What’s Up! The Sky at Night
Learn about stars, planets, galaxies and comets with an experienced guide to the night sky.
Using globes, planispheres, models and planetarium software, your tour guide to the universe will help children understand what’s up at night, getting to know the constellations, and learning to recognize the bright stars, and the visible planets.  Appropriate for ages 5 and up.  Part of the “Fizz, Boom, Read” summer reading program.

Brad Vietje has been an amateur astronomer and astronomy educator for over 30 years. After a career as a Neuroscientist, Brad was a library bookseller for 14 years, and then started a solar energy company. Brad has served as President of the Springfield Telescope Makers, and the Vermont Astronomical Society. When not installing solar electric and solar hot water systems, Brad serves on the Board of the Northeast Kingdom Astronomy Foundation, and coordinates their outreach programs.