PURPOSE: To illustrate some relationships between the earth, the sun, and certain heavenly bodies.

DESCRIPTION: A transparent globe designed to teach earth-space relationships at the beginning level of astronomy, the celestial globe features a 4" diameter terrestrial globe mounted with a 12" diameter star globe, plus adjustable sun model. Both globes and sun may be easily set to show the positions of the stars and planets for any time and place.

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EQUIPMENT: Transparent Celestial Globe.

SETUP TIME: None.