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William Bacon's Home Pages/Astronomy Sub Section
- Astronomy information, images, photobook for the final frontier





Space, the final frontier! There is an indefinite amount of information we can learn and take away from what we already know and what we have yet to learn about astronomy. This page gives you links to other sites with specific information or images on many astronomy topics, note that only a small portion of the constantly growing information is presented but the potential to learn is great. You may find sites for your personal research or some images for your photobook (you should always ask for permission to use images before taking them off of a site).Take a look around to find something your interested in, there is a lot here so feel free to take your time.


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This section for SPECIALTY ONLINE VIEWERS!


Let's start with:
The Night Skies Network. Try this site.
If one of the over 200 channels is in red it is broadcasting.
Click on it and watch a live video and audio feed with interactive messaging. Great fun day or night:

Click here for The latest GOOGLE SEARCH FOR ASTRONOMY

A New service from GOOGLE.... GOOGLE SKY VIA YOUR WEB BROWSER


A new way to view the Milky Way! It's Chromoscope.net!

Another way to view the MOON! Zoom in with near side!

Check out Panning our galaxy!

And here Sky viewer with a google like interface

Another one is Stellarium open source planetarium for computer


Here is a website dedicated A website to dispaly popular Astronomical both visually and entertainally

A great Individual Photographic effort It's Skysurvey.org!

Clicking on the info button (the i icon) at will produce constellation stick figures, the ecliptic, and the names of some DSOs, the bright stars, and the planets.

A new resource for Astronomy information! It's Astronomy Center.org!!!

Here for a competitor to Google SKY..... For ASTRONOMY WIKI AND INTERACTIVE MAP!

Here is Microsoft's WORLD WIDE TELESCOPE!!!!


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This section for REPORTS, BLOGS FORUMS


An online blog From ABC Media network

Here is something different Destination space's Chat room

Click here for Portal to the Universe

And here for Universe Today.COM

Here is a Video Blog site ... Astrocast.tv!

A new site for Cosmology information


REPORTS

Click here for Large Binocular Telescope"

And here for Technical report on the mini galaxy in Hercules

Click here for A report on redshifts and Halton ARP

Here is a report on Telescope Arms Race


FORUMS


And here is Cosmic Controversy.com

This one from Astronomy Magazine

This one from Astronomy daily.com

And from Astromart

Threads from Cloudy nights

Amatuer Astronomy From Phill Harrington.net

AND a personal blog Jonathan's Space Report


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This section for the "zoo" family of webpages.....

This site for a distributive effort to classify Galaxies...

A slightly less ambitious project is The Milky Way Project aims to sort
and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Initially we're asking you to help us find and draw bubbles in beautiful infrared
data from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

And a complimentary site is... Moon Zoo.org

You can assist in finding... SUPERNOVAS!

And You can assist in finding Exo planets!!!

Here is Old weather.org

And another one... Solar Storm Watch!

And here for Merging galaxies!

Another one searching for super novas!

You can go with the Pluto Mission with.. ICE HUNTERS (for pluto!)

Here is ICE hunters demo!

And the science of ICE Hunters Science

AND A tutorial for ICE HUNTERS


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The following section is for observing The Auroras!


This section for auroral observations

NOAA DOES Satellitte Auroal MAPS



Here is the forecast for auroral activity Here for Current Auroral activity

AND HERE .... Auroral forecasts....

Click here for The Aurora Sentry!!!!

Here is a new service for Aurora alerts! It's Space Weather Phone - Auroral alert system

Click here for Space Weather

And here for Spacespot.com another astro community effort

Here is Curtis' Aurora resources Click Here!

This site for real time resouces!Click here

Here for MTU aurora weather Click here

Here for ICSTARS resources Click here

This site for For paricle breeze images

Auroras from early 2012


Aurora 2012 from Christian Mülhauser on Vimeo.



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Observatories!

Web site The website of the world's largest telscope under construction

And here is Keck Observatory's Main page

Click here for Keck's Titan's page

Web cams at the Keck Observatory! CLICK HERE!

