More of a mood-setting light, showing colors and patterns that reflect galaxies and nebulas with lasers that you could associate with a starry sky. Still, it is a discrete, affordable, high-quality device that puts out visually stunning lasers to transform your surroundings while drawing very little energy.

It is aimed at children, and the stars aren't at all scientific like you would find on the more 'adult' Sega Homestar Flux. Like many other star projectors, there's a 'shooting star' function, although, in our Sega Homestar Flux review, we explained how we'd like this to be at random intervals, or in a different place each time so it isn't as predictable. The star projectors designed as night lights can be good for babies and small children, as they create soothing ambient lighting, and can add enjoyment to bedtime routines and help your baby drift off to sleep. The clusters, which formed in the same part of the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, are about 7,300 light-years away from us. When the lights are turned off, the stars on the globe illuminate and their projection can be seen on the walls and ceiling.

They are by no means scientific, but they can be customized using the supplied remote control to a speed and color configuration to suit you. Cyrillus hosts a trio of degraded central peaks inside a hexagonal rim, while much older Catharina's peak has been submerged, her edges blurred and her floor overprinted by smaller, more recent craters. The higher the class, the more powerful the laser is and the greater the potential to pose serious injury if used improperly. Instead, note that Uranus is positioned a little closer to the Pleiades star cluster and a little farther from Jupiter, and seek out the ice giant planet when the moon has left the scene a few nights later. The very bright, white planet Jupiter will be well-placed for observing through most of the night during November.

Over in the east, very bright yellowish Capella (ranked 6th) in Auriga will be shining to the upper left of reddish Aldebaran (ranked 14th), the eye of Taurus the Bull. It will rise around midnight local time, and then remain visible until it sets in the western daytime sky in the early afternoon. The brilliant planet Venus will continue to dominate the eastern pre-dawn sky during November, even while it slowly drops sunward.But to fully enjoy the heavens — especially a meteor shower, the fainter constellations, or to see the amazing swath across the sky that is the disk of our home galaxy, the Milky Way — rural areas are best for night sky viewing. Taurid meteors, which can appear anywhere in the sky, will be traveling away from a point in western Taurus near Jupiter.

Locate those stars again on a night when the moon has moved away and Neptune will be found above and between the two groupings. This model strikes a balance between appealing to children and adults, and it offers a nice color gradient paint job or a matte white finish for you to choose from.m. local time at month's end, but the earlier sunsets of autumn will deliver several hours of excellent evening viewing all month long. After the first week of November Mercury will become visible above the southwestern horizon after sunset. Venus will spend most of November traveling prograde eastward through Virgo, passing close to the double stars Beta Virginis on Nov.

It's more like having a home planetarium than a basic star projector and is highly accurate, making it a strong contender for the best galaxy projector. This allows children to learn more about the different space objects and concepts depicted in the slides and adds fun and mystery to learning.During a ten-hour period that repeats like clockwork every two days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes, Algol dims noticeably and re-brightens by about a third when a fainter companion star with an orbit nearly edge-on to Earth crosses in front of its much brighter primary, reducing the total light output we perceive. Quality optics and good seeing conditions will allow you to see the dark, narrow Cassini Division in the rings and the wedge of shadow that Saturn's globe casts upon their eastern side. This is the only novelty-shaped item in this guide so far, and that is because, often, such things aren't very good quality — but this is an exception. It's portable and convenient to use thanks to the USB power cable, allowing you to power it from a computer or portable battery.