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1. Introduction
2. Daytime, Nighttime
3. Seasons and the Sun’s Location
4. Moonrise, Moonset
5. Predicting These Motions
6. The United States Naval Observatory’s Astronomical Applications
7. Introduction
8. Origins
9. Egyptians, Greeks, and Hebrews
10. Orion and the Southern Celestial Hemisphere
11. Native American Stories
12. The Pleiades and The Big Dipper
13. Introduction
14. Streetlights
15. Glare and Shielding
16. Effects of Light Pollution
17. Potential Solutions
18. Introduction
19. The Human Eye
20. Eye Tests
21. Introduction
22. The Center of the Universe
23. Sizing Up
24. To Scale
25. Earth and Moon
26. Introduction
27. Lenses
28. Mirrors
29. The Telescope
30. Introduction
31. Cyclones
32. Storms of Jupiter
33. Tornadoes and Dust Devils
34. Lightning
35. Introduction
36. Space Vagabonds
37. Observing a Meteor Shower
38. Meteorites
39. Impacts and Cratering
40. Introduction
41. Hubble Space Telescope
42. Repairing the HST
43. HST Achievements
44. Introduction
45. Star Color
46. The Spectroscope
47. Elemental Data
48. Introduction
49. Hertzsprung- Russell Diagram
50. H-R Diagram for Milky Way Stars
51. H-R Diagram and Star Life Cycles
52. Introduction
53. Hubble’s Law Origins
54. Hubble’s Law
55. The Hubble Parameter
56. Introduction
57. The Telescope
58. Observatories and Early Astronomy Clubs
59. The Planetarium
60. Current Astronomy Clubs
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