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Celestron - 70mm Travel Scope DX - Portable Refractor Telescope - Fully-Coated Glass Optics - Ideal Telescope for Beginners - Bonus Astronomy Software Package - Digiscoping Smartphone Adapter

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  • THE PERFECT ALL-IN-ONE TELESCOPE KIT: Travel Scope DX features fully-coated glass optics, a potent 70mm objective lens, a full-height tripod, a smartphone adapter and Bluetooth remote to capture images PLUS bonus accessories—all in a custom backpack.
  • POWERFUL EYEPIECES FOR UP-CLOSE VIEWING: Our telescope for astronomy beginners is equipped with two high-quality eyepieces (20mm and 10mm) that provide low- and high-power views. Observe celestial objects at night and land-based objects during the day.
  • LARGE 70MM OBJECTIVE LENS: This refractor telescope features a large, 70mm aperture objective lens that provides brighter, more detailed views compared to the 50mm model while adding very little additional weight.
  • CAPTURE IMAGES AND VIDEO THROUGH THE EYEPIECE: Attach your smartphone to the telescope and use the Bluetooth shutter release to capture & share your own images of the Moon and planets at night or wildlife during the day.
  • INCLUDED ACCESSORIES: Full-height tripod, Moon filter, 2x Barlow lens, Bluetooth shutter release and smartphone adapter, plus a custom backpack to carry it all. You'll also receive a FREE download of one of the top-rated astronomy software programs.
  • UNBEATABLE WARRANTY & SUPPORT: Buy with confidence from Celestron, a leading telescope brand in California since 1960. Your purchase includes a 2-Year US Warranty and unlimited support from our team of US-based experts.
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Travel Scope 70DX Portable Telescope

Travel Scope 70DX Portable Telescope

Grab the Celestron Travel Scope 70DX and go anywhere—from your backyard to another continent. Ample optical performance is packed and ready in this ultra-portable backpack kit.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

High Quality Refractor

Manual Alt-azimuth Mount

Deluxe Accessories

High Quality Refractor

Enjoy dazzling views through this high quality 70mm refractor with fully coated glass optics.

Manual Alt-azimuth Mount

The Travel Scope features a manual alt-azimuth telescope with a pan handle to navigate the sky with ease. It’s all anchored by a steel tripod, which you can adjust to the desired height.

Deluxe Accessories

Your telescope comes complete with these wonderful accessories: two eyepieces (20mm and 10mm), a 2x Barlow lens, a finderscope, an erect image diagonal, a smartphone adapter, a Bluetooth shutter remote, and a Moon filter.

Day-to-Night Performance

Ultra-Portable

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Day-to-Night Performance

The Travel Scope features a refractor-style body ideal for both terrestrial and astronomical observing. Fully coated glass optics provide vivid images of wildlife, the Moon, planets, and more.

Ultra-Portable

Whether you’re hiking into back-country or going through airport security, the Travel Scope won’t slow you down. The telescope, tripod, & accessories all fit inside the backpack for easy traveling.

Learn More about the Night Sky

Your purchase includes access to Starry Night educational software, our SkyPortal planetarium app for iOS and Android, and a Robert Reeves’ Lunar Landscapes e-book.

Trust Celestron

Buy from the world’s #1 telescope brand, based in California since 1960. You’ll also receive unlimited access to our team of US-based experts.

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Optical Design: Refractor Refractor Refractor Refractor Refractor
Aperture: 70mm (2.8") 60mm (2.4") 80mm (3.1") 70mm (2.8") 50mm (2")
Focal Length: 400mm (15.74") 360mm (14.17") 400mm (15.74") 400mm (15.74") 360mm (14.17")
Focal Ratio: f/5.7 f/6 f/5 f/5.7 f/7.2
Magnification of Eyepieces: 20x, 40x 18x, 45x 20x, 40x 20x, 40x 18x, 45x
Highest Useful Magnification: 168x 142x 189x 168x 120x
Lowest Useful Magnification: 10x 9x 11x 10x 7x
Limiting Stellar Magnitude 11.7 11.4 12 11.7 11.1
Accessories: 20mm & 10mm eyepieces, 2x Barlow lens, erect image diagonal, 5x24 finderscope, smartphone adapter, #58 Green Glass Moon filter, and a Bluetooth shutter release button 20mm & 8mm eyepieces, 3x Barlow lens, erect image diagonal, 5x24 finderscope, smartphone adapter, and a Bluetooth shutter release button 20mm & 10mm eyepieces, erect image diagonal, 5x24 finderscope, and a smartphone adapter 20mm & 10mm eyepieces, 45° erect image diagonal, 5x24 finderscope 20mm & 8mm eyepieces, 45° erect image diagonal, 2x20 finderscope, 3x Barlow lens
Total Kit Weight: 3.3 lbs (1.5 kg) 5.5 lbs (2.49 kg) 4.2 lbs (1.9 kg) 3.3 lbs (1.5 kg) 2.2 lbs (1 kg)

