Astronomy
Astronomy
Activities
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Atmospherics
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Auroras
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Comets
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Eclipses
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Magazines
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Meteors
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News
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Pleiades
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Satellites
Activities
"What's happening" kind of stuff...
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Astronomy Center
(from "The Old Farmer's Almanac")
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Tonight's Sky
(from Earth & Sky -- A different activity for every night)
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Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
(now called "Star Gazer" - weekly program)
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The Sky This Week
(U.S. Naval Observatory)
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The Sky at a Glance
(Sky and Telescope)
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Hal Kibbey's StarTrak : monthly viewing tips for the night's sky.
Atmospheric phenomena
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NLC Observers' Homepage
(Noctilucent Clouds)
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Light and Optics
("Rainbows, sunsets and halos; a spectacular display of colors
and visuals in the sky called 'atmospheric optics'.";
part of the University of Illinois's
Online Meteorology Guide)
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Rainbows, Halos, and Glories
(brief advertisement for a cool book from Cambridge University Press)
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Atmospheric Halos
(This is part of a cool site on
Atmospheric Optics)
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AKM - Atmospheric Phenomena
(actual images)
Auroras
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Aurora Page
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Solar Terrestrial Dispatch Homepage
(Solar/Auroral activity)
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Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights
(emphasis on photographing them)
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Hourly STD DMSP/POLAR Auroral Activity Report
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Aurora Forecast
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30 minute forecast
(Space Weather Prediction Center)
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Aurora Viewing Tips
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British Astronomical Association: Aurora Section
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Northern lights
(whyfiles.org)
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Dueling Auroras
(Astronomy Picture of the Day: December 3, 2001)
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Costello Predicted Activity Index
(updated every 15 mins)
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Space Weather Now
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STD Real-Time Image Gallery
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Informations about Auroras, Space Weather and the Sun
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Aurorasaurus
(Beta, 4/13/13; Map which includes predictions and reported sightings)
(NOAA test product, 4/13/13; gone, 2/23/18)
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3-day Auroral Forecast
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Solar Storm Monitor
("Current Space Weather Conditions";
For mid-latitude aurora viewing, Bz should be -10 and Speed
should be *high* on the "ACE satelliteReal-Time Solar Wind Data Broadcast")
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Northern Hemisphere Enlarged View
(the current extent and position of the auroral oval in the
northern hemisphere)
Comets
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Comets
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Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer
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Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
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Cometography
(Gary W. Kronk)
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STARDUST!
("The Stardust spacecraft...[will] collect dust and carbon-based
samples during its closest encounter with Comet Wild 2")
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David H. Levy
(co-discoverer of Shoemaker-Levy 9 and many other comets)
Eclipses
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SDAC Home Page
(Solar Data Analysis Center - now serving NASA Eclipse bulletins)
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Eclipses
(from "The Old Farmer's Almanac")
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NASA Eclipse Web Site
(NASA web page of Fred Espenak)
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MrEclipse.com
("The Ultimate Resource For Eclipse Photography" --
Fred Espenak)
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SKY Online's Eclipse Page
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Welcome to Live! Eclipse Website
("relays astronomical phenomena via various networks")
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EclipseChaser Home Page
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Total Solar Eclipse 1999 in Austria
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ECLIPSE!
(Phil Harrington's book; eclipse links)
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Introductory Eclipse Tutorial
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Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality
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ESA Science
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Williams College Eclipses
(Jay Pasachoff)
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EmapWin
(Window 95 Eclipse Software - Shinobu Takesako)
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Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
(from Mir - Astronomy Picture of the Day: August 30, 1999)
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Wendy Carlos Eclipse Page
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Eclipse Chasers WebRing
(A linked list of sites dedicated to Solar Eclipses)
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Working Group on Solar Eclipses
of the International Astronomical Union
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Mars Orbiter Camera Views of Martian Solar Eclipses
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sofTouch APpLications - UMBRAPHILE
(UMBRAPHILE is a FreeWare Macintosh application
designed for solar eclipse aficionados)
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The Significance of the Lunar and Solar Eclipses in Islam
(Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-e-Islam Lahore --
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam)
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3 Eclipses in 1 Calendar Month
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Eclipse related web sites
(very comprehensive list)
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Solar Eclipse
(A kabbalistic view)
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The Great Airborne Eclipse Chase of 1992
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selenelion
(viewing total lunar eclipse before sunset)
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Glorious Eclipses: Their past, Present and Future
(large format book including photos and personal accounts)
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The Moon's Shadow
(Visible Earth)
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Catalogue of acient and medieval eclipses
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Klipsi, Paparazzo del Cielo.
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Solar Eclipses at Sea - Ted Pedas Astronomy Theme Cruises
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Eclipse Edge Expeditions
- "Car Talk" puzzler: The sun and the moon appear to be the same
size in our sky,
Right?
