 which is kind of a mouthful, but it means that the International Observe the Moon night team, some of us are here, and we are really excited to share with you some of the resources and activities and really incredible events that you can have for yourselves and hold them. I wanna introduce Andrea Jones, who is the head of the International Observe the Moon night team. Thanks, Teresa. And Kayla, are you sharing our slides today? I wonder if we're just coming through, okay? Yeah, they're looking good to me. I wonder if you can expand it so that we don't see the top line or not. I don't know about that, but we can certainly see what's on the slide. So that's great. And as we're getting started, it was so great to hear where a lot of you were calling in from and keep letting us know. It's really fun to see that. And if you want either now or any time throughout the time that we're here today, feel free to share some of your highlights, your experiences with International Observe the Moon night. Or if you're new to this program, you're so, we're so excited to have you here and share a favorite memory. That's part of the reason this program got inspired. So that can go on in the chat throughout, but maybe, Salon, Kayla, could you step to the next slide, please? Great. And as we get started, I just want to welcome everyone again. And thank you so much for coming. It's just, we really appreciate the time we're taking out of your day to be here with us. And we are so excited to be here with you as we're getting ready for the next International Observe the Moon night. It is coming right up on October 1st. And we are gonna tell you all about it. So my name is Andrea Jones and I am the public engagement lead of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. And I'm also the director of International Observe the Moon night. My pronouns are she and her. And I'm here with some amazing colleagues that you'll hear from many of us tonight, but I'd like to start off by introducing particularly Kayla and Teresa. So Kayla, do you want to say hello? Sure, hi everyone. I'm Kayla Berry. I'm based here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the Solar System Exploration Division. And I am so excited to hang out with you all tonight. I'll keep it short and sweet and pass it over to Teresa. Thanks for being here, everyone. It helps if I unmute. Yes, we're all really excited to have you here tonight with us and share International Observe the Moon night. Resources. And I am Teresa Summer with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. My pronouns are she, her, and hers. And I'm calling from San Francisco, which is located on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Ramatouche Loni peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. And I am gonna turn it back to Andrea. Thanks so much. Excellent, thanks Teresa. So we are part of the International Observe the Moon night coordinating committee that includes many people with many talents from many backgrounds and different institutions. So you have a list of our names here and we lead International Observe the Moon night with support from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission and the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with many supporters around the world with all kinds of support that they bring to this program that we really appreciate and enjoy. And you'll also hear from two more of our members tonight, Salon Buxner and Vivian White, who are part of our team, are going to be talking with you tonight or today wherever you are. And we have two guest International Observe the Moon night event hosts, Geraldine Ramirez and Tom Estel will talk with you as well. So really looking forward to a great program ahead. So what's in store? We are going to introduce you to International Observe the Moon night if you're not familiar with the program. We're going to describe for you how you can get involved. We're going to walk you through some of our program resources and associated resources that are all available to you at no cost that you're welcome to make use of. And you'll hear from again our experienced hosts who are gonna share some of their experiences and some of their tips for hosting events that you might be able to use. We're also going to answer your questions about International Observe the Moon night. So you can put questions in the chat box anytime we're going to monitor them throughout the program and we'll answer as many as we can along the way. We'll also have some Q&A time specifically. But those of you who are experienced International Observe the Moon night event hosts we welcome you to reply and share your own experiences your own resources, your own tips because we really love to learn from you too. And I think a lot of us can learn from each other while we're here. So that's what's in store and let's dive in here. So can you go to the next slide, please? All right, as we're getting started, let's find out have you ever participated in International Observe the Moon night? So there's a poll, please take a look at that. And if you're on YouTube, just let us know have you hosted an event? Yes, yes, I've attended an event. Yes, I've observed with family and friends. Yes, I've observed on my own or not yet, but hopefully you will soon. So let's see, let's fill out those polls. And I'll give it probably another five seconds or so. Two, one, if you didn't find the poll, that's okay. You'll get to see in a minute what everyone's. Okay, so we have a mix and this is really fantastic and this will be really helpful to us as we're continuing to talk here because it sounds like a lot of you are new to this program which is amazing and some of you are experienced and you can help us share some information in the chat if you're interested in doing so. So can you step ahead to the next slide? Great, so especially for those of you who are new to the program, International Observe the Moon night is a day each year that we invite everyone on earth to observe the moon, to learn about the moon, to honor cultural and personal connections that we all have with the moon. And it's a day to catch up on what's been going on with lunar science and exploration. There's a lot going on right now and a day to celebrate the moon in our arts and culture and to connect with lunar enthusiasts around the world. So people like you who are interested in the moon, this is a day we can all come together. So you can participate in International Observe the Moon by hosting an event, by participating in an event or by observing with your family and friends or on your own. So there's in-person events, virtual events, public events, private events. We're gonna talk about some of those options coming up and everyone can also share their experience and see what else is going on in the world on social media using our hashtag Observe the Moon. So next slide please. Okay, so here's kind of a wordy one. I'm sorry about that. But I did think it might be helpful for those of you who are new to see a little bit of what we're all about. So our program goals for International Observe the Moon are to unite people across the globe in a celebration of lunar observation, science and exploration. That's our top goal. We also provide information, a platform and resources in order to raise awareness of NASA's lunar science and exploration programs and power people to learn more about the moon and space science and exploration using the moon as an accessible entry point. So we start with the moon and then keep going. We facilitate sharing of moon inspired stories, images, artwork and more and we'd love for you to get involved in that. Inspire continued observation of the moon, this guy and the world around us. So start with the moon and keep going. And we also