(Viewed 973 times)

[jkmalpani]

I am thinking for buying NEW
* SkyScout by Celectron as a gift to kids.
www.amazon.com/Celestron-93970-SkyScout-Personal-Planetarium/dp/B000CNPAAA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380837072&sr=8-1&keywords=skyscout+celestron
*

Have you used it?
Would you recommend buying it?
Any other better product?

[-=CROMAN=-]

Not sure. It has good reviews but I don't have enough data to go along with the reviews

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

We had this at the Adler Planetarium for awhile.

But, we could not use it for our visitor observation session, as the massive metal in the Adler building interfered with the GPS in the SkyScout. I had to literally get close to 12th Street beach to get it to work.

Later on, the Adler got rid of it and one of our Chicago Astronomer members now has it. We tried to attached it to my C11, but the metal of the tube again...interfered with the signal and it would not operate correctly. We tried to attach it to a smaller scope, but much of the same thing.

As a stand alone device in an open field, it has it's place...and the ability for it to talk to you is nice....but I would not get it for myself.