Astronomy Web Sites
Electronic Journal Access (BU only)
E journals and other web resources
General
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Wikimedia: Astronomy
- Windows to the Universe
- Universe Today
- Insteractive Sky Map
- Heavens Above: ISS (and other) pass predictions
NASA Sites
- Today at NASA
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA Human Spaceflight (The Space Station)
- NASA Science
- NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center)
- Catalogs and Surveys Group
Space Missions
Observatories
- CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory
- Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble Heritage gallery)
- Spitzer Space Telescope
Planetary Missions
- Cassini (Saturn)
- Project Galileo (Jupiter)
- Mars Express
- Mars Global Surveyor
- Mars Rovers
- SMART-1 (lunar mission)
- Venus Express
Observatories
- Arecibo Observatory
- Gemini Observatory
- Haystack Observatory
- Keck Observatory
- Lowell Observatory
- Subaru Telescope
- The Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Other Institutions
- AAS Home Page (American Astronomical Society)
- AIP (American Institute of Physics) AIP Career Network
- AGU (American Geophysical Union)
- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- BIMA Home Page (Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association )
- European Space Agency
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- NRAO Home Page
- National Science Foundation World Wide Web Server
Astronomical Software
- Astronomical Software on Linux
- Caltech VLBI Analysis Programs
- AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System)
- IRAF Home Page (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
- Binary Stars (Free astronomy software for Macintosh)
- Xephem: An Astronomy Program for X Windows/Motif
- XVista
Astronomical Education
- Project CLEA (Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy)
- Exploratorium Home Page
- The Franklin Institute Science Museum
- Museum Of Science Home Page - Boston
- NASA's Imagine the Universe (ages 14 and up)
- NASA Quest - K-12 Internet Initiative
- The New England Space Science Initiative in Education
- Project ASTRO (Boston)
- Roettger's Astronomy Educator's Notebook
- SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
- The Smithsonian Institution Home Page
- The StarChild Project: Connecting NASA and the K12 Classroom
Databases
- ADS Abstract Service
- The NASA Astrophysics Data System Home Page
- APS Catalog of the POSS I (National Geographic-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey)
- AstroWeb Database
- Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Astronomical Imagery
- Barnard's Photographic Atlas of the Milky Way
- Hubble Data Archive
- The Nine Planets
- NSSDC Photo Gallery
Amateur Astronomy
- Amateur Astronomy Magazine
- Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
- Arunah Hill Natural Science Center
- ASTROmart Homepage
- CCDs for Material Scientists
- Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
- Cookbook Camera Home Page
- International Dark-Sky Association
- New England Light Pollution Advisory Group (NELPAG)
Vendors (no endorsement intended or implied)
- AstroHaven Domes
- Celestron International
- Meade Instruments Corporation
- Oceanside Photo & Telescope
- Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
- Skymap Software
- Software Bisque (CCDSoft)
- University Optics
Astronomy Magazines
Time
- Directorate of Time
- NIST - Boulder, Colorado (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Eclipses
- My Solar Eclipses
- Eclipse Chaser
- 1998 and 2006 Solar Eclipses (local)
Other astronomical lists
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