Extended Astronomy Links
- Topical Links
- Popular Magazines
- Educational (including textbooks)
- Institutions
- Academic Resources
- Commercial
- Miscellaneous
- Basic Astronomy Links
Topical Links
- The Solar system
- Orbits
- Horizons, JPL's On-Line Solar System Data and Ephemeris Computation Service: "Any Body--Anytime"
- Astronomy Workshop (for PCs only)
- Satellite Tracking Tool (PCs only)
- The Botjes Planetarium
- JPL's Solar System Dynamics
- FIND_ORB, free PC orbit determination software from Project Pluto
- The Sun
- Currently active spacecraft
- SOHO: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- Realtime SOHO images of the Sun
- HINODE (Japanese solar satellite)
- STEREO
- Currently active spacecraft
- Solar Data Analysis Center
- Sunspot cycle (MSFC)
- Analemma tutorial and web tool
- Space Weather: Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment
- Mercury
- Messenger spacecraft (orbiter as of March 2011)
- NASA's Mercury home page
- Venus
- Earth and
Moon
- Continents and crust
- Earth Impact Data Base (John Spray, U.NB)
- Continents and crust
- Oceans and Atmosphere
- Magnetosphere
(Aurorae)
- IMAGE: Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration
- Auroral Activity and Auroral Forecast
- Space Weather: Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment
- Artificial Satellites:
- Earth's
Moon:
- Eclipses: past, present, and future
- Rise and set times for the sun and moon (from the US Naval Observatory)
- Lunar phases web tool
- Lunar phase predictions
- Spacecraft: LCROSS (impact Oct. 9, 2009)
- The Full Moon Atlas
- Selene/Kaguya: Japanese Lunar Orbiter
- Miscellaneous
- American Meteor Society
- Light pollution: International Dark Sky Association
- Mars
- Phoenix Polar Lander
- Exploration Rover: Spirit
- Global Surveyor
- Mars Global Surveyor Camera: JPL | Malin SSS |
- MGS Thermal Emission Spectrometer (check out the dust storm movie!)
- Mars Viewer 2.0
- Asteroids
- IAU: Minor Planet Center
- Asteroid Groups by Petr Scheirich (beautiful images and animations of orbital elements)
- Description of the System of Asteroids by Gerard Faure
- Asteroids - Dynamic Site
- Asteroids with Satellites
- Asteroid Colors (from the SDSS)
- Minor Planet section of ALPO
- Light Curves:
- Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)
- M. Kaasalainen's asteroid model references
- Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT)
- Light Curve Inversion software from MPO
- Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
- NASA
- Orbit animations
- Automated searches: LINEAR | Spacewatch
- Hohmann Transfer
- Spin vectors tabulated by the Poznan Observatory
- Spacecraft encounters with asteroids:
- Dawn orbit of 4 Vesta (7/11-7/12) and 1 Ceres (2/15-7/15)
- Rosetta flyby of 2867 Steins (9/5/08) and 21 Lutetia (7/10/2010)
- Hayabusa sample return 25143 Itokawa (Nov. 2005)
- Stardust flyby of 5535 Annefrank (11/2/2002)
- Deep Space 1 flyby of 9969 Braille (7/29/1999)
- NEAR Shoemaker touchdown on (433) Eros (2/12/2001)
- NEAR Shoemaker flyby of 253 Mathilde (6/27/1997)
- Galileo flyby of 951 Gaspra (10/29/1991) and 243 Ida (8/28/1993)
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto and
trans-Neptunian objects
- New Horizons spacecraft (2006 launch)
- Occultations: 18 March 2007; 25 August 2008
- Current plot of the Outer Solar System
- Comets
- Comets (from Sky & Telescope Magazine)
- Spacecraft encounters:
- Halley's Comet (1P/Halley): Giotto (3/13/1986)
- Comet Borrelly (19P/Borrelly): Deep Space 1 (9/22/2001)
- Comet Wild 2 (81P/Wild): Stardust (1/2/2004)
- Comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel):
- Comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley): EPOXI (11/4/2010)
- Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P): Rosetta (May 2014)
- Orbits
- Extrasolar planets
- The extrasolar planets encyclopedia
- Pulsar planets: Penn State
- Stars
- All Sky Automated Survey
- Black holes FAQ
- The Catalina Surveys Data Release 1 (CSDR1)
- Eclipsing Binary Predictions (by J. M. Kreiner)
- Harvard Plate Stacks
- Pulsars: Introduction | Sounds
- Stardial: A slice of sky over the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
- Spectroscopy: Digitized Spectral Data
- Skydot: Sky database for objects in Time-Domain (includes NSVS)
- Variable Star Index of the AAVSO
- X-ray stars: XTE Monitoring Project
- Astrometry
- Hipparcos astrometry satellite
- Where is that star? Positions of 526 million stars to within a quarter arcsecond from the USNO A2.0 catalog.
