ASTRONOMY LINKS

Clark M. Thomas
Roanoke, VA

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BEST OF THE BEST

PICTURE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
AN ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE
SPACE.COM
UNIVERSE TODAY
SKYHOUND
ALADIN PREVIEWER
THE NGC/IC PROJECT
DEEP SKY BROWSER
SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE
HUBBLESITE
CLEAR SKY CLOCK
ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE OBSERVING CLUBS
HAWAIIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY'S DEEP SKY ATLAS
MARTINDALE'S REFERENCE DESK
DEEP SKY DATABASE
VIEWS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
CASSINI-HUYGENS
MARS INTRODUCTION
MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION
2MASS ATLAS IMAGE GALLERY
IMAGES OF NGC OBJECTS
THE MESSIER CATALOG
BAD ASTRONOMY
ENCYCLOPEDIA ASTRONAUTICA
NOVA - ORIGINS
ASTRONOMY HOMEWORK HELP
ASTRONOMY RESOURCES FOR KIDS
ASTROWEB
ASTRONOMY BLOGS
LIVESCIENCE
BIG LICK GALAXY GROUP
FORTY STAR PARTIES IN N. AMERICA
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN N. AMERICA
SPECTRA OF STARS
WHY SCIENTISTS DISMISS 'INTELLIGENT DESIGN'
DIGITAL UNIVERSE VIEWER
NASA/IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
USING DARK ENERGY TO SEE BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE
QUARKS TO QUASARS
SCITECH DAILY RESOURCES
OPEN DIRECTORY - ASTRONOMY LINKS
NEW SCIENTIST - ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
STSCI DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

EVENTS AND MOVING TARGETS

Sky calendar
Human space flight realtime data
SEE THE ISS AND SHUTTLE
Hubble servicing mission 4
Brighter Space Station may rival Venus
Transit times of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
HubbleÊvideo of comet S-W3 breaking up
BAA comet section
NIGHT SKY THIS WEEK
OBSERVING SATURN
SETI@home getting a boost
Latest supernovae
Virgin Galactic space tourism
Messier marathons
SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES
RECENT SUPERNOVAE
MINOR PLANET OBSERVER
OBSERVABLE COMETS
Near-Earth Object Program
Asteroid data services
Minima of Algol
STAR OF BETHLEHEM?
Cassini mission
Comet observation
COMETS AND METEOR SHOWERS
METEOR WATCHING TIPS AND GLOSSARY
Meteor shower basics
Cometography
MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION
ESTIMATE YOUR LIMITING MAGNITUDE
SPACE WEATHER
Real-time weather data
Jetstream forecast
Jetstream loop (upper air turbulence)
SKY TRANSPARENCY FORECAST
SEEING FORECAST

