Very Enjoyable! | Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium

Good for eduation; better with improvements | Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium

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highly recommended

A very fun product

I was given a SkyScout as an award at the company I work at (it would have never occurred to me to buy one). I've had it out several times with my kids (11 and 7) this summer.

My kids love the SkyScout. All you do is point it at an object in the sky and press identify and it will tell you what it is (very cool). If you want to find something you just look it up in the UI and then follow the read lights in the view finder (even cooler).

My kids love to look at the sky in the summer and this has given them all the more reason to learn about astronomy. They've been asking me to get the telescope out so than can see even more.

Pros:

Easy to use. Very cool features. It always draws a crowd at night. It helps the kids learn astronomy in the best way I can think of - they get immediate answers questions while looking at the stars. That's way better than looking up info on Wikipedia any day.

Cons:

I can't read the display at night without my reading glasses. The GPS can take several tries to find its position (even with an open sky). The list of objects to find isn't filtered when objects are over the horizon. It's often close but not always exactly on the object we're looking for.

All-in-all it's a great learning tool. It makes learning for my kids (and for me) fun. We've really enjoyed it. Having used it, I would highly recommend it to parents who value educating their kids about astronomy.

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Very Enjoyable!

Got these as a gift for my husband and, WOW, how wonderful for him to look at the constellations and be able to identify what he's looking at. Very nicely made and easy to use. A nice idea put to use for our enjoyment!

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 enjoying this product, it is nice to point and all listen at the same time so that everyone can find a unique object.

3. Sighting is a little awkward and many choices sometimes come up (big circle and shaky hands, though a tripod might help the latter), so you need a little more background information to correctly identify what you saw.

Other than that, we have been quite pleased.

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SkyScout

I purchased the SkyScout for my wife--she likes birds and the night sky. It works well as billed and is easy to use though we are pretty tech oriented. It does take a little time to acquire orientation when you first come out and turn it on. It is very accurate and we use it with the Celestron maps. Note--as everyone does--that it does not magnify. It is purely an identification aid. I tried its competitor from Meade and found it a lot more clunky to use and in reality it was more of a talking video tour. This unit can do that as well but it is not its primarly use. Tough, pretty compact and easy to use though not foolproof. Price has dropped some and is fair for the capability.

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