Telescopes and CCD Cameras
- Orion Telescopes
telescope.com - Anacortes Telescope and WildBir
buytelescopes.com - Cloudy Nights
A great site that reviews telescopes.
cloudynights.com - Santa Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG)
The best CCD cameras around.
sbig.com
- San Mateo County Astronomical Society (SMCAS)
www.smcasastro.com - Astronomical Association of Northern California (AANC)
sites.google.com/site/aancsite - Sidewalk Astronomers
sfsidewalkastronomers.org - Peninsula Astronomical Society
pastro.org/dnn - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
astrosociety.org - San Francisco Amateur Astronomers (SFAA)
sfaa-astronomy.org
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
skyandtelescope.com - Astronomy
astronomy.com
Here are some great sites to help K-12 teachers teach astronomy.
- Astronomy Activities for Kids
overnightprints.com - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.html - Chabot Space and Science Center
chabotspace.org/index.htm - American Astronomical Society Teacher Resource
aas.org/~aastra/links.html
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.
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov - The Huygens probe which has landed on Titan and has shown someincredible pictures is on this site.
esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens - Mars Rover
What is happening on Mars? Check out this site!
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home
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
stsci.edu/resources - Lick Observatory
One of the oldest observatories in the country, Lick Observatory is in our back yard, in San Jose, atop Mt Hamilton.
ucolick.org - Mt. Hamilton Webcam Images
If you want to see what is now happening on Mt Hamilton, here is the link.
mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam - Gemini Observatory
Here is one of the observatories on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
gemini.edu - Keck Observatory
Here is the largest telescope in the world, also atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
keckobservatory.org - Paranal Observatory, Home of the VLT
One of the major observatories in the world, is located, here, in Chile.
eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt.html
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.html - News about the Cassini spacecraft. This is a mission to Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
jpl.nasa.gov/Cassini - News about the Huygens spacraft and the neat things it is discovering about Titan
esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens - A great site run by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It has links to all sorts of neat sky stuff.
astrosociety.org - The place to go for the latest comet info with lots of comet images. This is the comet observation homepage.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/cometpage.html - This site will tell you all about the Space Shuttle.
spaceflight.nasa.gov - What is the sun doing now? You can find out by looking at this site.
spaceweather.com - Looking for satellites? Try this site!
heavens-above.com - Want to find out how bogus some of the sci-fi movies are? See this fun site!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html - Occasional posting of raw or processed images, for discussion and trouble shooting.
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