--- product_id: 64860864 title: "Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope" brand: "celestron" price: "₱90958" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Celestron" url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/64860864-celestron-astromaster-130-eq-telescope store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # 130mm aperture for bright, detailed views 10,000-object database with TheSkyX software No-tool quick setup & preassembled tripod Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope **Brand:** celestron **Price:** ₱90958 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🔭 Own the night sky — see what others only dream of! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope by celestron - **How much does it cost?** ₱90958 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/64860864-celestron-astromaster-130-eq-telescope) ## Best For - celestron enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted celestron brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Powerful 130mm Aperture:** Capture crisp lunar craters and planetary details with a large light-gathering lens. - • **Exclusive TheSkyX Software:** Navigate 10,000+ celestial objects with printable sky maps and enhanced images—your personal planetarium. - • **Stellar Clarity, Zero Fuss:** Quick, no-tool setup means you’re star-gazing in minutes, not hours. - • **Dual Eyepieces for Versatility:** Switch between 33x and 65x magnification to explore both wide sky views and fine details. - • **Precision German Equatorial Mount:** Smooth tracking and accurate celestial alignment for immersive viewing. ## Overview The Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope combines a powerful 130mm aperture with a precision German equatorial mount and easy no-tool setup, making it ideal for beginner to intermediate astronomers. Featuring dual eyepieces (33x and 65x magnification) and bundled with TheSkyX software containing a 10,000-object database, it offers both terrestrial and celestial viewing with crisp, detailed images. Its sturdy steel tripod and permanently mounted StarPointer ensure stability and ease of use, delivering an immersive stargazing experience wherever you go. ## Description Serve dual purpose with one telescope For all of you who prefer to click the elemental nature over the man-made world, Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ telescope is here to feed your passion. This Astromaster series is for all you beginners who are trying to get acquainted with telescopes. It is compact as well as portable, enabling you to use it wherever you want to. You can carry it with yourself whenever you are taking a vacation to some other place. Without causing any overload of technicalities it can be used for dual purpose. It can used for both astronomical and terrestrial viewing. You do not require any set up or any kind of installation for this product. It is an easy to use product which can be used right after you receive it. Highly sturdy German equatorial mounts stabilizes this telescope making it durable. It uses 1 lithium battery which is included in the box of content. Clear view Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ telescope has two eyepiece. Among these one of them is a 20 mm eyepiece offering 33x magnification. The second eyepiece is of 10 mm offering65x magnification. In order to give you a clearer picture this telescope has been coated fully with glass optical parts. Its focal length is of 650 m along with a large aperture and light gathering ability which lets you view the planets and satellite clearly. Lens coating is that of Aluminium. Most of the things have already been taken care of and do not require any labour from your end. Tripod to make it easy It is not easy to explore an altogether different world of stars and planets, yet this tedious task can be made easy with the help of a sturdy tripod. Correct angles and positions form an important part of this process and to make it convenient for you, we offer a pre-assembled tripod. It comes with a manual motion controls which helps in smooth operations. The tripod has 1.25-inch steel tube legs. It forms an important part of the product as its positioning will decide of the kind of view you will have. Now gather your family and friends and show your astronomical skills to them. Teach kids about the universe and expose them to the world of mysteries, encouraging them at an early age to solve a few of them. Sky Level 1 Planetarium software Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ telescope comes with the Sky Level 1 Planetarium software, a CD-ROM which has the information of about 10,000 astronomical objects along with their visuals. With a little more effort on the users part it becomes easy to use this data in order to identify various planets and other celestial bodies. It uses Newtonian reflector for its optical design and has CG-3 Equatorial as the mount type. Its highest useful magnification is 307x. Review: An out of the world experience - Amazing is just not enough to describe what you see and feel looking through the eyepiece. Venus was my first stop, "wow" was the word that came out when the image got focussed for the first time. I could see the phases of venus with just the 20mm eyepiece. 10mm made the image a bigger one and astonishing. Moon was playing hide and seek with the clouds but when it was well above the horizon and shining brightly, I was spell bound with its beauty. Honestly you could spend hours just looking at the moon. 10mm eyepiece gave an even closer look at the Carter's, the shadows casted by the craters and the mountain ranges on the moon. Jupiter looks like a 2mm ball with very faint bands of methane distinguishable if observed for longer durations. The four moons of Jupiter are just a very minute dots if observed very minutely. But I felty it requires more magnification power to observe Jupiter with it's methane bands and the giant red spot. (May be collimation issue is there) Couldnot see the most beautiful planet Saturn as clouds came in hope to see it when conditions are perfect. These were my first experience of amature astronomy with my first telescope. I don't write reviews at all but this Celestron Astromaster 130eq is such amazing piece that it made me to write such a review. Though there are some points which I would like to list to get the most out of the telescope. 