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Local to Contra Costa County,
California Astronomy sites
http://homepage.mac.com/astronomyteacher/gallery.html
Mr. Adkins' Astro-Gallery. Not the greatest astro-gallery but it's mine.
(link fixed July 2001)
http://www.mdas.net
The Mount Diablo Astronomical society hosts monthly star parties and a monthly
lecture series on astronomy. HIGHLY recommended.
http://home.attbi.com/~jscala2/
Jim Scala's Observatory home page.
http://www.aanc-astronomy.org/
Astronomical Association of Northern California home
page. Many California-related astronomy links.
http://members.ncats.net/astro/
Fremont High School's astronomy page
http://www.cosc.org/visit/programs/teacher.asp
Chabot Astronomy Center in Oakland--a world-class astronomy
education center (worth the trip!)
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page.
General Astronomy Sites
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Glossary/Glossary_index.html
An excellent online dictionary about Astronomy.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
This is the famous Powers of 10 site which has the content equivalent to
the book and movie. Helps you get a grip on the scale of the universe.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Authors Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell have maintained Astronomy Picture
of the Day (APOD) since 1995, and have collected hundreds of pictures,
complete with explanations, hyperlinks, and related topics. Each day, a
new and interesting picture appears which is accompanied by an explanation
by a professional astronomer. Best of all, all past pictures are archived
for your edification. A great way to start the day in Astronomy class.
http://www.badastronomy.com/
Phil Plait has started a vendetta against the incorrect use of astronomy
in movies, television reports, and other public venues. His most important
work has been attempting to neutralize Fox television's perfectly horrible
Moon Hoax show. There may be sites which are more important astronomy,
and more important to education, but few more important to Astronomy Education.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
Windows on the Universe, containing topically arranged content.
http://www.pbs.org/standarddeviantstv/transcript_astronomy.html
General glossary of astronomy terms
http://www.exploratorium.edu/observatory/index.html
The world-famous San Francisco Exploratorium maintains a page with several
good activities. The bottom of the page has a link to their astronomy page,
which contains annotated links concentrating on astronomy education.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/astro-ph
Archive of advanced astrophysics research papers on current topics.
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page.
The Solar System
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
This is the famous Nine Planets site, arguably the best planet site on the
WWW, bar none, including NASA. Bill Arnett has for many years maintained
a current, well-organized, and content-packed site on every significant
object in the solar system. Thousands of students undoubtedly owe at debt
of thanks to Arnett for making information form origin of the names of
objects to the latest NASA research easy to find and accessible. This site
is so big it is mirrored all over the world; there's even an application
form to be a mirror, and properly installed, the mirrors update themselves!
Mars Picture of the Day
http://my.voyager.net/stargazer/solar_system.html
A simpler planet page done by an college physics student.
http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/solar_system.html
Presents a giant physical model of the solar system.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html
This Solar System Calculator will assist you in building
a scale model of the solar system. Requires Javascript.
http://www.pgd.hawaii.edu/prpdc/vr/planetvr.html
See the surface of Mars and the Moon in virtual reality.
Requires Quicktime VR (free, link on the page).
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Good site for elementary school students.
http://www.marsacademy.com/
Everything you need to know about the Red Planet.
http://geomag.usgs.gov/usimages.html
Maps of the earth's magnetic field.
http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/JAVA/ptolemy.html
JAVA simulator showing the difference between the various heliocentric and
geocentric models of the solar system. (Link fixed July 2001)
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page.
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/spacewatch/
The SpaceWatch program actively searches for those big planet-killer asteroids
that were all the rage in the movies a couple of years ago.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/SPACE/SolarSystem/Meteors/ImpactHazard.html
Compute the potential damage of a meteorite given various parameters you
supply.
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
Emphsis on the opening page on debunking comet myths.
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
Comets and Meteor Showers general topics.
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Lives of the Stars
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html
Dr. Jim Kaler of the University of Illinois has constructed
a well-organized and content-filled site covering the major bright
stars in the night sky as well as stellar evolution and many other
topics. Excellent research site for planetarians or students.
http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/lss.html
Life Story of a Star by Lake Afton Public Observatory.
(Link fixed July 2001)
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/
The Web Nebulae, a photographic index of nebulae, by
Bill Arnett, creator of the "Nineplanets" site. (Link fixed July
2001)
http://www.ggw.org/asras/supernova.html
Listing of current supernovae.
http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/nearstar.html
Detailed list of the 50 nearest stars to Earth.
