Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium by Celestron
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Digital camera reviews of Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
Digital camera Review: A very fun product
Summary: 3 Stars
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 red 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 see 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. When finding an object, the SkyScout is 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.
It's not perfect (which is why I gave it a 3 rather than a 5). But even with the flaws, I'd recommend it.
Digital camera Review: A very good Knowledge tool
Summary: 4 Stars
This unit works very well, Just sight it and press the button to capture
information about everything found in the viewfinder. the SkyScout has a
menu of all the items captured in the lens, Simply highlight your selection
and touch the select button to read or hear an audible explanation thru
a set of earbuds that come with it. So far it has worked very well and seems
to be built very sturdy, Battery life seems a bit short, but it uses AA batteries
that are not very expensive, Also, The price of this unit has come down substantially
from a couple of years back. I recommend it for anyone who has an interest in
viewing the night sky.
Digital camera Review: AWESOME FOR SKY GAZERS
Summary: 5 Stars
Really a fun and interesting product for anyone interested in the stars. Easy to use and only requires a clear sky and 2 AA batteries.Digital camera Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this as a gift. I had seen it previously and was slightly skeptical about whether it could deliver as promised or be as accurate as you would need it to be. Anyway, took it out of the box and read the three pages or so of quick start up instructions. took it outside and it had a little trouble getting a gps link. I moved farther away from the house though and it synched properly. So, I pointed it up to a star, looked through the eyepiece and pressed the button and *bang*. It told me what it was. Wondering about its accuracy, I pointed it to another star nearby to see if it would give me the same name and lo it gave me a different name (the proper name). I plugged in the headphones and started listening to the audio commentary about the stars I was selecting. It was so cool. All these stars that I had no idea which ones they were, just press a button and it was telling me. It is really accurate, much more so than I even hoped. Pointing at stars and clicking is one way to use it, but you can also use the locate function and select an object, and then follow the arrows in the eyepiece until you zero in on it. I sat in my backyard in the freezing cold for about a half hour just selecting all the bright stars in the sky. I still cant believe how well it worked. A few weeks ago (after pointing Venus and Jupiter out to my 3 year old) my son started asking me the names of the stars in the sky and I had no idea, now I can tell him its Procyon, or Rigel...how much fun is that. I learned more about the stars in a half hour than I have in all the rest of my life.Digital camera Review: Amazing little apparatus
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium about ten days before I was supposed to. The little machine is incredible. I am rather new to astronomy and need to become more skilled locating celestial objects but I have some kowledge of it and always use planispheres and charts. Since I received the Skyscout it has been cloudy and a little bit problematic to view the stars. I pointed the machine to some lonely objects in the sky and it said they were Arcturus, Antares and Vega. I later chacked against the charts and it was correct. It also identified Jupiter correctly. It gave me several other names which I have not checked out. It seems to be really amazing. I am going to show it today to the members of Puerto Rico's Amateur Astronomy Association.