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Customer Ratings
Easy to use
3.5
4.4
4.5
4.2
4.8
4.1
Easy to assemble
4.2
4.7
4.7
4.5
4.5
For beginners
3.9
5.0
4.5
4.3
4.3
Value for money
3.2
4.6
4.2
4.7
Portability
4.8
4.6
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focal length
80 millimeters
Telescope
600 Millimeters
600 millimeters
focus type
Manual Focus
Manual Focus
Manual Focus
Manual Focus
Manual Focus
Manual Focus
zoom ratio
66 multiplier x
10 multiplier x
80 multiplier x
eye piece lens
Barlow
Kellner
Telescope
Barlow
objective lens diameter
70 millimeters
80 millimeters
70.1 millimeters
80 millimeters
80 millimeters
80 millimeters
aperture diameter
70 millimeters millimeters
80 millimeters millimeters
80 millimeters millimeters

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  • Optical tube
  • mount/tripod (preassembled)
  • 20mm eyepiece
  • 10mm eyepiece
  • Erect image diagonal, 5x24 finderscope, Smartphone adapter, Bluetooth shutter release button, #58 Green Glass Moon Filter, SkyPortal app, Starry Night Basic Edition, Manual and Backpack
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    Product Description

    Designed with American innovation for beginner stargazers, the Celestron Travel Scope 70DX is a professionally engineered refractor telescope that is perfect for celestial or terrestrial viewing on the go. It’s the perfect telescope for adults and kids to use together with its fully-coated, high-quality glass optics, including a refractor-style 70mm objective lens. Added coating on the large 70mm lens allows more light to enter, providing sharper, crisper viewing of celestial and terrestrial objects during the day or at night. The Celestron telescope for beginners is designed with several operating features that make it exceptionally user-friendly. We’ve included two quality eyepieces (20mm and 10mm), 2x Barlow lens, and a star diagonal for crisp low- and high-power viewing during the day or night, allowing you to enjoy close-ups of wildlife in nature or stargaze. This telescope also comes with a smartphone adapter that allows you to connect any smartphone to any telescope eyepiece with an outside diameter of 45mm or smaller for digiscoping opportunities. To capture the best image, we provided a Bluetooth shutter release that allows you to trigger the camera’s shutter on any Android or iOS smartphone remotely, without disturbing the placement of your phone and telescope.

    Customer reviews

    4.2 out of 5 stars
    4.2 out of 5
    2,984 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the portability of the telescope. They mention that it's very light weight and easy to pack in the car. They also appreciate the value, and appearance of the product. However, some customers have reported issues with the ease of movement, saying that it wobbles and does not move with ease. Customers also disagree on quality, scope, ease of use, and performance.

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    33 customers mention23 positive10 negative

    Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the telescope. Some mention that it's easy to use and set up, and it takes up in minutes. However, others say that the instructions are confusing, the telescope is overly complicated to set up and takes some patience to get going.

    "...Portability - doesn't kill my back to haul it outside. Sets up in minutes. So easy to take outside, I use it all the time...." Read more

    "...in our lives so we had no idea what to do but the instructions were easy to follow...." Read more

    "...The fact that it comes with it's own backpack is a plus. It was super easy to assemble and I was able to view the full moon beautifully...." Read more

    "...I bought a cheaper plastic knock off which barely worked, overly complicated to set up because of its cheap production...." Read more

    14 customers mention10 positive4 negative

    Customers like the portability of the telescope. They say it's very light weight, easy to pack in the car, and compact. Customers also mention that it inspires exploration and is easy to take on a hike.

    "...The eyepieces feel cheap, very light weight, but are surprisingly good. Better than I expected for the price...." Read more

    "...The backpack makes it super easy to just pack in the car and take it with us to the park and even on vacation to the beach...." Read more

    "...This is the perfect beginner telescope. It’s lightweight and the backpack makes it easy to take on a hike away from the parking lot to a spot away..." Read more

    "...So I prefer this one just for its compactness and ease of use. Price evens out to the other more expensive one after the add ons." Read more

    10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

    Customers appreciate the value of the telescope. They say it is great for its price.

    "...All in all, I think this is an amazing scope for the price. Too bad the tripod isn't as good as the scope...." Read more

    "Affordable…. But run far away...." Read more

    "Good for price and beginners. Easy set up and take down. Tripod isn't the sturdiest with all parts fully extended, but can't complain at this price." Read more

    "Incredible value and quality for an unbelievable price!" Read more

    4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the telescope. They mention that the moon looks awesome through the scope, and it's a really cool little telescope.

    "...from the city (I live on the outskirts of Salt Lake City) It was really beautiful on one especially dark night, but most nights it's not dark enough..." Read more

    "This is a really cool little telescope, I haven't had a chance to star gaze with it yet but there are a few hurdles to get past for that...." Read more

    "...But was immediately impressed. Said too cool." Read more

    "Cool telescope..." Read more

    67 customers mention29 positive38 negative

    Customers are mixed about the quality of the telescope. Some mention that the view is totally worth it, and it's great for beginners and getting great views of the moon. They also say it'll be very good for pictures of wildlife and looking out on the ocean. However, others say that the style, lightweight and flimsy, it'd wobble all over the place. They're disappointed with the quality if the diagonal, spotting scope, and tripod.

