[AANC Contacts] Astronomy video products from NASA JPL

[Jane Houston Jones]

Hello AANC friends! Here are some new astro outreach tools  - just in 
time for IYA! Please share with your Newsletter editors, friends, family 
and your astronomy club, museum education friends too!

 I just updated my "Viewing Saturn  in 2009 webpage.  It gives a 
month-by-month Saturn viewing information. 
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/Education/saturnobservation/viewing2009  It's 
one of the pages from the Cassini Saturn Observation Campaign,  my 
international outreach network of 400 astronomers in 45 states and 55 
countries around the world.  Read more about it here and check out the 
pictures of Saturn viewing outreach all around the world.  
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/saturnobservation/

Iin addition to my monthly What's Up in 2009 video, tied to NASA's IYA 
theme of the month all year, we've created a special IYA video. Here it 
is:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=804  It gives a shout 
out to NASA's Solar System Ambassadors, Night Sky Network and Cassini's 
Saturn Observation Campaign outreach teams.

Lastly, there are lots of IYA resources and websites  and NASA has one 
too.  Here it is:  http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/ . Each month, the Hot 
Topics and Go Observe sections are worth a look.  In January, for 
example the Go Observe section is all about Venus.  
http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/observe_jan.htm  There are written 
features, ASP's monthly Discovery Guides ( I've used January's, it's 
great!), my January What's Up podcast about Venus,  outreach networks, 
educational resources and more! 

Jane

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