Bookmarks
- Energy Seminar
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Ancient History
Egypt : Ancient History
- NOVA Online/Pyramids/Khufu/Enter Here
- A cool virtual reality tour of pyramid Khufu from NOVA people.
Cllick and drag on photographs and get to view around where you are in
the pyramid. Grade AAA
- GIZA PLATEAU COMPUTER MODEL
- EgyptSites
- Extensive text and photographs of all sorts of sites in Egypt! Grade Aaa
- Egypt Archive
- Excellent quality copyright free phographs of museum pieces and architecture. Grade AAa
- Theban Mapping Project
- with lots of maps, movies for each tomb etc. Very high tech!!!! grade AAa
- EGYPT LINKS From egyptology.com
- Has some very intereting links.
- SEQT or SEKED
- "Exploding the Pyramid Myths"
- has theory about slopes of pyramids and some slope data!!!!
- Pyramids and temples of giza
- WM Petrie's book on line!!!! GRade AAa
- Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association
- slighltly on the fringe!!!
- Egyptology Resources--resources for Ancient Egypt
- Monuments in Egypt
- From Egyptian Tourism. Extensive pages of all kinds of monuments, buildings, temples, etc. with photos and description. Grade A
- Ancient Egyptian Myths
- Rather simple description of some Egyptian Gods (somewhat
related to astrnomical objects), with links to astrnomically related
descriptions.
- The Book of the Dead
- The whole book in plain text files. Egyptology, Egypt. Grade AAAA .
Maya: Ancient History
- Palenque
- Palenque Map
- Excellent map with contours etc. Color
- Maya Site Photographs
- Very nice colllection from from Neh Maya World Summer Institute. Grade AA
- Precolumbian Reliefs
- Excellent photographs (very large) of stone reliefs, maya,
aztec etc. Very nice. Calendar Stone, Pacal Sarcophagus cover. Grade
AAA
- Schele Drawing Archive
- The line drawings of Linda Schele of Maya inscriptions etc. Very nice. Searchable base and large format figures. Grade AAA
Mesopotamia: Ancient History
- The Homepage of Ehud Ben Zvi for 1997/98 Courses
- Ancient mid East course with lots of high quality links. Grade A
- Akkadian Myths and Epics
- This and following pages 2.html, 3.html, . . . to 7.html
contain schollarly translations of Babylonian era text including
Gilgemish, code of Hammurabi, etc. Quite long and complete. Grade AAA
(for original sources.)
- Mesoamerican Photo Archives: Photo Links
- Quiality links to photo archives of . . . Grade AAA
Other: Ancient History
- Virtual Archaeology Links
- as ut says; links to simulation sites on archaeology.
- The Bhagavad-Gita
- Gateway to Art History: III The World Beyond Europe
- massive links to history/ art history related photographs. arranged by region. Very impressive. Grade AA
- STOCK PHOTOS; Anthropology Archeology and Art,
- Stock photos of archeolotical interest. Have Maya sites, Chichen Itza, Palanque , etc Grade AA
- History of Mathematics
- Has links to pages on Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics. Grade AAA
- Louvre Museum
- Gateway to Art History: I The Ancient World
- Seems to be a text book on line with pictures, etc. With large number of links to museums etc--extensive. Grade A
- Chinese Bronze Mirrors (U mich)
- A number of photographs with descriptions of Chinese mirrors very much like the ones we own. A bit dark. Grade AA
Panoramas of Ancient places etc
- WHTour : World Heritage Map
- WHTour : North Africa Map
- NOVA Online/Pyramids/Khufu/Enter Here
Astronomy
Online Planetariums
- Your Sky
- from Fourmi lab. Quite good. My favorite (s0 far)
- Sky and Telescope - Observing - Sky Chart
- char chart on line. Can get either whole sphere or just part of the sky, can't zoom in. grade Aa
- MyStarsLive - Interactive Star Chart
- star chart on line.
- Interactive Sky Chart
- You just get the stars, constellation outlines and celestial
sphere. Can move around on sphere to see limited part of sky. Just
stars, but nice.
- About the Constellation Java Applet
- Sky View Cafe - Astronomy - Star Charts and Ephemeris
- Very nice interactive on line star chart in JAVA (can't zoom but has all sorts of goodies, rises, sets, etc.) Grade AAA
- Planetarium Software
- including links to on line sky charts. Lots of planitarium software etc with prices. Grade Aa
- Skymaps.com - Publication Quality Sky Maps & Star Charts
- downloadable high quality monthly star charts PDF. grade AA if you need one.
- Computing planetary positions
- Celestial Sphere: The Web's Virtual Planetarium
- Another on line planetarium. Grade Aa (with links to sources of star positions etc.)
Ancient Astronomy
- Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression
- A paper with maps, charts etc. Grade AA
- Chaco Canyon Solstice Project
- Astronomical alighnments in Chaco Canyon-- some a lunar, others N-S an E-W. Grade ??
- Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)
- some very nice images from old astronomy papers, on calendars
etc. Including sky at Dendera Egypt, Copernicus, Hindu, etc. Grade AAA
- Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web
- Ancient Science Links
- Links page from a History of Ancient Science course. Grade A
- Brief Introduction to Archaeoastronomy
- has links and biblio for archaeoastronomyh
- The Ancient World Web
- Publications of the Center for Archaeoastronomy
Ptolemy
- A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles
- A collection of various cycles that have been found by various
folks with footnotes. Cool Grade Aa (if you need it) 10 Tzolkin is
there too1
- Almagest Star Catalogue for Guide users
- Almagest Ephemeris Calculator
- Almagest Ephemeris Calculator
Calendars: Ancient Astronomy
- Hindu calendar information
- Hindu Calendar 2002-2003
- extetensive site on Hindu Calendar dates/festivals etc.
- douglas zongker | today's date
- Mayan Calendar & Number Glyphs
- Has pages of glyphs for calendar which I can cut and paste to make up date. Also pages of numbers, etc. Good qualitity.
- An Introduction to the Mayan Calendar
- Mayan Calendar Tools
- The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System
- Java Calendar Conversions
- Great conveter. Includes Hindu solar and lunar and Old Hindu
solar and lunar. Claims to have got algorithms from my friend
Calendrical Calculations by Nachum Dershowitz. Grade AAAAA
- Calendar Converter
- Has Javascript inputs etc to convert from Julian, Mayan,
Hebrew, Mayan etc. calendars along with explanation all on one page.
Quite nice. Including the Indian Civil Calendar!!!!! Grade AA
- Indian Calendar
- Indian Calendar; comparing the Surya Siddhanta and the Astronomical Ephemeris. Looks like an extensive class project.
- Western-Chinese Calendar Converter
- Hindu Calendar Converter
- According to Sury Siddhanta; notmuch of an explanation of all the terminology. Hmmm. Grade A
- Heavenly Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy
- Calendars, Babylonian , Jewish etc.
- Long detailed essays on Babylonian et cetera calendars with names, numbers, algorithms (19 month) etc. Very Good GRade AAA
- Religous Calendars & Future Holidays
- Mayan Date Calculator
- Has counts, Tzolken, Haab, Lords and glyphs. Grade A
- Maya Calendar Tools
- Aztec Calendar Calculator
- Calc calendar date for any given date and click on sysmbols for explanation. Grade A plus (in color!)
- Today Date and Time
- A great deal of information & links on todays date, year, different calendar systems, holidays etc. Goooooood.
- CalendarHome.com - Calendar Links
- Has lots of stuff on calendars; particularly good introduction to Maya calenders.
- The Calendar Zone
- Like Calendarland!
- Calendar Origins Page
- Essays on origins of various aspects of the calendar. Does not
have origin of the order of names of days of week however. Questionable
accuracy. Grade B
- Origins of Names of Week
- Very detailed and authoritative (with footnotes) descriptoin of origin of week day names. Grade AA
- Chaucer' on Days of the Week
- Exerpt form Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe. Interesting. Grade A
Egypt: Ancient Astronomy
- Egyptian book of the Dead
- read 12 chapters (Ani) Not annotated. Grade B-
- Egypt sky panel (jpg)
- The ceiling of the tomb of Ramesses VI (1143-1136 BCE)
- Scientific American: Explorations: Ancient Alignments: April 06, 1998
- Article about oldest alignment yet found in Egyptian desert. With picture.
India : Ancient Astronomy
- Solar & Lunar Eclipses-page
- On hindu astronomy and eclipse. Has lots of quotes and reference to vedic text. Rahu and Kethu, precautions etc. Grade AAA.
- Pictures of India
- from the fellow in Japan, Professor of History of Science and
Indian Culture, has interesting pages and a picture of Rahu. Grade AAA
- Hindu Calendar Converter (Pancanga (version 3.05))
- Appears to have a PERL bot for conversion to Hindu Calendar with notes etc. from Japan. Grade ???
- Jaipur - Jantar Mantar - introduction - bomhard.de english
- Hisotryof Astronomy in Ancient India
- A chapter from some fellows book Appears to be quite well written. Has picture of solar eclipse calculation page. Grade ??
- Ancient Indian Astronomy : Planetary Positions and Eclipses/S. Balachandra Rao
- A book!!
- Total Eclipses in the Rig Veda
- A number of pages with quotes and comments on eclipses in Rig Veda, Mahabarata etc. quite nice. Grade aa
Maya: Ancient Astronomy
- Linda Schele
- How to Write Your Name In Mayan Glyphs
- Aztec Calendar Stone (jpg 700 X 700)
- Color artists depiction of Aztec Calendar Stone.
- CMCC - Mystery of the Maya
Mesopotamian: Ancient Astronomy
- Mesopotamiam Clay Astronomy Tablet
- From the Brithish Museum: translation of Babylonian Account of a lunar eclipse. Tablet and all. Coool Grade AAA
- Babylonian Astronomers
- British Museum site on ancient mesopotamia. Lotsof nice tablets etc. Interesting.