want to support all people who are interested in learning more about and connecting to the moon. So these are on our website in case you're interested and would like to see them again. Next please. Okay, so I want to go through a few more things and we're going to get into some program details. So I won't try to take too much more time but I do want to let you know that this event falls on a Saturday each year in September or October when the moon is around first quarter which is a great phase for evening observing. So it's not a full moon which is wonderful to look at every phase is good to look at but that line between day and night is a really, really great one to look at through especially a pair of binoculars or a telescope because you can really see that rugged lunar terrain pop out. And so we pick this phase so you can see those kinds of features and also because this phase is highest in the sky in the evening, which is often a great time for people to look at the moon. And also you might see in this one you can actually see Saturn up in the fuzzy spot on the top right. And that I think is a nice demonstration of how you start with the moon and you keep going. Next slide please. All right, something important about our program is that we want to make it accessible. We want to make it as easy as possible to participate. So the moon is great for this. You can see it even in light polluted skies around the world but we also make our program model flexible and you'll hear more about this but we have an official date but we recognize that the state is not great for everyone so we have a window. You also, we also don't tell you what your international observable night should look like. This is something we provide the structure and the resources for but we want you to take this event and make it your own using your resources, your interests, what's available to you and also tailor it specifically to your audience. Something for those of you who have programming already like if you're in a park or if you're an amateur astronomy group and you have an event, you can take any event that's going on around this time and feature the moon prominently and then make use of our resources if they're helpful to you and that can be a way of participating in international observable night. You'll also hear more about how we like to make our program flexible and accessible by interpreting the word observe broadly. So it doesn't just have to be looking at the moon there's a lot of ways to observe and we will definitely talk more about that. So next slide. So last year we had our highest registration ever with almost 4,000 registered events and observers around the world in all 50 US States in over 100 countries and on all seven continents. So almost 500,000 people participated around the world which was really, really fun. And you can be one of those points on the map and you can be a part of this too. Next slide please. And the last thing I wanted to highlight as an overview here of the program is that science is very important to us as folks from NASA. And this webinar is not covering as much science as we typically do in a host webinar but the science is coming. So we have a big science update plan for you on NASA TV that's going to air on October 1 on the event date and you can watch it on your own or you can incorporate it into an event. Then we also have lots of different lunar science updates happening, moon.nasa.gov is covering a lot of this NASA moon on social media as well. You can subscribe to our newsletter and we send updates throughout the year letting you know what's going on. And then if you're interested in the lunar reconnaissance orbiter particularly I put the website in there, nasa.gov slash LRO. And then you might have heard that there's a great big launch coming up early next week hopefully. And if you'd like to follow along with that there's all over social media but a great website for this is nasa.gov slash Artemis 1 for the first mission taking people or getting ready to take people back to the moon. So next slide please. All right, we're going to move deeper into the webinar now but as we do we want to learn a little bit more about you. So who are you planning to observe the moon with on October 1? Who might you be planning an event for? Is it going to be something pretty small family friends or is it going to be something in your community or something very large? Who are you going to be observing with and maybe at what kind of institution? And with that I will turn it over to our next speaker and Kayla is going to walk us through the next steps. Thank you for the unmute assist wonderful. So I am going to take us out of our slideshow in just a moment here but I want to call out a few of these responses. We've had a lot of exciting things coming up in the chat. People are observing with public as part of regular outreach program at the local park with your mom with local astronomy group school community, Challenger Learning Center open to the public, 100 people live and 100 people streaming. Awesome, there are tons of these. Thank you for sharing what is going on with you. So no matter who you are planning to observe the moon with we do our best to be set up with the infrastructure and support that you need to interact with your community in a successful way. So I'm going to take you right over here to our international observe the moon night website moon.nasa.gov slash observe. And does everybody see in that? Okay. Fantastic. Thank you. So you can at the very top right of our website find a big red button labeled register and that is going to open up for you. A few pathways to participation. Now I know a lot of folks are here because perhaps you're thinking about hosting a public event which is really, really exciting. And so you'll see this register button lands you right on the public event registration form. We also are very excited that we can support private and household events. So if you're not up for doing something that's big and open to everyone, you are definitely still invited and we hope that you'll join us. And even if you are observing on your own you can officially be a part of international observe the moon night by registering as an individual observer. Now, once you're registered you might be wondering how do I get this off the ground? What do I do next? We've got all kinds of resources for you and I wanna start with our how to host pages. Right now we're just gonna take a few minutes. I'm gonna point out a few highlights but my goal from this website walkthrough is that hopefully if you weren't familiar with our resources before you come away with a sense of the kinds of things we have available and how to get to those things. So we'll just take a quick peek through a few pages. If you're considering hosting an event we wanna make sure that you don't have to reinvent the wheel that you have the tools to get started. As Andrea mentioned this is an incredibly flexible program. It comes to life in a different way on the ground at each place or people celebrate. But we have some foundational resources to help you get started. So we have a how to host guide, the basics. You'll find tons of materials including social media, shareables, a press release template, lots of links to science content. You are here. Thanks for joining us. Awesome. And we provide thanks to Sam Lynn Buxner who's here with us and the rest of the evaluation team hosts and observer surveys. And those of you who have participated in this program over the years have seen it change a lot. And that's partly in direct response to the feedback that you are community provides. So we hope that you will take advantage of these surveys. We really value that input. If you're hosting an event, there's a survey for you. If you're