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  AMERICA'S PREMIER ASTRONOMY EXPO   http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/neaf.htm 


http://stellarium.org/   Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.

http://skymaps.com/  FREE* Sky Maps Each Month 

The International Dark Sky Association.   The mission of the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) is to preserve and protect the nighttime environment and our heritage of dark skies through environmentally responsible outdoor lighting.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/) - A source of information about past and future Solar Eclipses. There also are photos and videos of past Solar Eclipses.

David Paul Green's Free Astronomy Software Site -  Free Astronomy Software for amateur astronomers, astronomy book reviews, and astronomy related website reviews.

Heavens Above - Get information needed to observe satellites (such as the International Space Station or flares from Iridium satellites) for your observing site.

NASA - Lots of information about space. Also the links to get "Watch NASA TV" and "NASA TV Schedule" under the "Featured NASA Sites" on the lower right side of the page. This gives live coverage during NASA space missions, and Interviews, Briefings or education programs at other times.

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars -Telescope products. Request a free catalog that has educational information about telescopes and binoculars. Signup for their monthly e-mail newsleter "Sky Times" for stargazing enthusiasts. Use their "Product Selection Wizard" to answers some question to see the telescopes you may want to consider.

Sky Spot  -  Source of books of "Finder Charts" for Telrad Users.

In The Shadow Of The Moon  - Although a website to promote a film, it has many great video clips in a window on the home page, and photos in it's Moon Gallery connected with the US trips to the Moon;

Starry Nights Astrophotography -  Website by Steve Walters (of  STAR  Astronomy) of his photos (many uncommon objects), equipment, and articles on Astrophotography;

The Woman Astronomer - A website to promote astronomy as a hobby and science, to women and girls interested in astronomy, and to be a resource to the astronomy community.

http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html -Skyhound A source of free Observing Guides, Comets to observe each month, other interesting objects to observe each month, a Deep Sky Archives, and they sell Astronomy Software.

http://www.astronomytechnologytoday.com/    A great value at only $15 annually for a US subscription, Astronomy Technology Today is the world's leading astronomy equipment journal offering equipment reviews, new product and industry news announcements, how-to projects, observing tips, and much more.

http://freeware.intrastar.net/planetarium.htm   ASTRONOMY - FREE SOFTWARE - Freeware planetarium downloads for win 95/98/ME/XP/Vista.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html  Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

http://www.astropix.com/  This is a web site of deep-sky astronomical photographs, tips and techniques for digital astrophotography, and image processing in Photoshop

http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/all-search-form.html   This site is an online observing list generator for amateur astronomers who love to pursue deep sky objects. This online version of the SAC database allows amateur astronomers to compile detailed and customized observing lists.

http://www.hawastsoc.org/   Founded in 1949, the Hawaiian Astronomical Society

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~lgm/astr120_fall97/jupiter.html   This Java applet shows the positions of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html   The Kuiper Belt. A partial list of relevant papers is included on this Web page.

http://www.seds.org/messier/data2.html   Messier Object Index.

http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/marathon/marathon.html   THE MESSIER MARATHON

http://www.ngcic.org/oblstgen.htm   Home page of the NGC/IC Project ... The NGC/IC Project is a collaborative effort between professional and amateur astronomers.

http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/ngc.html   Non-Messier NGC, IC, and other objects in this database.

http://www.slivoski.com/astronomy/   CONSTELLATION PHOTOS We hope these photos help you to identify the northern constellations.

http://www.celestron.com  All Celestron products.

http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/satsat_current.html   The curent position of Saturns Moons.

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html   Cartes du Ciel Sky Charts Free program to draw sky charts 
For use with Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

http://server2.sky-map.org/?locale=EN   All Sky Computer Star Map.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/  Sky and Telescope Online Magazine.

http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html   Online Space News.

http://spaceweather.com/   News and information about the Earth-Sun environment.

http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/nineplanets/  The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.

http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form  The Digitized Sky Survey copyright © 1994, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/tumol.html   The Ultimate Messier Object Log (TUMOL) is a FileMaker Pro 6.0 database that contains relevant information for all 110 Messier objects.

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/sattelit.html   The Atlas of the Universe. This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like.

http://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html   Visual Comets in the Future (Northern Hemisphere)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/catalogues/catalogues.html  Your Sky object catalogues.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/index.shtml   Astronomy Dictionary

http://www.noao.edu/education/crecipe.html   Making a Comet in the Classroom.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html  NASA TV.

http://ghonis2.ho8.com/rebelmod.html   Canon Digital Rebel (300D) Modification.

http://www.midnightkite.com/software.html   Astronomy Software Freeware, Shareware, and Commercial

http://www.digikey.com/scripts/us/dksus.dll?KeywordSearch   Online Store for cables, power suplies, connectors ect.

http://www.mapug-astronomy.net/   The resource website for the Meade LX200 (GPS & Classic), LX90, LX50, LXD55, RCX400, Starfinder, &ETX telescopes; and DSI & LPI cameras; and imaging software.

http://www.weasner.com/etx/techtips/etx_tuneup3.html   Meade ETX Telescope "TECHNICAL TIPS".

http://www.majestic-coatings.com/   Majestic Optical Coatings offers standard reflective and antireflective coatings as well as computer designed custom thin film coatings.

http://www.californiastars.net/lx200gps/tips.html   Tips for using and repairing your Meade LX-200 telescope.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/Declination.jsp   To compute the magnetic declination, you must enter the location and date of interest.

http://www.nineplanets.org/  A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System:

http://www.weasner.com/etx/ref_guides/polar_align.html   PRECISE PORTABLE POLAR ALIGNMENT.

http://www.astronomie.be/registax/   Registax 5 Free image processing software