Astronomy on Geoff's SILICON SHEEP site

Since I believe Earth's weather, its atmosphere and magnetosphere are intimately linked to the Solar System, especially the Sun, I have included lots of such links in this table.

Daily site links

Astronomy links

People in Astronomy

1. Clyde Tombaugh memorial page at www.klx.com/clyde/
2. Craig J Copi's Home at astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/copi/homepage.html
3. Sally Houghton PhD's Story at wodin.phys.unsw.edu.au/~sjh/ . I have used this site as a good example for beginning students in web authoring.
4. Seiichi Yoshida's Home Page www.info.waseda.ac.jp/muraoka/members/seiichi/

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Astronomy - General

News 1998 April - Sky & Telescope June 1998 issue

1. A survey on the Astronomical Almanac, at www.ast.cam.ac.uk/nao/survey.html : new format is planned for 2002.
2. Solar System models at Peoroa, Il Community. Large scale! See them at www.lakeview-museum.org
3. I'm trying to get a link to the Astrographic Catalog - the all-sky catalog started in the 1890's. Also looking up Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Millennium Star Atlas (based on the Hipparcos data), and the ACT Reference Catalog.
4. Space Telescope Science Institute Digitized Sky Survey at archive.stsci.edu/dss/ : input position, field size and image format, and the POSS image results.
5. Garry Kronk's Current Comets page at medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/current_comets.html
6. and the less elaborate Charles Morris' Current Comets at encke.jpl.nasa.gov/whats_visible.html
7. Donald Macholtz' Comet Comments at members.aol.com/cometcom/ : brightest comets visible tonight.
8. SkyView Virtual Telescope at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/ which lets you choose not only the spot on the sky, but what wavelengths as well, from Xrays to radio.
   Impact events off the Internet:
9. Solar System Impact Calculator by Doug Hamilton at janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact.html
10. Terrestrial Impact Craters at www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/tercrate.htm, by Calvin Hamilton, Views of the Solar System.
11. Spacewatch minor planet survey at xlr8.lpl.arizona.edu/spacewatch/
12. Spaceguard Foundation at www.mi.astro.it/SGF/
13. Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html
14. Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search program.
15. Asteroid & Comet Impact Hazards page at ccf.arc.nasa.gov/sst/ , where David Morrison gives news, information and commentary.
16. Ed Bowell's Asteroid Orbital Elements Database at ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html , updated daily.

    Older references:

17. sci.astro.amateur FAQ at www.salamander.com/~wmcclain/saa_faq_list.txt : Archive location
18. Purchasing Amateur Telescopes FAQ at www-personal.umich.edu/~dnash/saafaq/faq.html : How-to and what to look for.
19. Andy Steere's list archives at www.system.missouri.edu/atm/, with a huge amount of information of use to the telescope maker
20. Catalogues and data archives at www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/lab/7444: 100's of famous and obscure links
21. ESTEC Home Page at www.estec.esa.nl/
22. HEASARC at heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/www_info/genastro.html: General Astronomy Resources page
23. Hot Topics at astro.uchicago.edu/HotTopics.html ... and nice images
24. NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Home Page at info.aoc.nrao.edu/
25. Planetary/Stardust Home Page (PDS) at stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html
26. Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute at www.seti-inst.edu/
27. Silicon sky at www.siliconsky.com/ : a site dedicated to amateur astronomy
28. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) at www.seds.org/
29. The Astronomy Club at www.rahul.net/resource/TAC/
30. NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Home Page at adswww.harvard.edu/
31. Query Form for ADS Abstracts at adsabs.harvard.edu/toc_service.html
32. TIPTOP at tph.tuwien.ac.at/physics-services/physics_services2.html: Physics Around the World
33. University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at astro.uchicago.edu/
34. Vargas cats/archives at www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7444/ : links to hundreds of cattledogs...
35. National Space Science Discovery Center (NSSDC) at nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
36. Astro-Guide at www.pitzer.edu/~jbecker/
37. Astronomical Data Center (ADC) home page at adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
38. Astronomy: Amateur at www.webhead.com/wwwvl/Astronomy/amateur.html
39. EUVE CEA at www.cea.berkeley.edu/
40. GSFC/NASA at adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc_other_media.html#CDROM: Goddard SpaceFlight Centre/NASA: Data on CD-ROMs & other media, availability/contents...
41. International Southern Observatory (ISO) homepage at www.vilspa.esa.es/iso/iso.html
42. Issues of the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS) at ogyalla.konkoly.hu/IBVS/issues.html
43. The Computing Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O.) has an electronic journal called _The Digital Lens_. It is available via email subscription in either plain text or Adobe PDF format. To subscribe, send a request to Mike McClure at: mwmccl1@pop.uky.edu

