Borrow a Telescope: One Teen's Mission to Share the Stars
Off the Shelf Editorial Staff; Erik Bobilin
The Telescope Lending Library launched on a clear night in November 2021, with an outdoor viewing event attended by an enthusiastic mixture of public, library staff and members of the Amateur Astronomy Association (AAA) of New York. Absent from this experience, however, was the eleventh-grade astronomy lover whose plan to lend telescopes as freely as books—evolved over months of proposals and Zoom conferences—was finally coming to fruition. Yui H.’s passion for astronomy began with a different plan, formed at age nine while living in Singapore, after several screenings of…