December 3rd Special Days - Featuring Telescope Freebies!

The Backyard Astronomer’s Field Guide

December 3rd is... Telescope Birthday (1622), Disabled Persons Awareness Day/International Day of Disabled Persons/International Day of Persons with Disabilities/Disability Day (1992), 3D Printing Day, International Spirit of the Game Day, National Pig Tail Day, Neon Lighting Birthday (1910), National Let's Hug Day, National Apple Pie Day, Flamenco Guitar Day, International Day of the Basque Language, National Green Bean Casserole Day, A Streetcar Named Desire Broadway Opening (1947), Make a Gift Day, International Spirit of the Game Day, National Roof Over Your Head Day, National Doctors' Day, National Peppermint Latte Day, National Phenylketonuria (PKU) Awareness Day, Advocate's Day (India), St. Francis Xavier's Day, Feast Day of Saint Birinus

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50 Things To See With A Telescope

Telescope Birthday (1622)
-- It is quite a common belief that Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invented the telescope, but this is not strictly true. The earliest workings towards the design of the refracting telescope were made by German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey in 1608. He referred to his design as a Dutch perspective glass, which he used for seeing things far away as if they were nearby. The word telescope wasn't coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei.

Read: 50 Things To See With A Telescope
-- This colorful edition explores the constellations with young readers, guiding them to dozens of galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. Every page features a helpful telescope view, showing exactly how objects appear through a small telescope or binoculars. John Read taught thousands of students how to use telescopes and explore the night sky. Now, he's sharing this knowledge with you! Even without a telescope, this introduction to the night sky is essential for every child's collection.

Portable Refractor Telescope

Celestron Portable Telescope
-- 70mm Travel Scope features high-quality, fully coated glass optics, a potent 70mm objective lens, a lightweight frame, and a custom backpack to carry it all. Powerful eyepieces for up-close viewing: equipped with two high-quality eyepieces (20mm and 10mm) providing low- and high-power views of celestial objects at night, and terrestrial objects during the day. Its quality is unmatched in its class and against competitors.

Pirate's Spyglass

Pirate's Spyglass
-- The pirate spyglass specially designed for kids, boys pirate toy to realize their captain’s dream and explore the world. The best choice for pirate theme party treasure hunting game birds watching hunting hiking etc. The portable telescope brass is classically designed with high quality aluminum-alloy plating gold while the hand-held part is covered with premium leather (the leather design is provided for protection) The monocular telescope has a 25 magnifications x30mm object diameter, using BAK4 prism lens with blue coating, helps you get a high-definition experience of bright, wide and far field vision (270ft./1000yds.)

🔭 Constellations Coloring and Activity Books

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Stargazer's Guide to the Night Sky

Amazon Freebies:

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The Space Hero Cookbook

Space Recipes:

🔭 A Kid's Guide to Making Sunspot Cookies

🔭 4 easy and tasty space recipes by home cooks - Cookpad

🔭 Space Food - Recipes | Cooks.com

🔭 Galaxy Party Popcorn - A Magical Mess

🔭 Galaxy Mirror Glazed 'Box' Cake Recipe by Tasty

🔭 How to Make Planet Cookies (with Pictures) - wikiHow

🔭 Space Bento Box | Cookstr.com

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Hubble Legacy

Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

🔭 Free Let's Go Stargazing Guide - Sky and Telescope

🔭 Webb Telescope Lego Assembly Instructions (PDF)

🔭 Free Online Puzzles | Telescope Poster Jigsaw Puzzles

🔭 The Giant Telescope, a complex coloring page, Where is Waldo? style"

🔭 Telescopes Activities, Worksheets, Printables, and Lesson Plans

🔭 NASA Selfies app - lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of gorgeous cosmic locations, like the Orion Nebula or the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

🔭 Images - Hubble Space Telescope

🔭 ESO/EAAE Journey Across the Solar System | Printables

🔭 Sky Quest Teaching Poster - National Air and Space Museum

🔭 Hands-On Activities (PDF) - MicroObservatory

🔭 Make-Your-Own Hand-held Hubble Telescope Printable

🔭 Print Layouts of the Stars | ESA/Hubble

🔭 Space and Astronomy coloring pages

🔭 Chandra Observatory Printable Activities

🔭 Herschel Space Observatory Educational Resources

🔭 Cardboard Tube Telescope

🔭 Resources - Sidewalk Astronomers

🔭 Seeing in the Dark | For Families | PBS

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See It with a Small Telescope

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