Here is The thiry meter telescope

Click here for Northern Virgina's Sun gazer net

Click here for NSF-OPP Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

Click here for DASI(Degree angular Scale Interferometer) Home Page

Click here for European Sothern Observatory"

Here is the web page for the Sub millimeter array main page

Here is: The soho OBSERVATORY main page

Here is the soho's latest image:


Here is the main page for Solar Dynamics Observatory

HERE IS the latest sdo/aia image:


This section for the Mt Graham National observatory...

The original site.... CLICK HERE!

And the New site.... CLICK HERE

This site for Skyview Virtual Observatory

Click here for Sungazer Comets

And here for The NSF Digital Sky

Here is the Hubble Space Institute's STSCI Digitized Sky Survey"

Here is the Hubble Institue's Hubble Heritage Institute


This section for the Keck Observatory


This is the site for the Keck Observatory On top of Mauna Kea!!

Thisis the plan to develop Mauna Kea in the Future CLICK HERE!

Here is the link to Villanova University's Astronomy Department

The Astronomy Department at Villanova, Villanova, PA Villanova's Astronomy Department

Another observatory is The Griffith Observatory

Here is a famous observatory
Mt Wilson Observatory

And the view from their tower cam!


And here for The Jet propulsion Labortary

And here is an Astronomical Society Astronomical Society of the Desert

Here is LA astronomical society

And here is LA Sidewalk Astronomers

and here is Mt Wilson Obseravotry

Here is Virtual Tour Of Mt. Wilson Observatory

Another society is Orange County Astronomy

Submit your own observing request!!!!! U of Iowa Automated Telescope Obseratory

Submit your own Observing request!!!! Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory,

Another place to rent time on a telescope Arnie Rosner of Arizonia

This site for The X-ray observatory Chandra

Another online observatory is: It's Slooh.com!

Rent time for online observing, Light Buckets.com


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This section is to monitor the sun!!!!

Click here for a page of The Latest real time images of the sun

Click here for The Earth's DAYLIGHT MAP From the sun!

This site for Solar observations

Here are images from nasa Images from JSC nasa

Here is Google Sunshine.com

Here is NOAA's recent x-ray plots of the sun!

Didier Favre's images portray the prominence activity quite well!!!

And here is information on THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SUNSPOT CYCLE ON THE SUN!

This section for observing the sun


Here is the current Soho EIT IMAGE



The Current Alpha Patrol Network Image


For those who like to watch the progress of these storms the following sites are useful:

Today's Space Weather updated every 5 minutes

- NOAA's Space EnvironmentCenter:)

Solar-Terrestrial Activity

(daily postings with occasional
interim updates for major storms

NOAA's Current Solar Magnetic Index, Speed, and Pressure Dials:


Tyrell Corporation's

Solar Storm Monitor

Yet another site to observe the sun: Locheed Solar Observatory

This site is recommended by Art Bell soho's solar observatory

The New Jersey Institute of Technology solar observatory NJIT Solar observatory

Caltech solar observatory Caltech Solar observation page

Here is a sun observing site Sun Earth Day

Here is It's Solar Movie.com

Here is the naval research lab site Lasco site

Here is Soho's Self updating solar observations

Click here for Solar Astronomy.org

A new online It's Helioviewer.org


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This section for Infrared astronomy

Click here for Infrared Science Archive


Here is the sombreo galaxy in the infra red!


Here is the first Infrared Photo:

Click here for Institute for Astronomy in Hawa11

Here is the first press release First light for infrared


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This section for Amateur Astronomers

Here is a great resource for amateurs Wikipedia's list of Astronomical catalogues

CLick here for Weird World

Instead of an Internet Cafe we have: The Astronomy Cafe

Here is another great individual effort It's David Rutledge's Astro Page

Here is the site for International Spacewatch Website

The president of the Main Line Commodore User's group is a member of the Delaware Amatuer Astronomers

And here is David Rutledge's LInks page

Main page of The association of Lumar and planetary observers of Japan

Here are links for Youth in Astronomy

Here is Youth In Astronomy

And here is Dr. Robert Stencel Of Denver University

This is a student site for Hubble observations! Latest Hubble Pictures

Here is the main Students Exploring and Developing Space

Here is the web site for a club From the country of Chile


Organizations for the light pollution problem!


