ASTRONOMY 1210 [O'CONNELL]
USEFUL WEB LINKS

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Astronomy Without a Telescope (introduction to naked-eye astronomy by Nick Strobel)
• The Nine Planets (multimedia tour of the solar system, many images & links)
• Views of the Solar system (ditto)
• Intermediate-Level Course on Planetary Science (Toby Smith, UWash)
• Astronomy Guide (web index & guide for amateur astronomy)
• Astronomy Links, Lists, & Newsgroups (Sky & Tel)
• Planetary Fact Sheets (data for each planet, Goddard SFC)
• Astro-Geology Resources (US Geological Survey)

COURSE TEXTS

• Bennett et al., The Cosmic Perspective (publisher's web site for 10th edition)
• Mastering Astronomy (supplementary resources for Bennett text)
• H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, (Project Gutenberg; most of Wells' other works are there as well)

• Hubble Space Telescope
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope (orbiting infrared telescope)
• Galaxy Evolution Explorer (orbiting ultraviolet telescope)
• Kepler Exoplanet Mission
• TESS Exoplanet Mission

• Mercury Messenger Mission
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Current & Planned Missions to Mars
• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
• Juno Mission to Jupiter
• New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Arrokoth
• OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission

• International Space Station

• Astronomy Picture of the Day

• Hubble Space Telescope Image Archive
  • Video showing how Hubble Space Telescope color images are processed
• David Malin Images
• JPL Photojournal Image Site (solar system images from spacecraft)
• Photo Archive at Views of the Solar System
• Lunar Photo of the Day
• The World At Night (image archive)
• Tutorial on Astronomical Image Processing (using the "trillion-pixel" Sloan Digital Sky Survey)

• AstroPics (night sky scenes from Wally Pacholka)
• The Universe in Color (astrophotography by Robert Gendler)
• Star trail photos by Lincoln Harrison
• Astrophoto.com (small telescope images by Tony & Daphne Hallas)
• Brad Goldpaint (nightscapes)
• Views of the Cosmos (telescope images by Damian Peach)
• Lunar and Planetary Observation with CCD Imaging (telescope images by Antonio Cidadao)
• El Cielo de Canarias (images & videos by Daniel Lopez)
• Deep Sky Colors (nightscapes and telescope imagery by R. B. Andreo)
• Michael Shainblum (night sky and landscape photography)

  Time-Lapse Sky, Earth, and International Space Station Videos

  • The Vimeo "timelapsevideos" group

  Astrophotography Technique

  • Digital Photography Tutorial (Cambridge in Color)
  • Astrophotography (J. Lodriguss)
  • Digital SLR Astrophotography (M. Covington)
  • Timelapse Astrophotography (T. Lowe)
  • Canon Rebel Xsi Astrophotography Tutorial (ASTR 1230)
  • Astronomical Imaging Processing (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)

  Sky Data Viewers

  • Google Sky
  • The WorldWide Telescope
  • Skyview Virtual Observatory
  • Aladin Sky Atlas
  • WikiSky.org

• Clear Sky Chart (cloud cover prediction for Charlottesville)
• Sunrise, sunset, twilight times for Charlottesville (timeanddate.com)

• Observing highlights this week (Sky & Telescope)
• Heavens Above (information on observing artificial satellites; sky charts)
  • Heavens Above Sky Chart for Charlottesville
  • Daily Planet Position Summary
• Constellation charts and information (International Astronomical Union)
• Monthly sky calendars and maps (Skymaps.com)
• Sun, Moon, Planet data for any date (USNO)
• Lunar phases and related Moon info (moonconnection)
• Your Sky (interactive planetarium)

• American Meteor Society
• Observing Comets (Gary Kronk)
• Minor Planet Ephemeris Service (IAU)
• Espenak's Eclipse Home Page
• The Messier Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (SEDS)
• SpaceWeather.com (information on current sky & magnetospheric phenomena)

• ASTR 1210 Weather Page

MAGAZINES, NEWS, & BLOGS

• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• "Seeing in the Dark" (by Timothy Ferris)

• Spaceflight Now
• Space.com
• Nine Planets Blog
• Universe Today
• NASA Watch (best space-rumor and space-politics site)

• Preposterous Universe (Sean Carroll's physics, astronomy, & cosmology blog)
• Starts With a Bang (Ethan Siegel's astronomy blog)

• Bad Astronomy (a blog by UVa Astronomy grad Phil Plait, with news, images, & video. Specializes in debunking misconceptions, fraud, and pseudoscience in astronomy and the media)

SOFTWARE

• Starry Night (best of the planetarium simulators)
• List of Astronomy Software
• Another List of Astronomy Software

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