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Hello,

I would like to bring your attention the "GLOBE at Night" program on  
which NOAO and GLOBE and a few others are collaborating. It is  
running for a second year, having reached 18,000 people in 96  
countries last year. It is a light pollution survey activity that  
invites students, teachers and families worldwide to participate  
between March 8 and 21, 2007. Visit http://www.globe.gov/ 
globeatnight/ for more information.

Please feel free to spread the word about the program. For you  
convenience an ad is provided below.  Feel free to use the following  
title for the "Subject" area: Come Join the GLOBE at Night Program  
for a Star-Hunting Party: March 8-21!

With many thanks,
Connie

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Can You See the Stars?

Join thousands of other students, families and citizen-scientists  
hunting for stars during March 8 - 21, 2007. Take part in this  
international event called GLOBE at Night to observe the nighttime  
sky and learn more about light pollution around the world.

GLOBE at Night is an easy observation and reporting activity that  
takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. Citizen-scientists  
record the brightness of the night sky by matching its appearance  
toward the constellation Orion with 1 of 7 stellar maps of different  
limiting magnitude. They then submit measurements on-line at  
www.globe.gov/globeatnight/. Resulting maps of all observations are  
created and placed back on-line by the GLOBE at Night staff within  
the couple of weeks that follow.

The five easy star-hunting steps, for which more information is  
provided on-line, are:

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 on our website.

5) Compare your observation to thousands around the world.

Helpful and user-friendly ancillary materials such as a teacher  
packet and science standards, a family packet, and student games and  
information are provided on-line at www.globe.gov/globeatnight/.

You can also subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates and  
results of this campaign. Visit www.globe.gov/globeatnight/ and click  
on “subscribe” at the bottom of the webpage.

During the 2006 event over 18,000 people from 96 countries submitted  
observations, including data from every U.S. state. Help us exceed  
these numbers in 2007!

GLOBE at Night is a collaboration between the National Optical  
Astronomy Observatory (www.noao.edu), The GLOBE Program  
(www.globe.gov), Centro de Apoyo a la Didactica de la Astronomia,  
Windows to the Universe (www.windows.ucar.edu), The International  
Dark-Sky Association (www.darksky.org) and Environmental Systems  
Research Institute, Inc.

____________________________
Connie Walker, Ph.D.
Senior Science Education Specialist
Associate Scientist
NOAO
950 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719
520-318-8535
520-318-8451 (fax)
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