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/stars1.html#activity1
Interactive lesson on the standard model of stellar evolution.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lifecycles/LC_title2.html
Well organized site from NASA meant to be used with associated multimedia
materials, but stands well on its own.
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page.
Black Holes
http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Stars.Galaxies.and.Amazing.Phenomena/Black.Holes/
NASA SpaceLink's Black Hole Page. Look here for materials at all grade levels.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/blackholes.html
NASA Goddard's black hole page, with online workbooks at K-8 and 9-12 levels.
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html
Black Hole FAQ by Ted Bunn. (Link updated August 2003)
http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Movies/
NCSA Relativity Group Movies--probably the most technical
treatment on this list.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars. (Link
fixed August 2003)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/explore/blackhole/blackhole.htm
Voyage to a Black Hole site, very slick presentation.
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
Falling into a black hole animation and explanation.
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Cosmology
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101ouruni.html
Well organized tutorial about cosmology.
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Galaxies
http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/emw.html
General Milky Way Info from Lake Afton Public Observatory.
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/choosepic.html
Different Categories of Pictures categorized with button
links.
http://www.telescope.org/btl/m4.html
A small gallery of galaxy types.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/galaxy.html
Galaxies tutorial from the venerable SEDS (Students
for the Exploration and Development of Space) site.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/movie.html
Colliding galaxy movies.
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SETI / Life in the Universe
http://www.seti-inst.edu/
What could be more important than searching for alien
life? These folks are the real deal: they're the ones who are listening
for signals, doing serious research, and produce a tremendous amount
of public outreach materials, especially education materials.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
This is the famous project that lets you help compute
the signals from the noise received by radio telescopes looking
for ET. It's not the same group as listed above, but they do know
about each other. These folks do just one thing: crunch numbers.
This is the granddaddy of all distributed computing projects (at
least, at the ordinary human consumer level.) And a cool screen
saver too.
http://www.extrasolar.net/
Extrasolar Visions-information about the latest planet
discoveries.
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page.
Space Places (observatories
and planetaria)
http://www.ips-planetarium.org/
Home page of the International Planetarium Society. Comprehensive. (Link
fixed August 2003)
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Planetaria/
Yahoo - Science:Astronomy: Planetaria
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Research/Observatories/
Yahoo - Science:Astronomy: Observatories
http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/
Sky and Telescope's resource page is a one-stop link for local resources
all over the world.
http://www.cosc.org/visit/programs/teacher.asp
Chabot Astronomy Center in Oakland--a world-class astronomy
education center (worth the trip!)
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/pass/AST300.html
This is an advertisement for a series of resources on
using planetarium materials in the classroom.
http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/
Greenwich Observatory in England.
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/teachers/
McDonald Observatory (Texas) Teacher Page
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/Default.htm
Stanford LinearAccelerator Visitor Center
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Night Sky Observing
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/moon_phases/index.html
Animated Moon Phase web page.
http://www.synapses.co.uk/astro/bearings.html
Getting started with the Dippers and Polaris
http://www.astronomyboy.com/constellations/
Includes photographs of major constellations plus information about each.
http://www.nrm.se/cosmonova/constellations.html.en
Excellent constellation summary page, includes names, discoverer, etc.
http://www.skypub.com/whatsup/whatsup.html
SKY Online - What's Up?
http://www.skypub.com/backyard/backyard.html
SKY Online - Backyard Astronomy
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
SKYWATCHER'S DIARY
http://www.wunderground.com/sky/index.asp
Input your ZIP code, and this site will display the
stars at your location. Good beginner-level site.
http://www.analemma.com
Although the content of Bob Urschel's site is narrowly
focused on the apparent motion of the sun in the sky on an annual
basis, Annalemma.com is a wonderful example of how to present content.
It has animated demonstrations, text explanations, and mathematical
derivations. Content is split between the advanced and beginner
levels so anyone who is interested can benefit. This is one of
the most attractive and well-presented educational sites I have
ever seen. When you get to the splash screen, click on the words
under the picture to begin.
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~huffman/dtime.html
Tell time by the Big Dipper.
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page.
