Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium @ richardeward.com

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
from Celestron

Features:

• Locates and identifies over 6,000 stars, planets, and constellations with GPS technology
• Red LED backlit display for easy-to-read information
• Accepts SkyTour SD multi-media cards for interactive tours of the night sky
• Includes USB port for easy download of database updates

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good for eduation; better with improvements
  We are new to astronomy and have used this for over a month. To date,we are pretty much satisfied with this product. The upgrade went smoothly and battery use not bad (though we are using rechargeable). My only dislikes are:
  1. Screen is difficult to read (for older, over 40 eyes that is; younger folks might not have issue). It could be the color and I wish there were a way to change it.
  2. You need to use a headphone or external speaker. Minor nit, but when you have a group of younger folks... more info

• Celestron SkyScout
  Product appears to work as intended; however, the display of black letters in a red field makes it impossible for me to read. My corrected vision is otherwise very adequate, but the faint letters are undecipherable to me.

• Great star-finding tool!
  This is really a must for amateur sky watchers. The Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium is extremely easy to use and enables you in an instant to locate and identify any celestial object that is visible to the human eye, be it constellations, stars, nebulas, star clusters, planets or our moon, even if the object you want to locate is not visible above the horizon. So, if you would like to locate the moon (or any other celestial object) even if it should happen to be below the horizon, you just push the... more info

• Fun for the whole family
  We purchased this for my parents in their 70s but everyone enjoyed it, even our 9 year old son. It is a wonderful way to learn more about the night sky.

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