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Astronomy, Space and Stars...

General Astronomy and Guides

Tonight's Sky - Daily sky items
Qué tal? in the Current Skies - Good monthly "what's up" site
Backyard Astronomy - Math Heijen's useful site
StarDate - Nice site for beginners
astronomyLINKS - Lots of info
The Naked Sky - Nice new monthly views site
SpaceWeather.com - News about the Sun-Earth environment
Skyhound Observer's Pages
Night Sky Info - A nice site by Emil Neata
Shadow & Substance - Animations and graphics
Atmospheric Optics
Bad Astronomy
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) - Very good source
Cosmic Voyage by Bill Ferris (Deepsky sketches)
Sky & Telescope Magazine / Current Sky At A Glance
Eric's World of Astronomy
Windows to the Universe - Heaps of info on planets and astro mythology
Good S&T articles on buying telescopes and binoculars
So You Wanna Buy a Telescope... Advice for Beginners
The Amateur Astronomers' Field Guide to Deep Sky Observing
Sky Insight - Astronomy news, forums and search tools
Binocular Viewing Accessories - Easy to build things for binocular users
Astromart - Astronomy Classifieds & Auctions
Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
Wikipedia Skygazing Page
Yahoo Astronomy Page
Google Astronomy Page

Charts and Planetariums

Skymaps.com - Free Monthly Printable Star Charts
DeepSkyLive - Freeware web-based sky charting application
Sky View Cafe - Lots of info from a Java applet
Your Sky - Interactive Planetarium
- What my sky looks like now
Solar System Live
MyStarsLive - Interactive star chart
National Geographic Star Chart
An Atlas of the Universe
Java StarGazer
Stig's Sky Calendar - Neat! Needs Java
Chris Dolan's Constellation Pages

Images and Catalogs

Solar System

The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory)
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Owens Valley Solar Array
Mt. Wilson Solar Tower - Daily sunspot drawing
Solar System Simulator - Really neat!
NASA Earth Observatory
SunriseSunset.com
Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset
PlanetScapes
International Dark-Sky Association
The US at Night
Planetary Photojournal
Farmer's Almanac Astronomy
Office of Earth Sciences - Astronaut Photography of Earth
Earth View - Current day/night on planet Earth
World Sunlight Map - With current cloud cover
Moon Phase
Comet Observation Home Page
Asteroid/Comet orbit diagrams - Java
Comet elements and ephemerides
Skyhound comet page
Comet Charts
Weekly Information about Bright Comets - Good site with a weird color scheme
Eclipse Home Page

Satellites and Space Exploration

Heavens Above - Very good satellite site
- Space Station Alpha current location
J-Track Java Tracker - Live Satellite Map
Spaceflight Now - Excellent space site
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
NASA Human Spaceflight - Shuttle and ISS homepage
Shuttle Countdown Online
NASA RealtimeData Video
JPL's Space Calendar
CelesTrak Two-Line Element (TLE) Sets
National Space Science Data Center
Yahoo Satellite Page
Google Satellite Page

Software that i use

Hallo northern sky - My most used astro program (Free)
Home Planet - Planetarium program (Free)
Cartes du Ciel - Powerful sky chart program (Free)
StarCalc - Nice and fast (Free)
XEphem - Unix (Free sources)
SkyTools - Exellent planning and charting program (Commercial)
Earth Centered Universe - Planetarium program (Shareware)
SkyMap - Commercial but free evaluation version is available
Orbitron - Satellite tracking program (Free)
WinEphem - Ephemerides program (Free)
xearth for Windows - Day/Night display (Free)
Planetarium - Palm Pilot application (Shareware)
Huge list of astro software at SEDS

Browse books about astronomy at Amazon.com

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