Product Description

View the night sky as it would appear anywhere in the world with this motorized indoor planetarium. Project 88 constellations; 12 celestial objects, including 8 planets, Pluto and its moon, Charon. Uses super bright bulbs to project over 600 stars. Searchable database with over 600 star facts and myths. Interactive talking computer and backlit navigational screen. Features five modes for a variety of astronomy tours and settings. Features a one-hour timer so you can fall asleep under the stars. Includes AC power adaptor and 24-page, full color instruction manual. This accurate, computer-aided, motorized planetarium transforms an ordinary room into a truly stellar display. Safety warning: This product contains small parts that may present a choking hazard for young children.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29824 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Discovery Channel

Features

• Project 88 constellations; 12 celestial objects, including 8 planets, Pluto and its moon, Charon
• Uses super bright bulbs to project over 600 stars
• Searchable database with over 600 star facts and myths
• Interactive talking computer and backlit navigational screen
• Dimensions: 13.75" L x 15" W x 13.5" H

Customer Reviews

Overall love it, disappointed in one thing
We bought this for our 3 year old daughter to go to sleep with, knowing she will get a ton of educational use out of it when she becomes older. She loves it. She has already started to learn the names of the planets. Every night before we go to bed she ask me to swith the planet to saturn. Then right before I go out she always ask me to change it back to the moon. The only thing I have found so far that I am disappointed with is that when you choose a sky (location and time) that the moon does not go to that type of moon, its always full. When its a half moon outside it would be nice to have the moon on the computer do the same thing. That way the sky is really the same, not just the stars. Overall though, we love it.

not as cool as it sounds
I got this for my eight year old son for Christmas. We thought it would be soooo cool, turning his bedroom into a starscape each night, picking out constellations, and learning some astronomy. Sadly, it just wasn't that cool.

When you take it out of the box, it has a great precision instrument look. You can simply plug it in and begin playing with it within 2 minutes-- minimal set up or reading of instructions, altho parental input is required. It has a neat timer on it that allows you to pick out a date so you can project what the stars look like at different times of year. You can even pick different countries and get their skyscape! Also, the device has a timer, so it will automatically turn off after kids fall asleep, which is nice.

The big downer is that every point of light is identical in size, shape and color. So, unlike in reality, the North Star is not brighter than the surrounding stars. This makes all the stars kind of run together in one big mess, making it extremely difficult to identify any constellations, which was the whole point of the toy! Add that to the fact that my son's bedroom doesn't happen to have a dome shaped ceiling (!), so there is distortion in the projection as well. After 2-3 nights we, simply gave up an trying to identify any constellations, and instead used it as a very expensive night light.

Amazing Star Planetarium
Well, specially designed to children and adults too. Option to watch constellation is very spectacular. I live in Chile, near Santiago, Don't have for Santiago, but is possible realize adjust with the time in Buenos Aires. The special difference with other, is proyection system with light points, not like many which have dark point. This original system is in concordance with reality.(Star are light points, not dark point in the Sky).
Fernando Franco Blu
Rancagua, CHILE.