#24K Xtra – AAS Reports: Solar Eclipse Affects, on Earth, Brains, Its Own Atmosphere – Sun’s A Variable but Does That Affect Climate? [PAID]

In This Issue:

Cover Photo — Like Sunglasses, Solar Polarizations
Welcome to Issue 24K Xtra!
AAS Reports –
– Interesting Eclipse Results from Citizen Scientists—Ballooning for Science
– Viewing a Polarized Sun for Hours (Cover Story)
– This is Your Brain on Eclipses
– Solar Irradiance Varies With Several Cycles, and They Don’t Cause Climate Change

Cover Photo — The Cluster That Births Clusters
Welcome to Issue 24K!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Moon Sails Over Saturn, If You Are Lucky
* Observing—Plan-et –
– Saturn and Mercury Enter the Evening Sky; Find Mercury Lined Up With Twins.
* Border Crossings – Proof Astrology and Astronomy Aren’t Twins….
Astronomy in Everyday Life – Space Balls Lives!
This Just In* AAS: Why Is There No Dust in the Sun’s Way? (Cover Story)* AAS: Runaway Dwarf in our Neighborhood

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Cover Photo — Peering Into The Dragon
Welcome to Issue 24J!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Moon Size, Path, Appearance Challenges
* Observing—Plan-et –
– What Planetary Parade?
– Jupiter and Mercury Pass in Opposite Directions—-REALLY CLOSELY
* Border Crossings – The Sun is Bullish—Not the Fortune Tellers
This Just In* Peering Into the Dragon—What’s in View at the North Ecliptic Pole, Close and Far?
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Towards Cosmic Awareness – Career and Content Astronomy Games

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Cover Photo — Spock’s World—Not Yet….
Welcome to Issue 24I!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Photo-Op at Month’s End
* Observing—Plan-et – Two Pre-dawn Worlds Only
* Border Crossings – Five Days for Taurans
This Just In* An Exoplanet with Air
* Rings!
* Hiding Spock’s World (Cover Story)
Subscription Note (and NAM announcement for European and British subscribers)

Cover Photo — Mary Had a Curious Mind
Welcome to Issue 24H!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Morning Moons Are The Best, Joining Planets
* Observing—Plan-et – Use the Moon for Mercury
* Border Crossings – A Couple Days to Be Bullish
Towards Cosmic Awareness – Re-imagining Nursery Rhymes
Astronomy in Everyday Life – Planetary Gastronomy

Cover Photo — The Great American Eclipse
Welcome to Issue 24G!
A 2 PM Twilight – Early Reporting on the Eclipse Outside and Inside the Shadow
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Waxing and Waning Gibbous Sites
* Observing—Plan-et – Mars points to Saturn, Mercury and Neptune; Evening Sky Gain’s One Planet, Loses One Planet.
* Border Crossings – Close but No (Crescent) Cigar
Towards Cosmic Awareness – T Coronae Borealis

Cover Photo — An Advance Peak at the Sun’s Corona
Welcome to Issue 24F!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Perigee gives us more phases, and a long totality if you are lucky…
* Observing—Plan-et – Planets are all sinking into twilight, but Mars and Saturn—close in brightness and separation; Solar Corona Prediction (Cover Story)
* Border Crossings – None. Zip. Nada. And we disagree….* Comet Pons-Brooks – Two evening (and one eclipse) chances to find it.
Towards Cosmic Awareness (our new public astronomy education column) – Four educational projects you can do with an eclipse; Eclipse Live Stream links.
Astronomy in Everyday Life – How Southerners Deal With Solar Eclipses….

Cover Photo — Three Objects That Affect Earth—Moon, Mars, Venus
Welcome to Issue 24E!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – A Penumbral Eclipse
* Observing—Plan-et – Mercury has its Moment; Comet in the Evening Twilight
* Border Crossings – Five Days of Fishiness
* For the Future – Solar Eclipse Information, TCA and AAS
Deeper Looks
– Mars Affects Earth’s Weather and Oceans…and That’s Not News (Cover Story)
Astronomy in Everyday Life – In honor of the Lunar Eclipse this month….

Cover Photo — Using Eclipse Viewers Outside of Eclipses
Welcome to Issue 24D!
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Morning and evening Crescents pass planets
* Observing—Plan-et – Mercury emerges into a great evening apparition
* Border Crossings – The (Nine Days) Age of Aquarius
* For the Future –
– Planetary occultations
– Comet Pons-Brooke
– March 25th Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
– Information on the Total Solar Eclipse April 8th
Astronomy in Everyday Life – What If We Use Earthly Objects for the Night Sky?
Deeper Looks
– What Can You Do With Solar Viewers After April 8th?The items below are available only to Paid Subscribers:
– Eye Spy on the Sun – An experiment on naked-eyesunspot watching (Cover Story)
– Solar Disk-o – Watching the Sun’s surface or Eclipses without a viewer or telescope
– Shadow Travels – Where will the next solar eclipses be viewed before 2045?

Cover Photo — Super and Mini-Full Moons
Welcome to Issue 24C!
Links to Solar Eclipse Articles in The Classroom Astronomer
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing – Mini-Full Moon (Cover Story)
* Observing—Plan-et – A Great Conjunction to See, but Planets Disappearing
* Border Crossings – Three Aquarian Days of Equality
Astronomy in Everyday Life – Winter Stars on Earth
The items below are available only to Paid Subscribers
– Moon Music
Astronomical Travel – Star Wounds Along the Moon’s Shadow Path