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Old 09-11-2007, 03:28 PM
rally
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Books

I would add in some books, skycharts, planisphere, posters

No point giving him the tools without the recipe and a bit of motivation and direction - unless your experience with the sky is already there.

Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars by Patrick Moore
It covers both hemispheres though

Plus maybe Atlas of the Southern Sky - by Massey and Quirk

and something that is astronomically pictorial . . .

He can read the books every day but he can't view everyday and he will need to learn his way around and understand what he is looking at - and give him some sense of purpose, otherwise it might just become a boring exercise of looking at more stars !

Maybe the books can come from others.

Maybe others could add some better choices here

Cheers
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