Clear or cloudy, the results are continuously and permanently archived so that the sky can be viewed both as it travels by the camera and at times past. Complete instructions for use, a more-technical description, various projects, and many other features are given there as well. The system is great fun to use and has numerous classroom applications. It shows the student a direct application of right ascension, sidereal time, and declination, which must be understood to find the fields. A star map is available, or you can use your own, to locate named stars, providing instruction in celestial cartography.
Numerous objects lie in wait to be found, the outstanding example the Orion Nebula.
Though the angular resolution is low, one open cluster, M 48, is obvious, as is a loose globular cluster, NGC 6366. During the summer and fall, the star clouds of Aquila and Scutum cross the field of view, allowing observation of the open cluster M 11 and hosts of dark globules in the Milky Way. Star colors are made real. Since the system is a red- sensitive detector, cool red stars vividly stand out and appear much brighter than on a chart, cool M giants detectable down to visual magnitude 13. Chromatic aberration also makes very red stars somewhat fuzzy.