Sunday, December 21, 2008

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium

By James Hayden Rayburn

Celestron SkyScout has been tested in all kinds of 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.

The 'Best Star Finder', according to the Reader's digest magazine, the SkyScout's 'point and shoot' technology makes it very convenient to select a visible object in the sky and read a scrolling commentary about that object with the help of SkyScout's 5-line illuminated display. You can also hear the illuminated display with compact earphones without taking your eyes away from the object. An optional speaker can be plugged into the earphone output so that a group of people can hear the comments simultaneously.

The SkyScout database includes: - Your get an introduction to astronomy with the help of a audio; tells you is history and origin - Information about more than 36,000 stars, planets, all 88 constellations, 20 periodic comets, 10 asteroids and 25 stars with known planets. You can also download up to 100 objects from the Celestron website. - If the star you locate is part of a constellation, it will lead you to a tour through all the stars in that constellation, accompanied by an onscreen map of the constellation. - A glossary of astronomy jargons including planets, comets, galaxies etc. - Text biographies on some of the world's greatest astronomers. - Text descriptions on some of the man made space objects - Text descriptions of history's most 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! - 2368

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