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IAU: Minor Planet
Center. (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html)
IAU: Astronomical Headlines.
(http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Headlines.html)
The University of Michigan
Astronomy Department. (http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/)
Eastern Michigan University Department
of Physics and Astronomy. (http://www.physics.emich.edu/)
UCLA Astronomy Department. (http://www.astro.ucla.edu/)
Yahoo’s
List of Astronomy Departments. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Education/College_and_University/Departments_and_Programs/)
Catching the Light Astrophotography. (http://www.astropix.com/)
Galaxy Photography. (http://www.galaxyphoto.com/)
“Simple Astrophotography” by Clayton Kessler.
(See also “Pictures” below.)
Yahoo’s List of Astrophysics. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Astrophysics/)
SpaceWeather.com: Science news
and information about the Sun-Earth environment. (http://www.spaceweather.com/)
Solar and Heliospheric
Research Group of the University of Michigan. (http://solar-heliospheric.engin.umich.edu/)
The Geophysical Institute Auroral Forecast Page. (http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/)
Out
of this World, The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas; An Exhibition of
Rare Books from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library. (http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome2.htm)
Astronomical Books Online.
(http://astronomy.nju.edu.cn/twkp/astrobook/indexbooks.html)
Core List of Astronomy Books. (http://ads.harvard.edu/books/clab/)
US Naval Observatory—Astronomical
Applications Department. (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/)
Sky View Cafe—Astronomy—Star Charts and Ephemeris (http://www.skyviewcafe.com/)
(See also “Software” below.)
The University Lowbrow Astronomers. (http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/)
The Amateur Astronomers
of Jackson. (http://aaoj.info/)
The Ann Arbor Space Society.
(http://www.hvcn.org/info/a2s2/)
The Astronomy Club at Eastern Michigan University. (http://www.physics.emich.edu/astrclub/)
Ford Amateur Astronomy Club.
(http://www.boonhill.net/faac/)
GLAAC—Great Lakes Association
of Astronomy Clubs. (http://www.boonhill.net/glaac/)
The Michigan Mars Society.
(http://chapters.marssociety.org/usa/mi/)
Northern Cross Observatory.
(http://www.boonhill.net/NCO/)
Seven Ponds Astronomy Club.
(http://www.geocities.com/sevenpondsac/)
The University
of Michigan Student Astronomical Society. (http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/sas/)
Warren Astronomical Society.
(http://www.boonhill.net/was/)
(The above list is restricted to clubs within Southeast Michigan. For other astronomy clubs see “Organizations” below.)
IAU: Astronomical Headlines.
(http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Headlines.html)
Seiichi Yoshida’s Home Page (Comet News).
(http://www.aerith.net/)
Dibon Smith: The Constellations.
(http://www.dibonsmith.com)
Out
of this World, The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas; An Exhibition of
Rare Books from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library. (http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome2.htm)
(See also “Naked Eye Observing” below).
Lake Hudson Recreation Area.
(http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/ParksandTrailsInfo.asp?id=464)
Skywatching
in Grand Marais. (http://www.grandmaraismichigan.com/Recreation/Skywatching.htm)
Education (for Students)
Education and
Public Outreach Activities at the HEASARC. (http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/outreach.html)
University of Michigan’s Windows
to the Universe. (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/)
Physics 2000—An Interactive
Journey Through Modern Physics. (http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/)
The Electronic Universe Project—The University of Oregon. (http://zebu.uoregon.edu/text.html)
An Astronomy Course
for Students Using the Internet. (http://darkskyinstitute.org/astronomy.html)
The Nine
Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System. (http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html)
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics
& Supercomputing: Swinburne Astronomy Online. (http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/sao/)
Michigan Math and Science
Scholars Summer Program. (http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/mmss/)
NASA Quest. (http://quest.nasa.gov/)
Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers.
University Lowbrow Astronomer’s Book List.
(See also “Astronomy Departments”
above.)
The
Astronomical Society of the Pacific: A Selected List of Web Sites for
Instructors of Introductory Astronomy Courses. (http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html)
Education and
Public Outreach Activities at the HEASARC. (http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/outreach.html)
Newsletter of the Working
Group on Astronomical Education. (http://www.aas.org/~wgae/wgae_index.html)
An Astronomy Course
for Students Using the Internet. (http://darkskyinstitute.org/astronomy.html)
Space Physics and Aeronomy
Research Collaboratory. (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/sparc/)
NASA Educational Resources. (http://education.nasa.gov/)
AAS Job Registry. (http://www.aas.org/JobRegister/aasjobs.html)
Amateur Radial Velocity Studies. (http://www.spectrashift.com/)
Astronomiae
Historia / History of Astronomy. (http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html)
Great Debates in
Astronomy. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/)
The Alfred Russel Wallace
Page. [Alfred Russel Wallace was 19th century naturalist who contributed
to the scientific study of astronomy] (http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm)
NASA History. (http://history.nasa.gov/)
University Lowbrow Astronomers—History of University
of Michigan’s Observatories.
