ASTRONOMY 130: USEFUL WEB LINKS

OBSERVING THE SKY

• Sky at a Glance(Sky & Tel Magazine weekly list of sky phenomena)
• Sun and Moon Data for Any Date(USNO)
• ScienceNet Night Patrol (sky maps and info on current sky)
• Your Sky (interactive planetarium)
• JPL Space Calendar (astronomical & space program events)
• Comets & Meteor Showers
• Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (everything you could possibly want to know about eclipses)
• Heavens Above (information on observing artificial satellites)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Astronomy Without a Telescope (introduction to naked-eye astronomy by Nick Strobel)
• The Constellations & Their Stars
• Constellations, Stars, & Deep Sky Objects (Peoria Astronomical Society)
• The Nine Planets (multimedia tour of the solar system)

MAGAZINES

• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine

SOFTWARE

• Starry Night (best of the planetarium simulators)
• Master List of Astronomy Software

OTHER

• Charlottesville Astronomical Society
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Hubble Space Telescope Image Archive
• Resources on Light Pollution
• Primer on Astrophotography
• Skyview Virtual Observatory (retrieve images of sky in all EM bands from radio to X-ray)
• Astronomy Guide (web index & guide for amateur astronomy)
• Astronomy Links, Lists, & Newsgroups (Sky & Tel)
• AstroWeb (web index & guide for professional astronomy)