University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
- Featured in this series of Web pages is information produced by the instruments on Mauna Kea
on the island of Hawaii. Some of the information involves pictures. Pretty well done.
Bishop Museum Planetarium - A site
based on Oahu, it gives information on Bishop Museum events and some astronomical
information. It's a good place for monthly beginner star maps.
Windward Community College Radio Observatory - Operating as part of NASA's Radio Jove
project the observatory receives radio noise bursts from the planet Jupiter and from the Sun.
These signals are being made available in real-time over the Internet.
They also have a
planetarium.
NASA Links
Solar System and Beyond - This Web site is intended
to be a gateway for the public to the vast educational and informational resources of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that pertain to Solar System
exploration.
NASA Missions - A looong alphabetical listing of
NASA missions. You can further break down the listing by topic.
Lunar and Planetary Institute 3D Images - All images are displayed in anaglyph format,
which means you need a pair of red-blue or red-green stereo glasses for viewing. Some images
are displayed in parallel (side-by-side) format and you don't need any 3-D glasses to view
them; your eyes simply fuse the stereo pairs into 3-D views.
Hubble Space Telescope Public Information - NASA's Hubble Telescope page. This is the
source for information about the Hubble mission, its servicing, and all those amazing images
of the universe. Now that the space telescope is fixed, it has lived up to the hype surrounding
it. The pictures take your breath away, and alter your consciousness. Not bad, for a Web page.
Human Exploration and Operations - Up to the minute background on NASA manned
(womaned?) space missions. It used to mean shuttle missions. Now it focuses heavily on the
Space Station.
The NASA Image Gallery - Access to tens of thousands of NASA images. NASA has placed most
of the pictures taken from most of the space missions online.
Infrared Astronomy - An educational site run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and
the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). A well done site designed to introduce what
infrared astronomy is, and provide news of recent scientific activity. Its own pages are short,
and heavily illustrated.
Other Links
Night Sky Info - A site that gives good
information on what's up in the sky, and well as some basic instruction for beginner
amateur astronomers.
Amateur Telescope Making - Links to ATM
resources, articles, and discussion. Browse these links and discover that mentoring is
very much alive.
SEDS Internet Warehouse -
The term "warehouse" says it all. Big, sprawling, a little confusing, but pretty.
It features Bill Arnett's "The Nine Planets" (an excellent tour of the solar system)
as well as deepsky pages, and pages devoted rocketry and petitions.
The Sky Guide - Some
original material, and many external links in a fairly well organized, attractive site.
Into the Cosmos -
Good material on astronomy and physics, aimed at a very general audience.
Deepsky Observer's Companion - THE "DEEPSKY OBSERVER's COMPANION" (DOC)
web-pages is an on-line resource for the deepsky observer, consisting primarily of visual
descriptions of deepsky objects. Besides the work of contemporary amateur astronomers,
descriptions of historical interest are also collected, including work by James Dunlop,
John Herschel and E J Hartung.
My-Astronomy -
Ron Muir's personal Web site. Contains usefull links, especially ones to famed, national,
dark sky sites.
Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog (IAAC) - The Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog
(IAAC or 'netastrocatalog' for short) is a forum for amateur astronomers at all levels to
share their observations of Deep-Sky objects. (The 'deep-sky' includes all objects which are
NOT members of our solar system: other galaxies, star clusters, gaseous nebulae, doubles,
and variable stars are all deep-sky objects). Note that the netastrocatalog is a *catalog
of amateur observations*, not a sales catalog of any kind!
Digital images of the Sky
- A collection of photographs with simple accompanying text of various objects in the sky.
The best part of the display is a constellation by constellation photographic atlas, each
consisting of wide field photographs (with and without labels) and more detailed photographs.
The NGC/IC Project -
The NGC/IC Project will eventually correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects.
It will assemble basic data, collect images for each object. A corrected NGC/IC is a laudable
long term goal, but the site's most useful function involves
generating observing lists by constellation. The site is much faster
with automatic loading of graphics turned off.
Planetary Nebulæ Observers Home Page - Doug Snyder's project of collecting
interesting images of planetaries from all over the sky. Comes in a whiz-bang JAVA/MIDI
version, and an HTML version that is more practical. This is a site with some depth.
Planetary Astronomy Links - Some of Peter Besenbruch's and Gary
Ward's favorite picks. Gary is the guy who did the whiz-bang Netscape 2 version accessible
from the Main Menu.
All about Comets - This page contains links to comet information
on the Web. The central comet information page is the Comet Home page at NASA's JPL.
European Southern Observatory -
Only in astronomy can something European be based in Chile. Perhaps the premier southern
hemisphere observatory, it adds a mix of technical and general information and pictures to
the Web from the perspective of south of the equator.
Light Pollution - Not just the International Dark Sky
Association, this page includes a surprising number of links.
