's current computerized telescopes and compatible with many older models as well. (See compatibility list below.)
A small digital camera takes the place of your finderscope and attaches using one of two provided mounting brackets. The included StarSense hand control, with a database of over 40,000 celestial objects, takes the place of your NexStar hand control. The camera automatically captures a series of images of the sky. StarSense identifies the stars in the images, matching them to its database. Once a positive match is confirmed, StarSense calculates the coordinates of the center of the captured image, thereby determining exactly where the telescope is pointed.
Before StarSense, using a computerized telescope required a lengthy alignment process of finding and centering at least two bright stars in the telescope’s eyepiece. But StarSense automatically aligns itself with minimal user input. Just enter your time, date, and location and let StarSense do the rest!
Advanced Mount Modeling
Even the most advanced telescope users will love using StarSense AutoAlign. This affordable accessory replaces the expensive software usually used for advanced mount modeling.
With built-in mount modeling, you'll get superior pointing accuracy from horizon to horizon. When your alignment needs to be perfect, add up to 10 additional calibration stars to achieve a new level of accuracy, great for locating objects in the camera’s field of view for astroimaging.
StarSense camera field of view: 6.88º x 5.16º
Specifications
