Telescopes and CCD Cameras
Scope City
www.scopecity.comOrion Telescopes
www.telescope.comAnacortes Telescope and WildBird
www.buytelescopes.comCloudy Nights
A great site that reviews telescopes.
www.cloudynights.comSanta Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG)
The best CCD cameras around.
www.sbig.com
Amateur Astronomy Resources
San Mateo County Astronomical Society (SMCAS)
www.smcas.comAstronomical Association of Northern California (AANC)
http://aanc-astronomy.org/Sidewalk Astronomers
http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/Peninsula Astronomical Society
www.foothill.fhda.edu/ast/pas.htmAstronomical Society of the Pacific
www.astrosociety.orgSan Francisco Amateur Astronomers (SFAA)
http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org/
Astronomy Magazines
Here are two outstanding astronomy magazines. Sky and Telescope
is more for the advanced astronomer than Astronomy magazine. Both
keep up with the latest astro news and report on the night sky.Sky and Telescope
www.skypub.comAstronomy
www.astronomy.com
Teacher Resources
Here are some great sites to help K-12 teachers teach astronomy.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.htmlChabot Space and Science Center
www.chabotspace.org/vsc/teacher/default.aspSky Watcher
www.skynewsmagazine.com/pages/resources/teachers.htmlAmerican Astronomical Society Teacher Resource
www.aas.org/~aastra/links.html
Spacecraft Missions to Other Planets
Here is info about the spacecraft that are now investigating our solar system.
Cassini Huygen
News about the Cassini spacecraft, which is a mission to Saturn,
and its largest moon, Titan.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/Cassini
The Huygens probe which has landed on Titan and has shown some
incredible pictures is on this site.
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-HuygensMars Rover
What is happening on Mars? Check out this site!
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home
Observatories
If you want to find out what research the latest observatories are doing, check out these sites. They also have great pictures!
Hubble Space Telescope
The most famous orbiting observatory
www.stsci.edu/resourcesLick Observatory
One of the oldest observatories in the country, Lick Observatory is in our back yard, in San Jose, atop Mt Hamilton.
www.ucolick.orgMt. Hamilton Webcam Images
If you want to see what is now happening on Mt Hamilton, here is the link.
mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcamGemini Observatory
Here is one of the observatories on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
www.gemini.eduKeck Observatory
Here is the largest telescope in the world, also atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
www2.keck.hawaii.eduParanal Observatory, Home of the VLT
One of the major observatories in the world, is located, here, in Chile.
www.eso.org/paranal
General Interest
Here are a number of links that are just fun to view.
The best place to look for the discovery of new, extrasolar planets
exoplanets.org/index.htmlNews about the Cassini spacecraft. This is a mission to Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/CassiniNews about the Huygens spacraft and the neat things it is discovering about Titan
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-HuygensA site run by astronomy students from the University of Arizona with seemingly lots of time on their hands. Excellent site for all sorts of stuff.
seds.lpl.arizona.eduA great site run by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It has links to all sorts of neat sky stuff.
www.astrosociety.orgThe place to go for the latest comet info with lots of comet images. This is the comet observation homepage.
encke.jpl.nasa.govFor the latest info on the the Mars Exploration program.
mars.sgi.comThis site will tell you all about the Space Shuttle.
spaceflight.nasa.govWhat is the sun doing now? You can find out by looking at this site.
www.spaceweather.comLooking for satellites? Try this site!
www.heavens-above.comWant to find out how bogus some of the sci-fi movies are? See this fun site!
www.badastronomy.com
Image Post
Occasional posting of raw or processed images, for discussion and trouble shooting.
