Here's the next best thing to taking a ride on the space shuttle. Starship Earth II will help you explore the universe that surrounds us - from the many constellations in our heavens, to the movement of the Earth, Sun and Stars, the secrets of navigation and much more. A beautiful work of art that is also a superb learning/teaching tool. The impressive sixteen inch diameter transparent outer sphere is beautifully handcrafted from museum quality acrylic. The accurately silk screen printed information displays updated data from Sky Catalogue 2000.0 and includes all eighty eight constellations and more than 1,100 naked eye stars! The Milky Way and megallanic Clouds are shown in a wispy translucent blue and deep sky objects are keyed to type. The grids show precision Right Ascension and Declination lines and an easy three step setting allows you to reproduce the Earth, Sun and star movements for any time, date and location in the world.