First off, I apologize for the delay. The gift was shipped (from Shibuya) on 20 December, but I had been outside the country until yesterday, so the local post office was holding it for me.

Anyway, I got back home in the morning, and went to the post office to get it. I got back home, and opened the box. And I found another box in that box. It had stars on it! And a projector!

Reading the box showed that it was actually a home planetarium, which shows the positions of the stars from Tokyo at a mid-December midnight. (No planets, of course.) It projects the stars from a small disk that was inside the main body, and you can focus it at the wall or the ceiling. (The ideal range was listed as 2 metres.)

I couldn't wait to try it, so I ran to the store for batteries, put them in, and turned it on. It was still daylight, so I couldn't see all the stars (light pollution is annoying inside as well, apparently!), but what I saw was what I see every day without binoculars. This is the picture you see.

I tried it again at night, and it was beautiful. It covered my entire ceiling, and it was like there was nothing above me but sky. It took a bit of time to adjust to seeing the entire sky at once, but I did recognize what was what. And I saw things I have never seen before. I just sat there and watched until it turned off automatically after 15 minutes.

This will definitely become something I will use often. Thank you Secret Santa! And thanks for the message! I just looked at my post history, and they are in lots of places, with no clear interests. You did an awesome job in picking it. I didn't even know such a thing existed!

Big hugs to you.