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The Ahhhh! (Awe) In Astronomy S t a r r y Vincent Van Gogh N i g h t "For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." ~Vincent van Gogh The Winter Sky New Moon Wonders of the Night Sky! Northern Hemisphere Wonders of the Night Sky! Southern Hemisphere Hubble Ultra Deep Field ~ 10,000 Galaxies in the diameter 1/10th the moon What Can We See? The Solar System What Can We See? Our Star ~93,000,000 miles Our Nearest Star What Can We See? Sun Sunspots What Can We See? The Sun Through a Special Hydrogen Filter Sun Sun What Can We See? Sun Sun Partial Solar Eclipse Sun Total Eclipse Sun Solar Eclipse Venus ~50 million Miles from Earth March 26, 2004 April 23, 2004 May 4, 2004 May 18, 2004 Venus has Phases Earth From our Moon Earth’s Moon 250,000 miles What Can We See? Craters, Mountains, Valleys, Canyons… Mars 60 million miles Jupiter ~400 million miles Jupiter’s Moons Saturn ~865 million miles Comet Hyakutake Leonid Meteor Shower Aurora & Planets & Pleiades Deep Space • Stars & Double Stars • Nebula • Planetary Nebula • Star Clusters • Galaxies • Black Holes • Quasars Beehive Cluster M44 M13 Great Cluster in Hercules Pleiades Double Stars Beta Cygni (Alberio) M42 - Orion Nebula ~1500 light years Veil Nebula ~2600 Light Years Large Magellanic Cloud Large Magellanic Cloud Closer View M31 - Andromeda Galaxy ~2.4 millions light-years M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy Galaxies Merging A Gaggle of Galaxies in Coma Berenices Binoculars - A Great Place To Start! Summer Milky Way Lots of Telescope Choices The End… or the Beginning! Go Outside and Take a Look