Here is another important organization it's The international Dark Sky orginazation

To assist the IDA is EARTH HOUR

AND here is Globe at night.org




On March 13, 1998 the DVAA visited the Eastern College Astronomy
department, The following web site is their web site!
Eastern College's Astronomy department

The DVAA's Remote observatory in the Pocono Mountains!

As a piece of information, for the beginner about the Limitation of human senses
Here is a graph that illustrates why astronomers construct telescopes
to see outsde of human ranges. It also makes me think that some animals experience the world very differently.


Here is digital imaging from Richard Berry His main page

And a picture recomended by the dvaa! Imaging with Orion's StarShoot Pro
6-Megapixel Bayer-Array CCD Camera


University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics U of PENN Astronomy and Physics

Here is the Hitch Hiker Guide to Astronomy!!!

This site for the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg PA

Here is the web page for The Naylor Observatory of the Harrisburg Astronomical Soceity


Here are other great independent efforts


A list of Astronomy clubs bringing the
wonders of the universe to the public

Here is The dvaa's own Wayne reed's astro webpage

Here is....... Ozor's Online Astronomy Club

Here is page specifying Philadelphia Area regional Astro Events

CLick here for the Website for Astronomy camp in Arizona!

Here is Damien peach's effort:

And His Website: damian Peach's Website


This section for the Texas Star Party

Here is The Texas Star Party

Here for The Fort Davis site

Here for Prude Ranch Site

This section for Amatuer Webcams in Astronomy

Click here for Web Cams in Amatuer Astronomy


Astronomy video report from Accuweather.com



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Weather Forecast | Weather Maps | Weather Radar

An excellent personal effort Amatuer Astro imaging...fourthdimensionastroimaging.com

Here is Ned Wrights Cosmological Tutorial

And click here There's another good one, by Jay Reynolds Freeman

And here Also worthwhile

You can click here For some more terminology


This section for Amateur Astronomers(DVAA)


Here is Home page with his picture collection organized!

These folks create educational astronomy simulations: Contempory Laboratory Experinces in Astronomy (CLEA)

Another source for Astronomical Information: Astronomy HyperText Textbook

Good index of astronomy resources: Ames Area Amatuer Astronomers

Astronomy Education ResourcesAstroed

This is the main page for Atronomical quizes it's The Solar System Net

The WEB PAGE of the Delaware valley Amateur Astronomers


This section for CLEAR DARK SKY PREDICTIONS from
www.cleardarksky.com


Here is the latest Clear dark sky forecast for the dvaa's observatory

The Parking lot of Francis E Walter's DAM

THE DVAA's Dark Sky Location

Here's the state site, which has directions and weather to Cherry Spring State Park

Click here for: Here's an interesting page about Cherry Spring from upstate astro:

And here for the BFSP site:


Here is the Starcount project!

Here is the DVAA's dark sky locations

Here is the DVAA LINKS PAGE

Here is the Images by members of the dvaa gallery

Here is the web site of The Delmarva Stargazers!!

Websites recomended by DVAA members on the e-List

Here is University of Pennsylvania's Center for particle cosmology

The SKY IN MOTION

Here is Scope seeing.com Louis Berman's site

A new class of objects? Or Alien Beacon?

Click here for E. E. Barnard on line

Click here for The Winer Observatory Near Nashville, TN

Another site for Amateur Astronomers is the Astronomical Leaugue The Astronomical Leaugue

Here is an amateur site for requsting your own astronomical Observation it's

The International Space Station Amateur Space Telescope

Here is a great site for computer amateur's Massive HOT LINKS FOR AMATEURS

The American Astronomical Society Has a site:

THE A A S

For you Amatuer Astronomers, Here is the

The Hipparcos Catalog with utilities!

