A Collection of Cool Astronomy Sites

Index of Links

• Good Starting Sites
• Eclipses
• History
• Images
• Space Art
• Image Processing
• Observatories and Telescopes
• Planets
• Planetariums and Museums
• Research Programs
• Sky Browser
• Societies
• Space
• Space Satellites and Programs
• Astronomical Data and Catalogs
• Astronomical Book Publishers
• Astronomy Publications
• The Nearest Star
• Other Web Sites

Good Starting Sites

• Astro Web -- sorted by category

Eclipses

• Solar eclipse bulletins

History

• Galileo Galilei

Images

• Picture of the Day
• Bill Keel's Gif Farm
• Brad Wallis and Robert Provin's images
• Chuck Vaughn's images
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
• Cookbook Camera Home Page
• Earth viewed as a planet
• Galaxies
• Hubble Space Telescope images
• Hypercard image books
• Jason Ware's astrophotos
• Jerry Lodriguss' images
• Messier deep-sky object images
• CCD Images of Messier Objects
• NASA image collection
• Planetary Photojournal at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
• William McLaughlin's images

Space Art

• Novagraphics Space Art Gallery

Image Processing

• NIH Image image-processing program

Observatories and Telescopes

• Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico
• European Southern Observatory, Chile and Germany
• 8-meter Gemini Scopes, Hawaii and Chile
• Hard Labor Creek Observatory, Georgia State University
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Lunar and Planetary Institute, Texas
• McDonald Observatory, Texas
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Arizona
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• National Solar Observatory, Arizona and New Mexico
• Robotic telescopes
• Uppsala Observatory, Sweden

Planets

• Planet Scapes
• Mars Atlas
• NASA Planetary Rings
• Planetary Data Systems
• Saturn Ring-plane crossing
• The Nine Planets
• Solar system tour

Planetariums and Museums

• Abrams Planetarium, Michigan
• Astronomical Museum, Bologna, Italy
• Boston Museum of Science, Massachusetts
• Einstein Planetarium, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
• Exploratorium, San Francisco, California
• Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah
• H. R. MacMillan Planetarium, Vancouver, British Columbia
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
• Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland
• Another List of Planetarium Links, (Loch Ness Prod.)

Research Programs

• Extrasolar Planet Search
• MACHO project status

Sky Browser

• Skyview maps at different wavelengths

Societies

• American Institue of Physics
• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• International Dark-Sky Association
• IOTA, for asteroid occultations
• Joint Org. for Solar Observations

Space

• NASA home page
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab home page
• NASA's Spacelink for news and images
• Current Space Shuttle Mission

Space Satellites and Programs

• Astro-2 and the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
• Clementine (Lunar satellite)
• Galileo (mission to Jupiter)
• Infrared Space Observatory
• Mars Pathfinder (launch Dec 1996)
• Mission to Planet Earth
• NEAR satellite
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO)
• Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VSOP)
• Ulysses satellite

Astronomical Data and Catalogs

• Astronomical Data Center; catalogs
• Astrophysical Data System; catalogs
• Canada Astronomical Data Center
• The Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner (MAPS) Catalog
• StarWorldS -- astronomy & space organizations
• StarBits -- acronyms and abbreviations
• StarHeads -- personal web pages
• Star*s Family

Astronomical Book Publishers

• Springer-Verlag

Astronomy Publications

• Astronomy
• Earth and Sky radio series
• Sky & Telescope
• Other Journals

Check for Clouds and Aurorae

• Michigan Tech aurora report

The Nearest Star

• Solar activity data sets
• Solar Data Analysis Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Solar satellite missions and tutorials on the Sun
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite
• Ulysses satellite

Other Web Sites

• Mother of all WWW home pages
• Library of Congress
• SETI@home