Wondering what to buy the stagazer in your life this Christmas? We’ve got out of this world gift ideas for you.
With gifts including vouchers, books, Stargazer Club WA membership, a trip to Perth Observatory, and your very own planetarium, anyone would be over the Moon with these Christmas gifts. Keep reading for some of our picks for astronomers, stargazers, skywatchers, and everyone in between.
If you know someone with a telescope, or you’re thinking of giving one for Christmas, give a cosmic boost with a gift certificate for one of our BYO Telescope Classes.
In these hands-on sessions, they’ll learn the ins and outs of their telescope, while hanging out with a fun bunch of other WA stargazers. We’ll send you a digital voucher to print that you can include with a card.
Gift certificates include everything they need to sign up for a class, including a discount code so they won’t pay a single thing.
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher was the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world.
Discover how living systems of knowledge challenge conventional ideas about the nature of science and the longevity of oral tradition. Join Hamacher in this book for a journey across space and time to reveal the wisdom of the first astronomers.
Give someone you love the gift of a night under the stars with Perth Observatory.
Perth Observatory’s gift vouchers offer a galaxy of adventures, including night tours with experienced guides, morning teas, astrophotography workshops, and heaps more. Just buy your voucher online, and Perth Observatory will email it out
Give the gift of knowing what’s up in the night sky for the year ahead with the 2026 Australasian Sky Guide.
Astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb presents monthly sky maps with details of the movement of the planets, stars and constellations. Highlights include March’s total eclipse of the Moon, April’s close approach of Mercury, Mars and Saturn, and May’s Eta Aquariid meteor shower.
For the stargazer who has everything, Lily & The Cherry Tree’s ornamental and handcrafted telescope makes an ideal Christmas gift.
The 8x scope’s hand-stitched leather and bronze-coated brass barrel lend it an antique charm of vintage sophistication. At 44cm long, the decorative spyglass is small enough to carry on walks, and you can easily keep it in your study or observatory for showing visitors.
This Christmas, turn your ceilings and walls into a planetarium with help from Australian Geographic. The Planetarium Projector‘s star map dome projects astronomically accurate star maps (for both southern and northern hemispheres) into darkened rooms.
When you’re not using the projector for star maps, you can see space-related images, including the solar system, rockets and satellites, and extragalactic phenomena, including nebulae and galaxies.
Take a fascinating journey through space and time this Christmas with the award-winning Deep-Time Astronomy wheel chart.
Packed with amazing facts about 30 stunning night-sky objects, the chart shows where they’re found, when they formed, and the best times for spotting them in the Southern Hemisphere. Flip over to the reverse side and you’ll discover the constellations where these objects appear.
This Orbits of the Planets with the Constellations art print has a nostalgic design that we’re wild about.
An adaptation from Asa Smith’s 1854 book Illustrated Astronomy, the print features ‘planets’ including Pallas, Juno, and Vesta (which you’ll remember from our Dwarf Planets blog post.)
You can frame the print and hang it as a poster, use it as gift wrap, and much more. Best of all, by purchasing it from the Western Australian Museum Online Store, you’re supporting WA Museum Boola Bardip.
Treat the astronomer in your life this Christmas with the gift of a uniquely nerdy or niche t-shirt. Big Space Fan‘s designs include nerdy jokes, puns, nods to telescopes, astronomy, and science.
A haven for those who find solace in space, Big Space Fan features topics including Hubble, JWST, SETI and more. This is a cosmic sanctuary for the truly nerdy.
Jay Chesters
Jay Chesters is a wordsmith with a little bit of a thing for the stars. As a cosmic storyteller with a love for astronomy and space that's out of this world, Jay’s always eager to share his knowledge and passions.
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