FOR BEGINNERS AND EVERYBODY ELSE

JACK HORKHEIMER'S STAR GAZER VIDEOS
STARDATE
Multiwavelength Milky Way
Milky Way vs. Andromeda
MILKY WAY GALAXY
Milky Way gobbling a galaxy
Giant ring around Milky Way
Welcome guide to astronomy
Stars
The Solar System
Cosmic mystery tour
Free astronomy software
Astronomical games
Space calendar (JPL)
Astronomy news
Astrobiology: the living universe
Hall of astronomers
PLANETARY MISSIONS
101 AMAZING EARTH FACTS
Atmospheric optics
Native American astronomy
Australian aboriginal astronomy
Chinese astrology and zodiac
ARCHAEOASTRONOMY
Creationism archive
Astrology defense kit
Space junk
Astronomy notes
SkyFactory
Sky View Cafe
SPECTRAL TYPES OF STARS
Amateur Astronomy Magazine
ASTRONOMY FOR KIDS
Your weight on another planet
WOMEN IN SCIENCE LINKS
WOMAN ASTRONOMERS
Anousheh Ansari, space tourist
Constellation families
CONSTELLATION ABBREVIATIONS
Constellations in different languages
Visual satellite observation
ASTRONOMY GLOSSARY
SPACE & TIME NEWS
Life-swapping scenarios for Earth and Mars
Space myths, hoaxes, and mysteries
New view of our solar system
Virtual sky
Earth seen at night from space
Astronomy Unbound electronic text
Here comes Andromeda
OUR PLACE IN MILKY WAY
North magnetic pole heading for Siberia
Engaging kids in astronomy
ASTRONOMY LINKS FOR KIDS
Astronomy homework help
Astronomy resources for kids
ASTRONOMY BY THE BELMONT SOCIETY
StarChild: Learning for young astronomers
Gallery of extraterrestrial worlds
Galileo craft's achievements
Eris (aka Xena) and Dysnomia
Study acquits sun of climate change
Cool facts about Uranus
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
Asteroid impact effects calculator
Early meteorite bombardment of Earth
The asteroid and the keyhole
INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM TUTORIAL
THE UNIVERSE IN POWERS OF TEN
HUBBLESITE
Hubble's HQ
NASA'S ORIGINS PROGRAM
SPACEWEATHER.COM
WHY IS THE SKY DARK AT NIGHT?
The lady who found dark matter
Classroom astronomy
Astronomy for classroom teachers
Google-astronomy and space for kids
SpaceWander
Eric Weisstein's world of astronomy
CHROMATIC ABBERATION IN REFRACTORS
Hands-on universe
EARTH SCIENCE, FLIGHT, AND SPACE RESOURCES
The golden opportunity
BBC space guide
COSMIC LOG
Astronomy for kids
KidsAstronomy
Astronomy and space for kids
A tour of Orion
MESSIER CATALOG GALLERY
Youth in astronomy
GENERAL GUIDE TO ASTRONOMY
PATRICK MOORE'S THE SKY AT NIGHT
FAQS FOR SCI.ASTRO
ASK THE SPACE SCIENTIST
SCALE OF THINGS
John Stewart's astronomy page
ASTRONOMICAL PREFIXES
Astronomy at the South Pole
Earth is rare
LCAS-Cartoons
Useful astronomical terms
Double whammy asteroids
More than one meteor killed dinosaurs
Earth's tranquil environment an anomaly?
Where does the final frontier begin?
Our solar system as seen by alien astronomers
Extrasolar visions

TOOLS FOR GETTING STARTED

PURCHASING AMATEUR TELESCOPES
EYEPIECES DISCUSSION
SURFACE BRIGHTNESS
EASIEST GALAXIES IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Telescopic limiting magnitude
STARGAZING
Tripod astrophotography
APERTURE VERSUS LIGHT POLLUTION
HOW A BARLOW LENS WORKS
REFLECTOR VS. REFRACTOR
KEEPING TELESCOPE OPTICS CLEAN
EYEPIECE TERMS AND FEATURES
APPARENT AND ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF OBSTRUCTION?
DIAGONALS: PRISMS VS. MIRRORS
USING A MAP AT THE TELESCOPE
GUIDE TO ASTRONOMY WITH BINOCULARS
Binoculars and constellations
Telescope basics (Celestron)
SKY AND TELESCOPE MAGAZINE
ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE
Star Date online
SEE THE ISS AND SHUTTLE
Ten steps to rewarding stargazing
HAWAIIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY'S DEEP SKY ATLAS
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN N. AMERICA
CLEAR SKY CLOCK
ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE OBSERVING CLUBS
FORTY STAR PARTIES IN N. AMERICA
Photographic map of the moon
Astronomy For Beginners
STARGAZING
BEATING THE SEEING
ASTRONOMY DICTIONARY
UNDERSTANDING THE ECLIPTIC AND THE ZODIAC
CONSTELLATIONS PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Star hopping
An observation of the night sky
Constellations (Peoria Astron. Soc.)
The constellations

