Astronomy

Astronomical internet resources from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Calendar of events, image library, directions, and course offerings.

A 42 cm instrument used for public observing, undergraduate teaching and instrument development.

Includes information on 12 inch and solar equipment, images, and history.

The Department concentrates on observational astronomy and provides education from undergraduate to Ph.D. level. Provides details of research projects and outreach. English and Spanish.

Images, star enhancement processing, equipment information, and what's new.

Getting started, CG-5 mount, SAA 100 list, constellation portraits, barn door tracker, comet Hale Bopp, homemade eyepieces, EQ mount tutorial, millennium rant, and biography, home.

Specializes in white dwarf studies. Includes curriculum vitae and research articles. Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Villanova University.

Research astronomer at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. Specializes in studying stellar structures. Includes publications, essays, research projects, related software, and biographical background.

Class materials, online astronomy text (work in progress), astronomical activities and information about Professor Seligman's fictional works.

Article from Christian Science Monitor about Paul Steinhardt and his work on the "Ekpyrotic Universe", a speculative model which uses concepts of string theory to arrive at a periodically repeating series of big bangs.

(CDS) Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, and directory.

The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.

The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph

Provides information on extrasolar planets, ranging from answers to simple questions to a whole course, with a database and interactive simulations.

Living a life on Earth with cosmic conciousness, saving Earth's damaged ecosystem, karma, time travel, love and compassion.

Determining the distances to nearby galaxies.

Purpose is to understand the creation of galaxies and the universe has evolved. Plans to study distant galaxies at optical, infrared, and radio frequencies.

Tutorial/historical exposition of the motion of Earth in space, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight, on a high school level.

The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course.

Astronomy in Israel from Og's Circle to the Wise Observatory.

PBS articles about 20th century astronomy and physics.

Archive of the History of Astronomy Discussion Group, the mailing list for scholars in this field.

The history of telescopes.

A list of images and text from the University of Oregon Gallery.

User contributed images of deep sky, solar system, and astronomy-related.

Interacting galaxies.

Contains digitized images of the whole sky.

More Hubble images.

Features a different image or photograph of our universe each day, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Evolutionary cycle of Interstellar Organic Molecules - Fullerenes, PAHs, Polyyenes, and biomolecules.

Offers news stories related environmental issues, archeology, astronomy, technology, geology and other science topics.

From aliens to asteroids, satellites to shuttle missions, explore the universe with the latest news, launches and astronomical sightings.

News, public relations, FAQ, and the people.

Equipment and instrument information, general information, news and events, projects and images, and history.

Consortium of educational and other non-profit institutions that operates world-class astronomical observatories.

General information, astrophotography index, and links.

Database of all worldwide facilities.

Member information, meeting announcements, publications and reports, awards, and links to related sites.

Promoting the use of open scriptable tools for amateur and educational astronomy.

Review of the solar system simulator (by Spacetech) for RISC OS workstations.

Free and open java based astronomical logging tool. It stores data in an XML format called COMAST, a tool which provides a free schema definition for all kinds of astronomical observations.

Online software that generates views of the bodies of our planetary system at any date from any artificial or natural point of observation.

Provides detailed information related to known bodies in orbit around the Sun. Ephemerides, physical parameters, Earth close-approaches, observer tools.

Fairly detailed information about our sun and its planets.

Features Moon rocks, Mars meteorites, and space exposed materials at NASA's curation office.

Part of NASA's Office of Space Science that describes NASA's program to explore the solar system.

Cycles, resonances, synchronizations and interactions in the solar system.

Construction of reflector, refractor, and mini solar cam with images, and astro images.

Simple and proven techniques that most appropriate for the beginner and the novice mirror and telescope makers.