1. Wonders of the Sky

2. Wonders of the Darkening Sky (The Twilight Period)

4. Earthshine http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2006/03jan06/laveder.jpg

5. Crescent Moon, Earthshine “ Old moon in the new moon’s arms”

7. Ultimate Earthshine March 2006 Total Eclipse

9. Young Moon, Old Moon Young crescent moon in evening sky Old crescent moon in morning sky

12. Young Moon & Pleiades

14. Where’s Mercury? http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2006/25feb06/vsoske.jpg

15. Moon and Venus

16. Moon and Venus Conjunction

17. Venus Corona Venus is so bright, it can form a corona similar to the moon and sun

18. June 1991 Conjunction of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter http://www.stargazing.net/drsmith/vmj91a.jpg Planets can often be seen to form groups or conjunctions

20. Conjunction of Naked-Eye Planets

23. Satellite Visibility A: Daylight, satellite not visible B: Twilight, satellite visible C: Night, satellite within earth’s shadow and not visible

24. Satellite Tracking This view of the International Space Station was taken through a telescope equipped with a tracking computer http://www.heavenscape.com/iss.gif

26. Noctilucent Clouds http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0306/noctilucent_pp_big.gif

27. NLCs

28. NLCs in London London, June 23, 1996

29. NLCs from ISS