• 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
• Schmidt-Cassegrain mechanism that moves the primary mirror to adjust focus is supported by two pre-loaded ball bearings, minimizing the "mirror flop" typical of bushing focus mechanisms
• Heavy duty stainless steel tripod adjustable from 38 - 55"
• Star diagonal provides more comfortable viewing position when observing objects that are high in the sky
• New All-Star Polar Alignment routine for both Northern and S outhern Hemispheres
• Software Features include: Database Filter Limits, Hibernate, five alignment methods and user-defined slew limits
• Flash upgradeable hand control software and motor control units for downloading product updates over the Internet
• Custom database lists of all the most famous deep-sky objects by name and catalog number; the most beautiful double, triple and quadruple stars; variable star; solar systems; objects and asterisms
• Double line, 16-character Liquid Crystal Display Hand Control with backlit LED buttons for easy operation of goto features

• Optical Design : Schmidt-Cassegrain
• Aperture : 355.5 mm (14 in)
• Focal Length : 3910 mm (153.94 in)
• Focal Ratio : 11
• Finderscope : 9x50
• Mount : CGE Pro Computerized Equatorial
• Optical Tube : Aluminum
• Eyepiece 1 : 40 mm (1.57 in)
• Magnification 1 : 98 x
• Star Diagonal : 2" with 1.25" adapter
• Tripod : Adjustable, 2.75" Stainless Steel legs
• Highest Useful Magnification : 840 x
• Lowest Useful Magnification : 51 x
• Limiting Stellar Magnitude :15.3
• Resolution (Rayleigh) : 0.39 arcsec
• Resolution (Dawes) : 0.33 arcsec
• Light Gathering Power : 2579 x
• Angular Field of View : 0.53 °
• Linear Field of View (@1000 yds) : 28 ft (8.53 m)
• Optical Coatings : Starbright XLT Coating
• Slew Speeds : Nine slew speeds 5.5 deg/s, 2 deg/s, 0.5 deg/s, 64x, 16x, 8x, 4x, 1x, 0.5x
• Power Requirements : 12 VDC 2.5A
• Internal Clock : Yes
• GPS : Optional CN-16 GPS Accessory

• An improve version of the existing CGE 1400 which (should have) offer better controls and handling - but; for most common users, you won't feel the difference
• the idea of having a bigger telescope with a bigger aperture does promise clearer image, better resolutions and all that ... but it is just too expensive for an average income earner to own one - which includes Me, myself
• Tripod for this model had greatly improve, comparing this to the existing CGE 1400 - it would be nice if it comes with a GPS already

Again, this is a very exciting 14 inch computerized telescope and for those who had 8 inch telescope or smaller and is looking for an upgrade then this would be great for you.