Astronomy lectures for the blind

[jnb]

Yes - exactly as the title says.

I was giving a tour of our observatory recently and one of the people on the tour was blind. When I spoke to him he said he had some peripheral vision but otherwise was pretty much 100% blind. In the tour fortunately I had in my pocket a ball and ball bearing that I use to illustrate the comparitive size of sun and jupiter against the scale of the observatory so I had at least one tactile prop. But apart from that what could I have used?

 

[AKB]

I wonder if you can get made/find some 3D printed images of galaxies.  I'm thinking of some Braille-like effect which could give really good impressions (sorry for pun) of things like M51, etc...  I just don't know.

Another thing might be audio signals of meteorites reflection radio signals.

All depends on the information you're trying to get across.

[Pondus]

How about Noreen Grice books? Heres an article from Universe Today :

Accessible astronomy

 

Rune