- Astronomy of Babylon
- from Iraqi informaiton site. Seems interesting. but only one page works. :-(
- Ancient Mesopotamia: Astronomy and Calendry
- Part of a course (?) with links to photographs and cool
explanations. Including example of zig-zag calcjulations. From ahistory
of science course? Grade A
- Venus Tables
- Mesopotamium clay tablet of Venus tables from the HIstory of Science people
- Babylonian Planetary Theory
- Scholarly presentation of math of Babylonian observations & comparisons to Ptolemy etc. With footnotes Grade A
- Old Babylonian mathematics
- How to do Babylonian Arithematic. From an Historyof
Mathematics Course.Quite good. Other pages in the same course are good
too. Links to cuneform wriging of numbers, use of recipricle and
multiplication tables, place notation. Grade AA
- Read This: The Babylonian Theory of the Planets
- Excellent and in depth book review with references to other Babylonian astronomy related text. Grade AAA
Instruments: Ancient Astronomy
- How to calculate and plot a planisphere for your own latitude
- Astrolabe parts and instructions
- download postscript files for the parts of an astrolabe customized for your needs.Grade AAA
- Astrolabes
- Keith's Astrolabe
- An on line astrolabe with controlls--unfortunatley the
astrolabe itself is so small as to be unusable. ARgh!!!! but cool Java
applet. Grade A for trying
- The Mathematics of Sundials
- excellent description of dials, annalema (from orbit and earth tilt) etc. Grade AAA
- You Can Make a Sundial!
- Has some nice programs that draw the sundial for your latitude. Very nice. Different kinds with explanations. grade AAA
- sundial links
- A long un annotated list of links. Great but no annotation!!!!!
- Sundials - computer programs for calculations
- Sundials on the Internet
- Another "everything you need to know" sundial site with links! grade A
- Sundials on the Internet - Types of Sundials
- Short Description of::horizontal dials, vertical dials,
equatorial dials, polar dials, analemmatic dials, reflected ceiling
dials, portable dials. HMMMM!
- sundial links
- A long un annotated list of links. Great but no annotation!!!!!
- Sundial Generator - Great Circle Studio.
- Applet makes a sundial for your location (lag and long.) Grade AA
- Vatican Museum
- OLe Sci instruments--- astrolabe pictures
- Astrolabes
- more astrolabe pictures
- Astrolabes
- a random page but it has links!
- Astrolabes
- with the astrolabe generators
- Compute flat sundials
- in gory boring detail.
- Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Topics: Archaeoastronomy
- directory of Archaeoastronomy Grade AA
Equipment: Astronomy
- Coronado Instruments : H alpha filters for the Solar Observer
- Hands-On Astrolabe
- Instructions for construction of astrolabe; with site where
you can download postscript file of your astrolabe for your locatoin.
Grade A
- Telescope Eyepieces
- Eclipse Shades - Safe Solar Viewers
- SBIG Online - Homepage
- 3 D glasses
- OPTEC Web Server
WEB cams
- from May 2003
- English
- qcuiag.co.uk
- Philips USB PC Camera
- ComputeUK - PC systems, components & computer peripherals
- Web Cam Adapter
- WEB-CAMERAS
- PLANETARY IMAGING - frankbrandl.com
- Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Philips Vesta Webcam - USB at Epinions.com
- Philips USB PC Camera
Domes
- BOYDOBSERVATORIES
- Ash-Dome: observatory domes and tracking instrument shelters
- Observa-DOME On-line !
Recent News: Astronomy
- Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
- Extra Solar Planets
- SF state cite with nice chart of new planets on other stars . Its worth the chart! Grade A
- The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
- Can get FITS images of sky. Plug in coordinates, image size etc. (Have not tried yet. Probalby need a FITS viewer. argh.)
- Mars Polar Lander Official Website
- The thing that crashes into the pole of Mars on Dec 3, 1999. Their site.
Mars Osyssey Spacecraft
- 2001 Mars Odyssey Home Page
Comets: Recent News: Astronomy
- Recent Comet Magnitudes
- Just as it says, from IAU and ICQ people. Grade A
- International Comet Quarterly (ICQ)
- Informaiton on comets from the ICQ people. With links, lists of visible comets etc. Grade AA
- Cometa: Recent News and Observations
- The fellow from NASA comet page.
Mars Global Surveyor : Recent News : Astronomy
- Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
- somewhat out of date.
- Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
- The latest information from the Mars Global Surveyor from the NASA people. Grade AAA
Cassini Spacecraft: Recent News: Astronomy
- Jupiter Millennium Flyby
- Cassini web site for Jupiter fly by.
- Jupiter Millennium Flyby
- Cassini mission as it flys by Jupiter from the NASA people. Set for December 2000
- Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan (english)
- Saturn and Titan portion of Cassini mission.
- The Cassini Mission: Cruise
- Descrption of entire Cassini mission to swing past Venus, fly by Jupiter, then on to Saturn and Titan.
Galileo spacecraft: Recent News: Astronomy
- Galileo Mission Home
NEAR (asteroid fly by): Recent News: Astronomy
- NEAR Information
- From NASA, has links to photographs or orbital phase of Eros, and approach phase of Eros etc.
