| The new Meade mySKY Plus is your personal guide for sky exploration – a revolutionary way to explore our universe. Not a telescope, mySKY Plus instead is a fun, interactive, hand-held, point-and-shoot-to-identify multimedia travel guide to our universe that will take you on a tour through the night sky better than if you had your own private astronomer standing next to you.
This hand-held electronic guide to the heavens locates, identifies, and describes 30,000 celestial objects in the night sky – every object visible to your unaided eye, as well as many thousands you’ll need a separate telescope to see. (Know many astronomers who can locate and identify 30,000 celestial objects on their own?) Featuring high fidelity earbuds and a full-color LCD screen and the added ability to control a Meade computerized telescope by adding a simple optional cable, the Meade mySKY Plus is clearly unlike anything else on the market.
The Meade mySKY Plus is the ultimate in simplicity to use. No knowledge of the night sky is needed. Turn it on, enter the time, date, and your latitude and longitude coordinates – or just the zip code of the nearest city! – and sit it down on a level surface for 30 or 45 seconds. Internal sensors determine magnetic north and the precise direction towards the center of the earth from the local gravity field. The computer built into the mySKY Plus uses that information and the time and location you entered in to determine precisely how the sky is oriented overhead. And it does it without your having to wait for a GPS receiver to align itself on the sky. The time, date, and zip code information you enter is stored in the mySKY Plus internal clock and memory. It is automatically retrieved the next time you use your mySKY Plus, so you get started even faster.
Once the mySKY Plus has calibrated itself on the sky, internal accelerometers keep track of every move you make to point at different objects in the sky. Point it at a celestial object and pull the trigger to identify planets, stars, nebulas, galaxies, constellations, and more – over 30,000 objects. Or select an object to locate from the 30,000 in its memory and mySKY Plus will visually lead you right to it. mySKY Plus even takes you on guided tours of the best objects visible in your sky to your unaided eye – tours that are tailored to your time, date, and location. Program information is stored on a supplied 256 megabyte SD storage card. Updated object information databases, tours, and program improvements are downloadable from the internet. Since it uses non-magnifying red-illuminated rifle-type aiming sights that do not restrict your field of view, finding your target is easy.
Your exploration of the heavens starts with a simple narrated video introduction of how to use mySKY Plus that is displayed on its LCD screen when you turn it on. You don’t even have to read the instruction manual to get started using mySKY Plus. You can skip the introduction if you prefer and move directly to the multimedia presentations with Hollywood-style video content on the planets and the Moon. The multimedia presentations include stunning astrophotography, entertaining audio descriptions, videos, mythology, folklore, scientific fun facts, and more.
Real-time, full color SkyMaps with interactive aiming arrows guide you to the objects you want to locate. Once you’re on an object, mySKY Plus gives you information about it in a true multimedia format, using full-color video, audio, still images, sky maps, and text. You’ll see full color still images, watch video, and hear audio descriptions of more than 500 objects. The audio descriptions are provided through the headphone jack and supplied high fidelity earbuds.
The Meade mySKY Plus lets you identify and find 30,000 objects in the sky – planets, stars, nebulas, galaxies, and more. It lets you view sky maps, object images, video, and text using a built-in 480 x 234 pixel full color LCD screen conveniently located so you can see it while you are looking over the sights at the object in the sky. Photographic images of many of the objects are displayed on the screen in full color. To see the objects close up and live, of course, you’ll need a telescope, as mySKY Plus is an illustrated multimedia electronic travel guide only, not a telescope.
mySKY Plus shows you real-time sky maps of the areas you are pointed at that smoothly change as you point to different areas of the heavens. It finds and displays constellations and traces the constellation figures. Constellation maps are oriented to the way you are looking at the sky, not some arbitrary orientation that may not be correct for the time of the year when you are observing. mySKY Plus will even let you find satellites like the International Space Station, using simple controls that are intuitive and easy to use. On-screen labels above the control buttons change as you move from screen to screen, to reflect what functions the buttons control as the on-screen display presents different program features.
The Meade mySKY Plus is ergonomically designed to be comfortable to hold and easy to point. The mySKY Plus is powered by four AA batteries (not included). Advanced power-saving features extend the life of the batteries for as long as six hours of normal springtime/summertime use (cold temperatures will reduce battery life). mySKY Plus connects to Meade AutoStar-equipped computerized telescopes using an optional cable. This lets you point the mySKY Plus at an object, push a button, and have your telescope slew to the object you’ve selected for a close-up look. No more scrolling through menus to find the Messier number of that globular cluster you can see overhead so you can get your scope to move to it. Just point mySKY Plus at the object and your scope will go right to it.
The Meade mySKY Plus comes with the famous Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer’s Edition planetarium/star charting software CD-ROM for your Windows-based computer.
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