For amatuer astronomers, here is an individual Observatory effort the Braeside Observatory in Arizona

For Amatuers..it's regional Seeing and transparency forecasts!


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This section for the Hubble Telescope

FROM NASA THE location of the Hubble telscope above the earth!


THIS IS HOW NASA WILL DO THE LAST SERVICING MISSION.




Hubble's Reflection Nebula!

The New HUBBLE IMAGE OF STEPHENS QUINTENT





The WhirlPool galaxy!





From the hubblesite

Here is Space Telescope's Hidden treasure project

Here is Hubble site !!!

AND Hubblesite's Additional resources page

Hubble site's is the Hubblesite's legacy archive

And here is Hubble site news release archive


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This section for cosmic background experiments at the University of Pennsylvania

here is the mainpage for The Univesity of Pennsylvanis's UPEEN5 Home page

Here is the Home page for Cosmic Background MicroWave Experiments

This link for NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe Web Page

Here is the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe

And here for The University of Chicago Wayne Hu's Cosmology web page

And the University of Pennsylvania's cosmo;ogist Max Tegmark


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Astronomy MagazinesP>

SKY & TELESCOPE MAGAZINE,Sky & Telescope Publishing

Here is Sky and Telescope's Internet resource page

This page is a sub page of mine to access special Sky & Telescope services

This is sub page to link you to Large Telescope projects!

The Large Scope Resource page

Here is a link to Astronomy Magazine's WEB Page:

ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE, Kalmbach Publishing

This is Kalmbach Publishing's Sister Publication E A R T H

Astronomy Magazine has an alternate WEB PAGE Astronomy's magazines alternate web page

Here is Videos from Astronomy Magazine


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Headline news from Space.com!

Here is a page devoted to Space news Jonathan's Weekly Newsletter about Space

Click here for Science Headlines from NASA

From the Japanese space agency Earth rise from the MOON!


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This section astro databases

Here is a A list of astro databases from Wikipedia

And here from from the astro league:Urban Program - Double and Variable Stars List

Here is the database solstation.com

And here for Internet stellar database.com

AND HERE FOR Atlas of the UNIVERSE


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This section is the start for The National Virtual Observatory

Here is Great Britain's ASTROGRID

Click here for The National Radio Astronomt Observatory

And click here for The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

Here is NASA's Eclipse Prediction web site

Here is a great library for AstroPhysics stuff it's Lawerence Livermore archive!!

Here is the link to the National Virtual Observatory

And here for National Teragrid!


Here is the site for The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Here is another site for The Sloan Digital Sky Survey its SDSS.org

OR here CAS.SDSS.ORG

Here is the University of Chicago's interactive 3D view of the large scale structure of the universe.
Data courtesy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

A grweat new site for A Website to display popular astronomy both
visually and entertainally


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This section is for DEEP SKY

Any relation to the recent solar activity. Probably not but it is interesting that several anomalies have developed lately in our solar system.

Here is a High resolution picture the Sombreo Galaxy

And here for Goddard Space Flight Center's SkyMorph

Here is The daily report on our Galaxy

Another site is HEASARC Data Archive

Click here for The Hands on Universe

Just to be fair, I am including a site that claims That the BIG BANG IS WRONG

Here is Princeton University's Lograrithmic maps of the universe

And here for Princeton UNiversity's ASTRO Main page

Click here for Astronomy Education Review

Here is a great amatuer observatory it's The Panther observatory

Hubble Data Archive

This Colorado site is Center for astrophysics & Science

Here is CASA's Colorado's Relativity/Black hole simulator


Here is NASA's Horizon's online Ephemeris

WEBSTARS: Astrophysics in Cyberspace

This site for the new Science of Gravity observations it's L I G O!


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This section for research in Cosmology

Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium: Large super computer
simulations of structure formation in the Universe

Scale of the Universe From the smallest to the largest of the Universe!!!