1. Lots of patience is required to be able to see what you actually want to see, trust me patience will give you all that you want from this telescope. 2. Try to see the videos and go through the instructions manual before beginning assembly of the telescope as it's quite critical for one who has no idea of any such kind before. 3. Lot of things has to go right to get the perfect views, if not getting the perfect view wait for the perfect condition to occur. 4. The equatorial mount is very heavy and of solid built quality but the pointers are just not right and you can't be sure which degree u are setting on it. 5. The tripod is also of heavy construction but if expanded fully it feels more shakey so I don't expand it. 6. The secondary mirror was dangling loose when I first unpacked the telescope which totally dishearted me but I did manual collimation as per the instructions manual provided and it was fairly accurate but will eventually require a lazer collimation which again costs around Rs 6000/- to get more sharper images. 7. The telescope is very heavy (around 16kgs) and very difficult to move it around in assembled condition. It gave me body pains the next morning after my first setup and observations. 8. There are no cromatic abbrations as it is relfector telescope and the optics are of very good quality Those who are still reading this review and disheartened because I didn't post any pictures of moon or Jupiter for them I just want to tell that pictures just don't do justice to what you can actually see with your naked eye because human eye has 1000 times better dynamic range than any camera. Even I have gone through all the pictures posted in the other reviews. Trust me you are going to see 1000 times better with your naked eye that any of those pictures. If you want to go for this telescope go for it without any hesitation as it will finally give you and out of the world experience. Review: This is a good telescope with clear,crisp view of night sky - I ordered the telescope on 16 Feb and got it on 19th. I faced some initial troubles while assembling the telescope for the first time. Especially the counterweights were not getting fit into the telescope's balancing slot. Finally, I found a way to make open the screws inside the counterweights by slanting the counterweight horizontally and then unscrewing its threads. After assembling, it takes little practice to point the telescope to a desired object using the help of finderscope/red dot finder. Lunar craters were awesome. So much clear and crisp and so much detail with the 10 mm eyepiece that it would seem like they are distant landscape on our own earth! Night sky was full of wonders. You can see much much more stars than you can with the naked eye. Suppose a region of sky where you can hardly resolve 2-3 stars with the naked eye. With the telescope you can see hundreds in the same region clearly. 10mm eyepiece gives more magnification (65X) but it also gives inverted look of the sky. So, when you need to see higher in the sky and you move the telescope tube up, your field of view will seem like moving down! So, you need to keep that in mind while using the 10mm eyepiece supplied. I could see the orion nebula, plieades nebula, uranus planet look like a moderately bright star. The view of Jupiter and its 4 moons were amazing. Could see the colored cloud bands of Jupiter and the moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto was changing their relative position so rapidly that in the early evening I saw all 4 moons in the same side of jupiter. But in the late evening about 3 hours later, one moon was on one side of jupiter and rest was on the opposite side. Sometimes, 2 moons on one side and rest 2 on the other side. This happens as all 4 revolve round the giant planet. As during this time of the year, Saturn rises very late in the sky, after 1:30 am so I didn't attempt to observe saturn. Actually I stay in a flat on the 3rd floor of an apartment in Kolkata and the building is 6 storied. So I have to carry the telescope 3 floors up and reassemble it there in the roof. As I could not take all the parts of the telescope in one go, so I have go up and then come down, take the remaining parts and again go up. One difficulty, I'm still facing is that the setting circles are not actually helping even after polar alignment. So, I find the objects only by using the red dot finder. And it takes an average of more than 15 mins to bring Jupiter at the centre of the telescope's field of view. Even for Moon it takes 4-5 mins to focus. So , you have to be patient and keep on trying until you get your desired object at the centre of the view. You need to align the 2 red dots of the finderscope and the target object in the same straight line. I have ordered Celestron Accessory kit worth 5700 rupees to get better view of Jupiter and orion nebula. Normally Orion nebula looks like a white cloudy patch in the sky, but with filters in the accessory kit I hope I will find the colorful view. ## Features - Quick and easy no-tool setup, Focal Ratio: f/5. Adjustable, full height steel tripod with deluxe accessory tray - Permanently mounted StarPointer - German Equatorial mount with Setting circles - to accurately locate and track sky objects - TheSkyX - First Light Edition astronomy software with a 10,000 object database, printable sky maps and 75 enhanced images ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000MLL6RS | | Best Sellers Rank | #26,996 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #3 in Telescope Reflectors | | Box Contents | Telescope |Optical tube | Tripod and mount (preassembled) | 20mm eyepiece with built-in erect image