an individual observer or you are attending an event there's a survey for you too. All right, let's come on back up here. We have a sample event. We're not gonna go into that right now. A lot of folks let us know that they are looking for ways to connect with other organizations and with other curious people and moon enthusiasts. And one way to do that is by visiting this find a partner page. So I encourage you to check that out if you're interested. All right. So when I come up to this participate menu we have tons of options pop up and that's definitely intentional. I wanna highlight our searchable event database when you register your public event. This is where people will be able to find it. And we had a really good question in the chat about the timing of the event. Andrea mentioned we have a time window when events can be registered because not everyone in the world is free on October 1st, we get it. So you can register your event scheduled up to one week before or after the official program date. It will show up in our database. We are not right now set up with versions of our shareable resources that have all different dates. All of our official resources will highlight the program date October 1st. But you are welcome and encouraged to schedule as your needs and constraints dictate in our system here. If you're looking for ideas about ways to observe the moon with all different senses whether you're with a group or on your own I encourage you to check out Observe at Home. 10 Ways to Observe the Moon. We do release a newsletter several times a year that will just keep you up to date on what's new in our program resources, what's new in lunar science. We share some big events that way too. You can recognize your participants involvement in International Drive the Moon Night if you are an event host with a fillable participation certificate. And if you're observing on your own this is here for you as well. And I wanna be sure everyone is aware of the live streams that we have coming up this year. So Andrea noted that we are taking a little more time for event nuts and bolts in this webinar. We're not trying to squeeze in all the science content too but I hope that you will check out our International Observe the Moon Night live broadcast which will be up on October 1st. That'll have all kinds of fun brand new science and if it's something you're interested in incorporating into your event hopefully it will be easy to do that. We'll also have live streams of the moon from around the world. If it's cloudy, don't worry there are tons of ways to observe the moon including through someone else's telescope. And I wanna make sure we move on to some night sky network resources. So I'll just take a quick peek at some of the resources we have here. Our moon map for this year will be out soon. That's a map designed specifically for the moon as it will appear to us here on earth right around the time of International Observe the Moon Night 2022. We have some curated activities set up for you and all kinds of other stuff too. So if you're curious about this I hope you will dive in and check it out and use the feedback form on the website to contact us if you have questions. So we've curated a few activities here and we've also linked to all kinds of great collections where there's lots to dig into more deeply. If you're an educator and you're looking for standards aligned activities that you can do during the day you'll find things that you're looking for here. If you're looking for more to do at home you'll find it here. And with that I would love to turn it over to Theresa and Viv for even more things you can do for International Observe the Moon Night. Oh, and I'll skip through these. These slides are a backup to what you just saw. We have a few questions coming in if we wanna pause and look at them. One person was asking if International Observe the Moon Night has any Discord resources that they've moved away from Facebook and using Discord now. That is a good question. We are not currently set up on Discord. To my knowledge, Andrea, correct me if I'm wrong. But I might not be able to ask about that, yeah. Yeah, but I'm seeing a few I'm trying to frantically answer some in the chat but I really appreciate the things that you tell us because this helps us decide what we're going to put our efforts into over the next year. So if Discord is an important thing to look into we can definitely do that. And maybe if we're pausing for questions I'll also mention that someone had a question about the registration certificate and the date in which you can do that. So our certificate of participation right now has the October one date. Although this is making me think maybe we should make that part of the certificate editable as well or just pull the October one and say 2022. So that's a great suggestion and we should have thought of that ourselves and I really appreciate someone bringing that up. But with regards to registration that is where you do have a particular window. So you can register if you have a public event you can register for any date within the registration window which is something like the Wednesday a little before and it's about a two week window. I forget the exact dates off hand we can look that up but you'll see it when you go to the website but then if it's a public event you can find that depending on the event date. So registration event date very much modifiable. Certificate maybe this is something we should do or remove the need to edit it. So thank you. See we're making changes right there. Thanks Andrea for being so flexible. All right, so I'm going to, I'm Vivian White and I work at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Hi everyone. I know many of the people on the call and I'm so glad to see so many new names. So many of you are joining from the Night Sky Network but many of you are also new names but maybe are possibly not. I know this went out a little bit broader than our regular crew. So I wanted to tell you a little bit quickly about the Night Sky Network is a group of more than 400 astronomy clubs across the US and we have a lot of resources. A few of them I want to share with you specifically about the moon and you don't have to write anything down yet. I will, the URL will be on there in quite a few places. So the first one is just a lunar map that you can use at any time. It's great for the International Observe of the Moon night but it's also great for looking at all the different things that you might see on the moon any night of that you can see the moon. If you want to go to the next slide. This is one in particular, there was somebody asking about doing an event a week earlier or something like that. So this is a set of lunar phase cards. When we created them, they are a little fancier but these you can print out yourself and fold in half. So each of these will have a lunar phase on it starting with day three all the way through day 11. And it'll show what you can see on each of those days. And then the backside of each of them will tell you about some of the different features on the moon. So this one, for example, is the Terminator. Some of them will show you about the mountains or gosh, a million different features, the color of the moon, things like that. So there's a QR code that I'm gonna put on the next few slides. It's the same QR code on all of them. It just goes to bit.ly slash NSN moon. And this will get you to all of these resources. So if you go to either that, if you put your camera phone on that bit.ly on the QR code or type in that bit.ly to your computer, you should be able to find all of these resources. If you want to go to the next slide. What else did we have on here? Oh, these are some really fun ones. So International Observer of the Moon Night