Tools of the Trade
http://www.mailbag.com/users/ragreiner/ALPaper.html
Technical paper on the use of CCD's in amateur astronomy.
http://www.reuels.com/reuels/page334.html
Compasses and other drawing tools.
http://www.celestron.com/
Celestron telescopes
http://www.meade.com/
Meade Telescopes
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/markworth/cross-staff.htm
The Cross-Staff, a pre-telescopic instrument for measuring sky angles, is
explained and can be built from the information here.
http://astra.astro.ulg.ac.be/themes/telins/lmt/didac_e.html
This site describes the mathematics behind the paraboloid of revolution formed
by a rotating liquid mirror.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/l3-15.htm
Description of the rotating liquid mirror demo.
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page.
Astronomy News
http://stardate.org/resources/stars_neb.html
Up to Date listing of all extrasolar planets.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.skypub.com/news/news.html
SKY Online -- Weekly News Bulletin
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Latest.html
Latest HST Release
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/astronomy/
Houston Chronicle
http://www.nasa.gov/today/index.html
NASA Today
http://www.craigmont.org/skylights.htm
Skylights, an online magazine about astronomy
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Astronomy Listservs
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/skylights.html
Sky Lights, a weekly email newsletter written by Dr. Jim Kaler. See the entry
for his site under Star Lives.
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.htm
NASA News Listserv
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/xh/express.html
Another astronomy related list server can be found at
this address.
http://www.ips-planetarium.org/domesub.html
Dome-L, the Planetarium and Astronomy Educator's listserv, has a home page
and subscription information here. The home page also has an extensive
link list.
Information about subscribing to Star-Trak
Star Trak is written monthly by Hal Kibbey of the Indiana
University Office of Communications and Marketing and is available
from the following sources :
USENET newsgroups :
posted to the sci.astro.amateur and sci.astro newsgroups.
World Wide Web :
http://www.astro.indiana.edu/startrak.html
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm
http://www.astro.indiana.edu/startrak-spanish.html
Email subscription :
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Software review
http://www.starrynight.com/en/trial_download.html
Free Starry Night Basic software (10 day free demo requires
payment of a registration fee for permanent use)
http://www.skypub.com/resources/software/software.shtml
A listing of Sky Publishing's resources: free software
in BASIC format, programs from shareware vendors, and advertising
from publishers. Macintosh software is not listed here.
http://www.shareware.com/
A searchable site which yields many hits when you search
for "astronomy" by operating system (Mac or Windows)
http://www.carinasoft.com/
Links to Voyager III, a Mac-specific planetarium program
which has been around since 1988. Voy
http://www.seds.org/billa/astrosoftware.html
An excellent listing of vendors of astronomy software
for many different computer platforms.
http://www.procyon-sys.com/
Link to Observer software that allows you to control
your telescope by voice command.
http://www.r-clarke.org.uk/astrosoft.htm
An index of astronomy software with links and classified by computer platform.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html
List of satellite tracking software sorted by computer platform.
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Astronomy
Educational Resources
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/aae/
Association of Astronomy Educators. This is an active group of
astronomy educators interested in promoting introductory astronomy
education.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/skywatchers/
This complete lesson plan has students analyze how the Anasazi and other
nontechnical cultures did astronomy.
http://www.montanapolytech.com/
This is a virtual high school with several courses in Astronomy.
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/
Excellent and frequently updated site showcasing educational applications
of NASA research.
http://ethel.as.arizona.edu/astro_camp/
University of Arizona's summer astronomy camp. Spend time in a real observatory
using a giant telescope to make observations, and learn from professional
astronomers.
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html
Group activities from NASA including specific lesson plans.
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov
Solar System Simulator: you input the parameters, it
draws the pictures. Could be useful for simulated experiments.
http://hou.lbl.gov/howtojoin/
Hands-On Universe, a program of the Lawrence Hall of
Science and NSF, attempting to build a nationwide collaboration
of high school astronomy teachers. Stipends! Credits! Contacts!
http://www.aspsky.org/astro/teacher.html
The San Francisco area's project ASTRO for linking astronomers
to teachers.
http://www.aspsky.org/education/tnl.html
The Universe in the Classroom, a free newsletter for
educators, is available from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/Enroll/index.html
An exciting remote-control observatory site. Sign up
to control and take photographs over the web.
http://www.space.com/colleges/
This contains a list of colleges which are Astronomy and Space-Science Friendly.
http://www.shadow.net/~bobt/office/officec.htm
Contains an illustration of an analemma observed by an amateur observer in
his office.
http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/nas/chn/sitescol.html
This is an exhaustive list of places you can take astronomy courses online.
http://www.aas.org/~aastra/workshop.html
American Astronomical Society's Teacher Resource Agent page, including workshop
handouts and lesson plans.
http://yan.open.ac.uk/IAU46/newslet.html
The International Astronomical Union's Commission 46 page, an online journal
for teachers.
