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Easy Star Gazing Spring 2014 The Night Sky The oldest and greatest show on Earth

Easy Star Gazing Spring 2014 The Night Sky The oldest and greatest show on Earth And no commercials. The Earth’s Shadow Constellation Road Map The Visible Planets Get to Know Luna Meteor Showers Visible Satellites Using Binoculars Photography Astronomical Resources

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Easy Star Gazing Spring 2014 The Night Sky The oldest and greatest show on Earth

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  1. Easy Star Gazing Spring 2014 The Night Sky The oldest and greatest show on Earth And no commercials

  2. The Earth’s Shadow Constellation Road Map The Visible Planets Get to Know Luna Meteor Showers Visible Satellites Using Binoculars Photography Astronomical Resources Planisphere Demonstration

  3. Easy Star Gazing Earth’s Shadow

  4. Easy Star Gazing Earth’s Blue Sky

  5. Raleigh Scattering • O2 and N2 molecules are roughly the size of the wavelength of blue photons of light • Therefore, blue light is more strongly scattered by these molecules • The wavelength of red photons is too large to notice most molecules • Therefore, red light is less strongly scattered by these molecules

  6. Raleigh Scattering

  7. No Matter Where You Look in the Sky, You Will See Blue Light From the Sun

  8. Easy Star Gazing Earth’s Shadow

  9. Easy Star Gazing A Constellation Road Map

  10. Easy Star Gazing The Spring Planets

  11. Easy Star Gazing The Moon

  12. Moon Phase Names

  13. The Old Moon in the Arms of the Young Moon Best observed in binoculars

  14. Best Moon Phases? • Moonlight to see by? • View of moon craters and mountains? • Dark enough to see the Milky Way?

  15. Know the place like you live there

  16. Quiz Time!

  17. Quiz Time!

  18. The Man on the Moon

  19. Lunar Events

  20. Total Lunar Eclipse 11:30 PM April 14 to 4:00 AM April 15

  21. Easy Star Gazing Meteors

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