corrector | Standard 10mm eyepiece | Red-dot finderscope | Manual | | Brand | Celestron | | Brand Name | Celestron | | Coating | Aluminum;Silicon Dioxide | | Compatible Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android devices | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 3,375 Reviews | | Dawes Limit | 0.89 Arc Sec | | Exit Pupil Diameter | 1.44 Millimeters | | Eye Piece Lens Description | Barlow | | Field Of View | 0.67 Degrees | | Finderscope | Reflex | | Focal Length Description | 650 meters | | Focus Type | Manual Focus | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00050234310451 | | Importer Contact Information | A&S Creations, 6/7, Ground Floor, West Patel Nagar New Delhi-110008 | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 88.9D x 48.3W x 30.5H Centimeters | | Item Type Name | Telescope | | Item Weight | 17 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Celestron, Celestron Acquisition, LLC 2835 Columbia St Torrance, CA 90503 | | Manufacturer Contact Information | Celestron Acquisition, LLC 2835 Columbia St Torrance, CA 90503 | | Manufacturer Part Number | 31045 | | Model Name | Astromaster | | Model Number | 31045 | | Mount | Equatorial Mount | | Number of Batteries | 1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included) | | Objective Lens Diameter | 130 Millimeters | | Optical Tube Length | 610 Millimeters | | Optical-Tube Length | 610 Millimeters | | Packer Contact Information | A&S Creations, 6/7, Ground Floor, West Patel Nagar New Delhi-110008 | | Power Source | Not Battery Powered | | Product Features | German Equatorial Mount with Slow-Motion Control Knobs, Permanently Mounted StarPointer, TheSkyX - First Light Edition Astronomy Software | | Telescope Mount Description | Equatorial Mount | | UPC | 050234310451 | | Unit Count | 7 Count | | Warranty Description | 2 Years | | Zoom Ratio | 90 multiplier x | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Celestron - **Eye Piece Lens Description:** Barlow - **Model Name:** Astromaster - **Objective Lens Diameter:** 130 Millimeters - **Optical Tube Length:** 610 Millimeters ## Images ![Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ACmMfpSEL.jpg) ![Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616wmK7u7nL.jpg) ![Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/612vOZgFNTL.jpg) ![Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51UAX1UgqsL.jpg) ![Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ Telescope - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kWs4iyXJL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: What size optics do I need to see Mars in detail? I'd appreciate a product link on amazon** A: 2017 so answering for mostly others. To see any detail on Mars or Saturn and Jupiter you are going to need at least 6 to 8 inch dia and around 1000 to 2000 focal length so C 8 sct or better is your best bet. That's going to run you about $1000 but you will be using a barlow lens eyepiece holder to double or even triple the magnification ($100). At those magnifications you are going to need a decent rocksolid tripod and mount. ($800-$1500) The mount will track the planet. Otherwise the planet will be out of your field of view in 15 seconds. The mount IS more important than the telescope. After you have done all this, when you look down the telescope you are going to be disappointed because you are going to see a blurry fuzzy dot but the good news is that in the last 20 years we now have cheap ($150) cameras that we can attach to the telescope and by capturing video and using a standard PC to process the video you can get that picture of Mars that you want. Oh btw don't try to use a DSLR. So anyway that all adds up to close to $3000 and it's very easy to spend another $1000 on accessories and extra eyepieces and adaptors so you will also be able to see nebula and other cool things. I recommend you spend an hour a day for at least a week on the internet before you buy anything so that you will have realistic expectations. Oh and looking at stars is boring in my opinion. Telescopes make dim stars visible but you are still looking at a bright dot. Oh and the $299 telescope in this listing is good value if you just want to look at the moon. **Q: is this sturdy enough for a canon rebel xs to sit on or any dslr for that matter?** A: I mount my Canon EOS 77D just fine. You do have to adjust the offset weights to re-balance it, but I've not had any problems so far. **Q: motor vs non motor** A: Motor definitely, makes life a lot easier ... no more fumbling with the control knobs trying to keep your objects centered. Whoever claims the motor does not work has not tried hard enough. For what it costs that motor works very well. **Q: Can this be left undercover outside?** A: No. The tripod collapses pretty easily, though, and the scope comes off without any issues. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An out of the world experience *by S***P on 10 May 2020* Amazing is just not enough to describe what you see and feel looking through the eyepiece. Venus was my first stop, "wow" was the word that came out when the image got focussed for the first time. I could see the phases of venus with just the 20mm eyepiece. 10mm made the image a bigger one and astonishing. Moon was playing hide and seek with the clouds but when it was well above the horizon and shining brightly, I was spell bound with its beauty. Honestly you could spend hours just looking at the moon. 10mm eyepiece gave an even closer look at the Carter's, the shadows casted by the craters and the mountain ranges on the moon. Jupiter looks like a 2mm ball with very faint bands of methane distinguishable if observed for longer durations. The four moons of Jupiter are just a very minute dots if observed very minutely. But I felty it requires more magnification power to observe Jupiter with it's methane bands and the giant red spot. (May be collimation issue is there) Couldnot see the most beautiful planet Saturn as clouds came in hope to see it when conditions are perfect. These were my first experience of amature astronomy with my first telescope. I don't write reviews at all but this Celestron Astromaster 130eq is such amazing piece that it made me to write such a review. Though there are some points which I would like to list to get the most out of the telescope. 