- Spectroscopy
- Nebula and Galaxies
- The Caldwell catalog (SEDS)
- The Messier Catalog
- Finest NGC objects: by Alan Dyer, by the Saguara Astronomy Club
- List of bright quasars
- Atlas of the Universe
- Cosmology
- Physics:
- Timekeeping
- Definitions
of astronomical time systems
- Barycentric Julian Date (Jason Eastman, 2010)
- Various time systems (Rick Fisher, NRAO, 1996)
- Online conversion utilities
- UTC to BJD (coordinated universal time to barycentric dynamic time)
- BJD to UTC
- Telescopes, NASA's Great Observatories:
Popular Magazines
EDUCATIONAL (including textbooks)
- Animations:
- Astronomy Education Review
- Bad Astronomy according to Philip Plait
- The Botjes Planetarium
- Galileo probe
- Hubble's Law
- Hubble Space Telescope
- NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
- NASA homepage
- National Air and Space Museum
- Stardial sky camera
- Windows to the Universe
- Textbooks:
Institutions
- American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
- American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)
- Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Society for Astronomical Sciences (SAS)
- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Academic Resources
- Journals
- Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
- Astrophysical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement
- IAU Circulars
- Icarus
- Journal of the British Astronomical Association
- Minor Planet Bulletin
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Nature
- New Astronomy
- Physics Today
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Science
- Science News
- LANL astrophysics preprint server
- Data archives
- Asteroid Data Sets (from PDS Small Bodies Node)
- Astronomical Data Center
- CASTLES Gravitational Lens Database
- Horizons, JPL's On-Line Solar System Data and Ephemeris Computation Service (Any Body - Anytime)
- IRAS
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
- National Virtual Observatory
- Planetary Rings Node
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- SkyView, a virtual observatory from HEASARC
- VizieR catalog server
- VLA Archive Database
- Web resources
- AstroWeb (the most complete list of astronomical links available)
- Calendar of Academic Conferences
- Heliocentric Julian Day
- Julian date conversion: into JD; into calendar date
- PERANSO (time series analysis software)
- StarHeads, Strasbourg listing of astronomical Web resources
- News group: sci.astro.research
Commercial products:
- Apogee Instruments, Inc. (CCD Cameras, etc.)
- ASCOM (Astronomy software standards [no cost])
- Ash Manufacturing Company (Observatory domes, etc.)
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific (posters, T-shirts, books, etc.)
- Binary Maker 3.0 (simulation of binary star light curves)
- CCDWare (CCD Inspector: telescope collimation software)
- Celestron (Telescopes, accessories)
- COMSOFT (Telescope control software)
- DC-3 Dreams (Astronomy control and analysis software)
- DFM Engineering, Inc. (research telescopes)
- Diffraction Limited (Maxim CCD software)
- Greenlazer (green lasers for pointing out stars)
- Jim's Mobile, Inc. (JMI) (Telescope Products: cases, focusers, etc.)
- Learning Technologies, Inc. (Educational equipment from Project STAR)
- Lumicon (Filters, etc.)
- Meade (Telescopes, accessories)
- Meridian Controls (computer controls)
- Minor Planet Observer (data analysis software and books)
- Observa-dome Labs., Inc. (Observatory domes, etc.)
- Optec, Inc. (Filter wheels, telecompressors, temperature controlled focusers.)
- Optical Guidance Systems (research telescopes)
- Orion (telescopes, binoculars, accessories)
- RegiStax (free image processing software)
- Santa Barbara Instrument Group (CCD Cameras, etc.)
- Sky & Telescope (publications, posters, etc.)
- Software Bisque (Astronomy software; robotic telescope mounts)
- Technical Innovations (Domes)
- Tele Vue Optics, Inc. (Telescopes, eyepieces, etc.)
- Van Slyke Engineering (Telescope accessories, versaport sliders)
Miscellaneous
- History
- Benjamin Banneker
- Working Group for the History of Astronomy
- High Energy Astrophysics
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (includes biographies of early astronomers and descriptions of mathematical astronomy)
- NASA Solar System Exploration
- The Nobel foundation
- Astronomy Clubs
- Women
updated 02/2013 by L. Molnar
