 Welcome to the NASA Night Sky Network's Shadows and Silhouettes Toolkit. I'm Marnie Berenson. I'm Suzanne Gertin. We're with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. I'm Alan Gould from NASA's Kepler mission team. We're here to introduce the Toolkit Shadows and Silhouettes. It features phases, eclipses, planet transits, and NASA's Kepler mission. The Toolkit covers topics on shadows. The shadow of the Earth, phases of the moon in Venus, solar and lunar eclipses. It also covers topics on silhouettes, transits of Mercury in Venus, detecting transiting planets around distant stars, and the Kepler mission, NASA's first mission to detect transits of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars. As you wait for darkness at an astronomy event, the time just before sunset is full of opportunities to entertain and inform your visitors about moon phases and eclipses. You can even show them Earth's shadow rising right after sunset. When a planet transits the Sun, you can use the materials and activities in this Toolkit to help your visitors understand what they're seeing. They can also appreciate the significance of transits in NASA's search for habitable planets. As we demonstrate the activities, we'll let you know when to refer to the Toolkit manual on the manual and resources CD. For more options and suggestions, the manual is named ShadowsManual.pdf. Let's hear a couple of comments about the Shadows and Silhouettes Toolkit from the Night Sky Network clubs who tested the Toolkit. Westminster Astronomical Society of Kansas City says, the materials covering moon phases and solar and lunar eclipses are some of the best and easiest ways to demonstrate these events that I have ever encountered. Westminster Astronomical Society in Maryland says, with lots of hands-on activities, your guests will see firsthand why it is better to observe the moon when it is not full and how researchers discover new planets. Matthew Jean High School Astronomy Club in Oregon says, it's easy to involve more club members in outreach with the tools in this kit. The Astronomical Society of Northern New England says, this Toolkit has power points that may surprise even the experts in your club. Let's take a look at what's inside the Toolkit.