has great activities on them. And I encourage you to check out their site. This is one that you can use for the International Observer of the Moon Night or anytime you are observing the moon. Or even if you get clouded out, this is a great one. So this is a set of mythology cards about moon stories from around the world. And so it'll tell what different cultures have seen in the moon over time and around the world. And then if you go to the next slide, your audience can then draw what they see in the moon. There's a printable piece of paper and then tell the story. This one's a really cool one about a painter who painted the farmer's fence and had a seesaw battle. And then of course the painter accidentally brought the paint with him and it spilled onto the moon. And that's why we see phases or things like that. So especially kids, but grownups as well will get really creative. The International Observer of the Moon Night is a really wonderful time to have people talk about their family stories of the moon. Most families have a story of the moon. So it's really fun to bring some of those into your events. I really encourage you to get a little bit personal with people about what the moon means to them because a lot of people either remember having it follow them home at night or made up stories when they were younger. Often is a great way to get intergenerational conversation happening. All right, next slide. What else is there anything else on here? Oh yeah, this is a really fun one as well. So one of the questions we as amateur astronomers get a lot is can you see the flag on the moon when you're looking through the telescope? And this gives you a little bit of information about the difference between magnitude versus resolution. So how much you can see and how big it is are two different things. When it comes to telescopes. So this talks a little bit about what you can see through different telescopes and I'll let you read it. I don't want to give anything away but the last picture there is a picture of an astronaut on the moon looking back at Earth and what that astronaut saw on the moon. So that is pretty exciting. And I think that that's it for the activities. We have quite a few more but those are some easy to use ones that you can just print off a couple of copies and use those especially if it's cloudy out or before it gets dark because you can see the moon on international observe the moon night during the day as well. So there are quite a few cool moon activities to use for that time. If you go to the next slide, I think this is just a repeat of all those things. So go to even the next one and I'll get to questions or feel free to throw them in the chat. Let me know if I wanted to show you for those of you who are just joining the Night Sky Network I said was a group of 400 astronomy clubs around the country. And if you have any interest in learning more about telescopes or the moon, maybe the next couple of slides we can just go through quickly because I wanted to go to the one after that. There we go. Oh, one more back is where I was headed. Oh, that's the one. Thank you, Teresa, for adding these notes. If you just go to nightskynetwork.org you can put your current location in that middle red arrow there and it will find all of the clubs and events in your area if you're not already connected to them. So you can also click the button up at the top there that says clubs and events and that should do it automatically. You just put your zip code in and it will find what's happening with amateur astronomers near you. So I encourage you all if you're interested in the night sky and observing the moon to check out your local Amateur Astronomy Club. They are all over the world and some of the coolest people I've ever met. I think that's all I've got. All right, thanks, Viv. I know that we have a lot of folks that are not amateur astronomers who are also sharing and joining with us. So it's a great way to connect with the amateurs if you're say a library that wants to have an amateur astronomer come and share a telescope. So I definitely encourage you to put in your zip code there and find the club nearest you and maybe you'll even become a new club member. There also is a message in the chat, a question that came up. Why would we have International Observe the Moon Night on a new moon night? And it's actually on the first quarter moon. So it is not in a new moon phase we wouldn't be able to see it. So thank you for your question, Greg. So now you guys have heard about some of the resources, some of the activities, how to register, how to find an amateur astronomer. So let's talk about the events. So some places that already have public telescope viewing nights, maybe once a month or every Friday you have telescopes out on your deck. This is a really great way to have an International Observe the Moon Night event without changing much of your plans. You can have some already planned activities for looking at the moon and then bring that into your event that you normally have. For example, museums, schools, libraries, they all often have family fun nights where you can share some lunar resources and on those nights you can, that can be your International Observe the Moon Night event. There's all kinds of events you can have. Now, one of the things that, next slide please, that I really love is this picture of the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club. They did an International Observe the Moon Night event and this event had people walking on the moon. So if you look down on the ground you can see that they projected a picture of the moon and even with those bright carnival lights you can still see a lot of the features on the moon. And so all of the participants were able to turn into astronauts and walk on the moon that night. So there's lots of really fun ways that you can have an event. Next slide please. So as we've all been saying this is a very flexible program. There's lots of ways that you can have an event. So we're going to have some short presentations from hosts who have successfully had an event and they're going to share what worked and what tips they have with you. And so I'm going to just introduce them now if we can, I'm going to remove the spotlight on me and if we can have our hosts featured. Geraldine Ramirez is an amateur astronomer who has had many events for International Observe the Moon Night. And so Gerald, say hi. Hello there. Thank you for the introduction. Yeah, I've done several International Observe the Moon Night presentations with libraries and just activities with just family even at a local park and different things like that. I usually get a lot of participation from other club members that help out and we always make a really good have fun with it. While we were at the park, it was during the same evening that the park was also had a program about people who came there in their costume because it was so close to Halloween and they came in there with their costumes and there was a whole family of the in character of the, let's see what cartoon was that, the Incredibles. And it was so fun to see that that they all just marched through there and then they come through and look at that through the telescopes. This event was from another club member who participated and he had some scouts that gave him a hand with it and it was a pretty successful night. And go ahead and go to the next slide. So he had the moon banner up. So he's talking about the different phases of the moon and they even actually captured the moon up there just below the building there, the roof of the easement of the building. And so he really had a good time with that. Oh, and what thing I did, it was a cloudy night and it just so happens three nights prior to that, I was playing with my