    "...Better than I expected for the price. They have enough eye relief that They work ok with my eyeglasses, but I prefer to take my glasses off when..." Read more

    "...options; the only issue i had was with the trypod cause it wasnt stable enough so when you are trying to focus it gets a lot of noise on the image;..." Read more

    "...The body is heavy high quality materials, the eyepieces are actually metal as opposed to plastic coated in chrome...." Read more

    "...I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the diagonal, spotting scope, and tripod...." Read more

    38 customers mention24 positive14 negative

    Customers are mixed about the scope. Some mention it's a great product, while others say the stand is terrible and makes the unit unusable.

    "...quality of the tripod and travel bag are not great but the tripod is slightly better than the one that came with the knockoff...." Read more

    "...The telescope overall seems to have nice power and quality to it, but the mount is terrible...." Read more

    "...The tripod it comes with is barely adequate. It works best if placed on a sturdy table with the legs extended just far enough to make it less tippy...." Read more

    "The telescope is great. Super light and easy to use.I upgraded the spotting scope to one with the laser...." Read more

    8 customers mention3 positive5 negative

    Customers are mixed about the performance of the telescope. Some mention that it works great for more local purposes, while others say that it never worked, has poor quality, and does not work well for astronomy.

    "...noticed when we changed the eyepice, the set-screw is stripped and does nothing...." Read more

    "...They have enough eye relief that They work ok with my eyeglasses, but I prefer to take my glasses off when looking thru the scope...." Read more

    "...with the scope is intended for terrestrial viewing and does not work well for Astronomy...." Read more

    "...Triangle piece doesn’t look like the picture. iPhone doesn’t work with eye piece. Have to look up on YouTube to put it together correctly." Read more

    6 customers mention0 positive6 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the ease of movement of the telescope. They mention that it is wobbly and moves a lot. The motion of the product is not smooth, and it's difficult to center the target.

    "Affordable…. But run far away. It’s very unstable (image wise), doesn’t move with ease, and the slightest movement, air, or blink will shift the..." Read more

    "...Scope didn’t hold up with the flimsy tripod and nothing stayed still when you adjusted...." Read more

    "...and it was easy to set up but I have been having trouble getting the telescope to stay on the stars/planets...." Read more

    "...way to see anything since the tripod it's really wobbly and moves allot." Read more

    Great Value, Easy to Use, Telescope is Good, Tripod Awful
    4 Stars
    Great Value, Easy to Use, Telescope is Good, Tripod Awful
    After several decades, I wanted to return to observing the night sky through telescopes. I didn't want to begin with an expensive telescope, so I went with a entry level item. Celestron is one of the most popular telescope makers in the world, so I thought I couldn't go wrong with a telescope from them, which is why I went with the Celestron 70mm Travel Scope DX.I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the diagonal, spotting scope, and tripod. After reading some of the reviews though, I was prepared for that. I ordered a replacement diagonal and tripod along with the telescope. I was more concerned with the quality of the scope. I was pleased with the scope itself.The best way to get started is by observing the easier objects. It allows a person to get used to searching the sky, finding the object you're looking for, and enjoying the view. What better subject to begin with than the moon.The above pictures are of the telescope where I was taking terrestrial photos using a SVBONY SV105 camera. The next was the first picture of the moon with the telescope with my Google Pixel and the smart phone adapter that came with the telescope. As you can see, it needs a lunar filter. Thankfully the telescope came with one. The third image is one taken of the moon with the same Google Pixel phone. This one I still didn't use the filter for, because the Google Pixel has the ability to adjust for the brightness of the moon. I just used my phone's photo ability. The final photo is of trees in the distance taken using the 70mm Travel Scope and the SVBONY SV105 camera.
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    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2022
    After several decades, I wanted to return to observing the night sky through telescopes. I didn't want to begin with an expensive telescope, so I went with a entry level item. Celestron is one of the most popular telescope makers in the world, so I thought I couldn't go wrong with a telescope from them, which is why I went with the Celestron 70mm Travel Scope DX.
    I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the diagonal, spotting scope, and tripod. After reading some of the reviews though, I was prepared for that. I ordered a replacement diagonal and tripod along with the telescope. I was more concerned with the quality of the scope. I was pleased with the scope itself.
    The best way to get started is by observing the easier objects. It allows a person to get used to searching the sky, finding the object you're looking for, and enjoying the view. What better subject to begin with than the moon.
    The above pictures are of the telescope where I was taking terrestrial photos using a SVBONY SV105 camera. The next was the first picture of the moon with the telescope with my Google Pixel and the smart phone adapter that came with the telescope. As you can see, it needs a lunar filter. Thankfully the telescope came with one. The third image is one taken of the moon with the same Google Pixel phone. This one I still didn't use the filter for, because the Google Pixel has the ability to adjust for the brightness of the moon. I just used my phone's photo ability. The final photo is of trees in the distance taken using the 70mm Travel Scope and the SVBONY SV105 camera.
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