Links to other Astronomy Resources

Recent Science and News

• Cassini Mission checkin' out Saturn -- drop Huygens Probe onto Titan in January 2005!
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission still ramblin' around Mars
• Stardust Mission swept up dust from a comet
• Space Weather
• NASA News - press releases, inside NASA
• from the Hubble Space Telescope

Astro Images

• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures (many!) and Heritage Group archive (nice stories).
• Anglo-Australian Observatory photos, mostly by David Malin (awesome!).
• Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• The Nine Planets.
• Messier Objects (galaxies, nebulae, etc).
• Meteor Pictures from Bob Yen.
• StarGazer: online sky visualization software from outerbody.com

Observing

• Eclipses
• Meteor Showers
• Artificial Satellites

Buying Astronomy Equipment

• Research before you buy.
• Telescopes
• Binoculars
• Test drive some equipment at a large Star Party and talk with experienced amateurs.

Fun and Funny Astronomy

• Bad Astronomy -- setting straight many misconceptions, misinterpretations and misrepresentations of astronomy in movies, news, and TV shows.
• Astronomy Humor from Yahoo!

Periodicals

• Sky and Telescope and its electronic version Sky Online
• Astronomy
• Astronomy Now (online)
• Mercury

Amateur Societies

• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
• American Association of Variable Star Observers
• International Meteor Organization
• Search for a society near you

Products

• Sky & Telescope Store: books, posters and gadgets (including planispheres)
• ASP Catalog: ditto, plus educational stuff

Space Missions (only a few of many)

• Space Shuttle (the primary launch vehicle for US satellites and payloads)
• International Space Station Freedom
• NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) studies the Sun.
• A nice article about Space Elevators and related studies (suggested by the campers from The CA Hiking Page).

NASA Centers (only a few of many)

• NASA Home - links to all centers, and NASA-wide search tool
• Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) - focus on human space flight

Space Garbage -- Natural and Man-Made.

• Tiny stuff circling Earth.
• Tiny telecom satellites: blessing or curse?

Links to more Links

• through the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Yahoo!'s Astronomy page
• AstroPlace
• Teaching kids about the solar system from homeadviceguide.com (recommended by Joanna in Santa Monica, CA).

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There are many more such links, and this list is gradually expanding.

If you have one you would like to share, please let me know.

Fall 2018, ACL