Some of our favorite websites. Clicking on a link will open that site in a new window.
Our Favorites
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Astronomy Picture Of The Day | Your tax dollars at work |
| Cloudy Nights | Telescope Reviews |
| Nasa Quest | NASA's educational outreach site, with many great events. |
| Red Orbit | General Interest Space Science Page. Excellent Astro-photos |
| Skyhound | A great source of timely information for the observer. |
| Slacker Astronomy | A great astronomy podcast! |
| Space.com | General Interest Space Science Page |
| USNO Astronomy Data Online | Great online calculators for a variety of phenomena. |
Our Friends and Neighbors
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Astronomical League | |
| Astronomical Society of Harrisburg | |
| Bucks-Mont Astronomical Association | |
| Chester County Astronomical Society | |
| Dark Horse Observatory | Amateur Astrophotography |
| Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers | |
| Lackawanna Astronomical Society | |
| NJ Night Sky | A Review and Discussion Site |
| Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council | Help Fight Light Pollution! |
| Watch Where You Step Observatory | A guy with an SLR, a Telescope, and a Horse Farm. |
Organizations
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| American Astronomical Society | Your tax dollars at work |
| Astronomical Society of Harrisburg | NASA's educational outreach site, with many great events. |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific | General Interest Space Science Page. Excellent Astro-photos |
| IAU Circulars | A great astronomy podcast! |
| International Dark Sky Association | Help Fight Light Pollution! |
| Peoria Astronomical Society | General Interest Space Science Page |
| San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers | Great online calculators for a variety of phenomena. |
| SEDS | Big organization, with a very interesting site. |
Publications
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| ADC Catalogs & Charts | |
| Antique Atlases | Scanned copies of 17th and 18th century star charts |
| Astronomy Ireland | Irish Astronomy |
| Astronomy Now | British Astronomy |
| Astronomy Online | Astronomy Magazine |
| International Comet Quarterly | Sky and Telescope Magazine |
| Sky & Telescope Online | |
| Stardate Online | |
| The Astrophysical Journal | |
| Top 10 Astronomy Books for Kids |
Comets & Meteors
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| International Comet Quarterly | Primary and secondary information on comets and observing comets |
| Meteorical Society | Promotes the study of extraterrestrial materials and their history. |
| Puckett Observatory | Private observatory searching for comets and supernovae |
Deep Space
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Black Holes And Neutron Stars | Old Site |
| NGC/IC Project | Project to identify all NGC and IC objects. |
| Pleiades | Dedicated to the Pleiades Cluster |
| Supernova Nexus |
General
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Astrofolk | Lots of trivia about the constellations, planets and so on. |
| Astronomy Net | Site with lots of links to other sites. |
| History of Astronomy/Astronomiae Historia | German site that collects links and papers about the history and state of Astronomy. |
| Night Sky Info | Provides updated weekly information about the night sky |
| Star Hustler | Jack Horkeimer |
| The Astronomy Sight | Crowell Observatory, San Francisco CA |
| US Naval Observatory | The Navy Observatory is dedicated to Precise Time and Astrometry |
Hubble Space Telescope
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Best Of Hubble | Great images collected by the HST |
| Hubble Space Telescope - JPL | Introduction to the HST |
| HubbleSite | HST News and Astrophotos |
| Next Generation (James Web) Space Telescope | What will come after the HST? |
Astroimaging
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Apogee CCD Cameras | |
| Catching The Light | Astrophotography and Techniques by Jerry Lodriguss |
| Chuck's Astrophoto Page | |
| David Hanon's CCD Images | Images taken with 7" refractor and ccd camera |
| FotoSearch Astronomy Photos | Astronomy Prints and Stock Photos |
| FotoSearch Galaxy Photos | Astronomy Prints and Stock Photos |
| FotoSearch Space Photos | Astronomy Prints and Stock Photos |
| Galaxy Photography | |
| Messier Collection | Another SEDS resource |
| Messier Gallery | CCD Images of Messier Objects |
| NGC 2000 Catalog | Images of everything in the NGC and Messier catalogs |
| NSSDC Photo Gallery | |
| Robert Provine & Brad Willis | Authors of Manual for Advanced Celestial Photography |
| Russell Croman Astrophotography | |
| Space Gallery | Great collection, by Oklahoma State University |
| Starlite Xpress CCD Cameras | |
| The Universe In Color | Astrophotography by Robert Gendler |
| Tony Hallas |
Shopping
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Astro Mall | Just about anything you could ever want for your telescope! |
| AstroMart | Astronomy classifieds, articles, reviews and more. |
| Obsession Telescopes | Some of the best telescopes in the world. |
| Skies Unlimited | Telescopes and more. |
| University Optics | Great source for ATM parts and high quality eye pieces. |
Software
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| AstroInfo | Free astronomy software for Palm PDAs |
| Celestia | Free astronomy software for the PC and Mac |
| Software Bisque | CCD cameras,software, and images |
| Starry Night | Astronomy software for PCs and Macs |
| Stellarium | Open-source astronomy software |
| Zephyr Services | Astronomy Software |
Solar System
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| American Lunar Society | |
| Earth Viewer | Generate aerial views of the earth and moon |
| JPL Solar System Dynamics | Information about most known natural bodies in our solar system. |
| Moon Society | Look at it? They want to colonize it! |
| NASA's Planetary Photo-Journal | Publicly released images from various solar-system exploration programs |
| Nine Planets | Multimedia tour of the solar system |
| NSSDC - Planetary Science | NASA's Planetary Sciences web site |
| Tour Of The Sun | Multimedia show about the sun. |
| Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures | "Virtual" phase of the moon pics for any date going back to the 19th century! |
Space Probes
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Cassini | |
| Clementine Browser | Browse the images collected by Clememtine |
| Clementine Deep Space Probe | About Clementine |
| CNES Clementine Database | Another Clementine image browser |
| Galex | The Galaxy Evolution Explorer |
| Galileo | Galileo has been exploring Jupiter and its moons since December 1995 |
| MSSS Viking Image Archive | Images from the 1976 Viking Landers |
| NASA's Deep Space Mission page | Learn more about all of NASA's probes |
| Stardust | Catch a Wild Comet |
| Voyager |
Telescopes
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| ATM Workshop | |
| Mt.Palomar Home Page | Once the world's largest telescope - now on the Web! |
| NexStar Resource Site | Dedicated to Celestron NexStar users. |
| Obsession Telescopes | |
| SLOOH | A subscription-based internet observatory based in the Canary Islands |
| Starmaster Telescopes |
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