I got my wife a telescope ("Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ" is the specific model) on her birthday. It is an engineering marvel for what is a consumer product. The one downside for it is that everytime when packing it I had to think of where each part went, which things get covers where, and stuff like that. This time I wrote down a list of all the things and where they get packed.

  1. Tripod
    1. Tripod thermocol spacer
  2. Tripod eyepiece storage tray
  3. Main Tube
  4. Red Dot Sight (with a piece of railing attached)
  5. 1 piece paper Star Dial
  6. Manuals for telescope
  7. StarSense phone dock
  8. Triangular piece of sheet metal that is supposed to act as a screwdriver
  9. Cover plug for eyepiece-hole in the main tube. Fitted in main-tube.
  10. Desiccant Cap/Cup
  11. Eyepiece lens - 25 mm
    1. Covers on both ends. Tube-side white, eye-side black.
    2. Stored in a plastic zip-lock bag.
  12. Eyepiece lens - 10 mm
    1. No covers.
    2. Stored in a rubber-plastic bottle.
  13. Barlow lens - 2x magnification
    1. Black plug/cover on both ends.
    2. Stored in a plastic zip-lock bag.
  14. Right-angle eyepiece mirror attachment
    1. Covers on both ends. Tube-side white cover, eyepiece side black plug.
  15. Zip-lock bag containing: [4] and [14]
  16. 2 screw knobs to attach main-tube to tripod.
  17. Cleaning liquid bottle
  18. Cleaning cloth
  19. Zip-lock bag containing: [16], [17] and [18]
  20. A different cleaning cloth
  21. Grey cloth bag containing: [8], [10], [11], [12], [13], [15], [19], [20]
  22. Small cardboard box which goes besides tripod box. Contains [2] and [21]
  23. Tripod goes in small bubble-wrap bag
  24. Tripod cardboard box which contains [7] and [23]
  25. Thermocol spacer/stabilizer for main-tube mounting rod
  26. Main-tube goes in a regular plastic bag and then gets wrapped in large/thick bubble wrap sheet
  27. Main-tube cardboard box
  28. Main Celestron box containing [5], [6], [22], [24], [27]
  29. Transport outer cardboard box which only contains [28]

Let's hope this helps the next time I have to pack the scope after a session.