To belong to the field of astronomy must be very exciting and full of adventure. Often times I would imagine myself as a staff at NASA, perhaps a member of huge group of people that's responsible for sending manned spacecrafts into place.
Or perhaps an astro-scientist whose assignment is regularly checking out what the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing via photo in space.
Well it might be late for some of us to make career changes. The next best thing is to see if our kids are as interested as we are in astronomy. And if so, try to encourage them further and helping them build a sure and clear path into this field.
Some common-knowledge advices on encouraging kids to involve themselves in Astronomy:
Bring them to planetarium and observatories where there are regular film showing on the planets and the sun and stars. Check observatories which allow their refracting telescope or reflecting telescope instruments to public use.
Tell them great stories about astronomers such as Galileo Galilei and Wilhelm Herschel and their exploits of the heavens, discoveries and contribution to the science of astronomy.
You can further to inspire your kids than to give them a telescope. A nice inexpensive refracting telescope will do. It is a simple instrument for the kids to very much understand and learn about its parts and their function.
It would be much better if you can build with your kids a simple refracting telescope. All you need are two lenses, which are the objective lense and the eyepice lense. Also you will be needing a long plastic tube that will hold the two lenses.
Building this refracting telescope with your kids will surely build up much interest in astronomy. Moreso when the refractor is done and they would get to enjoy great moments of stargazing.
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