Some neat astronomical links...
Publications
Free Planetarium Software
Web Resources
Astronomical Organizations and
Interests
- Epo's Chronicles (a web comic from the outreach group at Sonoma State - very cool!)
- Sky & Telescope
- Astronomy
- Star Date
- Universe Today
- SPACE.com
- The Astronomy Cafe
- Earth and Sky
the universe adventure (a cool project funded in part by NSF, DOE, LBNL, and the Bechtel Corporation)
Online tutorial on using an SC001 chart
- Heavens Above (satellite, HST, ISS, iridium flare, etc. predictions for your area)
- Skyview
- Satellites
- AstroWeb
- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
- Excellent articles for beginners from Sky and Telescope
- Star-finding with a planisphere
- One free sky map each month
- USNO Data Services (Sun/Moon, Rise/Set, Twilight, Eclipses, Transits, other astronomical phenomena)
- Powers of 10 Tutorial
- Retrograde Motion Animated Demonstration
- Foucault Pendulum and the rotation of the Earth (from the California Academy of Sciences)
- Diagramming the plane of oscillation on the floor
- How position on the Earth affects the apparent change of the pendulum's plane of oscillation
- Visible spectra of the elements, absorption and emission
- Windows to the Universe
- Cosmic Evolution, from the Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University
- Moon phase calculator
- the Hubble Deep Field
- SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
- 3D Guide to the Galaxy by NASA's PlanetQuest
- excellent Moon map
- Astrophysics Links & Resources
- table of the 88 official constellations (note the mythology sections are somewhat information-light)
- Moon Phases Pictures (also has links to solar system sites)
- Fourmilab Switzerland has tons of cool resources not limited to astronomy
- click "Astronomy and Space" from the "Science" menu at left to get those specific resources
- SpaceWeather.com
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal
- The
NineEight Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System- NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator
- The official U.S. Time
- track spacecraft at NASA
- NASA - JPL Space Calendar
- TerraServer - USA
- A View from the Back of the Envelope
- Runaway Universe from NOVA Online
- Night Sky Live (live webcams at night from observatories around the world)
Astronomical Organizations and Interests
- Considering space tourism? Some have done it already! Space Adventures
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- American Astronomical Society
- The Planetary Society, the largest nonprofit, nongovernmental space advocacy group on Earth
- SETI Institute, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and SETI@home where you can get a screensaver that allows your personal computer to help reduce and analyze some of the SETI data
- U.S. Naval Observatory
- San Diego Amateur Astronomers
- Griffith Observatory
- Los Angeles Astronomical Society
- list of clubs in southern California (from the Los Angeles Astronomical Society)
- Riverside Telescope Makers' Conference (RTMC) annual Nightfall