Astronomy Bookmarks

Pictures  
  Astronomical Picture of the Day  The best site for daily pictures of our astonishing universe   http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
  Kennedy Space Center Video Feeds   Live video from America's Space Port http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/video.html
  NASA TV   NASA TV broadcasts   http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/NASATV.htm
       
Spacecraft, Satellites,and Spacecraft Passes overhead
  NASA Human Spaceflight Page  Shuttle and Space Station 
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
  Columbia Loss FAQ  Updated daily 
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/columbia_questions_answers.html
  Another Columbia Loss FAQ     http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html    
  NASA J-Pass Satellite Pass time and date display! http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/20/
  NASA J-Track 3D Shows Earth and Satellite orbits Real Time! http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3d/JTrack3d.html
  NASA Liftoff to Space Exploration 
Space news for young and old
 
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/   




Heavens-Above Satellite Tracking  Satellite Pass time and date display! http://www.heavens-above.com/  
  NASA GOES Satellite Images Images from space
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/
    
  NASA GOES Satellite Latest West Image Latest West Coast Image http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeswest/pacific/color/0000_latest.jpg
  The Amazing Space Site Planets, images, news from the Hubble Space Telescope folks http://amazing-space.stsci.edu
  NASAQuest Spacecraft, planets, ask-a-scientist, more! http://quest.nasa.gov/index.html
       
       
Sky Calendars    
  CalSKY   Great site loaded with information about What's Up tonight http://www.calsky.com/?newobs=
  Stig's Sky Calendar - Java What's Up tonight   http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7042/skycal.html
  Que tal in the Current Skies What's Up tonight http://www.currentsky.com/
  Star hustler Home Page What's Up tonight   http://www.starhustler.com/
  Sky & Telescope Magazine Online What's Up tonight http://www.skypub.com/
  ShallowSky.com Moon Phases and info on Moon and Deep Sky   http://www.shallowsky.com/
  Astronomy Magazine Star Charts, Space News-Astronomy.com   http://www.astronomy.com/home.asp
  Solar System Online  Online Look at the Solar System in real time  http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar
  YourSku Online  Online Sky Maps for any time or location  http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/
       

Planets and Atlases

   
  The Nine Planets  in-depth information about the planets  http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
  Solar System Simulator   NASA's simulator shows views of the planets from any location and distance   http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Solar System Live Simulated solar system views http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar/action?sys=-Sf
  Earth and Moon Viewer   Simulated earth and Moon views   http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/
  Geological Field Trip to Mars! Compare Earth and Mars Geography http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/mars-trip-1.html
 

   

Moon

     
 

Moon Age Calendar

Moon Phases   http://www.astroarts.com/cgi-bin/moon-calendar
  Moon Phases Moon Phases   http://www.googol.com/moon/
  Inconstant Moon Moon phases and observing guide  
http://www.minervatech.u-net.com/moon/inconstant.htm
  A Day in the Life of the Moon Basic Moon Phase information, Apollo Landing Sites http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6389/Da_Moon.htm
  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon Moon phase and observing http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/hitchhiker.html
  Flatplanet Dynamic Moon Image   http://www.flatplanet.com
       
Organizations, Magazines, local observatories, other resources
 

San Francisco Amateur Astronomers

Conducts Public Star Parties on Mt. Tam!  http://members.aol.com/chelleb/sfaa.htm
  Ferguson Observatory Telescopes open to the public in the hills of Sonoma County http://rfo.org/
  Astronomy Magazine Good online source of What's-Up!  http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html
  Sky & Telescope Good online source of What's-Up!  http://www.skypub.com/
  Discovery Channel News News from the Discovery Channel   http://dsc.discovery.com/news/news.html
  Dinosaurs Dinosaurs!  http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/
  PBS Learning Resouirces   Science and other learning resources, by grade http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm
       
       
Software
  Celestia 3D Free Space Simulator - PC and Mac OS X Travel to and orbit planets and moons. http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/
  Cartes du Ciel Free Sky Chart program! PC only. Great planetarium software! http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
  Stargazer's Delight for Mac Classic and OS X Nice shareware planetarium. http://www.stargazersoft.com
  EarthBrowser for Mac OS 9, X, PC An Earth globe with realtime satellite clouds, earthquake and volcano data - and web cams! http://www.earthbrowser.com/
  Starry Night for Mac OS X and PC (not free!) The best Astronomy planetarium program out there. http://www.starrynight.com/
  Orrery - A virtual solar system on your Mac Shows real-time planets in their orbits, zoomable, speeed up time,more. http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/sci/orrery-12.hqx
  Monthly Star Chart and day-by-day calendar of sky events. Printed and delivered by regular mail. Great and only $10.00/year - from Abrams Planetarium in Michigan.

http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html

Sample: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SkyCalendar/Index.html

       
       
This by-no-means-comprehensive list will be updated from time to time - Lorin Spaulding - Dixie Elementary School 2003