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What, if I may ask, did you do with them all?

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I have not used them all yet. In addition to Constellation Guidebooks, like Levy's Skywatching or Ridpath's Stars and Planets, I use planispheres as handouts to the students I teach. I conduct an in-school or after school astronomy program for local schools. For the after school program, I have students, usually 8-12 sign up, for an hour a week for 6 weeks.

As part of the program each student gets a guidebook and a planisphere. These Starfinder packs have allowed me to give planispheres and two full sized wall charts for the price of less than a planisphere. For the in-school programs, where I'm teaching an entire class at once, I give the books and packs to the teacher.

I buy all my stuff cut rate. Prior to this I've been giving a book and an Edmund planisphere. The Edmunds are cheap, but you can by them in bulk lots of 25. On one trip to Border's bookstore, they had two racks of Levy's Skywatching and Burnham/Dyer's Backyard Astronomy real cheap. I cleaned out the rack. I also shop Alibris, Powell's and Amazon Used. I have certain books I watch for that I prefer. Right now I have a full cabinet, enough to supply all my upcoming classes for the fall/winter sessions. I'll think about a bulk buy of those Planisphere's though.

edz

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