Astronomy  Sites

                         Here are more astronomy sites that I have found interesting.
                         Webmasters are forever changing things around so I do my
                         best to try to keep these current.   Please report any snags.

Has the mythology of astronomy got you confused?  Here's a neat site for ........... Mythology

Here's a site where telescopes are reviewed, criticized, praised or whatever ............  EdTing

The Astronomical League is a vast organization of numerous astro societies .....  AstroLeague

Here's the Harris Catalog for data on all 147 Milky Way globular clusters .....  HarrisCatalog

Here's an awesome site listing the personal homepages of some 400 astronomers .... The List

Get the schedule for satellites or see where the Space Station is now ...........  Heavens Above

Run across a new scientific term that baffles you?  Find an answer at the ....... TreasureTroves

This is where you find out about new discoveries such as comets, nova, supernova, asteroids,
etc.  You can also subscribe to their announcements (called "circulars").  And, if you discover
one of these, this is where you report it ..............  Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

NASA's stunning picture-of-the-day site, which won the 1995 Cool Site of the Year award,
also has an extensive index that goes back for many years .................  NASA's Daily Picture

"Home of The Northern Lights" is all about these mysterious phenomena known as  Aurorae

This site keeps track of aurorae and presents real-time maps of their doings .. Aurorae Maps

Here are big telescope pictures (indexed) of many of the sky's NGC objects .......  NGC Pix

Free astronomy software and demos for Windows, DOS and MACs at .....   AstroSoftware

Locate the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA's former Mir site ................. MIR
 
If you have lots of time to kill then visit NASA's main website.  Good stuff here .....   NASA

NASA now maintains a weather station for magnetic storms, northern lights, etc  NASAWx

Here's the site where NASA keeps tabs on asteroids hazardous to our health .....      NEAT

The space probe Galileo is currently orbiting Jupiter.  All its data is at this site .........  Galileo

A neat Java applet showing Jupiter's moons in real time like bees a-buzzing .... Jovians Moons

Here's an image gallery of stars and objects seen from ground-based observatories  NOAO

The Hubble's Space Telescope's main site which surprisingly is very stingy with its releases
(one a month); but the exquisite "Heritage Series" pictures are worth the trouble .....  Hubble
and you can also get to their index of astronomical photo releases at another site ... Hubble2

Here's the homepage of the guys with the monster radio telscopes in New Mexico    NRAO

The main site for NASA's exotic Chandra -- the new telescope that sees X-rays ... Chandra

Cosmology has been defined as "groping around in a pitch-black room looking for
a black cat that isn't there."  The guys at this site try very hard to be convincing  ..... Cosmos

The British Astronomical Association presents data on just about all astro events   The BAA

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is a portal to many other Canadian sites  RASC

Here is a well-organized, novice-friendly observatory site in Sweden .... Uppsala Observatory

A space art gallery is now available  for the other-world artists and illustrators ......  Space Art

A repository for data on new planets has been established at a site in France .....  New Planets

Every displine has its "killer" site ... here's the killer for Astronomy & Astrophysics   AstroWeb
 
Time-share a telescope and do research projects at the University of Iowa ...  Iowa Telescope
 
The hallowed ground of all stargazers is the venerable Astronomy Cafe ......  The Sacred Place

The internationnal site for anything to do with meteors, meteorites, fire balls, etc .....  The IMO

Want to bury youself in astro sites by the hundreds for a month or so? ...  Sites & Sites & Sites

Here's an astronomer willing to debunk myths, misconceptions, falsehoods ....  Bad Astronomy

The site for variable stars is at the American Assoc of Variable Star Observers  .....   AAVSO

For info on our solar system denizens see Assoc of Lunar and Planetary Observers ....  ALPO
   (Note:  ALPO maintains an incredible list of national and international astro clubs)

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at Arizona University .........      SEDS

Found a meteor? or maybe you just want to know about meteors in general? ...........       Kring

A site devoted exclusively to those mysterious star balls in our galactic halo ... Globular Clusters
 
Here's the Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page (an award-winning site) ......... Planetaries

Gamma ray bursts are the most violent events in the cosmos.  They come from anywhere, at any
time.  They are hunted as religiously as tornadoes.  Here's their bulletin board ..... GRB Bulletins

Satellite watcher? ... Info, data, software on the Visual Satellite Observers Home Page ... SATS

The French maintain a site where all(?) the galactic catalogs are kept on file (in English) ... CATS

NASA/IPAC maintain all(?) the extragalactic catalogs for your perusal at CalTech...MoreCATS
 

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