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Old 25-09-2010, 12:01 PM
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National Geographic Planetarium Globe

Recently on ebay I found this item:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....m=130372528865

It might be interesting educational tool for kids..
Anyone has any experience with this gadget?
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Old 25-09-2010, 12:10 PM
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No, but it looks interesting. Wonder how well it works??
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Old 25-09-2010, 12:18 PM
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…. Hypnosis …

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watch the stars on your ceiling as you drift off to sleep!
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Old 25-09-2010, 12:31 PM
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I took a better look at images after downloading and enlarging them..
It seems it's not possible to set the latitude, and the rotation is around vertical axis only (vertical post with lamp in the middle of the cradle is visible on one of the images).

Decorative and hypnotic, yes.. but that's all...
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Well, that answered my question
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It's identical to the one I purchased for my grandson last Christmas. It was a waste of money. It wasn't possible to get focus in the room, if I remember correctly focus was about half a meter from the globe.
Grandson lost interest in 5 minutes

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