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Visitors view planets, the Moon, and stars in the sky with the naked eye and binoculars or telescopes. Planning resources and tips for partnering with a local astronomical society are provided.

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Visitors view planets, the Moon, and stars in the sky with the naked eye and binoculars or telescopes. Planning resources and tips for partnering with a local astronomical society are provided.

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20-40 minutes

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Related Links	Contact your local astronomy club or other amateur astronomers. These organizations offer search tools to find a club near you: • The Astronomical League, Sky and Telescope • NASA Night Sky Network Monthly sky charts or simple sky wheels are available free from a variety of websites. • Monthly sky charts • Simple sky wheels Applets or other planetarium programs are useful planning tools: • StarDate • Stellarium A brief tour of the month’s constellations, deep-sky objects, planets, and events is available through: • Tonight’s Sky Use "Spot the Station", a NASA service, to determine whether or not the International Space Station will be visible during the observation period or not. • Spot the Station Websites: • NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System Learn about our home planet, our solar system, the universe beyond, and the spacecraft exploring them with this downloadable application • Moon Mappers (Planet Mappers, Moon Edition) Citizen science project mapping craters on the Moon Podcasts: • 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts Launched in 2009 as part of the International Year of Astronomy, this community podcast continues to produce day after day of content across the years. In 2013, they evolved to add video, and in 2015 they join the International Year of Light. Handouts: • Our Solar System lithographs (NASA educational product number LS-2013-07-003-HQ) • Monthly sky charts • Simple sky wheels • An Earth-based Tour of the Moon • Skywatcher’s Guide to the Moon Images: • Hubble Site (NASA/STScI) • NASA Solar System Exploration • Planetary PhotoJournal (NASA/JPL) • Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA/JPL-Caltech) • Astronomy Picture of the Day
Originating Source	Lunar and Planetary Institute/National Center for Interactive Learning Updated from LaConte, K., Shupla, C., Shipp, S. (March 2012) “Jump to Jupiter.” Explore! Jupiter’s Family Secrets. Educational product EG-2012-04-021-JPL. NASA Wavelength Digital Library
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