Right!
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eclipseguy
("The Canadian Eclipse Chaser's Home Base on the Internet" --
David Makepeace, who filmed
Hooked On The Shadow)
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Solar Eclipse Index
(Bob Yen's WAY OUT Photography)
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Observe Eclipses!
(Excerpts from book by Dr. Michael D. Reynolds and Richard A. Sweetsir)
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Umbraphiles
(The world's leading total solar eclipse chasers
-- actual stats on time in the shadow)
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2001 African Total Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse WebPages
(Joanne and Patrick Poitevin)
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The home page of R.H. van Gent
(a catalog of eclipse cycles, Delta T approximate algorithms;
also celestial cartography and history of astronomy)
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Rainbow Symphony Inc.
(source for 3D Glasses, Fireworks Glasses and Solar Viewers)
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23 OCTOBER 1976 SOLAR ECLIPSE SCARE
(some of the bogus warnings about eclipse viewing dangers)
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No safe way of directly viewing an eclipse
(so claims the Department of Human Services of the South
Australian Government)
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ANDREAS ECLIPSE COMPOSITES
(Nice photos and how-to)
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Ecliptomaniacs
(the website of the Irish eclipse chasers)
Interactive Eclipse-Maps for every Solar Eclipse in the 20th and 21th Century
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The Luminous Landscape
(lots of nice eclipse photos here)
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Program Group on Public Education on the Occasions of Solar Eclipses
(IAU)
Articles and news coverage
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Shadowlands (The Economist, 7 Aug 1999:
"A thousand years ago, a total eclipse of the sun was a
terrifying religious experience.")
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The Sun's sizzling corona heats up
(NASA's Space Science News, 2 Sep 1999)
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Report on the Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11
by Joe Rao (Aboard Regal Empress, North Atlantic)
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A TRULY REGAL ECLIPSE!
(another copy of Joe Rao's report)
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"A Seaborne Spectacle"
(David H. Levy, also aboard the Regal Empress)
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French Nobel Laureate turns back clock
("Marshall's global experiment, von Braun memories
evoked during August 11 solar eclipse"
- anomalies in Foucault pendulum during an eclipse)
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Solar Eclipse as Seen From Turkey
("There's a Surprise You won't Believe!" -- UFOs with eclipse?)
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A Total Eclipse of the Sun -- from the Moon
(NASA)
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Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 Eclipse
(Eddington's observations at 1919 solar eclipse confirmed
Einstein's general theory or relativity)
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CNN.com - Total solar eclipse awes onlookers in Africa - June 21, 2001
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Klipsi pursues the dark
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Moon Lore: Moon Superstitions: III. Lunar Eclipses
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Armchair astronomers view solar eclipse in HDTV
(Canadian Television - CTV.ca)
Magazines online
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Astronomy
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Sky & Telescope
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Astronomy Now
Meteors
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Meteor Showers
(Gary W. Kronk)
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IMO Meteor Shower Calendars
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Best view of the Leonid shower: '99 Leonid MAC
(NASA)
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Meteor Page
(Sky & Telescope)
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Leonids on the Horizon
("What's in store for the 1999 Leonid meteor shower?" from NASA)
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Near-Live Leonid Watching System
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Experts predict the 1999 Leonids
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meteorobs - Meteor Storms (Leonids)
(gone)
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Leonids: Imperfect Storm 'Casting
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Space Station Meteor Shower
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Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
(2002)
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Leonids and Leica
( Astronomy Picture of the Day: November 27, 2002)
News
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Science@NASA
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ESA Science
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Universe Today
(Space Exploration News from Around the Internet)
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Sky and Telescope -- AstroAlert
(a subscription news service)
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News from the Editors of Sky and Telescope Magazine
Pleiades related
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Pleiades
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The Pleiades
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M45, the Pleiades
(from the
Anglo-Australian Observatory Images)
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The Pleiades: Information
(Alcyone Systems)
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Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades
(STScI Hubble image of interstellar cloud in the Pleiades)
Satellites
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Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
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SatPasses - Satellite Passes Over North American Cities
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Satellite Links
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Heavens-Above
(Satellite Predictions)
(great place to see preditions of iridium flares -- and other sats --
my saved location)
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Project Starshine - Student Tracked Asmospheric Research Satellite
(A satellite covered with alminum mirrors)
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NASA Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data
(ISS Satellite Sighting Information)
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Software on the Internet for Satellite Tracking software
Miscellaneous
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Views of the Solar System
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Mike's Home Page of Astronomy
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Home : Science : Astronomy
(Links)
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SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) WWW Site
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Planetary Data System Imaging Node
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Hubble Space Telescope Gallery
(publicly released images and other information)
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Astronomy fact files
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Astronomy Tools
(Brian Casey)
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The Astronomy Cafe
(An Internet resource for the Astronomically Disadvantaged)
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What is astronomy? 10 astronomy facts
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The Astronomical League
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Compute Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight
for Cities & Airports Worldwide With Local TZ
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Amateur Astronomer's Association of Princeton, New Jersey (AAAP)
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SkyMap Home Page
(SkyMap is a planetarium program for the PC)
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Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
(What a reference!)
