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NASA Links
This Web site is intended to be a gateway for the public to the vast educational and informational resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that pertain to Solar System exploration.This is perhaps the best way to access and browse NASA and some other space flight related topics. Well done, except for an idiotic insistence on a black background, it makes good use of HTML frames. Hence, you had better have Netscape 2, or the equivalent. The alternative is a lengthy display of options.
All images are displayed in anaglyph format, which means you need a pair of red-blue or red-green stereo glasses for viewing. Some images are displayed in parallel (side-by-side) format and you don't need any 3-D glasses to view them; your eyes simply fuse the stereo pairs into 3-D views.
This is the source of all those amazing images of the universe. Now that it is fixed, the space telescope has lived up to the hype surrounding it. The pictures take your breath away, and alter your consciousness. Not bad, for a Web page.
NASA's public relations page for the Galileo mission. It takes a little looking, but there is good stuff here for all, especially teachers. Just try to ignore the breathless "look how many people have called this page" messages.
Information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory mission and goals, and the people who built it. Operated by the SAO for NASA. A well done site on new frontiers in X-Ray astronomy.
Up to the minute background on NASA manned (womaned?) space missions. Nowadays this means shuttle missions. Links to other pages.
Access to tens of thousands of NASA images, videos, and sounds; some superb, some make you wonder why they bothered. NASA has placed most of the pictures taken from most of the space missions online. Check out the Mir IMAX images in the Photo Gallery!
An educational site run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). A well done site designed to introduce what infrared astronomy is, and provide news of recent scientific activity. Its own pages are short, and heavily illustrated.
Helping young people research astronomy topics both on-line and off. One of the better links pages out there.
Other Links
A site that gives good information on what's up in the sky, and well as some basic instruction for beginner amateur astronomers. Links to ATM resources, articles, and discussion. Browse these links and discover that mentoring is very much alive. The term "warehouse" says it all. Big, sprawling, a little confusing, but pretty. It features Bill Arnett's "The Nine Planets" (an excellent tour of the solar system) as well as deepsky pages, and pages devoted rocketry and petitions. Some original material, and many external links in a fairly well organized, attractive site. Good material on astronomy and physics, aimed at a very general audience. THE "DEEPSKY OBSERVER's COMPANION" (DOC) web-pages is an on-line resource for the deepsky observer, consisting primarily of visual descriptions of deepsky objects. Besides the work of contemporary amateur astronomers, descriptions of historical interest are also collected, including work by James Dunlop, John Herschel and E J Hartung.-
Ron Muir's personal Web site. Contains usefull links, especially ones to famed, national, dark sky sites.
The Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog (IAAC or 'netastrocatalog' for short) is a forum for amateur astronomers at all levels to share their observations of Deep-Sky objects. (The 'deep-sky' includes all objects which are NOT members of our solar system: other galaxies, star clusters, gaseous nebulae, doubles, and variable stars are all deep-sky objects). Note that the netastrocatalog is a *catalog of amateur observations*, not a sales catalog of any kind!
A collection of photographs with simple accompanying text of various objects in the sky. The best part of the display is a constellation by constellation photographic atlas, each consisting of wide field photographs (with and without labels) and more detailed photographs.
The NGC/IC Project will eventually correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects. It will assemble basic data, collect images for each object. A corrected NGC/IC is a laudable long term goal, but the site's most useful function involves generating observing lists by constellation. The site is much faster with automatic loading of graphics turned off.
Doug Snyder's project of collecting interesting images of planetaries from all over the sky. Comes in a whiz-bang JAVA/MIDI version, and an HTML version that is more practical. This is a site with some depth.
Some of Peter Besenbruch's and Gary Ward's favorite picks. Gary is the guy who did the whiz-bang Netscape 2 version accessible from the Main Menu.
This page contains links to comet information on the Web. The central comet information page is the Comet Home page at NASA's JPL.
