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User Submitted Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-09-09 Possibly the most amazing electronics device I've owned This thing is simply amazing. I received this as a gift last Christmas, and I continue to be amazed at how accurate it is, how helpful it is, and how much information it has. It knows stars, planets, galaxies, you name it. It identifies what you point it at and it locates what it tells you to locate. Not to mention it gives great text descriptions as well. My six year old son is starting to get into stargazing and he loves pointing it at stars and finding out "what's that?!" Date: 2007-08-06 Stairway to the Heavens This is an amazing tool for anyone interested in viewing the night sky and being able to find or identify just about every star, planet, constellation, etc. It will even lure the kids away from TV, play stations, text messaging! It's truly a stairway to the heavens. Date: 2007-08-06 Amazing technology! This product blows my mind! Performs FLAWLESSLY! Exactly as promoted by Celestron and MORE! Date: 2007-08-02 Pretty Good, but I don't think Celestron will exploit its potential I bought this item a few weeks ago. It performs pretty much as advertised. My best guess is that after a few months of use, most people will become bored with it. Celestron has promised to offer add-on "Sky tour" cards. 1 year after the product started shipping, none have appeared. The "Sky tour" cards would appear to add a lot of potential to the product. It is puzzling why Celestron would take so long to put a slew of these on the market. I think that the company doesn't have the resources and will to do produce the Skytour cards. They may have decided to make as much money as they can off the product in its present state. Their major business focus is their pricey line of telescopes and not (cheap?) $400 devices that could be a lot of fun for casual astronomers. It's too bad the product was not developped as a flagship product of a smaller educationally-focussed company that wants to excite people about astronomy rather than (in Celestron's case) excite them to buy an expensive telescope. Date: 2007-08-01 Get this thing!!! I got mine some time ago and loved it. I just plugged the batteries (there is a screw to deal with, but I learned how to work those some time ago!) and voila! Went outside, it logged to the required sattelites and it worked perfectly. I bought it for my personal use, but now I have to book time because my 10 year old, who I have always wanted to get interested in astronomy before, is hooked on it. The earphones feature is great. Every night that we have good weather, my kid takes the binoculars, the SkyScout and earphones and spends hours on end looking at the stars and listening to the explanations. I'm realy looking forward when they get the SD cards for tours. Yes is power hungry, yes you have to tinker with a screwdriver to change the batteries, yes it could be better, but it is great. If you look at the sky or if you have kids or both, (and I guess if you own and can use a screwdriver) go out and buy this thing, you will not regret it.
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