ASTRONOMY 121 [O'CONNELL]
USEFUL WEB LINKS

NASA MISSIONS

• The Hubble Space Telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope (orbiting infrared telescope)
• Galaxy Evolution Explorer (orbiting ultraviolet telescope)
• Mercury Messenger Mission
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Current & Planned Missions to Mars
• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
• New Horizons Mission to Pluto

COURSE TEXTS

• Bennett et al., The Cosmic Perspective, 5/E (publisher's web site)
• Mastering Astronomy (supplementary resources for Bennett text)
• H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds, UVA Electronic Text Center. (You can read 7 other Wells novels there as well.)

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Astronomy Without a Telescope (introduction to naked-eye astronomy by Nick Strobel)
• The Constellations & Their Stars
• The Nine Planets (multimedia tour of the solar system, many images & links)
• Views of the Solar system (ditto)
• Intermediate-Level Course on Planetary Science (Toby Smith, UWash)
• Astronomy Guide (web index & guide for amateur astronomy)
• Astronomy Links, Lists, & Newsgroups (Sky & Tel)
• Planetary Fact Sheets (data for each planet, Goddard SFC)

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGE SITES

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Anglo-Australian Observatory/David Malin (best set of color, ground-based photographs of astronomical objects)
• Hubble Space Telescope Image Archive
• JPL Photojournal Image Site
• Photo Archive at Views of the Solar System
• Science and Art (nice small telescope images by Bill & Sally Fletcher)
• America the Beautiful at Night (nice night sky scenes from Wally Pacholka)
• Mt. Wilson Virtual Observatory (nice pix by C. Gino)

OBSERVING THE SKY

• Observing highlights this week (Sky & Telescope)
• Sun and Moon Data for Any Date(USNO)
• Your Sky (interactive planetarium)
• JPL Space Calendar (astronomical & space program events)
• American Meteor Society
• Observing Comets (Gary Kronk)
• Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (everything you could possibly want to know about eclipses)
• Heavens Above (information on observing artificial satellites; sky charts)
• SpaceWeather.com (information on current sky & magnetospheric phenomena)
• ASTR 121 Weather Page

MAGAZINES & NEWS

• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• Spaceflight Now Website
• Space Ref Website

SOFTWARE

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

OTHER

• International Year of Astronomy (2009) Home Site
• Charlottesville Astronomical Society
• How to Fight Light Pollution
• Universe Within (Powers of Ten) (interactive Java tutorial, FSU)
• Skyview Virtual Observatory (retrieve images of sky in all EM bands from radio to X-ray)
• Bad Astronomy (a site devoted to debunking misconceptions, fraud, and pseudoscience in astronomy and the media, run by UVa Astronomy grad Phil Plait)
• Animations and Videos related to course. (W. H. Freeman, from the textbook Discovering the Universe)