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Your cart is empty.If you’re in search of a computerized telescope with the same star locating technology found on our more advanced telescopes at a price that fits your family’s budget, you’ll love the Celestron 114LCM with all glass optics. This computerized Newtonian telescope and its GoTo mount has been designed to automatically locate thousands of celestial objects with a simple push of a button on your NexStar+ hand control. Our proprietary SkyAlign alignment procedure is simple to use, so you’re ready to explore the universe in minutes. The process starts by centering any three bright objects in your telescope’s eyepiece. From there, your LCM can calculate its position and orient itself to the night sky. The 114LCM is built with a lightweight computerized mount that makes this telescope compact, portable, and the perfect companion for star parties, camping trips, and impromptu backyard observing sessions. When the Sky Tour button is pressed, the LCM will populate a list of the best celestial objects visible at that moment in the night sky. The Celestron LCM telescope for adults comes with an adjustable aluminum tripod, two high-quality eyepieces (25mm and 9mm), and a StarPointer red dot finderscope. To enhance your experience under the stars, download Celestron’s free SkyPortal app. Listen to hundreds of audio descriptions of the most popular objects on your iOS or Android device while you observe them with your LCM telescope. The 114LCM Computerized Telescope includes a free download of our Starry Night Basic Edition astronomy software for an interactive sky simulation. With the largest optics in the LCM series, this telescope for astronomy beginners has enough light-gathering ability to provide extraordinary views of all the best celestial objects. You can explore our Solar System, from the moons of Jupiter to the rings of Saturn, or deep space, from the Orion Nebula to the Pleiades Star Cluster and hundreds of other objects.
Papa2000
2025-08-07 10:57:41
Excellent little telescope! The best thing about it is the automated sky tracking. The telescope will track with most objects for quite a while before getting off. This telescope is also fairly compact which is great when going through a doorway. While I had some difficulty getting it to "skyalign" I was able to align to Jupiter no problem. I'm still fairly new at using it, so I haven't figured everything out yet, but it seems pretty straight forward.This telescope does have a Bird-Jones lens, which isn't very clear in the product description. That is how you are able to get such a long focal length with such a small scope. The Bird-Jones lens is like having a permanent Barlow lens built into the focusing tube. Don't forget it is there when cleaning your lenses. If you add a Barlow lens it will most likely over reach the telescope's capability. Make sure you make your calculations before adding non stock lenses. I was able to collimate using a laser collimator without taking out the Bird-Jones lens. Instead of a tiny dot you have a red circle you have to center in the rings. If the circle is fuzzy, then you don't have the beam hitting the focuser tube properly. Once I collimated, I was able to get a clearer image using the more powerful lenses.The laser spotting scope is really nice and can be set accurately, but it is knocked off very easily. The on/off dial is too similar with the alignment adjusters and I've accidentally grabbed the wrong dial in the dark and threw off the alignment. But it is easy to reset. It can be very accurate if you fine tune it with a more powerful optic lens.The photos I took of the planets and moon were with my iPhone. The view was actually much clearer with just my eye. You can see the band around Saturn and the Moons of Jupiter. I'd like to know what other people are using to get the much nicer images using this scope.Now that I have it, I wish I would have went the distance and spent the big bucks on a Celestron Advanced VX 6" f/8 Refractor Telescope.
K. Siebert
2025-07-24 13:40:46
I am a professional in the telescope industry so I can say this is not my first purchase of a computerized telescope. This is actually a fairly decent telescope although it is of the Bird Jones Optical design. This means it is barlowed in the focuser to increase the focal length and to correct for a spherical mirror. Normally a spherical mirror would mean a very poor article performer but the bird Jones Barlow really does a good job of fixing that. If you have a red dot finder it may be a bit of a challenge to get it in sync with the OTA or Optical tube assembly but doable. This base will break on you if you over tighten the computerized section to the lower mount tripod legs. So go very easy on connecting these two and the base should not shatter. This is one flaw of this particular amount. Collimation is very simple for the primary mirror. Buy a fake star and put at a distance. Aim the scope at it. Adjust until the out of focus star is in the center and perfectly round or very close. This was good enough for this scope to give good images. I hope this helps.
Tim R.