University Lowbrow Astronomers—An Observational History of Mars.
(See Pictures below).
International Year of Astronomy 2009: The Universe Yours to Discover. (http://www.astronomy2009.org/)
Globe at Night. (http://www.globe.gov/GaN/)
International Dark-Sky Association.
(http://www.darksky.org/)
Light Pollution Awareness Website. (http://members.aol.com/ctcadman/)
Light Pollution Internet Links. (http://members.aol.com/ctcadman/LiteLynx.htm)
The New England
Light Pollution Advisory Group. (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~graff/nelpag.html)
EMU Astronomy
Club Light Pollution Page. (http://www.physics.emich.edu/sherzer/lightpol.htm)
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Earth at Night.
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html)
Skyglow Across the Great Lakes. (http://www.streetlights.us/)
Astronomy Magazine—Kalmbach Publishing. (http://www.kalmbach.com/)
Odyssey—Cobblestone
Publishing. (http://www.cobblestonepub.com/)
Sky & Telescope—Sky Publishing. (http://skyandtelescope.com/)
Sky Calendar—Abrams
Planetarium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/)
The International Meteor Organization.
(http://www.imo.net/)
Comets & Meteor Showers.
(http://comets.amsmeteors.org/)
The North American Meteor Network.
(http://www.namnmeteors.org/)
Virtual Atlas of the Moon. (free software for moon observation or survey; for Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP). (http://www.astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html)
Star Hustler (Jack Horkheimer:
Director of the Miami Planetarium). (http://www.starhustler.com/)
Abrams Planetarium at Michigan
State University. (http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/)
The National Deep Sky
Observer’s Society (Observing the Deep Sky With the Naked Eye).
(http://www.cismall.com/deepsky/eye.html)
Dibon Smith: The Constellations.
(http://www.dibonsmith.com)
(Note, some browsers cannot handle “news:” links)
sci.astro (news:sci.astro)
sci.astro.amateur (news:sci.astro.amateur)
sci.astro.research (news:sci.astro.research)
sci.space.science (news:sci.space.science)
sci.space.news (news:sci.space.news)
Yahoo’s
List of Observatories. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Research/Observatories/)
The Sky
and Telescope Magazine List of Astronomy Related Organizations. (http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/organizations/)
Skyview—Internet Virtual Telescope.
(http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
The McMath-Hulbert Observatory.
(http://www.mcmathhulbert.org/)
(See also “Space Telescopes” below).
(See “Naked Eye Observing” above and “Telescope Observing” below.)
The International Occultation Timing Association. (http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm)
The American Association of Variable
Star Observers (AAVSO). (http://www.aavso.org/)
The American Astronomical Society. (http://www.aas.org/)
The Association of Lunar and
Planetary Observers. (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/)
The Astronomical League. (http://www.astroleague.org/)
Astronomical Society of Australia.
(http://www.atnf.csiro.au/)
The Astronomical Society of the
Pacific. (http://www.astrosociety.org/)
Australia Telescope National Facility.
(http://www.atnf.csiro.au/)
The International Astronomical Union.
(http://www.iau.org/)
International Dark-Sky Association.
(http://www.darksky.org/)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(http://www.nasa.gov/)
National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
(http://www.noao.edu/noao.html)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
(http://www.nrao.edu/)
The Planetary Society. (http://www.planetary.org/)
The University of Arizona Students for
the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). (http://www.seds.org/)
The Webb Society.
(http://www.webbsociety.freeserve.co.uk/)
The Sky
and Telescope Magazine List of Astronomy Related Organizations. (http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/organizations/)
Yahoo’s
List of Astronomy Departments. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Education/College_and_University/Departments_and_Programs/)
Yahoo’s
List of Astronomy Organizations. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Organizations/)
Yahoo’s
List of Observatories. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Observatories/)
NASA Astronomy
Picture of the Day. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Hubble Space Telescope Newscenter.
(http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/)
NSSDC Photo Gallery
(Part of the Goddard Space Flight Center). (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/)
“Pretty Pictures.”
(http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/yp_pictures.html)
Images from the Anglo-Australian
Observatory. (http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html)
Welcome to the Planets.
