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I have had my 3YO looking through my scope a number of times. At the time most of my eyepieces were TV Plossls so that was what he used too. Again, the moon is the obvious object and got the startled reaction of "BIG" About time now that is getting dark earlier than his bedtime again to try him out on Saturn. Previously, Jupiter gave some priceless reactions as he would look through the EP, get a glimpse, jerk backwards with a funny look on his face, look where the scope was pointed, look puzzled again and go back to the EP!
The biggest issues I had were getting him not to hold on to the scope for balance and convincing him to look through the EP and not the finder as looking at right angles to where he was seeing was obviously not very intuitive. That is one of the areas where a refractor might do the best.
If he catches fire with it I might get him a secondhand 6-8" dob so he has something easy to use of his own and I get to keep observing while he does it. He has a little tabletop dob that we bought to give him something to peer through if he wanted but I suspect that will pall quickly if her gets keen.
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