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
- NEAR spacecraft which is approaching asteroids and photographing them. e.g. Eros Grade A
- NEAR Eros Images
- Images of Eros from NEAR spacecraft orbiting it. Cool.Grade A
- NEAR Eros Images
- Images from approach to Eros, including stereo pairs AND a movie of it rotating.
- NEAR Mathilde Flyby
Hubble Space Telescope: Recent News: Astronomy
- Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page
- It's the Hubble telescope!
- Hubble Heritage Project: Archive Gallery Page
- Monthly released high quality and high visual impact images rrom Hubble Space Telescope. Grade A
Astronomical Announcers, Magazaines, Criculars: Recent News: Astronomy
- News from the Editors of Sky and Telescope Magazine
- Astronomy.com | Article List
- Astronomy magazine recent news.
- Astronomer Magazine
- is a monthly publication specializing in reporting auroras,
meteors, lunar and planetary phenomena, solar activity, and variable
stars.
- IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
- Universe Today - Home Page: Space Exploration News from Around the Internet
- News service for astronomy and space. Grade A. (It's their business.)
- News from the Editors of Sky and Telescope Magazine
- Recent IAUCirculars
- Tjhe most recent. Also there are links to sorted lists of circulars--VERY conveniant. Grade AAA
- Astronomical Circulars
- Orbital elements of recent comets, minor planets etc from IAUCs. Grade A
- Sky and Telescope Magazine -- Home Page
- Recent IAUCs
- online IAUCirculars from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The lastest on new observational discoveries! Grade AA
Solar weather forcast: Astronomy
- Space Weather Solar Forcast & Data
- forcasts and links related to geomatnetic news, flares and
solar activity. Actual daily forcast is included. Links to sunspot
graphs, plotters, butter fly diagrams, movies of flares, movies of
spots moving acrss he Sun Grade AAAA My Favorite!!!!!!
- Hourly STD DMSP/POLAR Auroral Activity Report
- has maps etc. of Aurora and forcasts. Grade Aa (alternate to spaceweather.com.)
- Space Weather Now
- NASA solar weather site. Very good. Links toH alpha photographs with prominences. Grade AAa
- Geophysical Institute - Aurora Forecast
- University of Alaska aurora forcast page.
- Aurora Predictions - Custom longitude maps for your location
- With custom map so you get your longitude forcast!! Grade AA from University of Alaska
- Stanford SOLAR Center -- Other Resources
- Solar wind activity-3-day
- graphs of flux, speed, energy etc. of particles coming from
the Sun monitored by the ACE artificial planet about 1.5 million miles
sunward from the Earth--one hour out. Grade AA if you want data on
solor activity.
- Auroral Activity
- from the fine people at NOAA POES (argh to goverment achronyms!!) Gives charts, photos etc of current auroral activity. Grade A
- The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- with Solor ahd Heliospheric coronograph photographs and images -- see those solar flares. Grade AA
- http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/images2003/28oct03/cme_c3_big.gif
- animated gif of the big solar flare of Oct 28, 03! Grade AAA
Astronomical Observations: Astronomy
Cosmic Background Radiation
- from May 2003
- MAP Mission: Results
- Intro to Cosmic Background Radiation
- from University of Chicago folks Grade A
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
- Commentary and Links to recent Cosmologyh things. Grade AA
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial - Part 1
- Excellent multipart tutorial on cosmic background radiation. Grade AAA
Mars
- VirtualMars
- C;lick on globe of Mars and it centers. You get the features, lighting, names on the surface of Mars. Quite nice. Grade AA
- Mars color coded elevation map
- from those nasa folks. Colorful & Big.
- MARS by Percival Lowell
- Has complete text and figures of the book Excellent! AAAAA
Sun & Solar (including eclipses)
- Sun-Earth Day 2004 Venus Transit
- 2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus
- August 11, 1999: Visibility
- Fred Espeneck's Sky & tele article on Turkey eclipse with charts and graphs of weather prospects.
- Espenak's Eclipse Home Page
- The Eclipse Zone
- Has ecliopse, transits, meteor storms et other transient and rare astronomical events. Data on each event and links. Grade AA
- Daily Solar Images
- from the Big Bear Solar Observatory. Weather permitting. In several wavelengths with details of some features. Grade A
- Daily Solar Sketch and Photograhs
- From the Mt. Wilson 150-Foot Solar Tower. Weather permitting. Several images and sketch of sunspots. Grade A
- Total Solar Eclipse of 2001 June 21
- Graph of Sunspot Cycle
- large Gif graph; grade A
- Sunspots and the Solar Cycle
- Everything you need to know about the sun spot cyclle & curent spot counts, trands and predictions. grade AA
Weather Considerations
- Ernest B Wright Observatory Clear Sky Clock
- Sky transparency forecast for astronomical purposes
- Has upto date maps with forcests for sky transparenc (cloud cover etc) Great AAA
- Clear Sky Clock Homepage
- cloud cover forcast for various states.
- Martindale's Reference Desk: The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line: Physics & Astrophysics
- as the name says. Links to . . . grade a
- AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers
- Hertzsprung Russell diagram
- incolor.... very nice
- The brightest fixed stars
- International Meteor Organization
- Authoritative & lots of information and links. With links to American Meteor society. Grade AAAA
- Space Imaging - Visual Information. Visible Results.