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/planetarium/teachers.htm
Planetarium lesson plans for educators.
http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/astronbm.htm
Lake Afton Observatory's astronomy links page.
http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/viewing.htm
Astronomy homework help page.
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/math.html
NASA Space Mathematics lesson plan book. A little old, but useful.
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page.
Fun Stuff
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
Astronomy Games using your browser.
http://kidsastronomy.about.com/kids/kidsastronomy/msub29.htm
Build models of famous space probes using ordinary materials
like paper and plastic. Be sure to note the extensive directory
of links on the left side. About.com has a wealth of links for
astronomy.
http://www.cardfaq.org/faq/
A large number of card-based modeling links, including some
spacecraft and space probe models.
http://desktopstarships.com/space.html
Wallpaper with CGI spacecraft.
http://www.startrek.com
Official Trek site.
http://www.trektoday.com
Unofficial Trek site.
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page.
Space Science
http://www.NASA.gov
NASA has all the content, but can you find it? Years ago, NASA split its
operations over several states in order to curry congressional favor. Each
of these sites now hosts its own web site, making it difficult to find
exactly what you need in some cases. Much of the content is educational--if
only the other government agencies had a mandate to present what is known
and took the job so seriously! Many other NASA sites from various
centers are listed elsewhere on this page. NASA's overall astronomy education
effort is an AstronomyTeacher.com Planetary Badge of Merit award winner.
http://www.MacMissionControl.com/%7EMMC/
Commerical site offering space shuttle simulation and satellite tracking
software for the Macintosh.
http://www.space-explorers.com
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous resource site, with curriculum materials.
Please note, this is a commericial product requiring a financial expenditure
to participate. (Link fixed March 2006)
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/index2.html
The Planetary Society's solar sail site. Launching this fall!!ßß
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire/intro.html
NASA's project INSPIRE home page.
http://education.nasa.gov/
NASA's main education page.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
Latest photos from the Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/
Infrared Astronomy page.
http://www.nar.org/index.html
National Association of Rocketry home page. Pay attention to the safety rules.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA spaceflight summary page for younger readers.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
Track the Shuttle and ISS. Requires JAVA.
http://www.iaanet.org/index.html
International Academy of Astronautics
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Model Rocketry
http://www.nar.org/index.html
National Association of Rocketry; note in particular the references to Adult
Certification, Insurance, and Safety issues.
http://www.apogeerockets.com/
Not as fancy as Estes, but Apogee Rockets certainly don't mind giving away
free technical information. Also a source for those really big engines
(but again, you must be certified to buy/ship/fire them!)
http://www.estesrockets.com/
Estes Rockets is probably the biggest rocket source for model rockets in
the world.
http://www.thrustcurve.org/
Provides technical specifications for commericially made rocket engines.
http://www.execpc.com/~culp/rockets/rckt_eqn.html
Describes the equations to use when determining model rocket altitudes.
http://web.syr.edu/~smdemar/rocketdrag.html
Technical paper on the analysis of model rocket motion. Includes essential
equations.
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page.
History of Astronomy/Models
of the Universe
http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~physcrse/astr106/ptolemy2.html
Annotated explanation of a translation of Ptolemy's excuses.
http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/JAVA/ptolemy.html
JAVA required--simulated Ptolemy's, Copernicus' and Brahe's solar system.
My students recommend this site.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.step.html#1093226
Annotated transcript of Apollo 11 landing.
http://ali.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=resguide&-response=/ali/resguide_display.html&-op=eq&guidenum=243&-layout=detailed&-search
Apple's Learning Interchange sites feature detailed annotated link lists
sorted by category. Apple's web page addresses change frequently; you might
be better bookmarking the search page at ali.apple.com. This one contains
information about the history of space flight.
