Take up the challenge and help measure our night skies this August. The Globe at Night August campaign is open for submissions from 4th - 13th August.
Follow these six simple steps to find the constellation scorpius in our night skies to enter data and become one of of thousands of people worldwide who are part of this Citizen Science project.
Six Easy Star Hunting Steps
During the campaign dates, go outside more than an hour after sunset (8-10 pm local time). The Moon should not be up. Let your eyes become used to the dark for 10 minutes before your first observation.
Use a night sky app on your phone outside to find the constellation from where you are.
Go to the Globe at Night Report page to start to enter Globe at Night measurements. Make sure you are in “Nighttime version”
With a smart phone, the app will put in the date, time, location (latitude/longitude) automatically. Otherwise please type them in. For your location, type the street address closest to your observation along with the city, state or province and country.
Choose the star chart that looks most closely to what you see toward your constellation. That is, what is the faintest star you can see in the sky and find in the chart?
Chose the amount of cloud cover at the time of observation and then click on the “SUBMIT DATA” button.
This is a great activity to do with children, and if you watched Moana in the last school holidays you can point our that the tail of scorpius is Maui's hook!