Beginner's Observing Suggestions - for familes, children, and adults

For People Who Like to Read Beginner-Level Astronomy Articles:

Friends,

I just took our old articles and the original booklet written back in
1992 when we started marketing our (now obsolete) software program
"Eyepiece", and rendered them into a web page with a little assistance
from old 'AstroApp' (my husband) to cover some of the topics he's more
interested in than I am -- like software -- and to take a couple of
snapshots of me with beginner equipment.

The web page covers information that can help individuals to start out
in astronomical observing, and has links to external articles as well
as our own, and lists of resources that we use and recommend. We are
trying to reach both youngsters and adults, a difficult task in one
article. Some sections are more complicated than others.

There will, of course, be an infinity of opinions about which book or
chart or device is one's favorite, and that we think therefore that
EVERYBODY should love as much. That is impossible, of course, but
we've tried, anyway! Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The page is just past the first couple of days of proof-reading, and
if there are any "howlers" in it that we've overlooked, I can assure
you they'll be fixed.

http://home.earthlink.net/~8-h-haggi.../beginners.htm

This page links back to our various other URLs, including the
"Eyepiece" download page, our "Full Moon Essays", and the "Horsehead
Nebula Project" website (not to mention my piano education home
page...err, I guess I mentioned it!)

Regina R.