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Star walk/solar walk
Planets
NASA viz, NASA tv

And I posted on the other thread science Friday and science 360

Been eyeing G, newtons laws, solar system simulation and there are some cool telescope ones too

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Thanks, I didn't know they came separately!

Great ideas! Thank you all so much.

Great thread! I second the telescope recommendation. We bought a cheap National Geographic one that turned out to be absolutely terrible, so will have to check out the one posted here.

Another thing that DS enjoys is his Redshift 7 planetarium software. You can buy a license for about $20. There might be much better software out there, but that's the only one we've tried.

I just noticed this: http://www.stellarium.org/

ETA: The Galileoscope seems to be $50 most places. I found it here for $28.95, resulting in $39 and change shipped to me on the East Coast. Buy at your own risk, of course; I've never ordered from this place before.
http://store.exploratorium.edu/browse.cfm/galileoscope/4,5237.html

Really, Really Big Questions about Space and Time is a great book that goes far beyond most kids' books about space:
http://www.amazon.com/Really-Questions-about-Space-Time/dp/0753430193

Ditto for the Basher astronomy book:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=searchalias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=basher+astronomy&x=0&y=0

My son was giddy when he found the Basher book because it covered the Kuiper belt and oort clouds. Definite nerd moment.

DS loved that Basher astronomy too (and others in the series)

I bought 2 Galileoscopes a couple of years ago for the kids, they were $20 at the time. fun but can be hard to focus. The kids have fun with them, i picked up extra tripods at Goodwill. We brought them to astronomy night at school and all the kids had fun because the other equipment was hands off, high end and people lining up to take a peak. They liked being able to use our low-tech gear

Ordered them here but WOW they did go up in price, I wouldn't pay $50 each! https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/