Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ

Celestron's cleverest innovation in years: instead of a motorized GoTo mount, the StarSense uses your smartphone's camera to plate-solve the sky in real time. Point the scope anywhere, and the app shows you exactly what you're looking at and guides you to thousands of objects with on-screen arrows. No alignment procedure, no batteries, no WiFi needed. The 130mm Newtonian optics are solid for the price (~$450), but the real star is the StarSense technology — it makes finding objects genuinely fun.