Sunday, December 21, 2008

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium

By James Hayden Rayburn

Celestron SkyScout has gone through months of experiments in various weather conditions and it has survived them all! You can take this wonderful gadget to a breezy terrain or a humid forest; it would give you the same excellent performance as it is expected to. SkyScout is so compact, about a size of a camcorder, it could easily fit into your back pack making it perfect for outdoor expeditions.

Celestron is handheld, portable and a non-magnifying viewing device which can identify and locate more than 50,000 celestial objects including all that is visible through naked eye. It has a GPS technology that automatically locates your position on the Earth and the time and date of observation. It is run by 2 AA flashlight batteries which could run up to 6 hours of continual operation. You don't have to align SkyScout to the sky or hold it in a particular level because its 3-axis sensor measures the Earth's Gravitational and magnetic fields to determine its true orientation to the Earth.

Celestron SkyScout is a fun learning device for all ages. There is no 'Rocket Science' in operating SkyScout. You just have to point to the object you want to view and SkyScout's illuminated 5-lined LED scrolling display gives you a scrolling commentary and history about that object. It also comes with an earplug through which you can hear the display without taking your eyes off the object.

The SkyScout's enormous database also includes audio lessons on history and origin of astronomy, text biographies on some of the greatest astronomers, a dictionary of celestial terms, scientific details of over 50,000 space objects and text descriptions of some of the man made space objects like satellites, telescopes, space shuttles etc. and text images of some of the famous comets.

You can update its database by downloading latest information about celestial objects, from the internet. The SkyScout is powered by two AA batteries which could run up to 6 hours of continual operation.

For $199, SkyScout makes astronomy fun and more entertaining!

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