National Geographic Solar System Stain Glass Kit with my Granddaughter

 This is over at EadsyAstonomy but I am just doing the same post here. My 6 year old granddaugther is out of school and on Tuesday she asked me if I would do something with her since she was out of school. I asked her what she wanted to do? She told me let's go look. So since I was going out to get some items for Christmas breakfast, I took her with me. We stopped at Michael's a craft and hobby store and she took me to the area where there are kits. She todl me "Let's do space, we both like space." She saw a kit by the National Geographic that had the solar system and you created them into stain glass.

We bought that and then another item that her and her younger brother and I could build together. When we got home, we pulled out the kit and we got everything ready, and she painted each planet as we talked about each one. I told her if it clears up soon I can take a telescope out and besides the moon now we can look at Jupiter and Saturn. She got SO excited!

Here is what her stain glass solar system, hanging in our window:

I think she did a really great job on her planets! She picked the colors and wanted Venus to have green on it. It goes to show that some of the greatest outreach we do is with those we love. My granddaughter can take one of my refractors once I set it up now and at 6 1/2 get it on the moon and observe the moon. She asks me each month now to do this even when its cold. I hope that in time, she develops a love and interest in astronomy and the universe we live in! I hope you take the time to reach out as you can to help others to spark their interest, and get them interested!

Observing Report: June 26th - 27th, 2025; Wolf Creek Pass, Duchesne Ridge

 

I have posted about my observing experience up at Wolf Creek Pass/Duchense Ridge on June 26th - 27th, 2025.  I have about 8 more observing reports to share and will do that over the next week to get caught up.  Head over and read what I observed, what tips I share (one on aligning Telrad to Finderscope to Eyepiece and if using the PiFinder also) and what friendly visitor I had (see image above). Here is the LINK. 

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Also here is the LINK to the SeeStar Images I took that night which are raw and are labeled. Still needing to really site down and use my SeeStar S50 more!