ASTRONOMY LINKS

Amateur Links

The Ultimate Link

Mike Boschat's Page: The Ultimate Astronomy Index -- a man with a mission (or too much time on his hands).

Amateur Telecope Making

Tallahassee Astronomical Society: A good starting point for surfing atm pages.

Mark's Home Planet & ATM Page: Home page has general astronomicial category. Nice projects and references on ATM page. page by mark VanderWettig with some nice projects.

The ATM Page - A WWW Resources for Amateurs: An ever expanding ATM page.

Amateur Telescope Making Journal: The Journal for ATMs. Only selected articles available.

ATM Archives: ATM chat group. Lots of clutter, but some of it interesting. Indexed and archived.

Stevick: Off-axis telescope designs-- Schiefspieglers, Tri-Schiefs, Yolos and, of couse, Stevick-Pauls

Other Useful Sites

Manchester Astronomical Society: Very active club; includes sophisticated barn-door designs.

Dan's Astronomy Software: Ever get lost in those software servers? Here's a useful compilation of Astronomy FREEWARE!

MoonCalc: Nice Lunar FREEWARE from Monzur Ahmed.

The Solar System: This site beats any official government site.

Dave's Astronomy Magazine: A U.K. magazine with useful links, and product reviews.

Astronomer Magazine: See what S&T used to look like, by checking out this informative and useful U.K. magazine.

Calendar of Star Parties

Astromart: Used astronomy goods on line. Read at your own risk!

 

Professional Astronomy Links

Space Science

JPL's Comet Observation Home Page: Currently observable comet ephemerides, recent observations, links to other comet pages, and links to images archives (Hyakatake and Hale-Bopp).

Space Telescope Institute

NASA Home Page

Space Shuttle Mission Site

Marshall Space Flight Center: This is where they test those rockets before they blow up on the pad!! Includes their very nice J-Track program for keeping track of the Shuttle, Mir, etc.

Observatories

Mount Wilson: Has star map service

University Astronomy

University of Chicago: Links to Yerkes Observatory, Adler Planetarium, internal pages, and their Apache Point Observatory.

Spacecraft

Mars Global Surveyor

Mars Pathfinder: Main public page on largest commercial server (can handle 15,000,000 hits a day), with links to other pathfinder science pages.

Galileo Home Page

Cassini Home Page

JPL Index

SHARP Light Gas Gun: The future of space technology. Very old page -- has the government imposed censorship? Christian Boll would be proud!

brian's home page

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