Astronomy Picture of the Day

This NASA website picks a special picture each day and gets an astronomer to write about it. ����

Often they are about a special event such a solar eclipse - https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211205.html

Or a video such as from the ISS of a rocket launch �- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200401.html

Or whimsical -� https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200401.html.

Perhaps members could be asked to pick a new APOD since the previous meeting.� They could either talk about it or read the commentary.� If the club has a computer and projector, they just have to search such as� �APOD DEC. 3, 2017�� to get a wonderful video of the moon rising on that date.

The main website https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/� gives today�s image.

At the bottom just left of Archive, the arrow lets a student go back through the days to pick a suitable image since the last meeting.� �

It is possible to make APOD the screen saver for a computer.

If a guest speaker is coming to a meeting, it might be possible to find an image related to her/his talk using the search function.