Gary lives and breathes the Web; check these out!
This is a page we offer that features software for Windows, the Mac, and Unix. The most notable is a link to Home Planet.
Travel into Space without leaving Earth.
A long listing of other Astronomy club pages on the Web.
Yes, you too can clutter up your E-mail box. A service of the University of Oregon.
A page for online astronomy magazines.
Radio and television on the Web.
Only in astronomy can something European be based in Chile. Perhaps the premier southern hemisphere observatory, it adds a mix of technical and general information and pictures to the Web from the perspective of south of the equator.
Not just the International Dark Sky Association, this page includes a surprising number of links.
Featuring online courses and places for kids to hang out.
- Join the International Dark-Sky Association
- Light Pollution: The Bane of Astronomer Amateur and Professional
- What Makes Light Pollution!
- Light Pollution Fact Sheet.
- Light Pollution - The Neglected Problem!
- Can Your Sky Do This?
- The Good Neighbor Outdoor Lighting Brochure
- Light Pollution
- Star Gazer! AKI - Starhustler ..Seen on PBS stations throughout North America and Internationally
via satellite,the Armed Services Network, NASA C.O.R.E.
- Earth & Sky The daily science radio series Earth & Sky is heard by millions of listeners on over 600 commercial and public stations throughout the United States.
- StarDate Online StarDate award-winning skywatching programs are heard every day in English and Spanish on more than 300 radio stations.
- Sky and Telescope this is a great magazine that has many great articles on the latest in astronomy research and the joys of amateur astronomy.
- Astronomy Magazine is another great magazine that focuses on professional research and amateur astronomy.
- Night Sky is a new magazine from the publishers of Sky and Telescope that focuses on backyard astronomy.
- Astronomical League Is a nation wide organization for astronomy clubs.
- Night Sky Network is a great resource to provide astronomy clubs with public education materials.
- Messier45.com is an excellent site with loads of information for the deep sky observer. There are many pictures of deep sky objects as well.
- International Supernovae Network this site has the latest information on supernova and resources for detecting supernova.
- International Darksky Association
- The Inconstant Moon is a great web site on the moon. It has lunar highlights for a given day.
- Cloudy Nights great web site with equipment reviews, classifieds and forums with helpful astronomers.
- Astrophotography By Jerry Lodriguss is a fantastic site that displays beautiful photography and photography tips.
- Mike Fleenor's web page with great CCD images.
- Shawn Grant's World is the KO web masters homepage featuring nature photography.
- Burgess Optical Company has great deals on telescopes and accessories.
- Orion is a huge retailer of telescopes and accessories.
- Guide is a great astronomical software charting program.
- SkyTools is one of the best observation planning programs on the market. It also has full logging and charting.
- Cartes Du Ciel is a fantasic FREE! astronomy charting program which has all of the basics and a huge over a million deep sky object database.
- Celestia is a FREE! program that allows you to travel around the solar system and other stars.
- Virtual Atlas of the Moon is a FREE! program that charts the features of the Moon.
- Comet orbital elements for popular astronomy software.
- Adirondack CCD imaging, telescopes, books, software and accessories.
- Astro-Engineering telescope accessories
- Celestron
- Astronomics telescopes and accessories.
- ClearVue Optics telescopes and accessories.
- Telescopes.com telescopes and accessories.
- University Optics accessories and atm supplies.
- Smart Astronomy telescopes and accessories.
- Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network Astronomy club in Oak Ridge
Why You Can't See the Stars
Television
Radio
Night Sky Training
The Night Sky
- Good Night Sky Training
- Full Moon Names for 2009 - Full moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States.
- Full Moon Names for 2009 - Full moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States.
Clear Sky Charts
Links to Other Clubs
Observatories
Interactive Astronomy
Periodicals
Sky Guides
Other Links
Shopping
NASA
The Moon
- Full Moon Names for 2009 - Full moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States.
Other Stuff
