Sunset

Date Observed: March 21, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Sky Conditions: Cloudy

Object Observed: Sunset

Location:
• Altitude: 30˚
• Azimuth: 260˚

Observations: The sky was really blue all day. We were driving home from the conference and we happened to be in Mississippi when the sun was setting. The sun was peeking out from behind the clouds, and it was kind of hard to see behind the trees but the sky was turning orange/pink. It was really pretty!

** Sorry it's blurry. It's hard to take good pictures inside a moving car.

Moon 4

Date Observed: March 19, 2009 at 7:58 am

Sky Conditions: Clear, no clouds

Object Observed: Waxing Crescent Moon (Age: 23 days)

Location:
• Altitude: 60˚
• Azimuth: 100˚

Observations: Today we were walking to the conference center in New Orleans and the moon was really visible in the sky.

Moon 3

Date Observed: March 18, 2009 at 8:57 am

Sky Conditions: No clouds

Object Observed: Waxing Crescent Moon (Age: 22 days)

Location:
• Altitude: 45˚
• Azimuth: 165˚

Observations: About an hour after sunrise we decided to stop at Cracker Barrel to eat some breakfast. We were still in Mississippi at this point in time and the sky had cleared up tremendously. The moon was very visible and there were no clouds around at all.

Sunrise

Date Observed: March 18, 2009 at 7:06 am

Sky Conditions: Partly cloudy, partly foggy

Object Observed: Sunrise

Location:
• Altitude: 20˚
• Azimuth: 85˚

Observations: We were driving on highway 55 heading South to the NSTA conference in New Orleans. When the sun was rising we were in Mississippi. It was pretty cloudy out and we were driving through patches of fog. The sky was a bluish/gray and as the sun got higher it became a great shade of pinkish/orange.

**Sorry, no picture :(

Iridium Flare

Date Observed: March 16, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Weather:
• Temperature: 39.8 ˚F

Sky Conditions: It was pretty cloudy out.

Object Observed: Iridium Flare

Location:
• Altitude: 50˚
• Azimuth: 186˚

Observations: I was looking across the cloudy sky and all of a sudden I saw a white spot that I hadn’t noticed before. It started getting brighter and brighter and then it got dimmer and dimmer and then it was gone. It took me a few seconds to figure out that I was actually observing an Iridium Flore because it was just a bright spot of light for a few seconds.

Waxing Crescent Moon

Date Observed: March 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm

Weather:
• Temperature: 14.7 ˚F

Sky Conditions: It was semi cloudy, I was unable to see many stars, but the moon was very visible.

Object Observed: Waxing Crescent Moon (Age: 6 days)

Location:
• Altitude: 50˚
• Azimuth: 250˚

Observations: The moon was pretty bright tonight.

*It's a little blurry, sorry.

Venus

Date Observed: March 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm

Weather:
• Temperature: 14.7 ˚F

Sky Conditions: The sky was very clear. I could see a lot of stars.

Object Observed: Venus

Location:
• Altitude: 20˚
• Azimuth: 260˚

Observations: Venus was so bright tonight! It was all by itself in the sky, and it was by far the brightest and biggest object in the sky, besides the moon.

*Venus is pretty small in the picture, but it was much brighter in the sky.

Here is a picture of Venus up close courtesy of: http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/image/9705/venus_pvo.jpg