video camera with my telescope and I took images of the moon using my video camera. So I had some live feed and then on the night that I scheduled an international observe the moon night, it turned out cloudy where you could hardly see the moon and Jupiter and other things that were available. So there was just high thin clouds. And so I plan B, I used the videos to share with my guests or my family members. And we talked about the moon, we talked about the astronauts, we talked about the Apollo missions. The family really enjoys trivia. So we did a lot of trivia that night. So we really explored a lot of that and had fun with that. So thank you. Thanks, Geraldine, it was great to hear from you and I know you have done a lot of events. I'm not sure if the people on YouTube can see the chat. So I just wanna mention that that moon banner that is in the background, you can print that out from the Nice Guy Network page or you can order one if you do events. That's kind of how Nice Guy Network works. We send out kits and astronomy for people who are gonna be having events for people. And I love that little moon up in the corner. That's really great. Thank you. If we could go back to the introduction slide, I just wanna introduce our other two hosts that are gonna be sharing with us. Thank you. So Sandlin Buxner, you might have already heard her name mentioned, she is part of the International Observatory Moon Night Team and she is a scientist that works with the Lunar Planetary Institute down in Arizona, Houston. She can correct me. And then Thomas Still, who is a solar system ambassador, if you wanna give a wave, he'll be talking about events after Sandlin's done. Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me okay? We have a terrible storm here. Oh, I can hear you kind of a little bit fuzzy, but I can hear you okay. Okay, you just cut me off if you can't hear me and I'll go a little bit later. We've had a lot of lightning here. I'm gonna look at Kayla's face. Can you hear me okay? Perfect, okay. My name is Sandlin Buxner and I am so thrilled to be a member of the Coordinating Committee and I love it so much that every year I come and host and so I just wanted to talk. We work with lots of local organizations, including our local Small Science Museum, our Children's Museum and our libraries. And so I'll have you go. One of the things that we've had a lot of luck with is working with our local libraries and getting to do something where they have a little display in the library and they really help us pick out books that they have to help us think about it with a little flyer. And so I, of course, do my best to look at what everyone else has done. And I found this lovely resource from the Durham County Library of Thinking About Steam Observe the Moonlight Booklist. And so that's one thing we've done successfully to kind of get things excited while we're waiting for our event. Next slide, please. Oh my goodness, my slides didn't show up, that's okay. So what we've been really doing is connecting with local resources and so we're doing lots of hands-on events. And so when we do that, we do UV beads, we do coloring sheets, just anything that's related to basically hands-on activities that can be really tied back in and talking about the moon and our excitement about the moon. And so we've been able, again, to leverage that. We leverage things like second Saturdays when it's downtown working with our children's museums and our libraries. And so I've been doing this for about 10 years and so I've been able to go to different organizations and work with them in whatever they have. So if they have Dark Side of the Moon Laser Show, we highlight what they're doing. And yeah, I'll get the link in for the book list in there for you. So that's been what ours has been, is all kind of with smaller museums and libraries and just going into having a conversation. And then of course the most important, and you'll hear from Tom next, is finding somebody who has a telescope and that's obviously really important. And so we often go to our local university astronomy club and they're undergraduates who will bring a telescope. And the other is calling our local astronomy club. Kind of, so here we have the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association and they are fantastic and will come out with telescopes. And so those are kind of the things that have made us very successful. It's just finding as many local resources as we can to then run our events. Thanks so much, Taylor. I know that I saw that you had some links to local resources that you just put in. So I wanted to see if we could refresh the slides so that you can have those to discuss because I think you have a lot of wonderful resources that we can share. Yeah, great. Thank you, Kayla. Welcome to the behind-the-scenes tour of the International Shave Moon Night host webinar. Here we go. If you haven't seen Google Slides before, you've seen them now. Oh, perfect. Yeah, and so, lovely. And so these are just two events where again, we just had these tiny tabletop telescopes that we were able to have. On the right is my husband. So he loves to have telescopes. So we busted out a telescope and got the club. And so just again, using the resources we have at our disposal, really. Sometimes you have a neighbor who has a telescope and so that really helps. On the next slide, and this is the last part I was talking about linking to events. Tucson has big football games on the weekends. And so we have sometimes just taken telescopes and events and cards and just waited while people were in line for the football game or leaving. And so we were able to say, wow, it's amazing. Look up at the moon. I get laser shows, second Saturdays. Are really anything that we can kind of think about. So each year I go, what's going on on this day? And in fact, this year, it's going to be the division for planetary sciences meeting that I'll be getting to help out with. Yeah, so excited about that. So getting to help my scientist colleagues, but I always like to look. And we have often done, just Geraldine, Halloween is always so fantastic when it comes. So really just kind of thinking about the fun things happening in your community and how you can get people excited about the sky. Awesome, thanks so much. And I just wanted to also mention that something that popped into my head as you were talking is that we are gonna have, if you are a night sky network member, you can register your event right now until the end of the month. And we will send you some observing the moon swag so that you can share with your participants or enjoy for yourself. And so just register your event before the end of August. So just a few more days that you can do that. I'm gonna add in there that you need to register your event with the word moon in the title. And it needs to be within a week of International Observe the Moon Night. And that'll just place a few more constraints. But once you get those two in there, you should make sure your address is up to date. And that's in our system as well. So we'll get those off to you early September. So we are gonna do that for people who register before the end of the month and has the event planned for during the International Observe the Moon Night window. Yep, and this is just for night sky network clubs. Anyone else who's listening in, go ahead and register on the International Observe the Moon Night site. Thanks. Thanks for that clarification. Okay, so next slide. We're going to actually spotlight Tom who is going to be talking with us about some of the events that he's run for International Observe the Moon Night. Hi everybody. This is Tom Estow in Vermont. And I've been hosting the International Observe the Moon Night for years now. And every time I've done