Telescopes and CCD Cameras

Scope City
www.scopecity.com

Orion Telescopes
www.telescope.com

Anacortes Telescope and WildBird
www.buytelescopes.com

Cloudy Nights
A great site that reviews telescopes.
www.cloudynights.com

Santa Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG)
The best CCD cameras around.
www.sbig.com

Amateur Astronomy Resources

San Mateo County Astronomical Society (SMCAS)
www.smcas.com

Astronomical Association of Northern California (AANC)
http://aanc-astronomy.org/

AANC Con 2007 (AANC, SMCAS, and CSM)
http://www.aancstars2007.org/index.shtml

Sidewalk Astronomers
http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/

Peninsula Astronomical Society
www.foothill.fhda.edu/ast/pas.htm

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
www.astrosociety.org

San Francisco Amateur Astronomers (SFAA)
http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org/

Astronomy Magazines

Here are two outstanding astronomy magazines. Sky and Telescope is more for the advanced astronomer than Astronomy magazine, but both are great for keeping up with the latest astro news and finding out what is in the night sky.

Sky and Telescope
www.skypub.com

Astronomy
www.astronomy.com

Teacher Resources

Here are some great sites to help K-12 teachers teach astronomy.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.html

Chabot Space and Science Center
www.chabotspace.org/vsc/teacher/default.asp

Sky Watcher
www.skynewsmagazine.com/pages/resources/teachers.html

American Astronomical Society Teacher Resource
www.aas.org/~aastra/links.html

Spacecraft Missions to Other Planets

Here is info about the spacecraft that are now investigating our solar system.

Cassini Huygen
News about the Cassini spacecraft, which is a mission to Saturn,
and its largest moon, Titan.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/Cassini

The Huygens probe, which has landed on Titan and has shown some
incredible pictures is on this site.
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens

Mars Rover
What is happening on Mars? Check out this site!
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home

Observatories

If you want to find out what research the latest observatories are doing, check out these sites. They also have great pictures!

Hubble Space Telescope
The most famous orbiting observatory
www.stsci.edu/resources

Lick Observatory
One of the oldest observatories in the country, Lick Observatory is in our back yard, in San Jose, atop Mt Hamilton.
www.ucolick.org

Mt. Hamilton Webcam Images
If you want to see what is now happening on Mt Hamilton, here is the link.
mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam

Gemini Observatory
Here is one of the observatories on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
www.gemini.edu

Keck Observatory
Here is the largest telescope in the world, also atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
www2.keck.hawaii.edu

Paranal Observatory, Home of the VLT
One of the major observatories in the world, is located, here, in Chile.
www.eso.org/paranal

General Interest

Here are a number of links that are just fun to view.

The best place to look for the discovery of new, extrasolar planets
exoplanets.org/index.html

News about the Cassini spacecraft. This is a mission to Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/Cassini

News about the Huygens spacraft and the neat things it is discovering about Titan
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens

A site run by astronomy students from the University of Arizona with seemingly lots of time on their hands. Excellent site for all sorts of stuff.
seds.lpl.arizona.edu

A great site run by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It has links to all sorts of neat sky stuff.
www.astrosociety.org

The place to go for the latest comet info with lots of comet images. This is the comet observation homepage.
encke.jpl.nasa.gov

For the latest info on the the Mars Exploration program.
mars.sgi.com

This site will tell you all about the Space Shuttle.
spaceflight.nasa.gov

What is the sun doing now? You can find out by looking at this site.
www.spaceweather.com

Looking for satellites? Try this site!
www.heavens-above.com

Want to find out how bogus some of the sci-fi movies are? See this fun site!
www.badastronomy.com