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🔭 Homeschool Astronomy: Little Lessons for the Whole Year

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.

— Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Homeschool teaching tips and little astronomical lessons on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and other astronomy-related topics from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊

❡ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy collection also includes our special series of monthly Great Star posts that introduce you and your students to twelve of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere night sky. 🌟

🚀 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: Follow the Webb Telescope!

6 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Homeschool scientists can have a great time this month tracking the journey of the new James Webb Space Telescope, on its way to explore the early universe.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🚀 “THE RIVER HOUSES” Will Be Landing on Mars Tomorrow!

17 February 2021 by Bob O'Hara

NASA’s Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on Mars this week, and we grabbed a seat and are going along for the ride. You and your homeschool scientists can come along too.

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🔭 🌒 SATURDAY STARS: Telescope Tips from the U.S. Naval Observatory

16 January 2021 by Bob O'Hara

If you got a new homeschool telescope for the holidays (or if you already have an old one), why not set it up this week and have a nice long look the moon, our nearest celestial neighbor.

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☄️ SATURDAY STARS: Comet NEOWISE Lights Up the Sky

11 July 2020 by Bob O'Hara

A new comet is lighting up the sky this month: Comet NEOWISE, visible now in the pre-dawn hours, and a few days from now in the early evening. Be sure to take your homeschool astronomers outside for a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🌌 SATURDAY STARS: The World at Night

25 April 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Enjoy a beautiful one-minute video of the night sky all around the world, produced for this year’s International Dark Sky Week.

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☄️ SATURDAY STARS: “When a new planet swims into his ken”

19 October 2019 by Bob O'Hara

An interstellar visitor, Comet 2I/Borisov, is passing through our solar system. It’s only the second such object ever discovered. Why not invite your young homescholars to investigate it this month.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🚀 🌎 APOLLO 11 RETURNED TO EARTH 50 Years Ago Today

24 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Getting to the moon was only the first half of the Apollo 11 mission — the astronauts also had to make it safely back to earth.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History

🚀 🎥 MOVIES & LIBRARIES: Apollo 11 at the National Archives

9 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Film footage stored at the National Archives formed the basis for a magnificent new documentary that has been released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries

🌏 🌑 🌞 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: Watch Live on 2 July 2019

29 June 2019 by Bob O'Hara

There’s a total solar eclipse coming on 2 July 2019 (Tuesday), but it will be visible only in South America. (Alas for North Americans.) But you and your homeschool astronomy students can still watch a live feed online!

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🌕 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: The Moon’s Far Side (and a Lunar Eclipse)

11 January 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Visiting the far side of the moon with the Chinese Chang’e 4 lunar lander (and Horace the River Otter).

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