it, I've had a very positive experience. It's been a lot of fun. And the people that I've done the event for have all been so appreciative of me leading this event. But anyway, it's just wonderful in many ways. I'll tell you about some of them in just a few minutes here. First of all, as far as getting the word out about the event, I always have something in newspaper about a week before. And also on their local radio stations, telling them where the event's going to be held, what time it's going to be held. And I always tell the radio people, make sure you say weather permitting. Because here in Vermont in October is a, it's always a hit and miss. And honestly, most of the time the Moon Observing never occurs on the night that I'm hoping for. It's always a few days before, few days after, so. But that's how I publicize the event. Newspaper in the radio. As far as where I do it, you know what? I've done the event downtown in my city. And I've also done it at the school. And I have found that the school works a lot there for a number of reasons. One, there's a lot of parking. There's no problem with people parking. Two, there's bathrooms that are made available for the people. And with the children, you'll see that this is something that, well, it's important. Kids tend to want to use the bathroom. So I have access to a bathroom. You know, the lights of the downtown area, they really don't make a big difference as far as observing the Moon. So, you know, I have done it downtown, but it's, I'll tell you, the school works a lot better. Also, I like to do it at school because I have access to telescopes. I know the science teacher, and I can go in and talk to the science teacher and ask to borrow the telescope. So I have numerous telescopes to use. And I have to tell you folks, doing the International Observers of the Moon Night with a telescope makes all the difference in the world. This October first, now people can be able to see the Moon, but Saturn's going to be out. And I'll tell you, I've done hundreds and hundreds of star parties with people. And when a child looks at the rings of Saturn for the very first time in their lives, I'm telling you folks, it changes their lives in the most wonderful way. So you really want to have that telescope. And for them, when they see the craters of the Moon, especially at that first quarter, as Andrew was talking about, it's a perfect time to look at the Moon. Oh man, you just get ooze and aweze. And so, telescope's important. But again, go to the Night Sky Network and look up some of the local astronomy clubs because they're always, they always are willing to help out on some type of event like this. So I start my event by passing out 50, I always bring with me 53 by five cards and 50 little pencils. I'm sure you asked them why, Tom? Well, because I start out my event like this. I pass out the cards to everybody and then I say, okay, you have 30 minutes to come up with as many songs that you can think about that contain the word Moon and you'll get a prize, whoever has come up with the most songs and the prize is a Moon books of some type of Moon book that I purchased at the local bookstore. So anyways, 30 minutes, I mean, if they have to stick around for 30 minutes, they just can't look through the telescope and leave. They have to not only look through the telescope but to see other things in the Night Sky that they're going to be laying, that the planets that are out, but also satellites, everybody always. And every time I've done the event and I'm sure those of you out there that have done it know what I'm talking about here. There's always numerous satellites flying overhead and everybody wants to know, what's that? What's that satellite? Well, I always have my computer at the event and it's hooked up to the Heavens Above website called Heavens Above and that tells you what satellites are flying over your location throughout the whole day. So have that site available for you. Of the Moon map is critical because people are going to be asking, where did they, or can we see where they landed? Where Apollo 11 landed on the Moon? Everybody always wants to know where the first Moon landing occurred. So that Moon map will be able to point that out and also, you know, Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 15, I know those three for sure are always visible, but that's also neat to point out some of the features that they can see. What exactly is the left eye of the man on the Moon? You can tell them about Maori, Tranquillicus and all these other features. So Moon map is really important. Also, if you're not sure what's going to be up in the sky that night, JPL has a wonderful site. It's called What's Up from JPL. Please go to that. It only is going to tell you about the things that are easily visible. So not the obscure, those deep field nebulas and galaxies and things, only things that people are going to be very, won't have any hard time seeing. So What's Up at the JPL is something I use all the time. Bring some chairs. These little kids, your telescope, to look through the telescope or an adult versus a little kid, it can be, that can be difficult because you don't want to be moving the telescope back and forth. So bring a chair so a child can stand up on the chair and look through the telescope. Let's see, I'm trying to think of what else. Oh, yes, at the very end, I always give them, I print their certificates ahead of time, sign them, and then I sign my name to them if they want, because sometimes they like to have my name or I put their names right on the certificate so that they can get the certificates as they're leaving. And also like to pass out giveaways. Being a solar system ambassador, I have access to NASA stickers and other types of stickers that have passed out. I always like that. I always like everybody to leave with something. I think that's about it, but it's always a very positive experience and it's just a lot of fun. And this year with the kid, with the people gonna be able to see Saturn while it's gonna be really special. So thanks for having me and thank you Andrea for all your assistance over the years. Thanks, Tom, that was wonderful to share. And the chat was going like mad while you were speaking. I wanna mention the weather permitting, which is a great thing to put on your event flyer or event website. However, some people do it regardless of the weather, they do it in site and do different activities. So there's a few of those that are in the chat. And if you would like, I could put them on the YouTube site tomorrow so a lot of people were also talking about using step stools for people who are looking at things in the telescope. As people are getting older, their balance might be getting off. So it's not just for little kids, it's for everybody who would like to have a little more stability as they're leaning forward into the telescope. So that's a really great piece of information that you gave there. And then one thing I wanna share that's just an anecdote. I had a Girl Scout Star Party that we had a bunch of telescopes out, but the International Space Station did a flyover and it was so beautiful and everyone was so excited about seeing that. So also check out when the ISS is gonna be over the sky. Thanks so much for your sharing. Kaylee, you wanna share the last couple of slides before it's the end of the evening? I think Andrea, are you wrapping us up? Sure, I'll show just a few images and describe a few images to wrap up our online resources here. So absolutely, it's great to get outside when the weather is good and the viewing is clear. And there are so many other ways that people choose to engage with the moon and you can browse lots of those on our community Flickr Galleries each year. People from all over the world who are