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ASTRONOMY URLs:
ASTRONOMY CALENDARS -- ASTRONOMY CLUBS
-- ASTRONOMY COMPANIES
ASTRONOMY EDUCATION --ASTRONOMY
WEBSITES FOR KIDS
CONSTELLATIONS -- ECLIPSES -- GALAXIES
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY -- IMAGES --
NASA Sites
OBSERVATION AIDS -- OBSERVATORIES
-- ORGANIZATIONS --SOFTWARE
SOLAR SYSTEM/PLANETS
(Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, Mars, Moon, Pluto, Saturn, Venus, Sun)
SATELLITES
Astronomy Resource Lists
Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
Adirondack Video Astronomy http://www.astrovid.com/ email: avaastro@compuserve.com -- cameras with manual gain and shutter control. Complete kits are available to attach to the telescope.
Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/tass.shtml TASS hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the world--to monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky
Amateur Telescope making
ARCHAEOASTRONOMY -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Art--Space Art by
Astrobiology
Astrology
Astrometry http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/info/Astrometry.html Guide to Minor Body astronometry
Astronomer Search Engine http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/astrolist/astrosearch.html -- find info on professional astronomers...
Astronomical Image Index (searchable) http://www.syz.com/images/ (over 17,000 images linked)
ASTRONOMY CLUBS -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Astronomy Online (European) http://www.eso.org/astronomyonline/ or http://www.algonet.se/~sirius/eaae.htm
Astrophotography (see also CCD Imaging)
Astrophysical data system http://adswww.harvard.edu/ Abstract Service; Article Service (access to scanned images of full journal articles for the most astronomical journals; Astronomical Catalog; Digital Library of books scanned and put online; data collected by the Einstein X-ray satellite mission; NIST Atomic Spectroscopic Database
AURORA -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Bad Astronomy http://www.badastronomy.com/ misconceptions
Beginners
Braille--Touch the Universe--NASA Braille book of astronomy by Norine Grice. http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/
CALENDARS -- Astronomical -----------------------------------------------------[top]
- Solstices, equnoxes, perihelions, aphelions - Weather Doctor's Diary - http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/seasondate.htm
- Sun/Moon Rise/Set Transits & phase (1 day) - http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
- Astronomical Sky Calendar http://imagiware.com/astro/skycalendar.cgi by Brian Casey , using Skycalendar by John Thorstensen includes display of times of sunset, twilight end, twilight beginning, sunrise, moonrise, moonset, %illuminamtion of moon
- Night Sky Info updated every Sunday at 11 P.M. EST. Articles on observing. Maintained by Emil Neata, from Craiova, Romania.
- Night Sky Notes (Abrams Planetarium-- MSU) --
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/nightskynotes/index.php
Abrams Sky Calendar http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SkyCalendar/
- Skylights by Jim Kaler http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/ updated every Friday.
- Star Trak http://astrowww.astro.indiana.edu/startrak.shtml written monthly by Hal Kibbey of the Indiana University
- Stig's Sky Calendar & Planisphere http://www.skycalendar.com/
- Your Sky - http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/ - sky maps
CATALOGS (Astronomical) -----------------------------------------------------[top]
CCD Imaging -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Celestial
sphere -- good explanations of coordinate systems and celestial
timekeeping systems.
CHILDREN'S SITES-----------------------------------------------------[top]
Chiron Information http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/chihp.htm
COMPANIES that sell Astronomy stuff
CONSTELLATIONS -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Coordinates -- Latitude / Longitude look up site (actually, an astrological site) http://www.astro.com/atlas
Cosmology tutorial http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm and cosmological calculator http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
CRATERS
Dark Matter--OGLE http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/index.html
Dark Sky Information -- Light Pollution
- Model Lighting Ordinance http://www.darksky.org/ordsregs/mlc/modlicod.html
- Connecticut -- AN ACT REQUIRING ENERGY EFFICIENT ROADWAY LIGHTS
http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2001/act/Pa/2001PA-00134-R00HB-05449-PA.htm
- International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) http://www.darksky.org/
- Glare Buster http://www.theglarebuster.com/ -- alternative in home lighting which eliminates glary flood lights.
- October 28, 2002, Light Pollution Goes Mainstream, By Richard Tresch Fienberg -- If the fall 2002 meeting of the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) proved anything, it's that astronomers have lost control of the light-pollution issue and that's a good thing. Like the spoiling of our air and water, the loss of nighttime darkness is becoming a serious concern not only to astronomers but also to health-care professionals, zoologists, lighting engineers, politicians, and the public. Some 175 activists gathered in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, last Friday and Saturday for the IDA's first national meeting outside its headquarters city of Tucson, Arizona. They learned that poorly designed light fixtures do more than just blot out our view of the starry sky. They also disrupt our circadian rhythms, cause accidents on roadways, confuse migrating birds and other wildlife, and waste billions of dollars in energy costs.
