NEW MEADE mySKY PLUS Start Price USD 249.00 Current Price USD 249.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, September 05, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Staten Island, New York See more about 'NEW MEADE mySKY PLUS' Description smartastronomy Store Meade - mySKY®PLUSYour Personal Guide for Sky Exploration. mySKY is a fun, interactive, multi-media, hand-held guide to the universe that locates and identifies celestial objects inthe night sky. Featuring a full-color LCD screen and the added ability to control a Meade computerized telescope, mySKY isclearly unlike anything else on the market.mySKY is the ultimate in simplicity: No knowledge of the night sky is needed. mySKY aligns itself without any inputfrom the user. Turn it on, point it at a celestial object, and pull the trigger to identify planets, stars, nebula, galaxies andmore � over 30,000 objects. Featuring open aiming sites that do not restrict your field of view, finding your target is easy. Multi-media presentation on the full-color LCD screen: Your exploration starts with a simple video introduction of how touse mySKY. Real-time, color SkyMaps guide you to the objects you want to locate. Sandy Wood, the familiar voice of StarDate� a syndicated daily radio program, provides you with audio descriptions of the objects you have found. mySKY also takesyou on guided tours of the best objects in your sky -- tailored to your time, date and location. The mySKY®PLUS includes new multimedia presentations with Hollywood-style video content on the planets and the Moon, as well as anew more informative introduction and how-to guide on the operation of the product. Meade has refined the software to give theuser a trouble free and more entertaining exploration of the Universe. Gone is the lengthy wait for a GPS fix. Now in only a fewmoments, the time, date and location can be easily entered and stored in the mySKY® internal clock and memory. It isautomatically retrieved the next time the mySKY is used, so you get started even faster.mySKY Specifications:* Sights - Illuminated sights to easily point to objects* Object Database - Database of over 30,000 celestial objects* LCD - 480x234 pixel full color display* Audio - Comfortable high-fidelity ear buds for audio* Storage - 256 Megabyte SD storage card (included)* GPS - 12 channel GPS receiver* Orientation - Magnetic north sensors* Positioning - Electronic accelerometers to determine pointing* Power save features - Advanced power saving features to extend battery life* Batteries - 4 AA batteries required (not included)* Battery life - Up to 7 hours (normal use)  Place a Bid!