    Hardware - commercial suppliers:

44. Lumicon accessories and telescopes, software, astro films.
45. Meade Instruments Corp home page at www.meade.com
46. Tele Vue eyepieces and guides at www.televue.com

Minor Planets (Comets & Asteroids)

1. Asteroid 253 Mathilde by the NEAR spacecraft at sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/Mathilde/images.html
2. Comet Observation Home Page at encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
3. Comets at medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/comet.html
4. Comets at www.info.waseda.ac.jp/muraoka/members/seiichi/comet/current.html : Monthly Information about Comets: Seiichi Yoshida, Japan
5. IAU Planetary System Nomenclature Working Group at wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html : introduction and table of contents
6. The Moon at www.netaxs.com/people/mhmyers/moon.tn.html
7. Comet Ephemerides from JPL at encke.jpl.nasa.gov/eph.html

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IAU (International Astronomical Union) site

1. Astronomical Headlines at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/Headlines.html
2. Press Information Sheets at cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/pressinfo/PressInfo.html
3. IAU Index at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/TheIndex.html : Indexes to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams;   Minor Planet Circulars (MPC) and International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) and some examples from the site, an IAU Circular and a Minor Planet Circular:
4. IAUC 6873: 1998ao, 1998ap; SAX J1747.0-2853 at cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/06800/06873.html
5. MPEC 1998-G25: DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (1998 APR. 13 UT)  at cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/J98/J98G25.html
6. Near-Earth Objects (NEO) at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/NEO/TheNEOPage.html
7. Links to other IAU-Related Homepages at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/IAULink.html
8. Rock'n'Roll Minor Planets at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/special/RockAndRoll.html
9. IAU Homepage: Astronomical Headlines--Distant Objects at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/HeadlinesDistant.html

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Programs for your Computer (PC/Mac/*nix)

1. AstroNet at www.rahul.net/resource/regular/programs/programs.html : programs, ...
2. Dance of the Planets from www.arcinc.com/ : D o t P by ARC
3. Deep Sky at www.dschandler.com by D. S. Chandler for Win3/95/NT
4. Earth Centered Universe at www.nova-astro.com/ by Nova Astronomics - Win3/95
5. Guide and Find_Orb at www.projectpluto.com/ by Project Pluto, includes Hipparcos/Tycho data for DOS/Win3.1, 95, NT, with many other catalogs on disk as well. About $US92.
6. Home Planet at www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/ by J. Walker
7. MyStars! at www.relativedata.com/ by Relative Data Products
8. Skymap Pro at www.jasc.com/ Software
9. SkyView at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html : Welcome to SkyView Software
10. Starry Night at www.siennasoft.com/ by Sienna Software
11. TheSky at www.bisque.com/ : by Software Bisque
12. xephem at www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ : by E. Downey - Unix
13. Lunar Occultation Workbench for Windows 95/NT, two versions (Standard and Complete).
    Contact the Dutch Occultation Association at web.inter.nl.net/hcc/elimburg/doa/software.htm

From the Astronomical Calculations for the Amateur FAQ: 6. Where are online sources of algorithms?
_Sky & Telescope_ maintains an archive of program sources which have appeared in the magazine: www.skypub.com/software/software.html . Unfortunately, these consist of uncommented BASIC listings.

