Learning About Space with Celestron Skyscout Personal Planetarium
Celestron Skyscout Personal Planetarium is a portable device that can pinpoint various celestial objects and provide information on them. Now with this handy device, you do not need to be an astronaut or to spend time in a planetarium in order to understand the universe. All you need to do is take your Celestron Planetarium outside, turn it on and point it to the sky, and you can have the whole outer space revealed to you.
The Celestron Skyscout Planetarium is equipped with advanced GPS technology. Working with the pre-installed positioning software and the built-in gravity and directional sensors, the GPS device can identify and locate many celestial objects including thousands of stars, double and variable stars, constellations, even deep space objects. When you are outside, you simply need to point the device to a celestial object and press a button, and the technology will be triggered to work, and in an instant it will identify the target object you are pointing to. Moreover, the Celestron Personal Planetarium is able to lead you to a star or a planet of your choice. You can select an object’s name from the menu and follow the arrows shown in the viewfinder. The device will tell you when you are pointing to the object you have selected.
Furthermore, the Celestron Personal Planetarium is also equipped with a database of information related to the outer space. The information includes facts, mythology, trivia and history about most popular sky objects. There are a six part audio lesson on the origin and history of astronomy. Popular astronomy terms are defined and explained in a glossary of terms. The unit can also display biography on some of the world’s greatest astronomers such as Galileo, Einstein and Copernicus. The device also tells about many space objects that man has sent into space and many famous comets. Some of the information is available in text and displayed through the very readable LCD display, som of them is presented audibly through a headphone.
So now, whenever you wonder about the great outer space, don’t just stand and wonder. Take along your Celestron Skyscout Personal Planetarium, and you can turn your wonder about the outer space into knowledge.