Meade mySKY Personal Guide for Sky Exploration
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Customer Review: Expensive, inaccurate, and fragile
Summary: 1 Stars
I hate "flame" reviews and I've never written one before, but this product deserves it. I bought my unit after the software upgrade, so Meade had a chance to work out some of the bugs. They (maybe) have fixed the programming, but the unit still suffers mechanically and never worked as intended. For the first couple of month of service the unit worked, but rarely achieved a pointing accuracy of better than 3-5 degrees--far too inaccurate to consistently locate stars and planets, and often too coarse to correctly identify constellations. This morning, after a month of sitting idle, I took it outside again and discovered that two of the switches didn't function. I opened up the out-of-warrantee unit to discover that the metal contact plates on two of the microswitches had broken free, and were floating around inside the case. These are held in place by four tiny plastic tabs that simply are not up to the task of resisting the forces of normal use. Other microswitches in the unit showed that one or more tabs had broken, so all were on their way to failure.
I am strongly of the opinion that Meade rushed into the market with this product to compete with a similar unit sold by Celestron; their haste shows.
Customer Review: Failed out of the box
Summary: 1 Stars
I also had a failed unit. sent back to Meade in January it's now the end of Febuary and I still don't have a replacment. Meade says "I'll ship that out ASAP" Read all the reviews and you start to see this same message over and over. Go look at the Better Business site for Meade Scientific, they are rated "F" for support. ("A" = good). I will now avoid all Meade Products. People with working unit should consider themselves lucky...Customer Review: Made in China, Made in China - Great Idea, Poor Quality
Summary: 2 Stars
The idea and concept for this makes it a wonderful way to learn and explore the night sky. This product is Made in China and lives up to the expectations that China has set. First I noticed that the volume up press button did not click back up. The volume down worked fine...so you could say there was no sound. I put new batteries in about 4 different times trying different configurations and still it would not power up. I gave it two stars because if Meade got the quality improved I would purchase it again. I am sending this one back today.Customer Review: Amazing product
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently bought MySky and I like it a lot. Yes, the quality of construction may be better and yes, the software seems to have some glitches, specially just out of the box. The screen could also be higher resolution, sort of like the iPod screen. But this is a very sophisticated product. Wait till you hold one in your hand: it almost comes out of science fiction. I agree that Celestron's Sky Scout is built better ( I had one for over a year and I just sold it after using only few times ), but MySky is a superior product and much more ergonomically designed. For me it has a big advantage: it can be used without reading glasses. The Scout display is very faint and on the side of the unit, while MySky has a display right in front of you that can be very bright or very dim, your choice. Other really nice feature of MySky: once it gets the GPS fix, the next time you turn it on at the same location it keeps it in memory, and updates the date, so you do not have to wait for a new fix. This feature is not present in Scout, which has to wait for a new fix each time. This allows you to actually have sky tours even inside your own home, and learn the sky and constellations even in bad weather, amazing......I was a bit nervous buying MySky because of all the negative reviews; I suggest to anybody who purchases MySky to update the software immediately via the web, even before using it the first time. Once you have the updated software/firmware, all should be OK. And look out for Amazon deals! I bought my MySky at Amazon for $299 new, including free ground shipping, which I think is an amazing price for this product.Customer Review: AVOID THIS JUNK DUE TO POOR QUALITY CONTROL
Summary: 1 Stars
Meade has serious quality control problems. Either don't buy this junk or wait a year or two for Meade to get their act together.
The mySKY aims like a pistol with traditional pistol-like sights (2 in the rear, 1 in the front). I sent my first mySKY unit back because the factory never installed the front sight post for aiming (their customer rep tried to tell me the front should have 2 posts! He clearly wasn't knowledgable about the product!). Also, the unit failed to start up properly about half the time.
Today I got my second unit, with a green laser pointer thrown in as a bonus. The volume control button doesn't work right out of the box! Also, the laser pointer won't turn on 80% of the time. Now I have to send it back AGAIN, and Meade will not reimburse for shipping despite being under warranty.
Save your money!