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Remote Sensing
http://hou.lbl.gov/howtojoin/
Hands-On Universe, a program of the Lawrence Hall of
Science and NSF, attempting to build a nationwide collaboration
of high school astronomy teachers. Stipends! Credits! Contacts!
http://www.arrl.org/sarex/sarex-ap.html
NASA's SAREX home page. Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment--listen to the shuttle
via your shortwave radio.
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/cat-software.html
Contains many technical links regarding astronomical image processing and
remote control software. Advanced.
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Project Radio JOVE--listening to Jupiter via shortwave. This is an active
project.
http://denali.physics.uiowa.edu/IRO/index.shtml
Iowa Robotic Observatory
http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/
Harvard's remote control MicroObservatory project home page.
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk45a.htm
Color wireless video camera, good for remote robotics.
http://quark.angelo.edu/~msonntag/asuastronomy/ili96.htm
Posted NSF report of a remotely managed observatory.
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/ir.htm
UC Santa Barbara maintains a remote control observatory you can apply to
use.
http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/index.html
NASA's telescopes in education project.
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Online Planetariums and Simulations
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/
A sophisticated simulator showing the sky in many wavelengths. Advanced.
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~winter/index.html
Contains some animations of various topics including models of the solar
system.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/catalogues/catalogues.html
Drives a virtual telescope for you to see astronomical objects.
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Other Astronomy Link
Lists
http://www.griffithobs.org/StarAward.html
Griffith Observatory's
"Star Award," for excellence in astronomical web sites. This site
was picked in September 2004.
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/hotlinks.html
Richard W. Pogge's link list, quite extensive, categorized, and annotated.
http://www.edu-observatory.org
This site contains extensive link lists with many different categories. The
site's objective :"The Educational Observatory (incorporating one or more
ATFs), when completed, will provide K-12 students with an opportunity to
do real science (observational astronomy) from their classrooms via the
internet. "
http://www.madsci.org/libs/areas/astronomy.html
Mad Scientist Library site. If you follow the link at the bottom of thepage,
you can get to the directory for other science topics.
http://webhead.com/WWWVL/Astronomy/astro.html
World Wide Web Virtual Library has an Astronomy page, among others. Extensive
categorized astronomy links.
http://www.pielock.com/PPR-collector.html
Large collection of planetarium-related links.
http://space.about.com/science/space/msub1.htm
Space.com,
a new commercial site with hundreds of space and astronomy links.
http://members.aol.com/bemusabord/
Martz Observatory page, with a good list of astronomy
links--scroll down.
http://www.seds.org/
This student-based group has chapters in dozens of
universities and maintains a high-quality web site with categorized
pictures
perfect for that last minute school report. Just don't forget
to cite the source! Several other SEDS sponsored sites are cited
elsewhere
in this list. This site is an AstronomyTeacher.com Planetary
Badge of Merit Award winner.
http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/viewing.htm
Astronomy Homework Help Page
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/AstronomyLinks.html
Sonoma State University Link List. Maintained by Joe Tenn, definitely a quality
site.
http://www.lib.mnsu.edu/lib/NASA/teacherResources.html
Many NASA and other educational resources linked.
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Planetarium Construction
and Resource Information
http://www.planetarium.net/
Planetarium.net hosts the Dome-L mailing list for planetarium workers, and
maintains this site as a resource for planetariums of all sizes.
http://members.aol.com/mmicorp/
MMI Corporation sells planetarium projectors and domes, observatories, and
much more. Also has a link list and free image downloads.
http://www.dnaco.net/~michael/domes/kalenak/
Build a geodesic dome from cardboard.
http://www.ibiblio.org/ips/sywtbap3.html
So you Want to Build a Planetarium?
http://www.fastlane.net/~ega/vectors.htm
Geodesic dome sites
http://www.lochness.com/pltref/pltrel.html
Planetarium suppliers from projectors to domes to shows.
http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/
Fiber optic suppliers.
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/pass/AST120&121.html
Star Maker Planetarium Kit from the Lawrence Hall of Science.
