Most people arrive here holding a question rather than a shopping list: what phase is that, or is that photograph real. These pages answer those one at a time, in plain English, with the sources named. Nothing in this stage asks you to buy anything, because whoever is reading it usually isn't shopping yet.
The reading, in order
- The eight phases of the Moon
- Every full moon name and date
- The planets in order
- Star names and constellations
- What a constellation is
- What a nebula is
- What causes the aurora
- The Pale Blue Dot
- Are photos of nebulae real?
- How pictures of galaxies are taken
- When galaxy prints were popular
- February: the snow moon
- January: the wolf moon
- December: the cold moon
- August: the sturgeon moon
- November: the beaver moon
- March: the worm moon
- October: the hunter's moon
- July: the buck moon
- April: the pink moon
- June: the strawberry moon
- September: the harvest moon
- May: the flower moon
- May: the blue moon
And after that
The stage that follows this one is your own sky: One particular night, or one particular photograph. What a star map shows, and what happens to a photo you upload.
Written by Craig Fearn, Aphelion Prints. Last updated .