- Private satellite with images of Earth; select location and
see if you can find an image. Images of famous places etc. cool !Grade
Aa (if you find what you want)
- Internet Stellar Database
- has catelogue of stars. Type in name and sort by distance from
other stars etc. Can easily get the stars closest to the Sun for
example. Cooooool Grade AAAA
- SETI Institute Online
- Searchg for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence home page. ET call home!
- APS Image Database
- Palamar Sky Survey. Can get some images of selected things or order up what is not already on line. Grade AA
- Sky and Telescope -- Leonids: Is This the Year?
- Satellite View of 1999 Eclipse
- Animated GIF from EUMETSAT picture archives. Grade AAA
- Arizona Messier Galaies et al
Astronomical Computation: Astronomy
- MarsBase dot net - Mars from Earth Java Applet
- Mission to Mars
- Mars Simulation Project
- Mars Simulation Project
- some folks put together a simulation of living on Mars. From
some of the chatroom comments it is not very interesting, but it is
complex. Grade A? for trying
- Mercury Chaser's Calculator
- From fourmilab a javascript calculator for Mercury greatest elongation for any year!! Grade AAA
- Class Mars
- Planetizer 1.1 API Documentation: JAVA documentation on some folks planet simulation programs. Gtrade ???
- Class Earth
- Planetizer 1.1 API Documentation: JAVA documentation on some folks planet simulation programs. Gtrade ???
- Planetizer | Current Planetary Positions | Java API for Orbital Dynamics
- Planetizer 1.1 API Documentation: JAVA documentation on some folks planet simulation programs. Gtrade ???
- Planetary and Moon Data on ....
- From SkyMap people; lots of fairly plain text data tables to
suppliment their product. Including comet elements!! Elongationsl, and
satellites. etc.! Coool Grade AAa
- A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles
- extensive list of astronomical cycles associated with eclipses. Cool Grade Aa
- Computing planetary positions
- Your Age On Other Worlds
- from Exploritorim, type in your birthdate and you get
birthdays for other planets in terms of their years. Interesting but
not much else.
- Astronomical Calculations - approximate methods for planet, Sun and Moon positions and ephemerides
- Online and Interactive Astronomy Links
- as the name implies . . .
- Orbital Elements for Software Packages
- From Harvard Observatory; orbital elements of comets, asteroids, etc in forms for popular computer planetarium software. Grade A
- > Java > Astronomy
- A large collection of links to Astronomy calculations of all kinds. Commercial site? Have to register to get links! :-(
- Earth Satellites.
- Has graphics (JAVA) of orbits of lots of satellites, where
they are and where over they earth. Cool if you need to find a
satellite by name. Grade AA
- Solar System Simulator
- From JPL get view of verious things from various other things.
Jupiter as seen from Cassini e.g. Nice realistic graphics of objects.
Grade AAA
- Planetary Satellite Mean Orbital Parameters
- Vernal Equinox -- from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
- Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
- Enter a date and get a picture of the phase of the moon. (no
other data) Linked to calculations of other p hases by year. US naval
obsevatgory. Grade B
- JPL Solar System Dynamics
- Earth and Moon Viewer
- Can get simulated view of Earth or Moon showing lighting from
Sun from all softs of vantages--satellites, above cities, etc. Grade
AAA
- Orbits
- An excellent JAVA applet that displays orbits or asteroids;
you control speed, time, watch as it moves through the solar system
with planets. GREAT. GRade AAA
- Sun Calculator
- a javascript calculator for sunrise and sunset times. OK.
- Solar System Live
- Get a map of solarsystem with some control of date, etc. grade Aa
- Your Sky--on line Planetarium
- Pick location on earth, Time, and get sky, can zoom. Grade Aa
- SkyMap Software home page
- Solar System Simulator
- Have choice of viewing places (planets), and targets; choose
time and you get a view (distant against the stars) or closeup.
Photographic (nearly) quality images. (Also links to maps of
planets--zoomable) Grade AA
- Earth from space
- Moon Phases 5000 Yr Catalog
- From Fred Espenak. Time and dates of phases of the moon by the
millenium, century, and year! All there. Grade A if you need moon phase
data.
- Earth and Moon Viewer
- enter location and altitude above Earth or Moon and get
picture (based on satellite phtoes and earth based photoes) of Earth or
Moon. Can zoom in and out to get that bird's eye view. Fuzzy below
about 29 km altitufde. Grade AA
- Sundial Generator
- enter your latitude and you can print out the plate and gnomen for a sundial. Grade A
- Calculate Positoins of Solar System Objects
- Hermit Eclipse
- Site with extensive information on solar and lunar eclipses. Grade a?
