Aeromagnifier

An aeromagnifier was a type of illuminated magnifier that hung from a repulsor hood. The enslaved human Shmi Skywalker was gifted an aeromagnifier by the junk dealer Watto. She used it while cleaning computer memory devices in her Mos Espa home on the planet Tatooine. The magnifier was on Skywalker's workstation when she bid farewell to her son, Anakin Skywalker, as he was leaving Tatooine in 32 BBY. In 9 BBY, aeromagnifiers hung in both Dendra's Antiquities and Pyloon's Saloon in Rambler's Reach Outpost on the planet Koboh.

Description[]

An aeromagnifier was a repulsor-powered, floating magnifier that consisted of a transparent magnifier disc surrounded by yellow illuminator rings hanging from a silver dome-shaped repulsor hood. The device produced a soothing thrum when in use.^[1]

History[]

By 32 BBY, the human Shmi Skywalker, who was enslaved by the junk dealer Watto, had been given an aeromagnifier in a rare show of kindness by Watto as recognition for all her hard work. She kept the tool on the workstation in her home^[1] in Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine.^[2]

ShmiWorkstation-TPM — Shmi Skywalker used an aeromagnifier at her workstation.

Skywalker used the aeromagnifier at the workstation to work long hours cleaning computer memory devices in order to earn extra wupiupi. Although the Skywalker home was poorly lit at night, the magnifier and light from the illuminator rings meant she could continue working on the devices long after Tatooine's twin suns set and her eyes had become fatigued.^[1] Shmi's aeromagnifier was floating above the workstation when her son, Anakin Skywalker, brought a group of off-worlders home during a sandstorm^[4] in 32 BBY.^[1] It was still above the station later when Anakin bid farewell to Shmi before leaving Tatooine.^[4]

In 9 BBY,^[5] the merchant Doma Dendra had a pair of aeromagnifiers hanging from a grill above the counter in her shop, Dendra's Antiquities, in Rambler's Reach Outpost on the planet Koboh. In the same outpost, an aeromagnifier hung above a workbench in the basement of Pyloon's Saloon which was used by the Jedi Cal Kestis while he was a guest of the saloon's owner, Greez Dritus.^[3]