I'm just sharing a little story. My job at my school is officially called 'observatory assistant' but I do lots of things from running open houses to helping out with astro classes. The other night I had an unusual offer. The paraprof (a graduate who is employed for a year after graduation to help out) came up to me and told me that she was going to an elementary school to show a class one of the scopes and to see if we could see anything. I was very excited! We brought along the LX-200 8" and getting there we found 2 things to be true: 1-there was no place to plug in (so much for GPS aligned error-corrected tracking 
) and 2-all of our 'observers' were too short to reach the ep anyway, so we placed the base on a sturdy bench. Well this worked well enough because all the kids (most aged 5 or 6) were amazed at the view as were their parents. I found it interesting however how, while focused on Saturn, one of the children claimed that they could see Saturn and the moon at the same time! 8O Another claims that all he saw was Polaris...I'm not sure how he accomplished this though...must be a far better observer than I! 8) Anyway, I'm very glad to say that the minds of several young children were opened a little that night, and a good time was had by all! Keep looking up (and showing others!)
ER
) and 2-all of our 'observers' were too short to reach the ep anyway, so we placed the base on a sturdy bench. Well this worked well enough because all the kids (most aged 5 or 6) were amazed at the view as were their parents. I found it interesting however how, while focused on Saturn, one of the children claimed that they could see Saturn and the moon at the same time! 8O Another claims that all he saw was Polaris...I'm not sure how he accomplished this though...must be a far better observer than I! 8) Anyway, I'm very glad to say that the minds of several young children were opened a little that night, and a good time was had by all! Keep looking up (and showing others!)ER