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Astronomical Information
(Peoria Astronomical Society)
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Space Calendar
(JPL)
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Near-Earth asteroid 3753 Cruithne
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Planetarium Software
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Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System
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(Adobe PostScript Doc for above)
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Stars and Constellations
Starry Night
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The Home Page of "The Earth Centered Universe" Astronomy Program
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Frequently Asked Questions: Planetary
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The Nine Planets
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Sky Writer
(A feature story on Robert Burnham, Jr., author of the
Celestial Handbook who died broke in San Diego,
March 20, 1993)
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StarChild: A learning center for young astronomers
astronomy
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STARWARE (visit here before buying a telescope)
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sci.astro.amateur Telescope Buying FAQ
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Geniet: Megalithic cam-page at Maes Howe, Orkney, UK
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Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground
(Hands on Astronomy Activities for Kids)
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How to make observing flashlights
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LED Flashlight
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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APOD: The Book
("CNN.com - A book as big as the universe - Nov. 21, 2003")
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USNO Astronomical Applications - Data Online
(Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, and Twilight;
Moon Illumination;
Eclipses;
Dates (Seasons; Easter);
Etc. - Wow!)
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News of the Amateur Astronomers' Association of Princeton
(New Jersey, USA)
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Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's Galaxy Spot
(an astrophysicist and rock star)
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The Planetary Society
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Astrology / Astrologie -> Astrodienst Atlas Database
(An astrology site useful for getting latitude and longitude
for most everywhere)
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Polar Visible Imaging Investigations/Visible Imaging System
(Comets, Auroras, Eclipses, ...)
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Earth and Moon Viewer
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Frequently Asked Questions for sci.astro
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International Dark-Sky Association
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Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center
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The Nine Planets For Kids!!!
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Welcome to Skyhound by CapellaSoft
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Bad Astronomy
(Phil Plait; "devoted to airing out myths and misconceptions
in astronomy and related topics")
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Basics of Space Flight
(from JPL/NASA)
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Rutgers Astronomy: Serin Observatory Public Nights
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Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards
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The International Astronomical Union
(the sole internationally recognised authority for assigning
designations to celestial bodies and surface features on such
bodies)
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XEphem: The Astronomy Software for UNIX and Linux
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Ancient astronomy
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NASA Astronaut Biographies
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Astronomical Images - Deep Sky Astrophotography
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Planetary Linguistics
(what planets are called in different languages)
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Near Earth Object Program
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Chuck's Astrophotography
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Geomagnetic Field Synthesis Program Input Form
(For determining magnetic variation from true north for a
given Lat/Long/date -- here's an explanation on how to use
this for
polar alignment of a telescope)
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ICSTARS Astronomy
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Asteroid 1999 AN10
(Close Earth Approaches of Asteroid 1999 AN10: Resonant and
Non-resonant Returns)
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Asteroid 1999 AN10
(Asteroid 1999 AN10 on potential collision course with earth
in 2039 - and nobody seems willing to inform the public;
The chance of an actual collision is small, but one is not
entirely out of the question)
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Virtual Solar System
(National Geographic)
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Dave Palmer's astronomy page
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The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) at IPAC
(lots of beautiful images including their
1999 Spring Data Release)
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The Solar System
(BBC Online)
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(FAQ) Astronomical Calculations for the Amateur
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Exploring Space
(Exploratorium Magazine Online)
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A Meeting With The Universe
(Science discoveries from the Space Program - NASA)
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The Continuing Story Of Asteroid 1999 AN10
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Distant Suns
(astronomy software)
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HobbySpace
("Your Web Guide to Space Hobbies and Activities")
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Welcome to the Universe
(at the Boston Museum of Science)
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MPEC 1999-N21: 1999 AN10
(better estimates on the approach of AN10)
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Some Advice on Picking an Astronomical Binocular
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The Foucault Pendulum
(A short discussion by Professor B. Nickel, Physics Department.