- Movie Evolution of clumps and voids in Universe
- animation in "3D" of filaments and voids forming in the universe (a bit small)
- COSMOS IN A COMPUTER
- front page table contents to computer simulation/animations of cosmos. U of IL. Grade A
- Movies from the Edge of Spacetime
- Mostly black hole movies. Quite technical but colorful. Grade B
- Spacetime Wrinkles Map
- Table of contents to some cosmology pages. Grade A
- TheWorks2.mpg (video/mpeg Object)
- quick animation of clumping in the universe. Grade a
- Cosmos In Fast Forward
- Interesting cosmit computer animations from cosmologists at U of IL. Grade A
- Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
- from the USNO. Put in time and date and get picture of moon phase.Just another moon phase bot. grade B
- Mars Today
- a page on info and pictures related to current survace of Mars. Grade A
Eclipses
- Solar Ecliipses -1000 to 2500
- A reallylong page of date by date data on solar eclipses. May be useful. Grade A
- 1999 Total Solar Eclipse Javascript Calculator
- Has a javascript eclipse calculatr. You can view the page contents and see the program. Quite long but not too comples.
- Eclipse Predictor
- An on line eclipse calculator for the 1999 eclipse. Javascripot source not available..
- Catalog of Solar Eclipses
- Fred's calculatiosn fo -2000 to +3000 years of solar eclipses.Grade AA
Astronomy Teaching
- the new pedigogy appled to science and astronomy courses.
Panoramas of Astronomy
- Mars, Apollol, etc.
- Mars Fullscreen panoramic image in Quicktime VR - QTVR Virtual Reality - Full Screen QTVR panoramic image from panoramas.dk
- Very nice
- Fullscreen QTVR - Mars Panoramas
- Apollo 11 - 17 Mission First man on the Moon - Fullscreen QTVR photo from panoramas.dk
- Solar System Applets
- more -- a few may be good for astronomy course.
- Neat Sites in Astronomy, etc
- Extensive links to astronomy related sites. Grade AAAA
- Astronomy Teaching Stuff
- from Gettysburg College guys. Project CLEA. Grade AA
- Astronomy Lab Information
- from Georgia State University, a bunch of astronomy labs. Grade A
- JavaLab Links
- Physics and astronomy related. a few
- Astronony Java applets from Chris Dolan's
- Astronomy related. Some good others not. Grade AB
- Lab Manuals - Sommers-Bausch Observatory, Univ. of Colo.
- Lab manual (indoor and outdoor exercises) for Astrophyics and Planetary Science course. Grade ??
- Lunar Phase Concept Inventory
- One of those educational concept test.
- Astoronomy teaching techniques
- from the Harvard people; claim to have conceptests for
astronomy but . . . well hidden and not clear how to get (need pass
word and BS.)
- Links to some Astronomy Ref Material
- quite small . . .
- Contributing ConcepTests in Astronomy
- someplace their is a list here but . . .
- ConcepTests
- paper describing the concept of concept tests --- argh
- Concept Mapping
- Michael Zeilik on idea of concept mapping-- an essay
- Collaborative Learning
- procedures, tips, etc referecnece for science teaching (etc.)
Step by step how to. Lots of jargon and not much in the way of
examples. l. .
- In-Class Activities for Astronomy
- A few a sort of neat. Not many and not much coverage. Get the idea however
- ASP: Web Sites for Instructors of Introductory Astronomy Courses
- Links ot lots of resources for . . .lab exercises, and applets, a few others grade a
- Astronomy Education Research
- activities for astronmy class (got this from Roger) OK
- Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy
- inclass activities (Roger got this from conference) grade A
- Introductory Astronomy Pre Course Survey
- to get at all those misconceptions. From the people at CAER (Collaboration for Astronomy Education Research) Grade Aa
- Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial
- Galaxies
- Pricing Inspiration Software concept maps visual tools
- Softward to make concept maps. Pricy.
- Astronomy Software index
- Project Pluto supplies astronomical software, both commercial
and freeware, to amateur and professional astronomers. Lots o' links.
grade A
Astronomy Course things: Astronomy
- Images for My astronomy class
- JUST LINKS TO JPEGS THAT I HAVE ON LINE FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES.
- The MSCD Astronomy Home Page
- an interesting astronomy course. Lots of stuff.
- Let's Play Observatory
- software for the simulated observatory. Download sample. Grade A
- Binary Star Simulation
- Applet of stars moving across the sky
- go figure. . .
- Eclipsing Binary Simiulation
- a cool simulation of binary stars, eclipsing etc. grade AAa
- Astronomy Software
- Links from Gettysburg Ast. Course. One cool link to Gravity simulator
- Orbits
- An excellent JAVA applet that displays orbits or asteroids;
you control speed, time, watch as it moves through the solar system
with planets. GREAT. GRade AAA
- Astronomy course at Gettysburg
- Lots of notes, lecture by lecture, for the course with lots of topical links for the lectures. Grade AAa
- Brooks/Cole Astronomy Resource Center
- From textbook editors. Has lots of links etc for astronomy course material. Grade A
- College-Level Astronomy Courses
- Astronomy Text page (with links)
- Jones & Bartlett publisher's web pages for their astro test. Some links (arranged by chapter and thus topics ) grace B
- Astronmy Animations
- mostly movies; some historic events other of phenomena
- Simulations and Animations
- Very nice collection of Java astonomy simulations. Excellent. Grade AAA
- Eclipsing Binary Simiulation
- A really nice applet which allows you to change types of stars
and notice how that effects the light curves. Try all combinations!!!
