Celebrate the Galilean Telescope’s 400th anniversary. "Galileo Galilei (15 Feb 1564 to 8 Jan 1642)"Galileo's discoveries of craters on Earth's Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the phase changes of Venus, inspires our community of students, teachers, and schools to learn! SS4S will show a museum quality replica of Galileo's Telescope during special event clinics. Our Programs include: Galileo telescopes for Teachers, Teacher Telescope Clinics, Family Telescope Clinics and Star Parties.


Galileo Telescope Educator Kits


Free Telescopes for Teachers Inspiring Through Astronomy Space Science for Schools is pleased to offer California and Nevada teachers a classroom set of 12 Galileo telescopes to inspire students to learn science, technology, engineering and math(STEM). Teachers attend a 2 hour workshop and receive the scopes and teaching materials FREE (a $360 value). Teachers or schools need only cover shipping and administrative costs for the training. Download the Galileo Scope Program Information flyer.

Galileo's Telescope Antique ReplicaCalifornia Teacher Clinics:
Dates: March 10, El Dorado County District Office, CA
Nevada Teacher Clinics:
Dates: March 15, Carson City, NV Empire School

Made possible by a generous gift from the Ric and Jean Edelman Foundation.

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Join our Public Star Parties
SS4S will also host telescope clinics and talk about Galileo’s contributions to Science. Pre-star party clinics will be held before all scheduled observing at Sand Harbor State Park.
Arrange a Fun Family Event. Fee only $30 per family. Includes clinic, star party, one Galileo scope, and our SS4S kit! Students need to provide their own tripod. Reserve your Telescope today! Download the Galileo Scope Clinic and Star Parties flyer.

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Galileo Resources and Terrific On Line Viewing ToolsDownload
FREE comprehensive star map for each month from Sky Maps-Evening Sky Map
FREE: Download Stellarium Free Astronomy Software for your home or laptop computer. We use this same software in our portable inflatable StarLab Planetarium.

Research Galileo- All you want to know...
The Galileo Project, Comprehensive Information on Galileo, the Scientist
Galileo, Biography, Who is Galileo?

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Join our 2010 Star Parties

April 18th (pending weather)
May 16-17
June 20-21
July 24,26
August 15,22 (location TBA)
Sept 12-13
Oct 10,27
Nov 14,15
Dec 12-13 (location TBA).

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