GLOBE at Night - Family Activity Packet

Family Activity Packet \| Teacher Activity Packet \| Lat/Long \| Find Orion \| Magnitude Charts
Five Easy Star-Hunting Steps: 1) Find your latitude and longitude. 2) Find Orion by going outside an hour after sunset (about 7-10pm local time). 3) Match your nighttime sky to one of our magnitude charts. 4) Report your observation. 5) Compare your observation to thousands around the world.	Participation in GLOBE at Night is open to anyone who lives or works in one of the 110 GLOBE countries.
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If you enjoyed this activity, your family may be interested in doing multiple observations by moving to a new location at least 1 km away from your original location. Don't forget to get new latitude and longitude coordinates. This can be done on the same night or on another night during the dates of the campaign. If you are interested in learning about daytime cloud and contrail identification, and cloud cover estimation, see the GLOBE Program’s Cloud Protocols. Participants in the 2008 GLOBE at Night campaign: Astronomy from the Ground Up (AfGU) Science and Nature Museums Astronomy clubs from ASP's Night Sky Network Adobe Acrobat Reader needed.