University of Guelph)
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Que tal in the Current Skies
("An Earth in Space Online Monthly Newsletter")
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Palmcentral.com
(Astronomy software for Palm Pilot)
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A Green Flash Page
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Apollo Over The Moon: A View From Orbit
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Ant~nio Cidad~o's Home-Page of Lunar and Planetary Observation and CCD Imaging
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Full Moon at Perigee and Apogee
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Lunation
(Now from APOD)
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The AASTO at the South Pole
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Nacreous clouds
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The History of the Universe
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
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Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
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EarthKAM: Datasystem
(pictures of earth from the shuttle taken by middle school students)
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Orbits
(NEO site)
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Inconstant Moon
(multimedia tours of the lunar surface)
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CyberSky
(astro software)
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Powers of Ten
(scales of the universe)
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HubbleSite
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Anglo-Australian Observatory Images
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Home Bilking Network
(Bad Astronomy)
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The Astronomy Workshop
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Mythical Ireland
(Stone Age Astronomy)
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An Atlas of The Universe
(much like Powers of 10)
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Analemma
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Why is There Life?
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Global City Lights
(from the NASA's Image Catalog - documents light pollution)
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Deep Sky Search -- Deep Sky Database
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Project Pluto
(Guide CD-ROM Star Chart)
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Home Planet Release 3.1
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The Project Apollo Archive
("a comprehensive reference source on the historic manned
lunar landing program")
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Skymaps.com - Publication Quality Sky Maps & Star Charts
(Free, good monthly sky charts)
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Build a Solar System
(JavaScript program to give sizes and distances of solar
system based on user specified size of Sun)
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CalSKY
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Icy Pluto's Fall From the Planetary Ranks: A Conversation
(Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium
talks about treament of Pluto)
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NASA's Visible Earth
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NOAA Solar Calculators
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StarCalc (software)
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Rod's Palm Astronomy Page
(And Home Page for the Palm Astro Mailing list)
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'Drift Alignment' made simple
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PleiadAtlas
(formerly PalmAtlas)
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Analemma
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Maor, E.: June 8, 2004--Venus in Transit.
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The 1882 Transit of Venus
(Observations from Wellington, South Africa)
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Stonehenge
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The night sky in the World
(light polution)
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The First Lunar Landing
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Cosmology: A Research Briefing
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The Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, but Life Might Not
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Universal Workshop
(books, booklets, and charts by Guy Ottewell)
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The Hubble Deep Field
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Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator
(Multi-platform software: a free real-time space simulation
that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions)
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An Ancient Universe:
How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time
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Clear Sky Clock Homepage
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Sky Charts, Free Astronomy software , Celestial atlas
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Astronomy Education Review
("ideas and resources for teaching and outreach in astronomy
and space sciences")
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Virtual Atlas of the Moon
(Free astronomy software)
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HobbySpace - Space Simulators
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At Home Astronomy - Science Experiments for the Entire Family
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The astronomy pages
(Fraser Farrell has eclipse stuff here)
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EYE ON THE SKY'S ASTROCRUISES PAGE
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Homepage of Heinz Scsibrany
(Source of WIN-ECLIPSE)
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Sheridan Williams' Solar Eclipse Web Site
(has a place names database for WIN-ECLIPSE)
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Moon occults Mars from South America, July 17, 2003
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The night sky in the World
(Satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness
and the stellar visibility)
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EO News: NASA Olympics Blue Marble Release; February 6, 2002
(beautiful photos)
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Radar loop of shuttle debris
(STS-107)
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Robert Park on the Shuttle and ISS
(Democracy NOW!)
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S.F. man's astounding photo / Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated
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Camera catching shuttle 'zap' had own glitch
(WorldNetDaily)
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"5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Goodbye, Columbia"
(reprint of 1980 Washington Monthly article by Gregg Easterbrook)
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Flight... FDO!!
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Scientists Seek Clues in Solar Storm That Enveloped Shuttle
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Encyclopedia Astronautica
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Your name in the stars ... or maybe not
(csmonitor.com)
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Planetary Transits
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Let's Talk Stars
(Astronomy Talk Radio, hosted by David Levy)
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Space Station Science Picture of the Day: Space Station Moon Movie
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What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars?
(Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-368 Release)
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SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
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The Drake Equation Revisited
(Astrobiology Magazine)
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Astronomy Notes
(created for intro science courses by Nick Strobel)
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Southern Skies Star Party
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[astro-ph/0401424] Numerical coincidences and 'tuning' in cosmology
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Predictions for 2004 Transit of Venus
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Virtual Atlas of the Moon / Free astronomy software
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Anonymous Documents Describe Shuttle Hubble Mission Risks
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Basic astronomical vocabulary
(Sky and Telescope)
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies
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111 Deep-Sky Wonders for Light-Polluted Skies
(Sky and Telescope)
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What Are The Differences Between An Asteroid, Comet,
Meteoroid, Meteor and Meteorite?
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NEO News (03/26/04) Damage from small impacts
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Astronomy related programs
(all free)
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Transit of Venus
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Sun Gun
(Solar viewing by projection)
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TRACE white light ingress imaging of Transit of Venus, 08 June 2004