Friday, December 12, 2008

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium Reviews

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium

Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
From Celestron

Customer Reviews

Celestron SkyScout5
Truely amassing !

Very simple and straight forward to use.

I use this with a telescope I have to locate what I want to look at, works extremly well.

good quality product.

Glenn

GPS Issues? 2
I purchased the unit brand new, installed good quality batteries and installed the software on the computer and updated the software on the unit to newest version. in a clear field with NO METALS, power lines, watches ets. it displayed a magentic error icon as well as an odd lat/log. using another gps i entered the gps cord.from this unit and it shows that my field in maine has been telported to south eastern CHINA!!! I rebooted it many times and same results, new batteries same results. the moon i could see was indicated as not being present.
entered in the correct gps cord. manually and it worked perfectly. also the magnetic icon dissapeared. however after shut down and startup it said i was in china and all needed to be reentered. gps, time and date.
would also be nice if it could accept a low power eye piece of some kind.
keep your reciept and use fresh batteries.

We love it!5
Very happy with the SkyScout. Worked perfectly out of the box, easy to use, lightweight and sturdy. Was a huge hit with the grandkids. It was helpful to have a simple star chart with us as well, useful in finding the entire constellation once a single star was identified. Very fun, I can see getting a lot of use out of this great product.

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
  • Measures 7.4 x 2.5 x 4.0 inches (W x H x D)

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