Astronomy Education Resources

All around Fun Stuff:

• Meteor showers.
• Fred Espenak's eclipse page contains excellent info on uncoming eclipses (both solar and lunar), past eclipses, and on how to observe eclipses.
• How to observe orbiting satellites.
• Weighing Jupiter -- Computing the mass and mean density of Jupiter from simple observations of the Galillean moons.
• NASA's greatest achievements -- a chronology (thanks to Janice of the Valley Book Club!).

University Level:

• On-line site of text, In Quest of the Universe, by K.F. Kuhn, including links to some good animations.
• Solar System Collaboratory, educational modules on the solar system to drop into undergrad courses.
• Reggie Hudson's list of over 100 College-Level Astronomy Courses. Access practice exams, lecture notes, homework problems, labs, etc.
• Astronomy Notes, actually more an on-line textbook, from Nick Strobel (Bakersfield College).
• Astronomy Notes from the University of Tennessee, also listed as "extremely good" in Hudson's survey. Also excellent links to other astro resources.
• Hypertext Topics in Astronomy and Physics courtesy of Univ of Oregon.
• Imagine the Universe one a WEBBY award for education.
• WebStars has some neat eclipse stuff, visual demos.
• Hipparcos Educational Resources, for some Astrometry fun.
• Comprehensive Dictionary of Physics, 'nuf said.

K-12 Level:

• Hubble Space Telescope Education Sites, including on-line lessons, image gallery, etc.
• Windows to the Universe
• Universe in the Classroom the ASP Teacher's Newsletter, plus lots of class projects.

Instructive Observations:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures.
• NOAO Image Gallery.
• Solar and Interplanetary Phenomena from NOAA (sunspots, daily H-alpha obs, etc).
• Daily solar images from the Mt. Wilson 150-ft Tower Telescope.
• Reaching for the Red Planet, 4-6 graders plan a Mars colony.

Other Useful Sites:

• Links to Space Science from the Colorado Space Grant College.
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy includes on-line astronomy dictionaries and handbooks.
• Chris Dolan's Astrophysical Calculator

Newsletters:

• Newsletter of the AAS Working Group on Astronomy