SPACE FLIGHT & ETs

Lockheed Martin will build moon spaceship
LOCATIONS FOR LIFE ABOUND
UNIVERSE VS. MINDS OF FINITE CREATURES
Telescope to spot alien beams
Earthlike planets may be common
Intelligent beings in space
Voyager craft leaving solar system
Private space station
Top 10 list of habitable stars to search
Allen Telescope Array
ASTROBIOLOGY MAGAZINE
The case against little green men
CHRONOLOGY OF SPACE EXPLORATION
New Horizons probe to Pluto
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY
Russian space telescopes
NASA's moon base plans
NASA HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Goddard News
Space and global security links
Telerobotics
Space station amateur telescope
Future of spaceflight
Solar sails and plasma sails
To Mars and back In 90 days
THE MARS SOCIETY
High res. camera above Mars
Mars Global Surveyor
Planets
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars missions
MARS by Percival Lowell
Phoenix Mars Scout Mission in 2007
First picture of Earth from Mars
Historical Mars missions
Coronograph and interferometer in space
Terra satellite tracks global pollution
Phoenix lander to Mars' north pole in 2008
Mars Exploration Rover fact sheet
NASA Mars press releases
Extrasolar planet has oxygen and carbon
HOW MUCH POWER DO ALIENS NEED?
Reaching for interstellar flight
Asteroid defense system
Titan's organic soup
Earthlike planets common?
Nuclear craft to Jupiter?
Amsky spaceflight
Astronaut photography of Earth
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Space vehicles and agencies
NASA Watch.com
NASAWatch.info
NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
Fake moon landings
Planetary data system
THE PLANETARY SOCIETY
National Air and Space Museum
National Space Society
Nat'l Space Science Data Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Infrared Telescope Facility
World space telescope?
KEPLER MISSION
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
Stars and habitable planets
When ET calls
Fermi paradox and ETs
Life on Earth and elsewhere
Vega has planets
Habitable zone BB
Good news for Goldilocks
Dying stars may bring life to frozen worlds
Astrobiology at NASA
Would aliens visit?
EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS CATALOG
Dark energy tied to human origins
EXTRASOLAR PLANETS ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Terrestrial Planet Finder
The planet project
Great images in NASA
Sowing the seeds of life?
The year in space - 2005
Top space stories: 2002 & 2003

THE SUN AND THE MOON

Sun's next stormy cycle starts
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Sun's far side visible now
Solar images at SDAC
Solar FAQ
LUNAR ATLAS
Photographic map of the moon
MOON HEADQUARTERS
HOW MOON FEATURES ARE NAMED
Virtual Atlas of the Moon (freeware)
Inconstant Moon
Pleine Lune
Consolidated lunar atlas
LUNAR RESOURCES
Dust storms on the moon
OBSERVING THE SUN IN H-ALPHA
National Solar Observatory
TOP 10 SUN IMAGES FROM SOHO
Does the Sun have a 'companion'?
New theory for Sun's origins
NASA goes lunar
TOP 10 APOLLO ERA MOON DISCOVERIES
Perfect spot for Moon base
THE SUN
VoyagerÊII detects solar system's edge
Origins of the Man In The Moon
Lunar liquid mirror telescope
ÔAlpineÕ landscape on the Moon
The day the Moon was made
Possibility of Sun's Nemesis
SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES
Full Moon names
Moon hoaxes debunked
Moon phases screen saver

COSMOLOGY

Nobel Prize for Big Bang data
Recycled Universe theory
New black hole mysteries
How to image exoplanet oceans
HyperPhysics
PANSPERMIA: OUR COSMIC ANCESTRY?
NED WRIGHT'S COSMOLOGY TUTORIAL
USING DARK ENERGY TO SEE BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE
Wayne Hu's cosmology
Cambridge relativity and cosmology
The origin of life
M stars and life
The anthropic principle
Co-evolution theory of black holes
Galaxy find stirs Big Bang debate
Milky Way formed soon after Big Bang
Black holes and beyond
Zeroing in on Milky Way's black hole
Nearby black holes
Universe is 156 billion light-years wide
Cosmology calculators
Recent gamma-ray burst in Milky Way
Three views of black holes
Black hole swallows neutron star
INSIDE BLACK HOLES
Dark matter telescope
Chandra charts impact of dark energy
Dim galaxy sparks hunt for dark matter
PROOF OF DARK MATTER
Infant exoplanet
Dark matter in clumps
Rubber band model for dark energy
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
Hawking unveils new thinking on black holes
Dark Matter = Dark Energy?
Colossal space diamond
End of the cosmic dark ages
FUTURISTIC TELESCOPES
Black hole sound waves
Cosmology since 1900
Stephen Hawking's Universe
QUARKS TO QUASARS
Quasar distance dispute
The red shift controversy
Speed of light is not slowing
Neutron stars
Geminga
Black hole destroys star
Dark energy confirmed
Small universe after all?
Google-relativity
String theory on television
String theory hanging on by a thread
COSMOLOGY

