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Astronomy, Space and Stars...
General Astronomy and Guides
Tonight's Sky
- Daily sky items
Qué tal? in the Current Skies
- Good monthly "what's up" site
StarDate
- Nice site for beginners
astronomyLINKS
- Lots of info
SpaceWeather.com
- News about the Sun-Earth environment
Skyhound Observer's Pages
Backyard Astronomy
- Math Heijen's useful site
Night Sky Info
- A nice site by Emil Neata
Shadow & Substance
- Animations and graphics
Atmospheric Optics
Bad Astronomy
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
- Very good source
Sky & Telescope Magazine
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Current Sky At A Glance
Eric's World of Astronomy
Windows to the Universe
- Heaps of info on planets and astro mythology
Good S&T articles on buying telescopes and binoculars
So You Wanna Buy a Telescope
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Advice for telescope buyers
The Binocular Site
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Good site for binocular info
The Amateur Astronomers' Field Guide to Deep Sky Observing
Sky Insight
- Astronomy news, forums and search tools
Binocular Viewing Accessories
- Easy to build things for binocular users
Astromart
- Astronomy Classifieds & Auctions
Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
Wikipedia Skygazing Page
Yahoo Astronomy Page
Google Astronomy Page
Charts and Planetariums
Skymaps.com
- Free Monthly Printable Star Charts
DeepSkyLive
- Freeware web-based sky charting application
Sky View Cafe
- Lots of info from a Java applet
Your Sky
- Interactive Planetarium
What my sky looks like now
Solar System Live
MyStarsLive
- Interactive star chart
National Geographic Star Chart
An Atlas of the Universe
Java StarGazer
Chris Dolan's Constellation Pages
Images and Catalogs
Messier45.com
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Messier Index
Interactive NGC Catalog
Aladin previewer
JPL Solar System Dynamics
Wes Stones's astronomical sketches
NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
STScI Digitized Sky Survey
Saguaro Astronomy Club Deep Sky Database
Portraits of Stars and their Constellations
All The Sky
- Digital images of the sky
Anglo-Australian Observatory of Astronomical Images
Current Solar Image in Hydrogen-Alpha light
My own Hale-Bopp photo
- Taken 5-Mar-97 from Southern California
National Optical Astronomy Observatory Image Gallery (NOAO)
Astronomical Data Sources
Solar System
The Nine Planets
- A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory)
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Owens Valley Solar Array
Mt. Wilson Solar Tower
NASA Earth Observatory
SunriseSunset.com
Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset
PlanetScapes
International Dark-Sky Association
The US at Night
Planetary Photojournal
Office of Earth Sciences
- Astronaut Photography of Earth
Earth View
- Current day/night on planet Earth
World Sunlight Map
- With current cloud cover
Moon Phase
Asteroid/Comet orbit diagrams
Comet elements and ephemerides
Skyhound comet page
Comet Charts
Weekly Information about Bright Comets
- Good site with a weird color scheme
Eclipse Home Page
Satellites and Space Exploration
Heavens Above
- Very good satellite site
International Space Station current location
J-Track Java Tracker
- Live Satellite Map
Spaceflight Now
- Excellent space site
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
NASA Human Spaceflight
- Shuttle and ISS homepage
Shuttle Countdown Online
NASA TV
JPL's Space Calendar
CelesTrak Two-Line Element (TLE) Sets
National Space Science Data Center
Yahoo Satellite Page
Google Satellite Page
Software that i use
Hallo northern sky
- My most used astro program (Free)
Home Planet
- Planetarium program (Free)
Cartes du Ciel
- Powerful sky chart program (Free)
StarCalc
- Nice and fast (Free)
XEphem
- Unix (Free sources)
SkyTools
- Exellent planning and charting program (Commercial)
Earth Centered Universe
- Planetarium program (Shareware)
SkyMap
- Commercial but free evaluation version is available
Orbitron
- Satellite tracking program (Free)
WinEphem
- Ephemerides program (Free)
xearth for Windows
- Day/Night display (Free)
Planetarium
- Palm Pilot application (Shareware)
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