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A hand-held electronic celestial object-locating device assists in identifying a celestial object or directing a user to a desired celestial object. The device is useful for locating or identifying any celestial object including stars, constellations, planets, comets, asteroids, artificial satellite

A hand-held electronic celestial object-locating device assists in identifying a celestial object or directing a user to a desired celestial object. The device is useful for locating or identifying any celestial object including stars, constellations, planets, comets, asteroids, artificial satellites, and deep sky objects to name a few. The device utilizes sensors for 3-axis magnetic field and 3-axis gravitational field detection. The device utilizes a processor and an electronic database to perform the required calculations. The device's database may be updated through access to the Internet through which the updates may be purchased.

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A hand-held electronic celestial object-locating device assists in identifying a celestial object or directing a user to a desired celestial object. The device is useful for locating or identifying any celestial object including stars, constellations, planets, comets, asteroids, artificial satellite

A hand-held electronic celestial object-locating device assists in identifying a celestial object or directing a user to a desired celestial object. The device is useful for locating or identifying any celestial object including stars, constellations, planets, comets, asteroids, artificial satellites, and deep sky objects to name a few. The device utilizes sensors for 3-axis magnetic field and 3-axis gravitational field detection. The device utilizes a processor and an electronic database to perform the required calculations. The device's database may be updated through access to the Internet through which the updates may be purchased. installation into an existing or new housing; a plurality of subscriber tap ports located on an outside face of said tap plate; a printed circuit board (PCB) secured to an inside face of said tap plate; a directional coupler located on said PCB for providing a desired attenuation of signals tapped off of said cable for forwarding to customers or subscribers via said plurality of subscriber tap ports, respectively; a plurality of first electrical plug-in devices for providing different db levels of at least one or a combination of forward equalization, backward or return path equalization, cable simulation, high tap value filtering, high pass filtering, band rejection, low pass filtering, noise filtering, and shunting, respectively; and a first electrical receptacle on said PCB for receiving a selected one of said plurality of plug-in first devices. 2. The multi-tap kit of claim 1, further including: a plurality of said PCBs; a plurality of replaceable tap plates, each including one of said plurality of PCB's secured to an inside face thereof, a directional coupler on the associated respective PCB providing a different level of attenuation of signals tapped off of said cable relative to other ones of said directional couplers for forwarding to customers, and a said first electrical receptacle on the associated PCB. 3. The multi-tap kit of claim 2, further including: said plurality of replaceable tap plates each including at least two of said plurality of subscriber tap ports. 4. The multi-tap kit of claim 1, further including: a plurality of PCB's; a plurality of replaceable tap plates each having secured to a respective inside face, a respective one of said plurality of PCB's; a directional coupler on the associated PCB of each of said plurality of replaceable tap plates for respectively providing a desired level of attenuation of signals tapped off of said cable for forwarding to subscribers; and a desired number of said plurality of tap ports on each of said plurality of replaceable tap plates. 5. The multi-tap kit of claim 1, further including: a plurality of replaceable tap plates each including a directional coupler on the PCB for providing the same level of attenuation of signals tapped off of said cable for forwarding to subscribers; and said plurality of replaceable tap plates each including a different number of subscriber tap ports on the associated tap plate, respectively. 6. The multi-tap kit of claim 1, further including: a plurality of PCB's; a plurality of groups of said replaceable tap plates; each individual group of said replaceable tap plates providing the same number of subscriber tap ports, the number of subscriber tap ports provided in any one group being different from any other of said groups of said replaceable tap plates, respectively; and a different directional coupler being located on each respective PCB of said plurality of replaceable tap plates of each group thereof, for providing a different level of attenuation, respectively. 7. The multi-tap kit of claim 1, further including: a second electrical receptacle on said PCB; and a plurality of second electrical plug-in devices each providing a directional coupler having a different level of attenuation, respectively, for permitting selection of a desired one thereof for insertion into said second electrical receptacle to provide a said directional coupler of a desired level or value. 8. The multi-tap kit of claim 7, further including: a plurality of PCB's each including a said second electrical receptacle; a plurality of replaceable tap plates each having secured to a respective inside face, a respective one of said plurality of PCB's; and a desired number of said plurality of tap ports on each of said plurality of replaceable tap plates. 9. The multi-tap kit of claim 1 further including: a plurality of said first electrical receptacles on said PCB; a plurality of second electrical plug-in d