Observational Astronomy Useful Links
General Astro Information and data bases
Sky and Telescope
Magazine
Astronomy
Magazine
Earth and Sky
- radio show
Skylights
- weekly highlights
IAUC Bulletins
- Comet, Supernova, Nova discoveries
Space Calendar
- Upcoming events
Digitized Sky Survey
- Images of the Sky
Simbad Database
US Naval Observatory
- positions, times, etc.
General Astronomy Link List
Astronomy Software - SEDS Website
Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
Current Space Weather - NOAA
Telescopes and other instruments
Image Processing Programs
- info, links
FITS viewers
Astronomy Photos
- check the Tips page!
High Resolution CCD Images
- Thierry Legault
High Resolution CCD Images
- Damian Peach
Amateur Spectroscopy
Digital Camera Photometry
EXCELLENT Astrophotography site
Best Binocular Targets
Bradford Robotic Telescope
On-line telescope - MicroObservatory
- limited targets
Planets
Solar System Simulator
- shows views of the solar system from a variety of vantage points
Maps of Solar System objects
The Nine Planets - Guide to the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites
Near Earth Objects Page
Near Earth Object Program
Minor Planet Center
- Asteroids
Asteroid Occultation Predictions
The American Meteor Society
Listen to meteor showers online
ALPO Meteors Section
Cometography
- starting point for information on comets
Currently visible comets
Guide to finding comets
Naked Eye Observing
Atmospheric Optics
- halos, rainbows, sundogs, etc.
Scattering, Outer Atmosphere
- gegenschein, aurorae, zodiacal light
Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein
Space Weather.com
- aurorae warnings, other naked eye observing updates
The Sun
Solar Observing by Peter Meadows
- good for tips
Zurich-McIntosh System
Sunspot Numbers
- updated monthly
PDF form for drawing sunspots
Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Lunar and Solar Eclipse Information
Stars
Constellations
- Hawaii Astron. Soc.
Constellation (Univ. of Wisconsin)
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Gen. Catalogue of Variable Stars
McMaster Cepheid Data Base
List of recent bright supernova
All Astronomical Transients, including supernova
Nebula and Galaxies
NASA Extragalactic Database
The Web Nebulae
Deep Sky Web site
Arp Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies