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Dan in San Diego
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Loc: Ogden, UT
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I had a neat observing session with my kids, ages 5 and 7, over the last couple of days. I set up my 10x50s on a tripod aimed at Jupiter and asked them to tell me what they saw. Then we drew pictures of Jupiter and what moons they could detect, and finally went online to see where the moons actually were \Sky & Telescope's Java Utility. Then the following night we did the same thing again, so we could see how they had moved. It was cool to be able to show the kids moons circling a planet, talk about how someone on Mars could aim binoculars at us, and perhaps give them a sense of our place in the universe. That's probably a bit of a grandiose hope, but anyway they were asking to go check it out again tonight. :-)
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RichD
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Great thing to do with kids of that age. Wish i had started that young!
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Rich
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Solar B
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Loc: By Edinburgh , Scotland
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Nice Work....will do the same with my lot soon,and as
ive got three i think that counts as "kids" 
Brian
PS I would swap one for a pair of Prominars.
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RichD
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PS I would swap one for a pair of Prominars.
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Rich
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