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Old 18-01-2008, 12:15 PM
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Has Any One Used This

http://www.celestron.com.au/Home/tab...%2cProductName

It is the Sky Scout from Celestron, i was thinking you could mount it on my dob.

Has anyone used it, or have an opinion.


http://www.bintel.com.au/MeademySKY.html

This version from meade sounds good.
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Old 18-01-2008, 07:41 PM
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I have a mySky. Works great, just as the advertising says...however, like a lot of mySky owners I have never been able to get a GPS fix But as I live in Melbourne I just select Melbourne from the menu and it is good enough.

I believe the SkyScount has been updated to allow it to connect to a Celestron scope and move it to the object located. The mySky can do this with a Meade scope, but I have a Celestron.

Unfortunately neither of them will make it easy to make a "goto" by mountng to a scope. They both have a locate function that will allow you to select an object, say M42, from a list. On the mySky an arrow appears on the screen that points you in the direction to move. As you get closer, the arrow gets shorter and finally turns to a circle when you have located the target. SkyScout has a similar function.

I use mine quite a lot a public viewings while we are waiting for it to get dark, or if we get clouded out you can still demonstrate it to people. Everyone I have shown mine to are blown away by it.

If you get a mySky make sure you update the software to at least 1.2tc (current version) othewise is wont work in 2008, but it worked last year! Mine came with 1.2q
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Old 18-01-2008, 11:09 PM
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I have a SkyScout and it does work as advertised. It is a nifty little thing.

It is very susceptable to "magnetic" intereference when they are next to metal. I even need to remove my watch so mounting on a metal dob will not work well in my opinion.

My kids have a lot of fun with it and I use it to help find stars to align on.

Is it a necessary item...no. Charts/software/plansiphere/knowledge can all do what this thing does...but for a lazy person like me it is kind of fun.
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