WWW Sites for Astronomy, Space Science, and Weather

Astronomy, Space Science, and Weather

The following URL's are assembled from Jack Littleton's bookmarks and from ASTRONOMY magazine.

AAS Home Page for the American Astronomical Society

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Astronomical League

Astronomical Society of the Atlantic

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov:80/sl9/ is JPL's SL9 info.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html is eclipse bulletins.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/predictions/eclipse-paths.html is eclipse paths.

http://sgra.jpl.nasa.gov is the JPL Project Home Page for VSOP AND RADIOASTRON.

Try the EARTH SATELLITE EPHEMERIS SERVICE at http://chara.gsu.edu/sat.html. You input your location and it will list whatever is coming over that location that will be visible to naked eye (STS/MIR) and many that are easily visible in bad skies.

http://www.mtwilson.edu/Services/StarMap/ produces a starmap in PostScript for time, date, and location that you send it. Very complete.

http://http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer for latitudes and longitudes of U.S. cities.

http://www.digimark.net/galaxy/ used to be Jason Ware's Astrophoto Home Page, but it has moved and I haven't found it yet.

http://www.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info.html is the address for the planet earth virtual library.

http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov:/ims/orbit.html for an orbit plotter.

THE DE-SKILLING OF AMERICA "One thing this fascination with computer technology and saving microseconds will accomplish is to further dampen earnings and salaries. The Luddites weren't quite right. Technology doesn't necessarily displace workers. First, it lowers workers' ability to demand higher earnings. Computer scanners, for instance, de-skilled grocery cashiers, so their earnings haven't kept pace. Indeed, one of the ironies today is how the Vice President can keep talking about fostering computers, on the one hand, and then explaining how American families have seen their real incomes erode over the past 10 years, as if he were a cybernetic Lois Lane, `galactically stupid' and thus totally unable to draw the connection." (Telecommunications Policy Review 27 Aug 95 p3)

NASA Information Services via World Wide Web

AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources

NASA's Spacelink for news and images

Spacelink Hot Topics

Space Telescope Electronic Information Service

SEDS Internet Space Warehouse

Messiar object images

Solar System tour

Another solar system tour

Still another solar system tour (Swiss)

Science:Astronomy

Abrams Planetarium Home Page