ASTRONOMY 313: USEFUL WEB LINKS

ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES

• NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
• SIMBAD

ABSTRACTS AND PREPRINTS

• Journal Query Page for ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) Abstract Service
• Query Page for the Astrophysics Preprint Server ("astro-ph")

OBSERVING THE SKY

• SkyView Virtual Observatory
• Sky at a Glance (Sky & Telescope Magazine weekly list of sky phenomena -- click on "Observing Feature/This Week's Sky at A Glance")
• Sun and Moon Data for Any Date (USNO)
• Your Sky (interactive planetarium)
• JPL Space Calendar (astronomical & space program events)
• Spaceweather.com (useful updates on the Sun, solar activity, aurorae)
• Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (everything you could possibly want to know about eclipses)
• Heavens Above (information on observing artificial satellites)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Astronomy Without a Telescope (introduction to naked-eye astronomy by Nick Strobel)
• The Constellations & Their Stars
• Constellations, Stars, & Deep Sky Objects (Peoria Astronomical Society)
• The Nine (...well... eight...) Planets (multimedia tour of the solar system)
• The SED Messier Catalog

MAGAZINES

• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• Mercury Magazine (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

SOFTWARE

• Starry Night (best of the planetarium simulators)
• Master List of Astronomy Software

OTHER

• Charlottesville Astronomical Society
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Hubble Space Telescope Image Archive
• Resources on Light Pollution (International Darksky Association)
• Primer on Astrophotography
• Skyview Virtual Observatory (retrieve images of sky in all EM bands from radio to X-ray)
• Astronomy Guide (web index & guide for amateur astronomy)
• Astronomy Links, Lists, & Newsgroups (Sky & Telescope, see lefthand menu)
• AstroWeb (web index & guide for professional astronomy)