Enter your photos in the Celestron Camping Life "World of Nature" Photo Contest, which runs from March 13 to June 18, 2012!

We are deeply saddened to announce that Celestron founder, Thomas J. Johnson, passed away at 5am PST on March 13, 2012

Here we are again ushering in the New Year and finding ourselves at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada! CES 2011 seemed like only a few months ago when we unveiled over 20 new, exciting products, including the remarkable smart telescope - SkyProdigy. Fast forward to 2012 - this year, Celestron is unveiling over 50 new and exciting products that will surely turn heads and stir up astronomers, students, teachers, outdoorsmen and gadget enthusiasts alike.

Celestron, a leading designer andmanufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, weatherstations, GPS devices and related accessories, is pleased to announce anexciting lineup of new products for 2012 in the outdoor, science, and educationcategories.

Celestron, a leading designer andmanufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, weatherstations, GPS devices and related accessories, recently released the spectacularnew SkyQ™ astronomy app on iTunes and are now complementing it with aSkyQ™ Link Wi-Fi Module for their line of computerized telescopes.

Celestron, a leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, weather stations, GPS devices and related accessories, has just announced the debut of their remarkable new online destination

Not long after we returned from a very successful East Coast trip, our Celestron on-the-go team was once again busily preparing and staging products for the next big show. What a busy travel month October has been! This time we found ourselves back on the West Coast to attend The World of Girl - Girltopia!

Celestron's on-the-go team recently headed back out on the road and found ourselves traveling to the East Coast to attend one of the biggest, mind blowing, pop culture events in the nation – the one and only New York Comic Con!

TORRANCE, CA – October 17, 2011 – Celestron, the world's leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, weather stations, GPS devices, microscopes and related accessories, today announced SkyProdigy was awarded the Popular Mechanics 2011 Product Breakthrough Award.

CELESTRON OFFERS CONSUMERS A NEW GENERATION OF ASTRO-IMAGING PRODUCTS MAKING IT EVEN EASIER TO TAKE IMAGES OF THE NIGHT SKY!  TORRANCE, CA – (August 17, 2011) – Celestron, the number one telescope maker in the world, media darling for the innovative SkyScout™ Personal Planetarium™, and winner of product innovation awards from CES, Reader's Digest, Popular Science, PC Magazine and Popular Mechanics, is pleased to announce the release of its newest CCD camera and telescope line geared towards astro- imaging. ...

During the month of July, AES Seaside Cinema, Redondo Beach and AES Summer Movie Nights, Huntington Beach, successfully hosted a series of free outdoor family-oriented movie nights for the Los Angeles and Orange County beach communities in Southern California.

Living in Southern California sure has its benefits – plenty of sunshine, good surf and of course, close proximity to the annual summertime Oceanside Photo and Telescope's Southern California Astronomy Expo!

On June 10-12, 2011, Outside Magazine and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association held the second annual Outside in Aspen event in the beautiful mountain town of Aspen, CO.

Just off Utah Trail near the north entrance to Joshua Tree National Park in Twentynine Palms, CA, quietly sits the Sky's The Limit Observatory and Nature Center.  This non-profit organization is comprised with a dedicated committee of local residents whose mission is to develop the site as a center for education and preservation in the fields of astronomy and environmental science.  

On April 20, 2011, Celestron had yet another big reason to celebrate in its long history - the Grand Opening of the new Joseph A. Lupica Jr. Observatory at Celestron's Torrance, CA headquarters.

Each Spring between the months of April and May, one Saturday closest to the first-quarter Moon is set aside for astronomy clubs, astronomy enthusiasts, observatories, libraries, science centers, schools, museums, planetariums, telescope manufacturers and many other astronomy lovers to unite together and bring the wonders of astronomy and space science to the general public.

Ah, springtime has arrived once again!  And with the cold, harsh winter weather behind us (for most of us anyways), it could only mean it's that time of year for the annual Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) extravaganza!  On April 16-17, 2011, NEAF's 20th Anniversary show took place at Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York.