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Frank Reed wrote:

"A three-dimensional celestial globe sufficient for the task of sight planning is relatively easy to create and good clean fun. [ ] It works for any date/time and any location on the Earth. [ ] It's easy to build and easy to use. Details on request."

My local amateur astronomy club offers occasional outreach presentations for middle and high school children and boy scout / girl scout troops. I thought that showing how this globe may be built would lead to a far better hands-on understanding of the apparent motions of the celestial sphere than just presenting a commercially available celestial globe. Stellarium is wonderful, but a do-it-yourself object has a special quality. Therefore, details about its construction (e.g., how to show the effect of the observer's latitude) would be most welcome.  Of course, full credit will be given to the originator of this specific design.

Thanks and best wishes, RafaelC