participating in International Observe the Moon Night share images about how they observe the moon. And I've included just a few of these here. The second one from the left shows a high resolution image exploring the moon surface virtually is a great way to keep things rolling even if the weather's not great or what have you. Of course, also I hope if your goal is to get out and observe the moon directly with your eyes that you get to do that one whenever the time is right. We've got an image of people touching a 3D printed model of the moon surface, some lunar themed art here, and just lots of folks around the world shown us what their experience is like. So if you would like to do this, we invite you to check out the 2022 International Observe the Moon Night Flickr Group and you'll see there's a description here that says if you would like to share things here, we might feature you in our media and our presentations on our website. So be sure to check that out. Awesome. And I know Andrea has a few words for us and maybe we have time for a couple of questions. Thanks everybody. Yeah, thanks Kayla. So I think maybe let's go to our last slide here and then we'll continue with some of the Q and A. I know that we're interested to catch up with some of that. So can you put up our last one? Okay, so this has been a really, really wonderful time with you here. I really appreciate it and I just want you to hopefully come away knowing that thousands of people around the world will observe the moon, learn about the moon and celebrate the moon on October 1st. And I hope that you will be one of those people and I hope that you'll encourage your family and friends to be out there with you and get your community involved. And if you do, I hope you share your experience with us, with people around the world through our Flickr page, through social media, tagging Observe the Moon. I hope you'll also check out our surveys and send us your feedback so that we can improve this program for future years and also take a look at what other people are posting so that you can find out what's happening around the world. I love participating in this event knowing that those people or not those people, there are people around the world observing with me. I find that it's like such a rush and I hope that you get that sense of community, that global connection. Sometimes when we're far apart from each other, especially in these years of pandemic, it's nice to know that we're all out there observing the same moon together. And I really find that very powerful and I hope that you enjoy your experience as well. We are going to stay on a little bit longer to answer some questions. We're gonna stop the recording at the top of the hour but we really appreciate your time and your attention and your questions and definitely your interest. So I'm about to cough. Sorry about that. But please stay on it. And also we have a questionnaire coming. So I'm gonna turn it over cause I'm about to cough. I'm just gonna step in for Andrea while we are while she's coughing. Thank you guys so much for coming in. Please feel free to stay. If you're on YouTube, you're welcome to put your questions and we won't get them from Dave who is looking at YouTube. There's some great questions in the chat about seeing other folks who are live streaming moon observations doing. Kayla is gonna take that on her bed. I am going to drop a link for you. So this is where you will find all the telescope streams that we're featuring from around the world. Oh yeah, good question. And for those who are not looking at the chat with us, it's on the Azure Moon website and the menu option is live streams. And Magia is asking about purchasing the moon chart. I think there are a lot of resources right there on the International Observe the Moon Night site. If you were thinking about those moon phase carbs, you can find those at bit.ly slash nsnmoon. I'll stick that in the chat for you. We have those too. See some questions coming up about wheelchair accessibility. What an excellent question. And Tom, thanks for that recommendation that it's important to make sure that our events are accessible. That's the approach to this is gonna vary so much depending on each person's situation, right? But I think my primary response to that is the fact that you're asking now is excellent. And asking that question in your context where you are thinking, okay, what I'm envisioning is it gonna be accessible? And if it's not, what can I change early in the game? I think it's exactly the right way to look at that. And if anybody else wants to jump in, please do. Well, I'd like to interject on something like that. I have had a occasion where someone is in a wheelchair and with a cast of grain, it's very easily to rotate the IP so that way they can see it from their sitting position in their wheelchair. And this individual was so excited that he was able to see what we were looking at viewing through the telescope while sitting in the wheelchair. So you can always do that. Thanks so much, Geraldine. I wanna talk about a little different topic. There's a lot of questions on YouTube about the Artemis One mission, firstly, what it is and second, what does it have to do with the International Observer of the Moon Night event? So I'm gonna open that up to folks who wanna answer. Andrea, do you wanna take that one away? Act, I was reconnecting with a teacher during the chat. Is this on Artemis One? Is that where we are? Excellent, okay, I'm so glad because yes, we are going to be covering that on NASA TV. So that is a great place to look. I'm sure the NASA YouTube channels will have this as well but it's going to be all over everywhere. You can rest assured that we are going to cover it. So you can check out the website that we had earlier, just nasa.gov slash Artemis-one to find it and just check out NASA TV and we will have launch coverage starting two hours before the launch. So if it's on Monday at 8.30 a.m., then the coverage starts at 6.30 a.m. So check it out and it should be amazing. So there's several different options and the options are listed on the website as well. And if you're super into Artemis and you want your Observer of the Moon Night to be a lot about Artemis, that is totally allowed. You too, you have fun, definitely. And Mark, amazing. I would love to be there live for the launch too. That's so awesome. I hope you really enjoy that. For the touch stirred moon maps, I don't know if someone else wants to speak to that but I can also add that moon track as a resource, we haven't really gone into in a lot of detail but if you're familiar with that or if this is new to you, you can actually go in to anywhere on the moon and draw a little square around an area that you would like to become a 3D model and you can have it printed at perhaps a local library, perhaps a maker space, different areas. You can do maybe some searching about an area near you but that way you can have any part of the moon at whatever exaggeration you would like. And those are really great for both seeing impaired individuals and anybody who would just like to get a better sense of what is going on at the moon. So I love those models. I think they're great. Hi, I see Juan is here from Chile, I believe. He was wondering if there's any material available in Spanish? Who yet? I know we have some. Do you want to speak to that? Yeah, great question. So we are working on getting some of our shareable resources translated so I'd encourage you to check out multimedia and you'll find a save the date in Spanish and some graphics that are word free. So hopefully they're useful to more people. Andrea, do you have up to the information about NASA and Espanol and any connection that we might have with them for the program this year? So I mean, they