1. Lots of patience is required to be able to see what you actually want to see, trust me patience will give you all that you want from this telescope. 2. Try to see the videos and go through the instructions manual before beginning assembly of the telescope as it's quite critical for one who has no idea of any such kind before. 3. Lot of things has to go right to get the perfect views, if not getting the perfect view wait for the perfect condition to occur. 4. The equatorial mount is very heavy and of solid built quality but the pointers are just not right and you can't be sure which degree u are setting on it. 5. The tripod is also of heavy construction but if expanded fully it feels more shakey so I don't expand it. 6. The secondary mirror was dangling loose when I first unpacked the telescope which totally dishearted me but I did manual collimation as per the instructions manual provided and it was fairly accurate but will eventually require a lazer collimation which again costs around Rs 6000/- to get more sharper images. 7. The telescope is very heavy (around 16kgs) and very difficult to move it around in assembled condition. It gave me body pains the next morning after my first setup and observations. 8. There are no cromatic abbrations as it is relfector telescope and the optics are of very good quality Those who are still reading this review and disheartened because I didn't post any pictures of moon or Jupiter for them I just want to tell that pictures just don't do justice to what you can actually see with your naked eye because human eye has 1000 times better dynamic range than any camera. Even I have gone through all the pictures posted in the other reviews. Trust me you are going to see 1000 times better with your naked eye that any of those pictures. If you want to go for this telescope go for it without any hesitation as it will finally give you and out of the world experience. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a good telescope with clear,crisp view of night sky *by D***. on 28 March 2015* I ordered the telescope on 16 Feb and got it on 19th. I faced some initial troubles while assembling the telescope for the first time. Especially the counterweights were not getting fit into the telescope's balancing slot. Finally, I found a way to make open the screws inside the counterweights by slanting the counterweight horizontally and then unscrewing its threads. After assembling, it takes little practice to point the telescope to a desired object using the help of finderscope/red dot finder. Lunar craters were awesome. So much clear and crisp and so much detail with the 10 mm eyepiece that it would seem like they are distant landscape on our own earth! Night sky was full of wonders. You can see much much more stars than you can with the naked eye. Suppose a region of sky where you can hardly resolve 2-3 stars with the naked eye. With the telescope you can see hundreds in the same region clearly. 10mm eyepiece gives more magnification (65X) but it also gives inverted look of the sky. So, when you need to see higher in the sky and you move the telescope tube up, your field of view will seem like moving down! So, you need to keep that in mind while using the 10mm eyepiece supplied. I could see the orion nebula, plieades nebula, uranus planet look like a moderately bright star. The view of Jupiter and its 4 moons were amazing. Could see the colored cloud bands of Jupiter and the moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto was changing their relative position so rapidly that in the early evening I saw all 4 moons in the same side of jupiter. But in the late evening about 3 hours later, one moon was on one side of jupiter and rest was on the opposite side. Sometimes, 2 moons on one side and rest 2 on the other side. This happens as all 4 revolve round the giant planet. As during this time of the year, Saturn rises very late in the sky, after 1:30 am so I didn't attempt to observe saturn. Actually I stay in a flat on the 3rd floor of an apartment in Kolkata and the building is 6 storied. So I have to carry the telescope 3 floors up and reassemble it there in the roof. As I could not take all the parts of the telescope in one go, so I have go up and then come down, take the remaining parts and again go up. One difficulty, I'm still facing is that the setting circles are not actually helping even after polar alignment. So, I find the objects only by using the red dot finder. And it takes an average of more than 15 mins to bring Jupiter at the centre of the telescope's field of view. Even for Moon it takes 4-5 mins to focus. So , you have to be patient and keep on trying until you get your desired object at the centre of the view. You need to align the 2 red dots of the finderscope and the target object in the same straight line. I have ordered Celestron Accessory kit worth 5700 rupees to get better view of Jupiter and orion nebula. Normally Orion nebula looks like a white cloudy patch in the sky, but with filters in the accessory kit I hope I will find the colorful view. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Celestron astromaster 130eq is absolutely perfect *by S***U on 24 November 2025* Totally worth it purchasing celestron astromaster 130eq telescope. It’s easy to operate the telescope after knowing quick guide. For the first time i watched the moon so clearly and closely with just 10mm eye piece. I haven’t used barlow lens till now, it’s beyond my imagination of the views if i use barlow lens. Perfectly recommended to the amateur astronomers. Watched the moon soo clearly with moon spots but i havent got the perfect video to record it but i just got a glimpse. 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