NON-VISUAL ASTRONOMY

NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY
SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE
INFRARED ASTRONOMY
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
VLA science highlights
USING DARK ENERGY TO SEE BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope
HISTORY OF GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY
WHAT IS RADIO ASTRONOMY
Multiwavelength Milky Way
EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE
BASICS OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
RADIO ASTRONOMY
HIGH-ENERGY ASTRONOMY
Allen Telescope Array
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Electromagnetic spectrum
ESA's Venus Express
INFRARED SCIENCE ARCHIVE
CHANDRA PHOTOS
Chilean VLT image gallery
TOP 20 IMAGES OF THE VLT
VLT images - galaxies

MISCELLANEOUS

Universe bigger and older?
Space info and projects
ASTRONOMY RESOURCES AT STSCI
The Astronomer's Telegram
ASTRONOMY ONLINE
Astrophysics Data System
ASTRONOMY OF MANY CULTURES
GRACE - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
Astronomy graduate schools
HEAVENS ABOVE
USGS astrogeology
ASTRONOMER.COM
Java for astronomy
Universe might be pill-shaped
Virtual humans proposed as space travelers
THE GRAVITY TUTORIALS
UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE
IMAGINE THE UNIVERSE
WINDOWS TO THE UNIVERSE
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
Clear Skies Bryce Gallery of art
Online conversions
Ancient astronomy in Ireland
FROM STARGAZERS TO STARSHIPS
OPTICAL PHENOMENA
Optical formulae
Astrophysics
Astrometry and celestial mechanics
Cepheid distance scale history
Julian day numbers
Image intensified astronomy
Why hurricanes and galaxies are spiral
Magnitude calculator
THE LAWS LIST
Daylight time in the USA
Amateur astronomy observers' log
SpaceRef photo gallery
41" portable telescope
History of astronomy
Space weather
Your weight on other worlds
Near earth object program
Eyepiece calculator
Telescope making web ring
Amateur telescope makers email list
Deep-sky quiz
Geostationary satellites
ZOOM ASTRONOMY
KUIPER BELT
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: physical sciences
Our local interstellar cloud

WEIRD AND AMAZING STUFF

STRANGEST THINGS IN SPACE
Dark Energy and human origins
Milky Way's dark matter halo
Martian dust devils movie
Antimatter
Why seasons start on different dates
Gravitational force
The Higgs Boson
Einstein & speed of light
Dark energy
Earth's wild start
Intermediate mass black holes
Does dark energy really exist?
Dawn of the universe/first stars
Supersizing galaxies
Dark matter
First dark matter galaxy discovered
10th planet discovered
Quantum astronomy
How bacteria froze Earth solid
HOW TO DESTROY THE EARTH
Galactic dust storm hits Solar System
Asteroids near Jupiter are comets
Huge space clouds may have caused mass extinctions
Scientists stop light
Origin of cosmic rays revealed
2036 asteroid Apophis impact?
Killer rock opened door for big dinosaurs
Giant crater found: tied to worst mass extinction
Five worst extinctions in Earth's history
Ray burst is extinction suspect
The odds of dying
Chesapeake Bay impact crater
Supernova and ancient extinction?
Warp drive when?
Space Elevator Institute
Top 10 weirdest things in space
TOP 5 COSMIC MYTHS

