Fall 2008
ASTRONOMY 130: USEFUL WEB LINKS
OBSERVING THE SKY
Observing highlights this week (Sky & Telescope)
Sun, Moon, Planet Data for Any Date(USNO)
Your Sky (interactive planetarium)
JPL Space Calendar (astronomical & space program events)
American Meteor Society
Observing Comets (Gary Kronk)
Planet, Minor Planet, and Comet Ephemeris Service
Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (everything you could possibly want to know about eclipses)
Heavens Above (info on artificial satellites; good sky & constellation charts)
Heavens Above Charts for Charlottesville
Daily Planet Position Summary
SpaceWeather.com (information on current sky & magnetospheric phenomena)
Night Sky Live (continuous fisheye camera views of night sky from several observatories)
The Messier Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (SEDS)
The Caldwell Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Wikipedia)
SAO Star Catalog
Celestron CPC Telescopes Instruction Manual (PDF)
ASTR 130 Weather Page
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Astronomy Without a Telescope (introduction to naked-eye astronomy by Nick Strobel)
Observational Astronomy for Amateur Astronomers (David Haworth)
The Constellations & Their Stars
Constellations, Stars, & Deep Sky Objects (Peoria Astronomical Society)
The Nine Planets (multimedia tour of the solar system, many images & links)
Views of the Solar system (ditto)
Planetary Fact Sheets (data for each planet, Goddard SFC)
Digital Photography Tutorial (Cambridge in Color)
Astrophotography (J. Lodriguss)
Digital SLR Astrophotography (M. Covington)
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, a variety of 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)
MAGAZINES, BOOKS, & NEWS
Sky and Telescope Magazine
Astronomy Magazine
"Seeing in the Dark" (by Timothy Ferris);
[Also in UVa Library]
Spaceflight Now Website
Space Ref Website
SOFTWARE
Starry Night (best of the planetarium simulators)
Master List of Astronomy Software
Sky View Cafe: Free Java Applet for Sky Info/Charts
CURRENT NASA MISSIONS
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Phoenix Mars Mission
Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
Mercury Messenger Mission
Spitzer Space Telescope (orbiting infrared telescope)
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (orbiting ultraviolet telescope)
OTHER
Charlottesville Astronomical Society
How to Fight Light Pollution
Universe Within (Powers of Ten) (interactive Java tutorial, FSU)
Bad Astronomy (devoted to debunking misconceptions, fraud, and pseudoscience in the media, run by UVa Astronomy grad Phil Plait)
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 & Tel)
AstroWeb (web index & guide for professional astronomy)
International Year of Astronomy (2009) Home Site
Bennett, Donahue, and Voit
The Cosmic Perspective
(ASTR 121 text publisher's web site)
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Last modified
September 2008
by
R. W. O'Connell