(http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/)
The SEDS Messier Catalog. (http://www.seds.org/messier/)
Northern
Cross Observatory Photo Album. (http://www.boonhill.net/NCO/members_pictures/index.html)
Personal Pages
of Astronomers. (http://www.richardbell.net/personal.html)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey. (http://cas.sdss.org/dr3/en/)
(See “Astrophotography” above).
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA). (http://www.bambi.net/sara.html)
(Note, some browsers cannot handle “news:” links)
sci.astro.research . (news:sci.astro.research)
AAS WWW bibliographical/abstract
service. (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/aas/index.shtml)
NASA Astrophysics Data System.
(http://adswww.harvard.edu/)
MAST Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (Data Archive for the Hubble Space Telescope). (http://stdatu.stsci.edu/)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey. (http://cas.sdss.org/dr3/en/)
International Jupiter Watch (IJW),
Atmosphere Discipline. (http://atmos.nmsu.edu/ijw/)
The University Lowbrow Astronomers Telescope Observer’s Guide.
Saturn Press Products. (http://members.aol.com/satrnpress/saturn.htm) [Peter Alway of Saturn Press is a past and current member of the University Lowbrow Astronomers]
Heavens Above Satellite Visibility Home Page. (http://www.heavens-above.com/)
The StarPages—Astronomy
Yellow Pages on the WWW. (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/starpages.html)
Yahoo’s Astronomy
List. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/)
Google. (http://www.google.com/)
The AstroWeb Consortium
(NRAO site). (http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html)
The AstroWeb Consortium
(STScI site). (http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/astronomy.html)
Search Yahoo for Astronomy Software.
(See also “Calculations” above.)
The Association
of Lunar and Planetary Observers Solar Section. (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/solar.html)
National Solar Observatory:
Images. (http://www.nso.noao.edu/synoptic/)
NASA: Solar Data Analysis
Center: Images. (http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/)
The San Francisco
Exploratorium Solar Eclipse Site. (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/index.html)
NASA: Solar
Eclipse Home Page. (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
(Note, some browsers cannot handle “news:” links)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (http://www.nasa.gov/)
New Horizons: NASA’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission. (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)
The Johnson Space Center. (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/)
sci.space.news . (news:sci.space.news)
Jonathan
McDowell: Jonathan’s
Space Report. (http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html)
Phoenix Mars Mission. (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/)
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission.
(http://near.jhuapl.edu/)
Lunar Prospector Mission. (http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/)
Missions to Mars. (http://marsweb.jpl.nasa.gov/)
International Space Station / NASA
shuttle. (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/)
Project Galileo. (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/)
The Cassini-Huygens Mission. (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/)
Space Research Institute
(IKI)—Russia. (http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/Welcome.html)
European Space Agency. (http://www.esa.int/)
National Space Development
Agency of Japan. (http://www.nasda.go.jp/index_e.html)
(See also “Rockets” above, and “Space Telescopes” below).
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center. (http://chandra.harvard.edu/)
Hubble Space Telescope. (http://hubblesite.org/)
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: The Hubble Project. (http://hubble.nasa.gov/)
SEDS: The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope. (http://www.seds.org/hst/hst.html)
Astrofest. (http://www.chicagoastro.org/)
The Black Forest Star Party. (http://www.bfsp.org/)
The Texas Star Party. (http://www.texasstarparty.org/)
The Telescope Review Web Site!
(http://www.scopereviews.com/)
Astromart. (http://www.astromart.com/)
Telescopes 101: A Guide to Telescopes. (http://www.telescopes.com/faq/index.html)
Todd Gross’ Weather & Astronomy Site. (http://weatherman.com/)
Search Yahoo for Telescopes.
(See also “Space Telescopes” above).
Amateur Astronomers
Kiosk. (http://www-int.stsci.edu/~mutchler/kiosk.html)
TASS: The Amateur Sky Survey.
(http://www.tass-survey.org/)
Hawaiian Astronomical
Society. (http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/index.html)
Skyhound. (http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html)
Flinthill Deep Sky Guides.
(http://www.intergate.com/~flinthill100/deepskyguides/)
Night Sky Observer Astronomy and Space News and Resources Site. (http://www.nightskyobserver.com/)
Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers.
The University Lowbrow Astronomers Telescope
Observer’s Guide.
(See also specific topics above and below).
(See “Astronomy Departments” above.)
The American Association of Variable
Star Observers (AAVSO). (http://www.aavso.org/)
An Intensive International
Mailing List on Variable Stars. (http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/)
Center for Backyard Astrophysics.
(http://cba.phys.columbia.edu/)