CLARK'S WEB PAGES

BIG LICK GALAXY GROUP
USING DARK ENERGY TO SEE BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE
INSIDE BLACK HOLES
STAR OF BETHLEHEM?
LIFE IN DARK SOLAR SYSTEMS
HEAD LIGHTS AND STAR LIGHTS
OMNIPOTENT DECEIVER VS. ASTRONOMERS
RELATIVITY BEYOND EINSTEIN
HONEST RELIGION IN THE 21ST CENTURY (2005)
Humans and Comphumans (1995)
Conversations With Adam (1996)
Twenty astronomy club newsletter issues I edited

ORGANIZATIONS AND OBSERVATORIES

ROANOKE VALLEY ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (my club) (VA)
ASTRONOMYCLUBS.COM
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN N. AMERICA
MEMBER SOCIETIES OF THE ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE
ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE
International Supernovae Network
Amateur observatories
Federation of Astronomical Societies
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Canadian Astronomy Data Center
International Association of Astronomical Artists
The National Deep Sky Observers Society
International Occultation Timing Association
Great Lakes Planetarium Association (MI)
Amateur Astronomers of Jackson (MI)
International Dark-Sky Association
Astro-officers egroup
The Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
British National Space Centre
Trefach astronomy center (Wales)
British Astronomical Association
Worldwide clubs and organizations
Astronomy in Japan
Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
American Assoc. of Variable Star Observers
Auroral activity observation network
American Meteor Society
North American Meteor Network
SAVAL (Chile astronomers)
Houston Astronomical Society (TX)
Lake County Astronomical Society (IL)
Astronomical Society of Nevada (NV)
Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network (TN)
Mount Cuba Astronomical Observatory (DE)
Northern Colorado Astronomical Society (CO)
Greensboro Astronomy Club (NC)
Astronomy Club of Asheville (NC)
Back Bay Amateur Astronomers (VA)
Charlottesville Astronomical Soc. (VA)
N.E. Florida Astronomical Society (FL)
Ventura County Astronomical Society (CA)
York County Astronomical Society (PA)
Wayne County Astronomical Society (OH)
Astronomical Society of the Desert (CA)
Central Texas Astronomical Society
Astronomy in Arizona (AZ)
Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (AZ)
Kalamazoo Astronomical Society (MI)
Roper Mountain astronomers (SC)
Rose City Astronomers (OR)
Utah area astronomy clubs (UT)
Shenandoah Astronomical Society (VA)
Blue Ridge Astronomy Club (VA)
Northern VA Astronomical Society (VA)
International Astronomical Union
Samuel Oschin telescope
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The Cline Observatory (NC)
Three College Observatory (NC)
Magdalena Ridge Observatory (NM)
Tamke-Allan Observatory (TN)
Grasslands Observatory (AZ)
Pisgah Astron. Research Institute (NC)
Southern Louisiana Stargazers (LA)
WORLD'S LARGEST OPTICAL TELESCOPES
KECK OBSERVATORY
Touring the Subaru Telescope
Subaru's eye improves 10X
SALT sees first light
United States Naval Observatory
Canada France Hawaii Telescope
MCDONALD OBSERVATORY
Large Binocular Telescope
Weird telescopes
Antarctic telescope to best Hubble?
Dome C - word's greatest viewing site
NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY
Hayden Planetarium
PLANETARIUM WEB SITES

