Discovery Exclusive Ultimate Star Planetarium

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24 Mar 2009 Moderate quality, good functions, lights burned out quickly I bought this for my 8 year old so that he could have a planetarium nightlight. He was thrilled with the toy initially, and it does do a good job of projecting reasonably accurate configurations of constellations. It can also project a single image of a planet/nebula that you can dial up. The cons are: Motor is a bit noisy, but he didn't seem to mind at all; slightly tricky to program (at least for an 8 year old) but again, he picked up his favorite settings and stuck with them; quality is a bit... –Zacharias J. Beckmanfrom Amazon.com
26 Dec 2008 Inaccurate! We bought one of these, but had to return it because the stars were rising in the west and setting in the east. The replacement model, which the company claimed to have checked, did the same thing. While the stars were in their correct locations, making it appear that the earth was turning backwards was ridiculous!

(And yes, I'm sure it was reversed -- I'm a science teacher, and I even had an astrophysics professor double-check for me.) –Astromomfrom Amazon.com
17 Jul 2007 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 d... –Kim Heggenstallerfrom Amazon.com

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