Space Navigator For The Wanna-be Astronaut
May 6, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Electronics
When I was a kid I used to love staring at the clear sky’s at night, pointing out constellations and hoping to catch a shooting star here or there. The best places to do this was somewhere up high, in a field or out on a lake. It could be confusing at times trying to figure out which stars belonged to which constellation. With the Space Navigator, the job is a lot easier.
The Space Navigator
If you’ve ever gazed skyward and wondered what a star or constellation is called, Space Navigator can help. This intelligent device identifies every star by name, and helps you find and identify every planet and constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere. Stargazers enter their location and time on a small keypad, and an onboard computer shows them exactly where to find 66 of the brightest stars, 56 constellations and four visible plants.
Plus, they can track more than 29, 000 astronomical events through the year 2020.
That’s pretty cool, especially if you have kids and you want to help educate them on the stars and spend sometime with them using this cool little gadget. Maybe you just want it all to yourself, right?
The Space Navigator comes out of the Sky Mall, you know that cool magazine ticked right in with the vomit bag in the seat backs of airplanes. The price of $79.99 might make you just want to buy a book with constelations in it instead, but what fun would that be? It requires two AA and two C batteries, weighs 3 lbs and is 14″ high, 11 5/8″ wide and 3″ deep. It looks as if it has all sorts of setting and stuff that you can play with, but Skymall doesn’t go in to much more detail.
(Image Source: Skymall.com)