Grade AAA
- The Digital Universe Sample Animations
- Some astronomy related animations--Quicktime. Grade ??
- Satellite Motion & Gravity
- Cool set of animated gifs illustrating Newton's projectiles from a mountain top. Grade AAA for astronomy
- Links to astronomy course material
- form U of Colorado
- Java Applet and VRML Resources for Physics and Astronomy
Search Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
- SETI: The Drake Equation
- Bot to help you calculate the Drake equation. Enter your numbers and go. Grade AAA
- Five promising strategies for achieving contact
- Voyager - Spacecraft - Golden Record
- Self-Decoding Messages
- SETI Institute - Messages From the Moon, to Mars, to the Stars
- SETI Institute - Center for SETI Research
- SETI Institute - Center for SETI Research
- SETI Institute - Interstellar Message Composition
- Project Phoenix Overview
- Get Smart Products - Pioneer JMV-207 Photo Album
Astronomy Other: Astronomy
- Sky and Telescope - Mars in 2003: Which Side Is Visible?
- 18 NASA Panoramas in Java viewer
- Some panorama photogrphs of varous spacecrafts, rooms etc. from NASA. Interesting idea but content is dull.
- Galileo's Finger
- from the NASA people.
- IMSS -Multimedia Catalogue -Artifact IV.10
- Galileo's finger in great detail from the museum which has it. Grade AAA
- Pictures of Bacteria from Mars
- Ames Research Center News Homepage feb 25, 2001
- Microbial Life On Mars In Meteorite
- ScienceDaily Magazine --Feb 2001
- Bacteria from Mars--Fact Sheet
- from Ames research Feb 25 2001
- Sky and Weather (1): The Visual Sky
- ffrom The Telson Spur -- Home: Large collection of astronomy and weather related linkes. A compendium. Grace A
- Astronomy resources on the Internet
- from AstroWeb: links ot observatories, web pages, people,
softward, etc. Wants to be a central clearinghouse of Astro links.
Grade A
- Digital Sky Survey
- You plug in coordinates and get a picture of that piece of the sky. (Switch from FITT to GIF). WOW. Grade AA (but who cares?)
- Clocks and Time
- Clocks and Time: Horology site for books, magazines,
organizations, museums, PC synchronization software, time standards,
sundials etc. Grade A
- Astronomy Then and Now
- Hartwick College Astronomy Page!!
- Naval Obs Almanac etc
Huygens
- The Descent Imager-Spectral Radiometer----DISR----of the Cassini-Huygens Mission
- Huygens Probe Descent
- Spaceflight Now | Cassini | Scientists elated with quality of data from Huygens
- ESA - Cassini-Huygens
- Cassini-Huygens Home
Mars Rover
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home
- JPL - Mars Exploration Rovers
- Seems to be the better Mars Rover Site
- The Whole Mars Catalog at Mars Today .com
- Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
- RoverAnimPart3.mov (video/quicktime Object)
- RoverAnimPart2.mov (video/quicktime Object)
- ESA - Mars Express
- Finding the MER Landers on Mars
Computer stuff
- Argh! Wash your hands before clicking these.
RSS
- A News Feed I stole.
- Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
- PCWorld.com - RSS: Hot Fix for Info-Junkies
- Feedster RSS Search : surya siddhanta
- Search engine with XML RSS source. Get the engine return sent as an RSS. Great AAA
- 2RSS.com :: RSS feeds,RSS directory,RSS software,RSS scripts,RSS articles,RSS syndication,XML,RDF,news ...
- Syndic8.com - Welcome!
- Has many RSS feeds from submissions, search by subject. Grade AAA
- NewsIsFree: Channels By Category
- listing of RSS news sources ( I thnk.)
- More Information about RSS Feeds
- has links to more RSS 2 Javascript feeds Grade AA
- So What is "Feed to JavaScript"?
- an RSS to Javascript engine. Cut and past and you get news on your web site. Grade AAA
- magpiebrain: Rome - Yet Another RSS Java API
- Yet Another RSS Java API
- Give Your Users the Power of the Press With Weblogs and Wikis
- Open Source RSS & RDF Tools in Java - Informa
- Rss
- one of the RSS class of objects in JAVA
- Java Package Processes All RSS Formats
- Another article introducing RSS and JAVA package.
- XML.com: RSS on the Client
- What do I do with an RSS feed?
- RSS Utilities: A Tutorial
- Apparently you get a set of java stuff to make your own RSS
reader. I think. From Sun folks! grade AA (with links to other
descriptions of RSS.)
- Headline Viewer - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
- FeedDemon review - FeedDemon Intro - News & RSS - CNET Reviews
- refiew of RSS thingy softward
- SQLData RSS Reader
- RSS News Reader
Wiki Stuff
- Disinfopedia - Disinfopedia
- wiki wiki Quick Changes
- changes on wiki wikirecent
- Wiki Wiki Front Page
- If anybody really cares about Wiki Wiki thingsy. Just another way for people to share ignorance?
