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Summary of Celestron StarSense Explorer Problems 🔥

- Alignment not working properly

- App not working as well as it did at first

📋 9 Reported Issues:

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John Doe 2025-01-02

Connection issue with the Celestron StarSense Explorer app - the app is unable to connect to the tel.

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Unlock Error 2024-12-28

Invalid code??? But he is valid!

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Andrea 2023-09-11

I have the same problem. I bought a Celestron telescope - Star Sense Explore DX 130 and downloaded the applications for Android: SkyPortal (SkySafari 6) and StarSense Explorer. I would like to use SkyPortal to connect to the telescope, but when I click "Connect" I get an error message: "Celestron SkyPortal could not establish a wireless connection to the telescope. Make sure the telescope is plugged in and that you are connected to a WiFi network”. How do I connect the telescope to the WiFi network? Also, when I start StarSense Explorer, a message appears: "Device not compatible, unfortunately your device hardware is not compatible with Starsense." My phone is a Xiaomi Mi Max 3 with Android 10 and I don't understand why the program doesn't work. Can someone help me? A thousand thanks!

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Snehil Maknojia 2022-10-03

it says there is an error contacting the server when i try to unlock

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Mark Knight 2022-09-12

I have Celestron StarSense Explorer DX130, All aligned, no issues with that but Android App has constant 'Cannot find Telescope'. Very dark, all connected correct and aligned, months of this and getting fed up. This needs to be sorted.

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Jackie Barrett 2022-07-17

Constant message Cannot find telescope. I don’t appear to be the only one. Solution please.

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Kenneth Kear 2022-07-06

A follow up on the problem I had reported previously. My StarSense phone spp will still not find it's location using my new Motorola moto g stylus 5G. I can get good photos of the stars with the phone camera function when it is looking at the sky and even when it is pointed into the StarSense mirror. I have tried it on a very good night with stars clearly visible in our Bortle 6 suburb on a moonless night. It has been a number of months of trying since our weather is not good or the moon is too bright. But when I get a clear nice photo pointing the phone at the mirror, then I know something is not working correctly. I have noticed that EVERY time StarSense starts it ASSUMES I am pointed North. If my telescope is then moved the screen changes to the direction I am move to ... as long as I started out with it pointed to the north. A note of interest is that I see the star chart will show Ursa minor, but in the mirror the camera image is a mirror reverse image. I wonder it eh software it accounting for the patterns to show up as a mirror image. Also whenever I check a log file there is only a dark screen and no stars are visible nor is there even light pollution. I wonder if the stoftware is actually getting to the correct camera sensor. The Motorola moto g stylus 5G has four cameras and one is a 0.5x zoom. I have no way of being able to check if it is working except to note that the log files are always completely black. I am wondering if I keep too many apps on my phone? There is lots of memory. But I have several astronomy programs that are not usually running when I run StarSense. And there is a couple of weather apps which are probably running monitoring for notifications even though the app is not up. Help! can check on the Moto g validation with StarSense?

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Kirby 2022-06-26

Continuing message, cannot find telescope. Everthing is aligned properly on the telescope and the sky is very dark. Located on a mountaintop in a rural area. Nearest big city is 40 miles away.

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Nelson Martinez 2022-05-27

I have a Celestron DX130 and is not communicating with the app.

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