Friday, October 27, 2006

Stargazing With Your Kids

If you are someone who is seriously into astronomy and an avid star gazer, naturally you would also want to share this exciting out-of-this-world experience of “seeing the moon and the stars” with your family – especially the children.

I am sure you are definitely willing to share with your little tykes your astronomical telescope. Whether it is a refracting telescope or a reflecting telescope, you want them to enjoy and see for themselves the wonders and magnificence of the planets, stars, galaxies and other far away space objects.

If you are going to tag along your kids in any of your star gazing sessions, ideally the telescope that you should use is a refracting telescope. The refractor telescope is an excellent astronomical telescope for your children to use because it is excellent for observing the planets of the solar system and stars. The images that you get are very clear – the kids would definitely be exited with this, wouldn’t they?

This is aside from the fact that the refracting telescope is very easy to operate and maintain – it would not be hard to teach the kids on how to handle it. The refractor is the right instrument for our little tots to use. And just let them use the scope – it will definitely make them more interested in astronomy and star gazing.

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