Description
The SkyScout Personal Planetarium by Celestron, is a great stepping off tool for beginning or intermediate amateur astronomers and space enthusiasts. By taking your handheld planetarium outside, you will learn all about the wonders of the night sky. The SkyScout uses its GPS to connect to a satellite, giving it a perfect model of the night sky. All you need is a willingness to learn and 2 AA batteries (not included).
The SkyScout Personal Planetarium can be used to drive your Celestron computerized telescope by using a SkyScout Connect accessory (sold separately), making your telescope nearly fully automatic!
Features
- Uses built in GPS to identify celestial objects with the click of a button
- Locates over 50,000 stars, planets and constellations from built-in celestial database and provides scientific information for each object (requires free update to firmware to version 1.3) and 200 audio descriptions of the most popular celestial objects
- Graphic LCD display 78 mm x 26 mm (3″W x 1″H) with red LED back-light
- Audio: maximum output power: 50mW/Frequency response: 20 to 20,000 Hz
- 3.5 mm stereo jack for headphones (Earbud-style headphones included)
- Provides comprehensive text and audio descriptions providing history, mythology and other entertaining information for the most popular objects
- Tonight’s Highlights: A customized list of the 20 best objects to view for your exact date, time and location anywhere in the world
- Constellation Lessons: If the star you identify or locate is part of a constellation or an asterism like the Big Dipper, you can actually take a guided tour through all the stars in that constellation and even see an onscreen map of the constellation
- Built-in Field Guide Includes:
- Introduction to astronomy: a six part audio lesson on the origin and history of astronomy
- Glossary of Terms: text defining popular astronomy terms including planets, comets, galaxies and more
- Great Astronomers: text bios on some of the world’s greatest astronomers including Galileo, Einstein and Copernicus
- Man Made Space Objects: text description of some of the coolest objects man has sent into space including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Shuttle
- Comet Guide: text descriptions about history’s most famous comets including Halley’s Comet and Comet Hale-Bop
- SD card slot: for optional ‘SkyScout Expansion Cards’ audio presentations that provide hours of entertainment on a variety of topics
- CD-ROM – Software for Basic Image Capture and Organization as well as Simple Measurement Function (on Windows based operating systems)
- Computer Requirements – UVC Plug and Play with Windows 7, Vista, and XP and most MAC 10.4.9 and later, CD/DVD Drive and open USB Port
- Built-in Help Menu: includes a quick start instruction guide for using the SkyScout
2 year warranty
