Hello everyone!

I'm a fellow space nerd, I work in the industry as an engineer, very proud of the work.

Anyway. For Christmas this year I "adopted a family" (Through the Susan B Anthony Project, if interested.) A mother and an 18 year old son. The mother's gifts are just normal things, but I'm looking for some opinions on the son's!

I really want to make it special, as I was once an 18 year old girl who wanted to do space science, and I want to give him the encouragement I would have wanted then.

His list:

A telescope

Astronomy books

Galaxy light projector

Now. I'm looking to get it all in some shape or form. That said I haven't been in the telescope or astronomy book game for a minute. I'm looking for suggestions.

Telescope wise I want something nice, but nothing that would require a lot of space or trouble setting up. Something good but for a novice that wouldn't be hard to bring to college (if he's going, not sure).…