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In Astronomy The Ahhhh! (Awe)

Starry NightStarry Night Vincent Van Gogh

"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 1/10 th the moon

What Can We See?

The Solar System

What Can We See? Our Star ~93,000,000 miles Our Nearest Star Never Look at the Sun Without AppropriateFilters

What Can We See? Sun Sunspots Never Look at the Sun Without AppropriateFilters

What Can We See? Sun The Sun ThroughaSpecialHydrogenFilter SolarProminences

What Can We See? Sun Partial Solar Eclipse

SunSolar Eclipse Total Eclipse Sun

Venus ~50 million Miles from Earth

Venus has Phases March 26, 2004 April 23, 2004 May 4, 2004 May 18, 2004

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

M13 Great Cluster in Hercules Beehive Cluster M44

Pleiades

Double Stars Beta Cygni (Alberio)

M42 - Orion Nebula ~1500 light years

Veil Nebula ~2600 Light Years

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

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