1. _Astronomy_ magazine has a small set of BASIC programs: www.kalmbach.com/astro/Bytes/Bytes.html
2. Approximate astronomical positions at www.xylem.demon.co.uk/kepler/ : from Keith Burnett

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Magazines, Journals, etc

1. Astro-Mall at www.rahul.net/Astro-Mall/
2. AstroNet at www.rahul.net/resource/ : Homepage
3. AstroNet Digest is a free bi-weekly html web-e-zine and is available for browsing at www.rahul.net/resource/index.htm or for download at www.rahul.net/resource/current.zip
4. PASP at STSCI: at www.stsci.edu/pasp/list.html : Publications: Tables of Contents of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
5. ASP's Professional Publications at www.aspsky.org/subpages/publ.html
6. Jonathan's Space Report at hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html : weekly report
7. SACNEWS On-line at www.primenet.com/~dickson/sacnews.html
8. Sky & Telescope magazine at www.skypub.com/
9. ADS at adswww.harvard.edu/ads_articles.html : NASA Astrophysics Data System Article Service
10. Astro Pubs at www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_full_text.html : Full-texts of Astronomical Publications (may cost money, though)
11. This Month in Space History at newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/history.html
12. SpaceNews Index at www.amsat.org/amsat/news/spc1997.html - later years are valid too.

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Space missions

1. ADEOS Home Page at mentor.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ADEOS/
2. ADEOS data at www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ADEOS/DataAdeos.html
3. Galileo Jupiter orbiter pages at www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ - the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Also try galileo.nasa.gov as the home page for info.
4. Goddard Space Flight Centre at www.gsfc.nasa.gov/ : GSFC home
5. Goddard's news flashes at pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/newsroom/flash/flash.htm : GSFC
6. Gravity Probe B at www.nap.edu/nap/online/gpb/summary.html
7. Mir Mission Continues at shuttle-mir.nasa.gov/shuttle-mir/
8. NASA Homepage at www.nasa.gov/ : The main NASA Homepage, with heaps of links elsewhere
9. NASA/Kennedy Space Center Home Page at www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html
10. SoloTech at execpc.com/~wmhogg/astrolnx.html : their Space Collection
11. SES Programs at www.jpl.nasa.gov/sespd/ : Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate
12. Shuttle Web at shuttle.nasa.gov: all the links and information
13. STS Status at www.ksc.nasa.gov/htbin/cdt_main.pl : Space Shuttle Countdown Status
14. NASA Space Calendar at newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ : covering space-related activities and anniversaries for the upcoming year.
15. The Spacewatch Project at www.lpl.arizona.edu/spacewatch/

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Satellite Orbital Elements

1. Celestial WWW at www.grove.net/~tkelso/ : the source of earth satellite elements
2. NORAD Sets at www.grove.net/~tkelso/NORAD/elements/ : Current NORAD Two-Line Element Sets
3. Orbital Models and Element Sets at www.itc.nl/~bakker/orbit.html
4. SatTrack at www.bester.com/sattrack.html : Satellite Tracking Software
5. Sources of orbital data at www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/vsohp/getkeps.html
6. Compton Observatory Science Support Center at antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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Star maps online

1. GalacticSky Charts at www.calweb.com/~mcharvey/ : 5 sky views x 9 latitudes
2. 12 Asteroids Tonight : Oglethorpe Astro Assoc, in Georgia USA charts a dozen bright asteroids tonight
3. Constellations: your choice of page-size views of constellations
4. At www.mtwilson.edu/Services/StarMap/ : Sky maps at your request from Mt Wilson Observatory (the home of the Hooker 254cm (100 inch) reflector))

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Author: Geoff Mutton
First created 1997-09-07
Last updated 2000-03-20 - International Organisation for Standards rules OK !