Links


 Planetary  & Solar system

 

Cosmiverse                                      Great interactive Solar System

Near Earth Objects                          Interesting site identifying objects that come close to the Earth.  

Planetary Fact Sheet                        Very good table of planetary information

Science @ NASA                           Excellent source of information.  A MUST

SOHO                                             Solar And Heliospheric Observatory

Solar Events                                     Lots of information about the Sun - Earth connection.

Solar Physics                                   Really great information about the Sun and various experiments being conducted by NRL

Solar System                                   Great amount of information on everything in the Solar System!

SpaceRef.com                                 Great site for lots of current events.

Space Weather Now!                      See what the Sun has sent us at a glance.

The Nine Planets                             Great information about the Solar System 

The Sun - closest star                       See the Solar System on the same scale!  Relative size of planets and Sun

The Sun - Fact sheet                        The Sun and its Satellites.

 


Viewing

 

AAVSO                                             American Association of Variable Star Observers

Comet & Meteor Shower                   Comet & Meteor Shower page

Earth & Sky                                        VERY COOL! YOU MUST CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!

Eyepiece Calculator                            Find out how powerful that eye piece is on your scope!

Greek Astronomy                               How the Greeks used Astronomy

Heavens-Above                                 How to find the ISS or other objects in orbit

Hubble Space Telescope                    The Hubble Space Telescope page

Hubble Showcase                              Archive of Images from Hubble

ISS Sightings                                      Where is the International Space Station?

Moon Phases                     Know what phase the moon is in on any day!

Sky & Telescope Home page            

Sky Watch                                        Find the International Space Station and other satellites 

Space.com                                         Lots of various science and astronomical information.

Space.com - Viewing                        This part of Space.com will let you know what is up tonight!

Stardate.org                                       Everything from Astronomy to Space travel.

Space Weather                                  Very interesting information about space

The Messier Catalog                          The Messier Objects

The Official U. S. Time                      Official Naval Observatory Time.

 



moon info
 

 

 


Youth Astronomy

 

The Space Place                                    NASA Children's WebPages

Kid's Astronomy                                    Astronomy from a Kid's perspective

NASAKIDS 

Planet Earth and Beyond

Star Child (Young Astronomers)

Windows to the Universe (kids site)

 

 


Thirst for knowledge

 

Astronomy Notes                              Scroll down and see lots of information on lots of topics.

Deep Space 1                                  See the technology that will bring us to other planets and beyond!

Famous Astronomers                        List in Chronological order of famous Astronomers. 

Full Moon Names                             Learn what each Full Moon is called and its date.

Hyper Physics                                    Lots of really interesting information

Johnson Space Center                      The place for knowledge!

JPL Night Sky Network                    Bring Astronomy to the PUBLIC.

Keith's Moon Page                            Great source of information about the Moon

Kenyon University                             Very cool stuff

Kepler's Laws with animation            Johannes Kepler's (1571-1630) laws of planetary motion

Kepler's Law's                                  Further explanation of Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion

Lunar Eclipse                                    Lunar Eclipse predictor

Mythology ( All)                                Mythology from may countries Ancient and otherwise.

Mythology of Constellations               Neat site on the Constellations

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory     It goes without saying how valuable this site is.

NEAR Shoemaker's landing              View asteroid Eros up-front and personal  

Physics & Astronomy

Zoom Astronomy                             Great site for all kinds of information

 


Other Sites

 

Abrams Planetarium 

Arecibo Radio Observatory

Astro-Nuts Home Page

Night Sky's this Week                                   This site is authored in Craiova, Romania by Emil Neata, Amateur astronomer

Let's Talk Stars                                             David Levy's weekly radio program.                             

National Radio Astronomy 

NOAA Weather                                          The best Weather site I have ever seen!

Space flight Now                                          Lots of great information!

Sun & Moon Data 1 Day

White Memorial Conservation. Cntr              Our Dark Site Observatory

Save the Milky Way                                     Shows how Light Pollution effects our viewing!


Astronomy Clubs and Amateur Organizations

 

Astronomy Society of N. H. 

Naugatuck Valley Comm. College                Our College Observatory

Westport Astronomical Society


Desktop Planetariums

 

Celestia                                                        Ever want to zip though space?

Stellarium                                                    Stellarium renders 3-D photorealistic skies in real time with OpenGL.

Adastra Freestar                                         Adastra Freestar makes exploration of the sky in real time easy

Xearth                                                        Looking for something a tad more passive? How about a simple desktop that displays a view of Earth from

                                                                   space, shaded for the position of the sun?


Sky Charts

 

Telrad Sky Charts                                        Telrad Sky charts ( you need Adobe Acrobat)

Sky & Telescope - Sky Chart!

Sky Maps                                                   Monthly Map of the sky and what is visible (Great tool)

 

 

 

 

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