Solar weather forcast: Astronomy (Back to the Top)
- Space Weather Now
- NASA solar weather site. Very good. Links toH alpha photographs with prominences. When the solar winds strike these people know what to do! 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
- 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 across the Sun Grade AAAA
- 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
Astronomical Observations: Astronomy (Back to the Top)
- Martindale's Reference Desk: The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line: Physics & Astrophysics
- Lots of links to internet bots to calculate and demonstrate astronomical things. Grade AA
- Clear Sky Clock Homepage
- Find as location near you and these people will give you the cloud cover forcast. Not just another weather forcast site. This is GREAT for observation planning. Grade AAA
- Sky transparency forecast for astronomical purposes
- From the Clear Sky Clock Homepage: has up to date maps with forcests for sky transparenc (cloud cover etc) Great AAA
- AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers
- The prime site for variable star stuff. Grade AAa
- Hertzsprung Russell diagram
- incolor.... very nice
- 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)
- Espenak's Eclipse Home Page
- The world authority on eclipses of all kinds. Grade AAA
- Internet Stellar Database
- Database ofof 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
- Mars color coded elevation map
- from those nasa folks. Colorful & Big.
- The Eclipse Zone
- Has ecliopse, transits, meteor storms et other transient and rare astronomical events. Data on each event and links. Grade AA
- 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
- 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
- Satellite View of 1999 Eclipse
- Animated GIF from EUMETSAT picture archives. I'm in this picture, on that big hill just south of Amasaya, Turkey; I'm the guy with the light blue shirt. :-) Really.Grade AAA
- MARS by Percival Lowell
- Has complete text and figures of this classic olde book Excellent! AAAAA
- 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
Astronomical Computation: Astronomy (Back to the Top)
- A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles
- extensive list of astronomical cycles associated with eclipses. Quite interesting cycles (if you care!)Cool Grade Aa
- Computing planetary positions
- All the detail and equations you might ever need. A real on-linecourse. Grade A
- 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.
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- 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
- The detail you need to calculate satellite orbits. Not for the beginner. Grade A
- Vernal Equinox -- from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
- US Naval Observatory Data on line
- Solar Ecliipses -1000 to 2500
- A really long page of date by date data on solar eclipses. May be useful. You never know Grade A
- 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 phases by year. For the shut-ins! US naval obsevatory. Grade B
- JPL Solar System Dynamics
- A massive collection of data on "all known bodies in orbit around the Sun." Grade AAA for the experts.
- 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. Cooool!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.
- 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. (Of historical interest only.)
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The Astronomical Applications department has a great deal of data on line!
- An on line eclipse calculator for the 1999 eclipse. Javascripot source not available. (Of historical interest only.)
- 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
- A quite simple planitarium thingy.
- 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
- a collection of satellite photographs of the selected locations on the surface of the Earth. Maybe they have a picture of your house!
- Catalog of Solar Eclipses
- Fred's calculations of -2000 to +3000 years of solar eclipses.Grade AA
- 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 pictures and Earth based pictures) of Earth or Moon. Can zoom in and out to get that bird's eye view. Fuzzy below about 29 km altitufde. Can't findmy house!!! Grade AA
- Calculate Positoins of Solar System Objects
- more planets etc from those people at Fermi Labs.
- Hermit Eclipse
- Site with extensive information on solar and lunar eclipses. Grade a?
Astronomy Courses: Astronomy (Back to the Top)
- Let's Play Observatory
- Software for the simulated observatory. For high school & college level. Download sample. Grade AAA
- Binary Star Simulation
- Cool JAVa simulation. Grade A
- 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
- 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
- A long list of links to astronomy course pages. Not annotated however.
Astronomy Other: Astronomy (Back to the Top)
- 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
- from 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, software, etc. Wants to be a central clearinghouse of Astro links; good luck! Has a search engine for the site. 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!!
This page prepared by C.Hartley, Director of the Ernest B. Wright Observatory at the Department of Physics at Hartwick College in the City of Oneonta, NY. More things from C. Hartley at his home. 