SOLAR SYSTEM OBSERVING

Our solar system
THE PLANETS
Ceres
Uranus
Find Uranus' moons
2003 UB313, a.k.a. Xena
2003 UB313 chart and orbit viewer
Neptune's moon Triton
Neptune Viewer 2.1
Inner Solar System
ESA's Venus Express
Where are Venus' moons?
Saturn's Encke Division
Saturn's Enceladus has liquid water
PLANETARY PHOTOJOURNAL
PLANETARY IMAGE FINDERS
International MarsWatch
NSSDC photo gallery: Mars
Giant Shield (Mars) volcanoes
MSSS Mars image directory
Mars Global Surveyor images
Mars today
WHOLE MARS CATALOG
MARS FACT SHEET
Mercury a hit-and-run planet?
Amateur images Venus's surface
Saturn's rings
Signs of water in Mars
Saturn's F ring is a spiral
Enceladus' icy blasts feed E Ring
Saturn
Pluto and Charon
NINE PLANETS
IAU: Minor Planet Center
Asteroids
Solar System in 3-D
Huge mini-world found in outer Solar System
HOURLY AURORAL ACTIVITY
NORTH AMERICAN METEOR NETWORK
Comet observation
Cometography
Eclipse Chasers
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hits Jupiter
Satellite passes over cities
Meteor observing mailing list
ECLIPSES: SUN, MOON, PLANETS
Asteroids and comets
OBSERVABLE COMETS

DEEP SKY OBSERVING

CALDWELL CATALOG
HERSCHEL 400 CATALOGUE
STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULAE WITHIN 10,000 LIGHT YEARS
Wolfgang Steinicke's NGC/IC database
EYEPIECE FILTERS
Ursa Major Moving Group
Nearest 15,000 galaxies
Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog
DEEP-SKY.ORG
HUBBLE GALAXIES DESCRIBED
BIG LICK GALAXY GROUP
Markarian Chain
Globular cluster photometry table
Huge faint galaxy now merging with MW
M42 and the trapezium
Polaris' real companion star
THE WHOLE NGC
Recent supernovae
ESTIMATE YOUR LIMITING MAGNITUDE
Deepsky visual brightness calculator
COMMON DEEP SKY CATALOGS
CATALOG OF BRIGHT NEBULAE
CATALOG OF BRIGHT OPEN CLUSTERS
CATALOG OF BRIGHT PLANETARIES
Best of AOP: planetary nebulae
PLANETARY NEBULAE SITES
Abell planetaries
CATALOG OF BRIGHT GALAXIES
Focus on downtown Virgo
CATALOG OF BRIGHT GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
NED - MILLIONS OF SOURCES
SIMBAD - MILLIONS OF OBJECTS
Extragalactic bookmarks
NGC / IC PROJECT
Einstein's Cross
FLINTHILL DEEP SKY GUIDES
DSS VIEWING GUIDE
NetAstroCatalog
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Orion's colors
VIEWING OBJECTS OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Deep-sky observers' forum
BEST OBJECTS IN NGC
BEST NON-MESSIER OBJECTS
CALDWELL LIST
Caldwell maps & images
Messier objects in the Milky Way
The Local Group of galaxies
Variously sorted Messier catalog
GALAXY GROUPS AND CLUSTERS OBSERVING PROGRAM
MESSIER VISIBLE DATABASE
GALAXY IMAGES: NGC, IC, PGC, UGC, ETC.
BEST SKY OBJECTS FROM SAAO LATITUDE
RASC'S FINEST NGC OBJECTS
SIGNIFICANT NON-MESSIER OBJECTS
GALAXIES
Galaxy catalog
MW globulars
Extended local group of galaxies
How planetary nebulae are formed
Paul Hickson galaxy groups
BEST HICKSON COMPACT GALAXY GROUPS
ARP GALAXIES
Arp objects in Arp sequence
Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
Dual supernovae in NGC 664
Supernova links
Supernova images
OBSERVING DEEP SKY OBJECTS
Extragalactic globulars
Globulars in the Andromeda galaxy
Atlas of the Andromeda galaxy
4,000+ OBSERVATION REPORTS
Common names for deep sky objects
H.A.S. challenging deep sky objects
Deep sky databases to download
3C 273 - the brightest quasar
Twin quasar
SEVENTEEN BRIGHT QUASARS
Deep sky object data for LX200
False dawn: the Zodiacal light

