Thanks to advances in sensors, software and the implementation of the smartphone, amateur astronomy as a hobby is under going a renaissance.  Complete beginners can now enter the hobby and capture amazing views of the night sky faster and share them with the world easier.  This new class of telescopes also helps the visual observer overcome the inexorable loss of our dark skies due to light pollution.  In this episode, Dustin and Tony discuss their experiences using both telescopes and Dustin also provides some background on the Celestron Starsense accessory for the NexStar line of telescopes.