Title: Waste of money
Product review: I bought the Celestron Skycout on Amazon. It was off kilter, as others have reviewed. It would identify objcts a few degrees to the right of where I pointed the lens (that doesn't magnify). That makes it a real problem to identify stars among clusters. I wrote the company twice about returning it or getting it calibrated, with no response. Still getting their promo emails though.So it's just a piece of junk in my closet that I can't seem to throw away because it cost almost $200. I had plans to buy a Celestron telescope with it, but obviously not now. Anyway, I bought the little speaker, which doesn't connect well and always falls off, and I was able to use it in the "general direction" of the star I heard described - a few minutes about the composition of the star and related mythology and a little history at times. It's interesting, but a bit gimmicky. My Android app can use GPS to identify stars. I'd rather just use that and a good telescope.
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