- August 18, 2001 -- Study details growing problem of light pollution BY JEFF FOUST http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0108/18lightpollute/ -- SPACEFLIGHT NOW
- The Fading Milky Way -- http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01nov_1.htm?list13216 -- Science@NASA
- Study details growing problem of light pollution Aug 18, 2001 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0108/18lightpollute/
- Dark Sky Observing Sites
- DarkSky - A Web Tool for Stargazing http://www.darksky.org/ida/darksky/index.html
Distances to Stars -- directly access the Hipparcos data base
and calculate the distance to any of the 100,000 stars it contains. http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/hipparcos.html;
Click on I/239; Select Main Catalog to arrive at the VizieR Search Page; Type the name of the star in the Target field then click Submit Query;
Scroll right to the PLX field, which is in units of mas (milli arc seconds);
Move the decimal point three places left to get seconds of arc;
Use the formula d=1/p to calculate the distance (where p is the parallax in seconds of arc, and d is the distance in parsecs, one parsec = 3.26 ly)--Example: For the star Dubhe, the query returns 26.38 mas. So the distance
is 1/.02638, or 37.9 pc. Finally, 37.9 pc is equivalent to 124 LY. You can also use a location in the target field. Example: 11:04 +61:45 The declination must have a + or - sign. If you need to pinpoint more accurately, you could use 11:04:43 +61:45:04. Colons may be dropped and replaced by spaces. VizieR doesn't seem to know all the stars. Alkaid, for example, is not found by name.
Double Star magazine/journal: DOUBLE STAR OBSERVER; c/o Ronald C. Tanguay; 306 Reynolds Drive; Saugus, MA 01906-1533; rtanguay@mit.edu
EDUCATION PROGRAMS in Astronomy-----------------------------------------------------[top]
Eta Carina -- http://etacar.umn.edu/
FTP list for Astronomy http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/faq/astroftp.html
GALAXIES -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Galileo (the person) http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
Gravity map of Earth (animated) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030723.htmlHands On Universe http://hou.lbl.gov/ -- education project, remote telescope network, high school curriculum
Hawkings -- PBS show/website on Stephen Hawking http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
Download a free, desktop-publishable quality PDF (Portable Document Format) version of the STEPHEN HAWKINGS UNIVERSE Teacher's Guide
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY -----------------------------------------------------[top]
- History of astronomy discoveries since 1989.
University of Illinois astronomy professor Jim Kaler
has given
an "astronomy update" at the Great Lakes
Planetarium Association's annual conference. The
very popular talk covers the major astronomical discoveries
over the previous year. They're at http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/glpa/glpa.html
IMAGES -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Japanese Astronomy (Steve Reynolds) http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html You will find articles in English about Japanese Starlore and Astronomical History as well as significant Activities of Amateur Astronomers in Japan.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Information on JPL programs
MAGAZINES/News -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Maps -- See Observational Aids
Messier Objects
METEORS
Misconceptions in Astronomy: Heavenly Errors http://www.physics.umaine.edu/ncomins/
MOON
MUSIC
MYTHOLOGY of Constellations -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Night Sky Live http://nightskylive.net/
CONCAMs (CONtinuous CAMeras) that are placed around the world with fisheye lenses
to watch the entire sky every night. Each camera takes a 180-second exposure
every 4 minutes, then relays the data back to nightskylive.net.
NOVA (PBS) Spacewatch http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/spacewatch/
To . . . OBSERVATORIES
Observation Aids -----------------------------------------------------[top]
To . . . ORGANIZATIONS
PLANETARIUMS -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Planetary Data Systems http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov
-- data from all Solar System exploration missions
PLANETS (Solar System)-----------------------------------------------------[top]
Planets--ExtraSolar
Powers
of ten, animated in java
Pseudoscience -- Astronomical Pseudo-science: A Skeptic's Resource List -- http://www.aspsky.org/education/pseudobib.html
Radio Astronomy
Rockets
Spacecraft Encyclopedia
http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Spacecrafts-index.html
SATELLITES -----------------------------------------------------[top]
SEDS (Students for Exploration and Development of Space) http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu (University of Arizona)
SETI
- Optical SETI http://www.coseti.org/
- SETI Institute http://www.seti.org Institute general information and news
- SERENDIP--UC Berkeley SETI Project http://seti.ssl.berkeley.edu/serendip/serendip.html
- SETI@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ is a scientific experiment that will harness the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a screensaver program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.