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Commercial Sites
http://members.aol.com/mmicorp
MMI Corporation has a robust catalog of everything from slides to planetarium
projectors and domes. The site's worth a look, but order the catalog.
http://www.astromart.com/
Categorized product listings
http://www.space.com
General space news with a space science slant; some astronomy. Best general
commerical space science site although there are a large number of ads.
http://www.explorespace.com/
Not
as good as space.com, but faster loading.
http://www.skypub.com
Of all the commercial sites dealing with astronomy, none commands more respect
that the venerable Sky and Telescope web site. Sky and Telescope packs
their web site with useful content, instead of just using the site as a
way of promoting the print magazine. Advertising pitches are there, to
be sure, but they aren't in pop-up windows or taking up half of the space
on the page. Several other "Sky and Tel" sites are listed separately on
this page.
http://www.sciplus.com/
American Science and Surplus has wonderful gadgets including various surplus
lenses.
http://www.astronomy.com
Home page for Astronomy magazine.
Constellations
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/CONSTELLATION.HTML
Tutorial about how constellations get named.
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
Hawaii Astronomical Society's constellation myth and picture site. Well organized.
http://www.dibonsmith.com/menu.htm
Extensive site with myths and pictures for every constellation.
http://www.astronomical.org/constellations/
Well organized and attractive site with pictures of each constellation.
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Online Textbooks and Tutorials
http://www.lightandmatter.com/
Contains a complete downloadable astronomy textbook and materials for free.
You may not print multiple copies of the download, but it's worth a look
as an online resource.
http://www.astronomynotes.com/
Nick Stroebel's on-line astronomy textbook.
http://darkskyinstitute.org/astronomy.html
From the site description: "What follows is a course on astronomy using the
Internet. It is adaptable to most age and interest levels. Each of the units
in the course are listed below in the Table of Contents, and each unit has
its own separate "page." I hope you will enjoy using the course and will
come back again and again as I make changes and additions to it. "
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit1/
Richard W. Pogge's online astronomy course, practically a textbook online.
Worth reading.
Sundials
http://users.eastlink.ca/~srgl/SpredSht.htm
Make a folding sundial based on your latitude. Requires a spreadsheet.
http://www.biol.rug.nl/maes/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm
Franz Mae's sundial site. Sorted by sundial type.
http://www.infraroth.de/slinks.html
Comprehensive sundial link list. Many, many links to all sorts of sundial
resources all over the world.
http://www.sundials.co.uk/index.htm
Another thorough sundial link page based in the UK.
http://sundials.org/
The North American Sundial Society's home page.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sundial
Join the internationally used sundial mailing list.
Planispheres and related tools
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zs3t-tk/planisphere/planisphere.htm
Do-it-yourself print out planetarium kit for many different latitudes.
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/pass/AST120&121.html
Star Maker Planetarium Kit from the Lawrence Hall of Science.
http://www.xylem.f2s.com/kepler/horizon.html
Tutorial about making star charts.
http://astro.isi.edu/games/planisphere.html
Essay on planisphere design. Includes some math, some history.
Good reading.
Interactive Projects
http://www.raritanval.edu/planetarium/astronova.html
Project Astro-Nova, "A program to form partnerships between amateur & professional
astronomers and 2nd - 12th grade teachers. "
http://www.hou.lbl
Hands-On-Universe, a project which uses digital images from telescopes to
teach basic principles of advanced astronomy. Aimed at high school classes,
but portions are adaptable for middle school.
Jeff
Adkins' Astronomy Pages
Go to www.astronomyteacher.com
Go to Jeff Adkins' personal
web site.
Go to the Astronomy
and Space Science web page.
Go to Astronomy
and the WWW web page.
Please report bad or broken links here.
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Friends and Colleagues Pages
Dr. Smith T. Powell
III
My astronomy professor as an undergraduate taught me the difference between
having an interest in astronomy and understanding it on a professional level.
If you check out this link, please read his excellent essay on evolution.
Scott Kardel
Scott and I attended the University of Arizona together in graduate school.
I inherited his online class Astronomy and the WWW hosted by Heritage Online.
This list of links is the descendant of his original link list page.
Edna DeVore
Another ASSIST graduate, Edna is the Director of Education and Outreach for
the SETI institute. As I have told my students, when I was stuck in graduate
school I'd ask Edna for help because she would not only be done with the
assignments, she'd be thinking about the next one.
James McDougall
James is a student in my Astronomy and Space Science class. Aside from his
questionable selection of company and site names, he's an OK fellow and
an extreme astronomy enthusiast. You can find some of his astrophotography
on this site.
If you find a bad link, or have a link to contribute to this page, send
me a note!
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