cover NASA science in Spanish, not all NASA science all the time because it's a very small team. But I would definitely check out those resources. We do have a few things on our website. It is a major priority of our team to get more of our materials translated into other languages, particularly Spanish. And there are just whole resources of NASA and Espanol and they're growing. So I definitely would encourage you to check those out. I'm sorry that we don't have more available readily but they are coming. And I also just would mention in terms of Artemis, this is something we're also gonna cover in our NASA TV special for, I guess you can call it the NASA TV broadcast for international observable night. So we're going to be talking about lunar science and exploration broadly, including Artemis. We're gonna have some engineers on, I think some of the mission control people as Artemis one may be in flight while we are observing the moon, which should be really cool. So we'll certainly have more information for you through NASA moon and also through the NASA TV broadcast that we'll have in association with this event. And I wanna make a quick go back. We don't have a whole lot of primary Spanish resources right now but our first featured observer highlight was the Pederación de Asociaciones Astronómicas de España and that feature was originally written in Spanish and translated to English and you'll find both versions on our website. I'll drop the link in the chat. So it's just one feature but it's something to share if you're looking for content. I wanted to mention one other resource, the Astronomical League will be hosting an observing challenge. If you are a member of the Astronomical League or if you're not, it's a little bit more of a challenge to of things that you might want to look at on the moon that night. So I know that'll be up on the website as well. You'll get a certificate if you finish that with different kind of certificate from the Astronomical League and I hope you get to do that because that's really fun. If you have never tried an Astronomical League observing challenge, they are a hoot and you can really learn a lot of new things this time about the moon. Thank you so much for mentioning that Vivian. That's a really good one to call it out here. So thank you. We have one question about, are there any PowerPoint presentations available on Artemis? Which Kayla, you wanna jump in? Sure, I started nodding prematurely. We have lots of slide decks available. I don't know if we have an Artemis one up yet but I have no doubt that we will if it is not up there already. So the place to look for that is on moon.nasa.gov under resources. You can filter by resource type and you can filter for presentations and you'll find all kinds of stuff. When we have an Artemis one live, that's where it'll pop up. Good question. Oh, and I saw in the chat some requests for links and some suggestions or resources. Noche de Estrellas, linked to the Astronomical League, we can share Noche Internacional de Observación Lunar from Puerto Rico. Thanks. This has been such a fun and active chat on YouTube and in Zoom. Thank you everyone for bringing your perspectives and questions. Noche de Estrellas is a separate event. And so it has a lot of Spanish materials there. So I was just inviting people to check that out. I think they're in December and it's more about viewing the night sky than particularly the moon. And I'll just mention, someone asked about a link to the Astronomical League. So maybe Vivian, you can pop that in. But also on our website, it will be under activities, an Astronomical League challenge that we partner with them to, it's their challenge, but we think they're amazing and we think it's a really fun event. And so we point people to it. So you'll also be able to find it just going to the activities on moon.nasa.gov slash observe. And I don't think they have that one up quite yet, but I put a link to all their observing challenges. This will be a special observing challenge. It's only open for a limited time for 2022 International Observational Lunar. Coming soon. Stay tuned. We wanted to do this one. I think this is a little earlier than we typically do our host webinar. And that was for all of you, we're hoping that this is a little more helpful to get some of these information resources a little farther out so that you can actually use them before your event is already planned and done. So we're hoping that this is helpful to you. And actually, I don't know if we, if someone covered this during my coughing fit, but we do actually have a survey for you to find out what you thought of this event webinar because we're always trying to get better at what we provide both in these types of resources and what we have on our website. So we wanna make sure this is the best use of your time. So before you sign off tonight, we will send you a certificate, a questionnaire to find out if there's anything else we should have provided or if you have other questions that we don't get to, you can always reach out to us through our website on moon.nasa.gov. There's a contact button on most pages. And we check those. In fact, Kayla is the first one who checks those. And so you can definitely keep sending those questions. And if you're having any trouble with registration or anything like that or any other questions about the moon generally, please send them there. I just put the link to the chat, link to the survey in the chat. So please click on it. It'll probably, it's very quick and your feedback really helps us a lot. And we listen. Thanks for all the nice comments in the chat that is very sweet. And we're glad that we got it early enough that it will be helpful and inspiring to you. And I also just wanna say how inspiring this is for us too. We work on this all year, but we love to do it for you. And because of all the things that you do to bring the moon into your lives and into your communities. And it really keeps us going. So this is wonderful and we really appreciate it. And I loved all the extra hosts on this call. So I really wanna give a huge shout out to Tom for being here, for Sandlin for coming, for, I'm not even Jaylin. Am I saying your name right, Jerlyn? I'm sorry, we're meeting tonight, but it's just so lovely to hear about your events. And it's just really great to have so many voices showing you what a diverse program this is and how it really is so many different things for so many different people. And that's exactly what it's supposed to be. For all the folks who are not amateur astronomers, if you're looking for an amateur astronomer, send them a thank you note after they're done. All of them are volunteers and they are so excited to share astronomy, but we love them cause they're like our boots on the ground to share the excitement of astronomy. So we really appreciate them and hope that you send them a picture or a note of thanks for all of their, or help them with gas money or feed them. So many, so many wonderful ways that you can thank your amateur astronomer. I don't see any more questions coming in and we are almost 15 minutes over. So thank you so much for joining us and staying with us during this question and answer time. So we're gonna wrap up. I'm just gonna take a quick look through the chat and see if I missed any questions. We are gonna share the slides. So, and the resources will be on YouTube. So you'll be able to watch the recording again and get any information that you might have missed the first time around. Anyone else have any closing thoughts? I think we'll just say thank you again. This has been a really, really great time and keep in touch. Hope you have a great time observing the moon. Thanks everybody. Take care. Carolyn, it's great to meet you. Thank you for being here.