Re: [Utah-astronomy] member loaner scope vs school subsidy

  Roger, Your wrote: > I use a model of our solar system with the sun being a basketball and then I download a google satelite image of the neighborhood where the school is located and superimpose where the planets would be on the map.<   That has to be an excellent teaching aid. Kids have a good mental image of their local geography and your demonstration has to take the abstractness out of trying to fathom the solar system.   Good job.   Jim