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              <div style="text-align:center"><em>See linked articles for photo credits!</em><br />&nbsp;</div><div>We love creating outreach materials for you to use - and we love seeing&nbsp;how you&#39;ve adapted&nbsp; them to better fit your own audiences and public engagement styles! We&#39;ve listed some of the great projects you have shared with us below. Do you have a fun toolkit &quot;hack&quot; or other trick that&nbsp;helps with your own outreach? Share it with us at <a href="mailto:nightskyinfo@astrosociety.org">nightksyinfo@astrosociety.org</a>. Clear skies!<br /><br /><img alt="photo of a hand holding a cap to a telescope eyepiece" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/KenD_EyepieceCups1_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:320px" /></div><strong><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=980" target="_blank">The Clean Eyepiece Hack</a></strong><br />Worried about keeping eyepieces clean during the pandemic? What about during outreach at events with a lot of eye makeup - like, say, Halloween? Ken Silva shares a simple solution to keep your eyepieces sparkling and sanity during outreach, inside!<br /><br /><strong><img alt="illustration of the solar system top-down, showing orbits around the Sun" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/ess_oppo2020_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=918" target="_blank">Toolkit Hack: Illustrate Opposition</a></strong><br />Want a quick and easy way to illustrate what opposition is for Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or other outer worlds? Jerelyn Ramirez of the Kansas Astronomical Observers created a toolkit hack using our &quot;Exploring the Solar System&quot; worksheet to do that!<br /><br /><img alt="strip of sticker showing brightly colored planets with their names labeled" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/planetstickers-all.jpg" style="height:160px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><strong><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=676" target="_blank">Planets &amp; More Observing Stickers!</a></strong><br />Treat your telescope&#39;s visitors to these stickers and celebrate viewing a featured planet!<br /><br /><strong><img alt="photo of a wooden square case opened up to reveal two tactile sheets of lunar craters1" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/3dMoonCase_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=914" target="_blank">Toolkit Hack: Frames for Tactile Moon Sheets</a></strong><br />Don Knabb created this beautiful travel case for the 3-D touchable Moon surfaces from the Apollo 11 Toolkit!&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong><img alt="photo of a child looking through a telescope mounted to a chair" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/KenDeSilva_GalileoscopeMount1_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=913" target="_blank">Galileoscope Hack: Stable Chair Mount</a></strong><br />Do you have a Galileoscope but no tripod? Create a simple mount using an item you may be using right now: a chair!<br /><br /><strong><img alt="photo of a wooden box with a light bulb stuck out of one end, casting a shadow on the other side" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/jerelynramirez_lightbox_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:427px" /><br /><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=853" target="_blank">Toolkit Hack: A Light Box for Eclipse Demonstrations</a></strong><br />Usually astronomy requires that you turn off the lights; but sometimes you need to turn them up! Jerelyn Ramirez of the Kansas Astronomical Observers created a handy light source for use when demonstrating the &quot;Yardstick Eclipse&quot; activity.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="photo of a wooden bench with rulers and lenses mounted to the top at right angles" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/news/TheoBenchLenses_320.jpg" style="height:240px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=741" target="_blank">Toolkit Hack: A Glass and Mirrors Light Bench</a></strong><br />This is a great hack of the &quot;Glass and Mirrors&quot; Toolkit. One crafty astronomer figured out how to create a sturdy light bench and a tripod-ready &quot;naked telescope&quot; demo using materials from this Toolkit. He even kept the dimensions super portable so the much-revised kit could still fit inside the original carrying case.<br /><br /><img alt="photo of three banners hung from PVC pipe frames in a sunlit field" src="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ThreeFrames-500.jpg" style="height:180px; margin:3px; width:320px" /><br /><strong><a href="https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=602" target="_blank">Adjustable Frames for NSN Banners</a></strong><br />These adjustable banner frames work well to display your club&#39;s NSN banners at events, both inside and outside. A fun DIY project for crafty outreach volunteers!<br /><br />&nbsp;
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