Her book, Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America, takes you around the U.S. Her blog takes you around the world. Lori Hein, who's written for scores of publications including the Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer, hopes you enjoy these brief trips to far-flung places. Text & photos, all copyright Lori Hein, are available for reuse and publication for a modest fee. Contact Lori at www.LoriHein.com.
December 04, 2009
Journey through the night sky
Give your optic nerves some nighttime exercise at a college observatory near you. Most college observatories offer public viewing nights that let you scan the cosmos with high-powered telescopes and reflectors, and there's usually an eager physics student on hand to act as tour guide, pointing out sights like the Moon's seas and craters, the rings of Saturn and the jewel-like stars that arc through Orion's belt.
For college observatory and other space-viewing venues near Boston, click here to read an article I wrote for a recent issue of Boston Parents Paper.
To infinity and beyond!
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