2025-07-23 17:46:35
Have collimated and set up focus finder without much hassle. This is my first telescope as an adult, difficulty level to do these is minimal, just do your research.YouTube has great examples on how to set up the various aspects of the telescope; wouldn’t recommend a child do it though.Will update with moon pictures soon. So far very impressed with this telescope. Motor is smooth, the tripod is not great but functions. Adding weight could help with wobbles.UPDATE: First night out and had some clouds but got great pictures of the moon. Shot with iPhone. Telescope performed great.Second night out I was able to see various planets, most stunning was Jupiter and it’s four moons.Alignment was easy, I used a single planet alignment which took less than two minutes and it tracked well.Note: I used a Celestron 24mm-8mm adjustable lense, a 2x Barlow, and a phone mount.
Marty W
2025-06-23 10:51:47
First, I would like to say Amazon did me a solid. I received this one on 6/6 but due to some health issues and these extremely HOT temperatures it sat unopened for about 5 weeks. Past the return window. After I explained my issues, they let me return it for a full refund and even a UPS pickup. Now to the scope. It was pretty easy to set up. The finder scope is not the best anyway but for a person with a very bad back it was pretty much impossible to use. I am tall and trying to bend over and get my head turned sideways wasn't going to happen. To make it even worse there is no way to effectively upgrade it without drilling holes in the tube which I was not going to do. Next after getting I did some research I should have done earlier. Keeping the Newtonian design collimated looks like a lot of work. What I could see was blurry, couldn't get it into focus and the magnification wasn't great. I know some of the people on the FB groups are elitist snobs or 12-year-old kids trolling but I wish I had taken their thouths on it more to heart. They did get me to doing reviews from websites and a good review was rare. Spend as a few extra bucks. This might keep kids entertained for a while, but I suspect not for long.
Earl gaunt Lord st stayleybridge
2025-06-11 16:41:57
No dislikes but is a useful piece of kit when scanning the night sky and will stay fixed on a planet at a touch of a button and is very impressive in seeking the planets you program in a nice product well worth the money . Thank you Amazon for a prompt delivery Earl gaunt
Linda Waldon
2025-05-16 16:04:52
The product on first opening the box is well packed and looks good. The optics in the actual telescope are about right for the price range. However, the mount is unsteady and wobbles in the wind making astro photography a very hit and miss process. The finder is extremely flimsy and more or less unusable.The product is made in USA and their guarantee is purely USA based. As I live in Spain I am outside their guarantee area for a replacement of the finder. The unit is supplied by Amazon UK and I can find no way to contact them for a replacement finder so I have to either return the whole unit or put up with an unusable finder.Seems crazy
tellezrojo
2025-04-28 14:40:19
No sé nada de astronomÃa y por videos de Youtube obtuve orientaciones y decidà comprar este telescopio. Es un poco complicado montarlo, alinear la mira y luego aprender a ver, mas seleccionar la ubicación. Pero si tienes la paciencia, este telescoipo deja ver y ver bien. Es carito, pero vale la pena. Una hora asomarte al cielo vale tres dias de intentos. Es un poco problemático que los manuales son muy breves, no hay explicaciones claras de cómo manejar el control y parte de la documentación está en inglés. No le he entendido aún al programa, estoy en ello. Una de las mejores comprar en mucho tiempo.
Benna
2025-04-24 10:06:52
Sehr gut
Dimitri
2024-12-03 10:52:12
I bought this telescope after I'd purchased a different cheap, useless telescope and realized telescopes were something to either buy nice or buy twice. Unlike the first telescope, this Celestron LCM 114 was easy to use, well built and had much more power. My only recommendation would be to upgrade the eyepieces to maximize the investment, with the stock eyepieces you can get great views of the moon and be able to see Jupiter and its moons, however Jupiter stripes were not visible with the stock eyepieces and neither were Saturn rings. I recommend purchasing an additional 2x Barlow lens of decent quality and some better eyepieces, I recommend Celestron's X-Cel series. The highest useful magnification for this telescope is 269x so keep that in mind when purchasing eyepieces. Another piece of advice; although the optics are quite good, the costs have been cut with the tripod mount, so if you touch the focuser at all, the telescope shakes, making it hard to determine whether you are in perfect focus or not. I recommend purchasing, or making a bhatinov mask to fix this issue. (please note that this issue is common for telescopes at this price range and not exclusive to this model or brand).
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