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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. The GPS technology will 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'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.

The SkyScout's operating system and database can be updated by downloading the latest information about orbits of space shuttles or the locations of passing comets, from the Celestron website. It can be done with the help of the built-in USB port and supply cable which can be connected to your PC.

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

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