Shoemaker, Gene--tribute page for Gene Shoemaker assembled by USGS-Flagstaff at:
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/Shoemaker/
SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and
Bibliography for Astronomical Data) http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
SkyWatch - Astronomical Alarm Clock -- http://www.sky-watch.com -- Ed Ehrlich webmaster@sky-watch.com -- SkyWatch sends its subscribers a daily email message with information on important astronomical events that can be observed from their location. These events include meteor showers, satellite passes and eclipses.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.sdss.org/ -- (Apache Point Observatory) will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars.
SOFTWARE -----------------------------------------------------[top]
- Applets--Juergen Giesen's GeoAstro Applet Collection http://www.jgiesen.de/GeoAstro/GeoAstro.htm
- SEDS list of software http://www.seds.org/billa/astrosoftware.html#www
- Celestia http://shatters.net/ -- Free program that can show
simulated real time views of many astronomical objects. Use
the help page to learn all its capabilities, including making
and recording movies.
- Dynamical Astronomy Java Lab http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/
- Earth Update and Space Updates -- http://earth.rice.edu/ -- interactive
real-time displays of real-time earth and space science data. Modules include
quicktime movies, images, and sound, all with very rapid, user-chosen, access.
All modules have imagery updated automatically in the background so that an
up-to-date image is always immediately available to the visitor. The software
presents archival images (such as images from planetary encounters), as well
as newly released imagery (Comets, Hubble Space Telescope, Mars Pathfinder & Surveyor).
... hourly weather maps and satellite weather photos and daily images of the
Sun at various wavelengths of light from ground-based observatories. One module
characterizes the daily space weather by presenting real-time information on
the hazards of space from programs run at Rice University, based on real-time
data from ground-based and space-based observatories.
- Home Planet for Windows http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
- Macintosh software for webcam astrophotography:
Keith's AstroImager -- http://www.unm.edu/~keithw/software/keithsAstroImager.html
Keiths ImageStacker -- http://www.unm.edu/~keithw/software/keithsImageStacker.html
- Mathematica software http://www.mathsource.com/
- Meteor Tracking Software http://
www.sci-trak.com/
- Moon Menu http://www.selznick.com/ puts icon of current Moon phse in upper right corner of Mac screen.
- NIH Image http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/
- Partiview software and Digital Universe http://www.haydenplanetarium.org
- DarkAdapted, by Stephen E. Hutson. http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html - Makes computer screen red.
- SkyMap http://cfa165.harvard.edu/software/skymap.html -- shareware
- SOHO screensaver http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/whatsnew/screensaver.html
- Spectral Calculator http://www.spectralcalc.com/spectralcalc.php - an interactive spectral modeling tool.
- Starry Night http://www.siennasoft.com Sienna Software, 416-926-2174
- Stellarium http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/
- X-ray and Gamma-ray telescopes screensavers -- http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Solar Calendars
Songbook -- Astronomer's Songbook (Jon Bell) http://www.ircc.cc.fl.us/atircc/commout/planetarium/astsongbook.pdf
Space Art
Space Day http://www.spaceday.com/
Space Environment Center http://www.sec.noaa.gov
Space Science News Archive - http://spacescience.spaceref.com/
Space.ref - http://www.spaceref.com/company/ - 21 news and reference web sites on outer space and Earth observation
Space Shuttle Images http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/RPIF/SSPR.html from National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Star Data
StarDate Online radio script: http://stardate.org/radio/program.php?f=today
Star Descriptions and info on specific stars http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sowlist.html
Star Hustler (now Star Gazer) http://www.jackstargazer.com/ -- Jack Horkheimer
Star Maps -- See Observational Aids
Star Naming
Stars and Constellations--educational resource by Jim Kaler: http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html. Includes photos of the constellations.
State of Sky -- http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/kiosk/index.html -- by Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness -- an online automated "slideshow" presenting a series of sky-related Web pages, featuring the current sky (day & night) as well as some of the sky's greatest hits. About 10 minute slide show.
Students for Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu (University
of Arizona) Large quantity of astronomical information and
images. Space Images --
Solar-Geophysical data, solar alerts, forcasts, summaries,
images
TASS--The Amateur Sky Survey http://www.tass-survey.org/ hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the world to monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky
TELESCOPES -----------------------------------------------------[top]
Terraforming
Universe Today -- Space Exploration News from Around the Internet http://www.universetoday.com/
Variable Stars