- Wiki Wiki Sandbox
- Wiki Wiki sandbox for testing purposes.
- Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The wiki based encyclopedi.
JAVA
- Building Applications: Deploying Java programs
- Java Applets etc
- lots of catagorized links. ??
- Applets
- Collection of JAVA applets from SUN. grade A
- HotScripts.com
- Collections of JAVA programs etc.
Lego Robotics etc
- LEGOBots at Indiana University
- lego mindstorms sensor input page
- Overview (RCX Java API)
More Java stuff
- JDK 1.4 Class Diagrams
- a well laid out table of contents of all classes in Java 1.4
with an index to boot. Each links to the appropriate SUN site
documentation for that class. Grade AAAA
- java.awt Class Hierarchy (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.1)
- JavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Help
- Graphics (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.1)
- Java Troubleshooting
- Chccks your machine and tells you what you have for operating
system and what verions of JAVA will run on what? Quite good for
diagnostics of browser and JAVA. Grade AAA
JAVA Language
- Java 2 Platform SE v1.3.1: java.lang Class Hierarchy
- : Class PixelGrabber
- Java Programming, Event Handling in JDK 1.1, MouseMotion Events, by Richard G Baldwin
- quite nice tutorial but in Java 1.1 (may be stale.)
- Tom's Java Shack!
- Some guy with some interesting applets he has written in JAVA to try things out. grade A
- Free Java Help --- Tutorials --- Compoponents --- Scrollbar
- Java scrollbar tutorial
- Java 3d Viewer : Faceted and Wireframe Objects
- A Software Developer's Home on the Web [Links]
- Java 3D(TM) API Home Page
- A Software Developer's Home on the Web [Links]
- Implementing Double Buffering with Java
- COS 426 - Computer Graphics - Home
- A Java by Example book
- large number of chapters. Don't see no examples yet.
- Canvas (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.0)
- CoffeeCup HTML Editor Homepage
- Shodor Java Tutorial, rough draft
- has an example of double buffering etc with some explanation
of what all these things mean: repaint, paint, update, and he uses
Canvas (not Image!). Hmmmm. Grade a
- 13.6 Choice Menus (Combo Boxes)
- has example with an handler
- Class java.awt.Choice
- Creating an Animation Loop with Timer
- This has a simple timer which is not deprecated and it works. Hmmm?
- Ordering from CoffeeCup Software
- Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.2.2 API Specification: Class Calendar
- Using a BufferedImage for Double Buffering
- Seems to use a lot of SWING packages to do buffering. Hmmm?
- Tutorial: Java by Example
- Another in the series. On timers.
- Tutorial: Java by Example
- And one on double buffering. Interesting examples. Not too complex. Grade AA if I can get them to work.
- Tutorial: Java by Example
- Some pretty neat examples. This one has animation and buffereing and thread. Grade A
- Swing: Part I, Short Course
- For those swing buttons, sliders, panels, etc. Does not have
much on the JScrollBar however. :-( Grade AA (for most of the stuff)
- Animation in Java applets
- Tutorial in animating with stuff about threads, painting etc.
quite simple! with a few examples,. Has section on double buffering.
Unfortunatley for applets only. Grade A
- Creating an Animation Loop with Timer
- Quite straightforward. For applets and applications. Cut out the "Polite Behavior" section to simplify considerabley. Grade AA
- Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
- The start of the SUN tutorial on SWING.
- How to Use Sliders
- Java Tutorial
- From the beginning. Grade A. Have not used since I read the book however.
- JAVA Swing Connection
- from SUN; has all the pool on the SWING class of neat IO
units. JButtons, JComboBox, JCheckBox, JCheckBoxMenuItem,
JDialog,JList, JMenu, JMenuBar, JScrollBar, JSlider
- Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition
- Javasoft.com
- The source of Java technology! (part of Sun)
- How Do These Concepts Translate into Code?
- Java(TM) 2 SDK 1.2.2_007 Installation Instructions
- Your First Cup of Java (for Win32)
- Setting up environmental variables for JDK
- The Java Tutorial
- Search Engines
- Search Engines
JAVA applets general
- see also under physics.
- JAVA Chaotic Pendulum, chaos
- Java applets
- Java Chaos Demonstrators
- Quite well done. Grade AAA
- Example: Walk Cycle
- Bats applet
- Automated Reasoning Applet (ARA)
- Java Development Kit (JDK(TM)) 1.1 Demo Applets
- Escher Paint Contest
- JARS.COM The #1 Java Review Service
Artificial Intelligence (insects etc)
- CPS721 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Simulation of Ant's Emergent Behavior Using Starlogo
- Fellow has ants with scent trail and they find optimum path.
Need lots of ants. Also has ants randomly lose the trail so they may
possibly find shorter paths. That's changed and optamized. Cool grade
AAA (emailed him)
- Swarm Intelligence Resources
- Neural Networks
- Links to other Insect Navigation sites
- 2D Insect Simulator
- Artificial Life in Computer Graphics
- links to all sorts of artifical life thingsy from smome fellow interested in animation. Grade AAa