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This section for heritage projects

Here is Harvard's digital scan of historical glass plates

And here is Europe's Spectra Heritage project

And here is Sky Archive.org

ANOTHER project is The Uccle Direct Astronomical Archive Centre


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This section for images from space

Here is Dark roasted blend
Of incredibel space imagery

Searchable database of Astronomical images: Astronomical Image Library

Here is a picture of the June 8, 2004 Transit of Venus

And here is an animated picture of the venus transit:

time lapse night at the texas sky party...

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Here is NASA's new Space Image library NASA IMAGES.org

another gallery of space images Nasa's spaceflight gallery

Click here for a great online Gallery of astro photos!!!!

Astronomical Multimedia Cosmos in a Computer

This site for a large list of Astronomy Links

Here is another Another set of Astro Links

This is a great site it's Solarviews.com!!!

This site for monthly Skymaps!!!!!


Astronomical Picture of the Day subsection


Here is NASA's Astro Picture of the day!

AND HERE FOR ASTRO Picture of the day ARCHIVE

Time lapse misc video of Star rises from various Locations



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This section for MARS

Here is NASA's site for real time information From the MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR

This is NASA's Site for real time SOHO Pictures
The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery The Explore Mars Site

Here is NASA's Center for Mars Exploration

Another site is The Mars today Global Circulation Model Group

Here is a news site on Mars Daily.com

Here is the European site for It's Mars Express Site

For the U.S. it's the 2001 Mars Odyssey

And for the Japanese Mission The Japanese Nozomi Spacecraft


Here is a Home page of MERDAT 2007 Home of Mars Rover data display color and Stero image tool

here is the website for Lowell's legacy Lowell's Arizona Obsevatory's website

Here are webcams of (courtesey of the Planetary Society) Sundials on Mars on the Mars Rovers

Here is the companion Earth dial project

Here is Mars Base.net

Click here for Mars Planet finder in the sky

I posted my first attempts at Mars webcam photography. It is in the files section, The two photos were taken last Saturday through my Meade LX-90 SCT using a Toucam Pro webcam with no filters.

Just a reminder that on Aug 27, and Sep 2, 3 and 4 (no earlier than 19:30 UT), live images of Mars taken with a video camera connected to Schiaparelli's 8" Merz refractor will be webcast on the Internet. Web cam images of mars

Mars regularly comes within 35 million miles of the earth.See This opposition of Mars is so favorable because it happens to occur only 2 days before Mars reaches perihelion, not because of changes in the planets' orbits.

This site collects images taken by people all around the world Here is . 2003 Mars image viewer (Mars Previewer II

Here is another mars viewer It's Cal Sky

Here is It's Marswatch from Rowan University In New Jersey!

Mars as seen from the Earth:(Computer simulation from NASA)

Looking down on the sun Mars system(Computer simulation from NASA)

Earth as seen from Odyssey(Computer simulation from NASA)


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This section for Moon and solar system


This section for near Earth Objects


Here is Nasa's Near Earth Orbital Center at JPL!!!

Click here for Near Earth Orbiter news

HEre is NASA's spaceflight H O M E P A G E

Here is the web page for Earth's Asteroid 2002 aa29 Earth co-orbiter

This site for USGS Realtime Earth Geomagnectic data

And here for Nasa's earth observatory

Click here for Data for
observiving the International Space Station

This is the main site USGS Geomag Main site

AND here is USGS Geomag links site

Another one is The Minor Planet Center

Looking for meteors????? North American Meteor Network

Looking for asteroids? Click here!

Another place for asteriods is Minor Planet Observer

Yet another site is The Minor Planet Center!

Here is Harvard's Minor Planet Checker.....

Another site is The NEO Program

Click here for The Fairborn Observatory

Related is NASA's Space weather site


OUR MOON


The Current Phase of the MOON


CURRENT MOON


Large map of the near side of the Moon





Click here To view the Moon from the earth!

Click here for View the earth from the Moon!!!!

This site lists out phases of the moon for you! Phases of the moon!

This site for predictions for Lunar rays!!!

