Astronomy Links
Current Events

• This Week's Sky at a Glance
• StarDate's Weekly Night Sky Update
• Sky & Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin
• Highlights of the Night Sky for 1997
• Space Calendar
• Evening Events for Star Gazers
• Morning Events for Star Gazers
• Astronomy Today
• What's Happening this year in Astronomy from Perkins Observatory
• Upcoming Ventura Astronomical Society Events
• Startrak: monthly viewing tips for the night sky
• Astronomical Events
• Skywatcher's Diary
• Sky Calendar
• Forthcoming Astronomical Events
• Current Celestial Events

Space Shuttle

• Current Mission
  • Current Shuttle Mission Info
  • Current Shuttle Status Report
  • Space Today
  • Shuttle Countdown Status
  • Shuttle Countdown Clock
  • Shuttle Launch
  • Current Shuttle Liftoff Status
  • Time until Liftoff
  • Current Attitude and Pointing Data
  • Current Mission Update
  • Current Mission Status Report
  • Current Mission Timeline
  • Crew Wake-up Calls
  • Shuttle Mission Live Real Audio
  • NASA Real Audio Files
  • SpaceZone Audio
  • NASA DEMOS Tracking Display
  • NASA DEMOS Tracking Display
  • United Space Alliance Live Shuttle Data
  • Real-Time World Map Display
  • Space Shuttle Monitor
  • Kennedy Space Center Video Feeds
  • SpaceZone
  • Space Shuttle Talk
  • NASA TV
  • NASA TV Schedule
  • Real Time Shuttle Data
  • Shuttle Orbit
  • Shuttle Sightings
  • Shuttle State Vectors
  • Shuttle Landing
  • Shuttle Landing Groundtracks
  • Shuttle Entry Viewing
  • Today@NASA
  • NASA Television
  • Shuttle Tracking Page
  • Shuttle Tracking Data
  • Shuttle Tracking Data
  • Space Shuttle Visibility
• Previous Missions
  • Previous Shuttle Mission Info
  • Space Shuttle Launches
  • Space Shuttle Mission Chronology
• Future Missions
  • Future Shuttle Mission Info
  • Space Shuttle Launch Schedule
  • Future Shuttle Launches
• Misc.
  • NASA Shuttle Web Archives
  • Space Shuttle Status Reports
  • Kennedy Space Center News Releases
  • Space Shuttle Facts and Statistics
  • The Utterly Unoffical Space Shuttle Mission Guides
• Challenger
  • An Account of the Final Hours of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Very much worth reading)
  • The Challenger Accident
  • Doomed from the Beginning
  • President Reagan's speech on the Challenger Disaster
  • Challenger Engineering Ethics
  • Roger Boisjoly on the Challenger Disaster
  • Challenger Transcript
  • Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
  • Richard Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
  • NASA's "Kerwin" Report on How the Astronauts Died
  • The origins of the "transcript"
  • Remembering the Shuttle, Forgetting the Loom: Interpreting the Challenger Disaster

Satellites

• Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
• German Space Operations Centre Satellite Predictions Page
• Satellite Passes
• Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service
• Satellite Tracking Prediction Form
• Space Station Mir Visibility Data
• Space Station Mir
• Visibility Predictions for Mir
• Present Location of Mir
• J-Pass for Satellite Passes (Java)
• Java Tracker of Mir's Location
• Mir Space Station Observing
• Shuttle/Mir Tracking Data
• Mir Watch
• Mir Space Station
• Mir Tracking Data
• Keplerian Elemant Data References
• Spotting Satellites
• Jonathan's Space Report
• The Obrital Elements
• Orbital Element Sources
• 100 or so brightest Satellites
• View Earth from a Satellite
• SatSpy for Windows
• LogSat Professional
• Satellite Re-entry
• Upcoming Satellite Re-entries
• Satellite Collision with space debris
• Tether Physics and Survivability Experiment (TiPS)
• Space Shuttle

Comets

• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Information on Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer
• Comet Hale-Bopp Ephemerides
• Comet Hale-Bopp Orbit and Ephemeris Information
• View of Hale-Bopp's orbit
• Light Curve of Comet Hale-Bopp
• Cambridge University Press Comet Hale-Bopp Site
• Alan Hale's comments on the recent cult suicide
• Comet Hyakutake
• JPL/NASA Comet Observation Page
• Bright Comets in the Sky
• Comets Currently Visible
• Comet News
• Meteor News
• Earth and Sky Presents: A Great Year for the Geminids
• Comet Recent News and Observations
• Latest Comet Discoveries
• Sky Online's Comet Page
• Current Comet Magnitudes
• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
• Impact Cratering on Earth
• Terrestrial Impact Craters
• Comets: How and where to find them
• Science Web - The Great Canadian Hairy Star Party
• Sky Online's Meteor Page

