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Aside from the telescopic views, individuals, families, schools and astronomy clubs can all participate in Globe at Night from April 6-15, which is all about becoming aware about our views of the night sky and preserving it for future generations. Designed to both educate people about the heritage of the starry sky that is being lost to light pollution, and to gather data from citizen scientists for research, this insightful program educates people about what they're missing when looking up. READ MORE!
Two Fun Observing Challenges
In the Footsteps of the Celestial Police is our first Observing Challenge Where you use nothing more than binoculars to hunt down the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres in the night sky. Our friends at Astronomical League have provided a great guide to track Ceres from April 4 to 30 with an easy-to-use finder sky chart on our website here: https://astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2018-programs/observing/4141-in-the-footsteps-of-the-celestial-police.html With GAM having our Moon as its theme, it seems appropriate we have a special Lunar Exploration Observing Challenge for you. People have often fancied that the moon was an active world, even harboring life. Many observers, both professional and amateur,...
Fly Me To the Moon: The AWB AstroPoetry Contest is Open
Have you ever imagined the moon in color? You could write about it and enter our AstroPoetry Contest. Or maybe a constellation or stellar pattern has caught your eye...perhaps a lunar eclipse, a flurry of meteors. Poems from children, teens and adults are welcome! Enter the AstroPoetry Contest . Image Credit : NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech, 2018. "This false-color photograph is a composite of 15 images of the Moon...The false-color processing used to create this lunar image is helpful for interpreting the surface soil composition..."
ASTROPOETRY CONTEST
You could write a poem about the beauty of the moon, because Fly Me to the Moon is the GAM theme for 2018. Or maybe a constellation or stellar pattern has caught your eye...perhaps a lunar eclipse, a flurry of meteors. Join the fun and enter the AstroPoetry Contest . Poems from children, teens and adults are welcome!
REGISTER YOUR EVENT FOR THE GLOBAL STAR PARTY ON APRIL 21!
Plan your local participation for the Global Star Party as soon as possible - even before April. REGISTER EARLY Let's get plenty of people to the party! Register here if you are organizing an event.from your laptop or desktop. PLAN YOUR EVENT Get events scheduled and supported by your community's science centers, planetariums, and science museums. Some astronomy clubs hold events in multiple locations within a city. Spearhead new ways of outreach to convalescent hospitals, rest homes, military bases, busy sections of town, and libraries. Be ready to accommodate visitors to your scopes, including those in wheel chairs. Be on...