This is the Main Lunar occultstions web page
Moon, Lunar Videos Using Telescope and Webcam. - For more amazing video clips, click here

Click here for a Moving HDTV from the Japanese probe

Click here for The Lunar orbiter web site

This page for Lunar exploration facts and enigmas!!


Digital orreries


This is what the solar system looks like right now!Click here for a
Digital Orrery of the solar system

Yet another Digital orrery!

Click here for a musical and Pictorial look at the universe! It's SOMEWHERE INTIME!!!!!!

Here is the Home page of

This NASA site simulates views of the Solar System JPL'S Solar System Simulator

Another Nasa simulation! Simulate URANAUS

NASA's NASA's COLAB lab

NASA's NASA's OPEN Source lab

Here is NASA's EarthObservatory NASAS' earth observatory main page

This site educates and simulates the Analemma - The "Equation of Time"

Here is space weather's Fly by checker

Click here for Nine Planets.org

Click here for The latest from Cassini

Here is carolyn Porco's talk on the saturn system

Here are some images from The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in the canary islands

ThisClick here for a report on Is there a dark star in our solar system?

Click here for The New Horizons project exploring the Kuiper Belt


Current Phase Map of Titan
(surface map recomputed following each night)



Keck Observatory Titan Monitoring Project



this site for kid's Exploration of the solar system!


HERE IS Lunar Picture of the day!

CalSKY has all the moon and planet info Cal Sky.com!!!!

The Naval Observatry site has the sun and moon data ,along with times for twilight. It has dates and times for the principal phases of the moon for the years 1700-2035.

Lunar apogee and perigee date and distance, plus dates and times for new and full moon for any year. Requires that javascript be enabled.

Click here for Satelitte views of the EARTH!

This is A high resolution picture of an asteroid

Click here for The Nine Planets data base

This site for Asteroid occultations!!!

Here is a site for To assist for looking for the International Space station

This section for The June 2004 Transit of Venus

Here is NASA's Website for the transit of Venus: FROM NASA

Click here for information on the first transit of venus since December 6, 1882 The transit of venus, June 8, 2004

A new IPAD app featuring Mercury that has the latest on the mission, pictures, etc.


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This section for Astronomical articles

Another link to Harvard's astronomical article search engine

Harvard University Harvard University

Abstract indices for astrophyshical papers NASA ABSTARCT Search

Google gets some of its data from: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)


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This section for STELLAR INFORMATION

This is the

And here for Centauri DREAMS

Stellar Evolution; binary stars; eclipsing binaries JAVA DEMOS

Starlab Demonstration:N-bodySimulations

Here is the Main Astrodigital site

Generate a Starmap for a time and place of your choosing: STARMAP

You can generate a better sky map here The Online Planetarium!


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This section for General Research

Find transits of Of the International Space Station

Discovery of Additional Planets?

A neat website for Information on the night sky

Another page for Deep sky information

Web page for Space sounds!

Here are infra red images of space Caltech's 2mass gallaery

Here is Caltech's sky survey


Here is a star catalog to help with your observations US NAVY Star Catalog Home Page

A New A New Instrument for the Keck Observatory

A neat mashup To track satellites

Here is a webpage with a real use: It' Online conversion of numerous units to othe units usefull in astro research

Optical definitions Everything you ever wanted to know about optics terminology.

This is a the site for the San diego Supercomputer research center

And here for Volume visulation of the ORion Nebula

And here for The globe at night

And here Hakan's Space Balls

This site for a new look at the Universe New information on the electrical nature of the Universe

Another site for heavenly mapping It's Heavenly view.com

A site for Skymaps it's skymaps.com

Another site for Heavenly information

This Site for the messier objects

This section for GPS information

Click Here for Here's a technical description of the GPS system

And here for This is the positioning system specification

Here's an interesting website that offers some insights into GPS accuracy:

Here are the web pages for University of British Columbia

On this sub page you can search for comets! Click here for comet search!

Here is US Navy Oservotory Data site

looking for eclipses? Then click here for MR. Eclipse Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF)

Here is the website for the 100th Annivesery of the THEORY of Relativity


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