Astronomy

Observatory, equipment, gallery, tips, and links.

Gallery with photo details. Provides local sunset times for southern hemisphere cities.

Gallery, images, equipment, and accessories.

Information on basics, equipment, what to see, astrophotography, and links.

Guides for getting started in astronomy.

Tips for getting started in astronomy.

Newsgroups with general, solar, and UK astronomy news groups.

General, observing, imaging, equipment, news, clubs, and education.

Amateur astronomy with webcams. Also illustrated lessons and photos in 3D.

Links to astronomy and physics sites.

Resources, discussions and information about Meade ETX astro telescopes.

Varun Khetarpal's astronomy and space travel blog.

Beginner's advice and articles, and telescope, eyepiece and accessory reviews.

Issued twice a month, and describes all space launches, including piloted missions and automated satellites.

Satellite information, ISS information, ISS software, NASA Live TV, images, Kepler data, and links.

Interactive planetarium that can produce maps for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location.

Location, facilities, dates, rules, photos, and registration information.

Presents information on aberrations, obstruction effects, and reflecting, refracting, and catadioptric objectives, and the eyepiece and eye.

A major information source, with projects, detailed technical information, links to related sites, listings of societies.

Software to design a vertical (wall mounting) sundial for walls that face up to 60 degrees away from due-south.

Shareware and freeware software for design and planning for the most popular.

Contains both original data and descriptions for NASA's past missions to explore the cosmic background radiation, notably about the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite.

Homepage of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a NASA satellite launched in 2001. The goal of WMAP are precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the "electromagnetic echo" of the big bang phase of the early universe.

Description of dark matter, its properties and consequences. Includes texts, plots, graphs and schematics. By Martin White (University of California, Berkeley).

Lecture notes by Shinji Tsujikawa (Univ. of Tokyo) about the basic concepts of inflation, the generation of density perturbations, and the mechanism for reheating after inflation. Based on lectures given at The Second Tah Poe School on Cosmology in 2003.

The Double Star Library hopes to be a means by which various types of binary and multiple star information can be easily disseminated among binary star astronomers in IAU Commission 26 and related commissions.

Sternberg Astronomical Institute - Moscow, Russia.

Windows software for generating eclipse maps for solar eclipses from 3000BC to 3000AD

A list of hyperlinks to various articles on eclipses, comets, novae, and meteor showers that were seen in ancient times.

Provides predictions for grazing occultations of stars by the Moon and predictions for occultations of stars by asteroids and planets, information on observing equipment and techniques, and reports to the members of observations made.

The modern version of panspermia, Cosmic Ancestry treats all of evolution, not just the origin of life on Earth.

Encyclopedia article summarizing the concept.

Quasars are not black holes, they are laser stars within our galaxy.

Catalogue of biographical links covering hundreds prominent astronomers, past and present. [Also in German]

Brief biographies, photos, and links to winners of this annual award for lifetime contributions to astronomy.

A news release that includes photos and videos.

Blog inviting viewers to discover the Universe.

Research, public outreach, documents, logs, and information.

International gravitational observatory at the Gravity Discovery Centre in Western Australia. Gravity wave research. Interactive physics, cosmology and environmental displays.

Research, education and outreach, mission, star tales, and links.

Information, programs and services, association information, star gaze information, and links.

General information and workshop schedule.

Organization, events, publications, planetaria worldwide, and resources.

Information, shows, museums, links, resources, and news.

The solar system, nightwatch, shows, space and time gallery, and links.

Offers to design and install dome and roll-off roof observatories, ranging from modest structures to sophisticated, fully automated models. Also offers solar power systems and observatory equipment.

Details about past and future expeditions including eclipse trips, transits and Southern Skies Star Party. Travel programs by astronomers for astronomers.

Information on meteorites, meteorite dealers, tektites, meteorite gallery, auctions, and free classifieds.

Meteorite hunting and collecting resource including articles, videos, photos, maps and information on finding them, plus a wide range of meteorites for sale for education, collection and study.

Arizona space education and astronomy. Many star gazing events in Arizona.