Eclipses

• Great video of June 2002 eclipse
• Live Eclipse 98
• Royal Greenwich Observatory Eclipse Page
• March 23, 1997 Partial Eclipse of the Moon (Sky & Telescope Site)
• Future Lunar Eclipses visible from Los Angeles
• Solar-Eclipse Preview: March 9, 1997 from Sky & Telescope
• Total Solar Eclipse of March 9, 1997 from NASA
• Partial Solar Eclipse of October 12, 1996
• September 1996 Total Eclipse of the Moon from Sky & Telescope
• Total Lunar Eclipse of September 26/27, 1996 (Greenwich Royal Observatory Site)
• Total Lunar Eclipse of September 27, 1996
• Harvest Moon Eclipse Special Article from Earth & Sky
• April, 1996 Total Eclipse of the Moon from Sky & Telescope
• April 3, 1996 Lunar Eclipse
• Solar Eclipse Preview: February 26, 1998 from Sky & Telescope
• Total Solar Eclipse of February 26, 1998
• Solar Eclipse Preview: August 11, 1999 from Sky & Telescope
• Map of the World's Total Solar Eclipses from 1996-2035
• Lunar Eclipses visible from Allentown, PA (and generally from the rest of the US as well)
• The NASA Solar Data Analysis Center's Eclipses Page
• The Lunar Eclipse Observer
• Tropical Adventures Solar Eclipse Cruises
• Hole in the Sky Solar Eclipse Cruises

Software

• Home Planet
• CyberSky
• Skymap for Windows
• Skymap for UNIX
• SatSpy for Windows
• LogSat Professional
• The Earth Centered Universe
• Deepsky 2000

The Solar System

• The Planets of Our Solar System
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
• Earth Viewer
• Solar System Live
• Planet Finder
• Planet Finder
• Views of the Solar System
• Welcome to the Planets
• Our Solar System
• Guide to the Solar System
• Mars News
• Jupiter's Moons
• Jupiter and the Galilean Moons (Java)
• Rising, Transit, and Setting times
• Planets & the Solar System
• The Planets
• Planetary Fact Sheet
• Planet Graphs
• Objects within Our Solar System
• Planet & Asteroid Data Calculator
• Saturn Ring Plane Crossings of 1995-1996
• Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
• Astronomy Information
• The Planetary Society
• Mars Today

Astronomy 101

• Astronomy 101 at the University of Washington
• Astronomy 1 from the University of Pennsylvania
• Astronomy Notes
• Web Based Instructional Modules from the University of Iowa

Misc

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Very Informative Information Leaflets provided by the Royal Greenwich Observatory
• Phases of the Moon
• Phase of the Moon
• Finding the Crescent Moon
• Sky Online
• GalacticSky Charts
• StarDate Online
• Space Today
• SpaceNews
• This year's Launch Schedule
• Lockheed Martin Launch Schedule
• Vandenberg Air Force Base Public Affairs
• Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule
• Viewing Vandenberg AFB Launches
• Iridium Late Breaking News
• International Launch Services
• Vandenberg Air Force Base
• Space Archive
• The International Occultation Timing Association
• Sky Online's Occultation Page
• Occultations by Solar System Objects
• ORyan's Astronomy Site
• Astronomy Now: Breaking News
• NASA
• Space Station This Week
• NASA Press Releases
• Flat Screen Space Theator
• CBS News: Up to the Minute; The Space Space
• Rise, Set, and Twilight definitions
• Time and Space Analogy
• Life on Mars
• Apollo 8 Man Around the Moon
• Discussion of Report by "Weekly World News" of Moon Landing Hoax by NASA
• Richard Evans Lunar Homepage
• Reflections on a Mote of Dust by Carl Sagan
• The Space Report
• The Space Report Home Page
• Discussion of the Missing Day in Earth's History
• Days of Air and Space Calendar
• How long can a human live unprotected in space
• Mount Wilson Observatory Online StarMap
• Estimating Limiting Magnitude
• The American Association of Variable Star Observers
• Breaking News in Space
• Saturn Ring Plane Crossings
• The STScI Digitized SKy Survey
• Hubble Space Telescope Images and Press Releases
• Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
• Project Galileo: Countdown to Ganymede
• Galileo Mission
• The Future of Life on Earth
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
• Star Facts
• Astronomical Sky Calendar (Sunrise, sunset, LST)
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy is pretty good, but there are more than a couple inaccuracies.
• Space Quotes
• The AstroWeb Consortium
• AstroNet
• AstroNet HotLinks
• 25 Brightest Stars
• The Griffith Observatory
• Coordinate systems used in Astronomy
• Coordinate Conversions
• Time and the Amateur Astronomer
• What Time is it?
• Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight Chart for Fairbanks Alaska
• Amateur Astronomy: Compiling a sequential events list of all easily observable configurations (scroll down a little after following link)
• Star Parties and other Astrogatherings
• History of Astronomy
• Earth & Sky
• Los Angeles Astronomical Society
• An Alien Encounter
• The Insignificance Song
• "Origin of the Universe" by S. W. Hawking
• "Baby Universes, Children of Black Holes" by S. W. Hawking
• Astronomy Book Reviews

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