SPACE IMAGES

NOAO gallery: galaxies
SkyView virtual observatory
2007 Sky&Telescope; photo contest winners
Space.com image galleries
Best images of 2004
NSSDC PHOTO GALLERY
PLANETARY IMAGES
HUBBLE'S ULTRA DEEP FIELD
Hubble's latest views of Uranus and Neptune
M87's jet
Whirlpool Galaxy and companion
Orion mosaic
WEB NEBULAE
AURA/NOAO IMAGES OF MESSIER OBJECTS
DEEP SKY OBJECTS
2MASS LARGE GALAXY ATLAS
DIGITAL IMAGES
Digital astro gallery
Kitt Peak Advanced Observing Program images
HUBBLE DEEP FIELD
SKYVIEW VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
NOAO IMAGE GALLERY
GALACTIC IMAGES
SUPERNOVA IMAGES
CCD images of Messier objects
200 GALAXY IMAGES
15 BEST VISUAL ARP OBJECTS
Stellar scenes by season
NGC 7000 photo by Gary Hatfield (RVAS)

AMATEUR CCD ASTRONOMY

Photometry reference images
GALAXY PHOTOMETRY TABLE
Guide star catalog
MULTIPLE AMATEUR CCD PAGES
ASTRONOMICAL FORMULAE
STARIZONA'S GUIDE TO CCD IMAGING
AL KELLY'S CCD INSTRUCTION GUIDE
Download Photoshop FITS Liberator
An SCT site for beginners
Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss
ROBERT GENDLER'S ASTRO GALLERY
TELESCOPE AND CCD CAMERA LINKS
CENTER FOR BACKYARD ASTROPHYSICS
Latest bright supernovae
Misti Mountain Observatory
Schurs astrophotography
ADAPTIVE OPTICS
Amateur lucky imaging
Long exposures with web cams
Astrovid StellaCam EX
Richard Jacobs' CCD images
Star Shadows remote observatory (NM)
ED GRAFTON'S CCD ASTRONOMY
Gregg's astronomy page
Russell Croman astrophotography
Panther Observatory
Astro photos - Tony and Daphne Hallas
Randy Brewers astronomy
High resolution imaging - Thierry Legault
Astrocam
AstroStack
Registax
AVI editor
Webcam high resolution imaging
Astrophotography by Steve Mandel
Astrophotography by Mario Cogo
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL R. GOOD
DARK SKY PHOTOS OF MIKE OVERACKER
LX200 classic telescopes
GARY HATFIELD'S PAGE
Amateur finds new nebula with small telescope
Astronomical photography by Chris Cook

PRODUCT SOURCES AND REVIEWS

ASTROMART CLASSIFIEDS
EYEPIECE USER REVIEWS
CLOUDY NIGHTS TELESCOPE REVIEWS
Astronomical dealers
Amateur telescope making links
Telescope making web ring
42" amateur observatory BVC mirror
A.J.'s Tel. Workshop - BVC ceramic mirrors
Tech2000 (basic Dob drives)
StellarCAT (Dob drives on steroids)
Coronado dedicated solar scopes
Russell Optics
Siebert Optics
Televue eyepieces - OPT Telescopes
Burgess Optical
ClearVue Optics
EQUINOX 6 (FINEST MAC SKY PROGRAM)
ScopeDriver (Macs and PCs)
Laser pointers
Telescope accessories
AGENA AstroProducts
Nightfire Scientific
Planetarium software
Virtual Atlas of the Moon (free software)
Ladders and low-distortion planispheres
Stock astronomy photos and images
Velocitees (space images on clothes)
High-resolution film and slide scanning
Affordable astronomy equipment reviews
Laser collimators
Telescope rentals
Astronomy and space gifts
Space flight videos
How to test and rate mirrors
Spectrum Coatings
Kendrick Astro Instruments
BC&F; Astro-Engineering
SBIG Santa Barbara Instrument Group
Astronomy software
Collins Electro Optics
Green lasers
Jim's Mobile, Inc. (JMI)
Lumicon
NightSky Scopes
Obsession Dobs
1stBase collapsible Dobsonian mounts
SpaceWalk telescopes
Starmaster Dobs
Starbuckets mini-Dobs
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