Re: Celestron Sky Scout

William Hamblen wrote: 
On 2006-01-04, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It was supposed to be unveiled today and on sale at CES in Las Vegas tomorrow:

http://www.celestron.com/news/ces_innovation.htm

Any word on price and availability to non-CES attendees?


I got mail from Astronomics - $299 a copy, available 1st quarter this year.


Are you putting your name on the list? There are likely better astro toys I can buy for $300 .. but I do like gadgets :-)

Guess it would not be useful in the daytime; gotta be pretty lame to not find the Sun.

Camcorder size is a bit of a turnoff.

I am curious if it has optics inside and what they consist of: Must be some reason it is camcorder size when GPS rcvrs are smaller. I envision some sort of monocular.

Phil
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