Personal Planetariums - How effective are they?

airbolt | 01:40 Sun 30th Aug 2009 | Technology

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I recently saw an advert for a personal planetarium , which claimed that it can identify the star that you have the unit pointed towards using GPS. ( I presume the GPS works out where you are then calculates the angle you are holding the unit at ? )

Question - are they effective at identifying stars ? If so I would be interested in getting one - would be very helpful if anyone could recommend one.

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Amazon (US) has 131 reviews. 99 of those awarded the Celestron Sky Scout Personal Planetarium (which I assume that you're referring to) either 4 or 5 stars (out of a possible 5) but there are a significant number of people who've only awarded 3, 2 or even 1 stars. (Battery life seems to be a recurring problem). Start your reading here:
http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-93970-SkyScout -Personal-Planetarium/product-reviews/B000CNPA AA/ref=pr_all_summary_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&sh owViewpoints=1

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Thanks for the link . Thats given me a clearer idea

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