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Solar filter

Rainbow Symphony

Reseda, California

Rainbow Symphony’s Black

Polymer Eclipse Shades Solar

Filters are a low-cost alternative

to glass filters. You can use them

with any optics. The material

provides a yellow-orange image

of the Sun and is stronger and

more durable than other thin-

film solar filters.

Price: $19.95

[t] 800.821.5122

[w] w w w.rainbowsymphony.com

Wall clock

Edwin Faughn

French Camp, Mississippi

Space artist Edwin Faughn’s

Asteroid Looming Above the Earth

Seconds Before Impact artwork

graces this wall clock. Two round

sizes are available with diameters

of 8 and 10.75 inches (20.3 and

27.3 centimeters), as well as a

square 10.75 inches on a side.

Price: $29.95 (8-inch);

$35.95 (others)

[e] efaughn@

rainwaterobservatory.org

[w] http://www.edwinfaughn.com

Deep-sky database

Back River Observatory

Duxbury, Massachusetts

Back River Observatory’s (BRO)

Deep Space CCD Atlases North

and South combine data and

images from 2,800 mostly

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

II plates. Individual field sizes

range from 15' to several

degrees. Visit BRO’s website for

free downloads.

Price: Free

[t] 781.336.8344

[w] http://www.deepspaceccdatlas.

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Scope kit

Galileoscope, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Galileoscope’s 2-inch Refractor

Telescope Kit allows anyone to

assemble a 2-inch scope that

provides magnifications of 25x

and 50x. The kit comes with

standards-based optics educa-

tion and observing activities

available in multiple languages.

Price: $49.95 each, or $150 for a

case of six

[t] 603.401.8249

[w] http://www.galileoscope.org

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