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I paid $400 for mine and it sort of worked for a few months. Very difficult to aim given natural shake in one's arms and poor focusing mechanism. GPS takes (when it worked) over 5 minutes to get a take. I found it not as helpful as one of the cheap sky charts. Then Meade came out with a software upgrade - and that made mine completely unworkable. Meade refused to even take it back and look at it. They told me "sorry" and that was it. The store (large scope company) where I bought it told me Meade has worst customer care of any one and I should look elsewhere. While I still like my 15 year old Meade scope; I find the company's attitude, and this product a waste of money and time.

My first MySky had to be returned - it was literally falling apart in the box. When I finally received the second - it actually worked, but I had terrible problems trying to upgrade the software - SO... Meade replaced the entire unit. I recently attempted to upgrade my replacement unit with the latest software - and wound up with a calibration error. So - Meade replaced my MySky with a MySky Plus - what they fail to tell you is THEY SUBTRACT OUT THE GPS - and the only way to set the location is by scrolling through a long list of choices. There's no way to set your own longitude and latitude - so you have to use a nearby city.

The new unit works - but it is terribly inaccurate.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT - I know I regret doing so.

I thought I had carefully compared the MySky and the celestron product, and made the right choice. BIG MISTAKE. This product took quite a while to set up as far as getting the GPS to work. The pointing is not accurate--it identified Jupiter as a star on the first attempt, but then it worked out. The videos and audio are minimal, not very informative at all. This is WAY overpriced for what you get, and it doesnt seem well made. I plan on returning it and trying the Sky Scout. Hopefully, it works better. Meade promotes its product as having a larging database of celestial objects to find, but does it matter if it doesnt work? LM

I bought a MySky in February. When it arrived, from the first time, it woudld not work: It would lock up whether you had it look for birds or you entered data manually. I sent it back. Waited weeks. Got replacement. It worked once. Next time, buttons failed to work and parts falling out of battery door. I sent it back again, had to pay this time because I had it more than 2 months (never really got to use it, it was cloudy during the midwest floods!) still have not heard or seen any sign of a replacement after a long wait.
Do the magazine reviewers get special units? Checking online I see that nearly everyone here as well as on other forums has been unable to get a reliably working unit.

It worked a few times, but now it's dead. The electronics don't work, so all you get for paying the hefty price of $399 is a piece of inoperative plastic--might as well point a wood stick at the sky. I'm trying to see if Meade will take the inert product back and ship one that works.

I got a replacement in May, Meade came through well--no customer hassles! Put batteries in carefully, in an hour two of the battery casings split cuz of an internal short that started to fry them--never had this on any other electronic instrument. Using top-notch batteries, not some off-brand. I sensed this issue because the battery cage got to be very warm, and I opened it up and here were these two (of four) split batteries. Perhaps the battery contacts aren't very robust so they can get moved around and either (a) not make contact, perhaps my original issue, or (b) short out so as to burn out the batteries and maybe set fire to wherever you store this.