Welcome Students!
Here you will find games and information to help
you observe your nighttime sky
and learn more about light pollution.
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What does light pollution look like?
What does your nighttime sky look like?
Try this fun interactive game to see how light pollution affects the stars
you see at night. |
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Can you find Orion?
Try this quick game to see whether
you can pick out the great hunter Orion in a starry sky. |
Making a Red Light
How can you make a red light from a flashlight to observe stars at night? |
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Orion Mythology
The ancient Greeks saw the figure of the Greek myth Orion in the nighttime sky. Learn more about his story! ** |
Orion at Your Fingertips
Try this glow-in-the dark activity for finding Orion in your night sky:
English, Spanish.*
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GLOBE at Night Observation Practice
Test your knowledge of the magnitude charts with this 5 question quiz! *
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Get out and observe!
Download the Family Activity Packet.
(English,
Spanish,
Czech,
German,
Dutch,
Hungarian,
Portuguese,
Italian,
Romanian,
Greek,
Turkish,
Polish,
Japanese)*
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Report your observations!
Report your observation along with others from across the globe!
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* Adobe Acrobat Reader required
** Image courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library. |
