Astronomy

News for, by and about amateur astronomers around the world. A quarterly publication with lots of articles and pictures about all aspects of amateur astronomy.

Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [Commercial, demo available. Windows]

JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]

Planet2010 high accuracy astronomy software using VSOP87 planetary theory for calculating the positions of all of the planets within our solar system. Software is accurate for years between 1900 and 2100 (Commercial - win95,98,NT,win2000,XP).

Interactive astronomy curriculum to help teachers inspire and engage astronomy and space science students across all levels of knowledge and ability.

[open source - Unix, VMS] A toolbox in the form of an environment with a large set of moderate-sized programs which perform individual tasks involving calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data.

[opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.

European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76

The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me."

A program to study the time variability of the outer planets.

Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.

Selected NASA images.

Companion resource to an astronomy textbook, contains links and current news about meteorites and asteroids.

Overview of asteroids, comets, meteors. Images, data, links.

Overview of asteroids, comets, and meteors, with special attention to the impact hazard to Earth.

Provides detailed information on asteroids, comets and meteoroids.

Selected articles, usually with some connection to life on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

Educational information about the Sun.

Virtual tour of the sun which uses images, diagrams, and movies to illustrate subjects such as solar wind, solar flares, the solar surface and sunspots.

Extensive information about the group and the project, which aims to conduct a detailed study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology.

Overview including general information, data, pictures, news, historical and mythological background.

Ancient Indian constellations and stars identified.

Article from Wikipedia on this remnant that can result from the gravitational collapse of a massive star.

Network utilizing neutrino detectors to detect neutrino burst from supernova in order to provide a prompt alert to astronomers.

A list of the latest Supernovae with reference images.

Paper by James Marusek describing how a string of nearby supernova events produce and reinvigorate ice ages.

Stars and the Hertzprung-Russell diagram (where a star's absolute luminosity is plotted against its surface temperature).

Deep sky, solar system, and terrestrial images, including equipment information, and helpful articles.

Galleries, equipment and techniques, challenges, tutorials and articles.

Pictures, and equipment and software details.

Diary of an astronomer, image archive, moon archive, and equipment information.

Planet, star cluster, nebula, and galaxy galleries with equipment information.

Astronomical image galleries, equipment details, and resources.

Includes astronomical images, equipment details, and helpful resources.

Image galleries, equipment details, and methods.

Images with various cameras, and hydrogen alpha CCD images.

Images of sun, moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, and includes equipment and software information.

Gallery and equipment images.

Deep space, solar system, and comets imagery with equipment information.

Information on astro imaging and images of novae, supernovae, variable stars and other astronomical objects.

Film images and equipment details.

General information, news, events, calendar, and archives.

Conducts activities such as sky watching, lectures on astronomy related subjects, and provides an online astronomy quiz.

News, estimating brightness, photography, reporting discoveries, and articles.

Director's notes, member's activities, gallery, dust storm and predust storm images, and links.

A new tour each night, with maps, photos, explanations, animations, selected links and music.

Observatory and instruments, sunspot information, solar photography, images, events, and links.

Discussion for DS users and owners.

Description of the eclipse with photos and information about observing site and equipment used.

Technical information about SETI observatory in Australia.