Astronomy Books

• Amazon- books on line
• Barnes and Noble
• Science News Magazines

Astrophotography

• RegiStax - free image processing software

Cards - Virtual Astronomy Cards

• Virtual Astronomy Postcards

Children and Beginners

• The Children's Museum of Utica NY - Welcomes you to our museum for kids!
• The best of NASA material for elementary school children - The Space Place
• General information from NASA for Children and Beginners - SpaceKids
• Seeing in the Dark Activities for children/teachers/parents and adults
• Space & Astronomy for Kids + hundreds of links for kids - ThoughtCo.com
• Solar System and the universe beyond - StarChild
• For older children (14 and up) - Imagine the Universe
• Exploratorium - San Francisco science museum
• Syracuse Museum of Science and Technology (MOST)
• SEDS: Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
• Astronomy for Kids

College and University Astronomy Departments

• Arizona State University - Academic Programs - Main Campus - Liberal Arts - Physics and Astronomy
• Colgate University - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Balonek & Dr. Aveni
• Hamilton College - Department of Physics
• Michigan Technological University - Department of Physics
• University of Chicago - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Comets & Meteors

• NASA Near Earth Object Program
• The International Meteor Organization homepage
• Finding comets on SOHO images

Equipment & Accessories - New and Used

• Meade Instruments - Irvine, CA new equipment
• Celestron International - Torrance, CA new equipment
• Astromart - ads placed to buy and sell used equipment
• Cloudy Nights - Discussions and ads for used equipment
• Anacortes - new equipment
• Telescope Review
• Telescope Guide

General

• Astronomy - more than you may want to know
• Black Hole Encyclopedia - latest news on black holes
• Astronomy Starlust - stargazing guides, articles, telescopes & more (+Ads)

Geographic Positions/Time

• World Atlas - latitude and longitude explained
• TouchMap of latitude and longitude
• Official Time from the US government
• Magnetic Declination from NOAA
• Sunrise/set, Moonrise/set times
• U.S. Naval Observatory Dates & times of Sun, Moon, eclipses, astro-events

History

• History of Astronomy

Hubble Space Telescope

• Homepage
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Picture Album
• Hubble and the European Space Agency

Magazines

• Astronomy
• Nature
• Sky and Telescope
• StarDate Magazinea non-profit publication of McDonald Observatory
• Science
• Science News
• Scientific American

Member Web Pages

• Chuck and Carol Higgins' Web Page

Miscellaneous

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Tom Balonek's Astronomy Links - Professor of Astronomy, Colgate University
• Tom Balonek's Arecibo Night Sky Video
• SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence sites
• David Levy's Radio Show: Starizona
• Dark Sky Initiative
• For Fun - Name a star for someone

Mythology

• Myths Greek
• More Greek myths

News

• Sky & Telescope latest news breaks
• Aurora, Sun, Meteors, Spaceweather News
• "What's New" Press Releases from NASA's Office of Space Science
• SpaceRef - Space news
• Space News - lists articles published daily on the internet

Objects to Observe

• Messier Objects
• Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) - a catalog of Struve double stars
• The Electronic Sky
• Moon Maps - click on Part I or Part II for lunar regional maps

Occultations

• International Occultation Timing Organization's (IOTA)

Organizations, Societies and Events:

• Astronomical League - a confederation of amateur astronomers and astronomy organizations
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Northern California professional and amateur astronomer organization
• Albany Area Amateur Astronomers associated with Dudley Observatory
• Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
• DarkSky International
• Rochester Astronomical Society - section of the Rochester Academy of Science, Rochester, NY
• Rockland Astronomy Club - Suffern, NY
• Syracuse Astronomical Society- Syracuse, NY
• Gloucester Area Astronomy Club- Gloucester, MA
• Kopernik Astronomical Society- Vestal, NY
• Stellafane Homepage- Springfield Telescope Makers, Stellafane, Vt.
• American Association of Amateur Astronomers
• Northeast Astronomical Forum (NEAF) - Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY

Planetariums & Observatories

• 3-D Ho Tung Visualization Laboratory,Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
• Most Museum Planetrium, Syracuse, NY
• Portable Planetarium, Oneida BOCES, Utica, NY
Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche PlanetariumSchenectady, NY
• Henry Hudson PlanetariumAlbany, NY
• Roberson Museum and Science Center Planetarium, Binghamton, NY
• Rose Center& Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History
• Kopernik Observatory and Science Center, Vestal, NY
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory,Green Bank, West Virginia

Planets

• Galileo Mission at Jupiter
• Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Home Page
• Mars Express Photos
• Mars Team On Line Photo Gallery
• Cassini Mission to Saturn
• The Nine Planets - current findings, pictures and other data
• Venus
• Lunar and Planetary Institute
• Extrasolar Planets: Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia
• Extrasolar Planets: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
• Near Eros Photos

Pronunciation Guide

• Astronomical pronunciation guide from the Astronomical League

Satellites

• Heavens Above - track artificial satellites in your sky: time, altitude, direction, magnitude
• Celes Trak - orbital elements for satellites

Sky Maps

• Novice: Monthly Sky Maps for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• Free Magnitude 7.0 Star Maps
• Advanced: NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) - excels for galaxies, professionals
• Advanced: SIMBAD (Set of Identification, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data)

Sky Watching

• Sky & Telescope's The Sky at a Glance
• NASA's Eclipse Website
• What to look for in the current sky Choose the TONIGHT tab
• Monthly viewing information - the Moon, Sun, Planets, etc. Que Tal

Software and Armchair Astronomy

• Google Sky - a simulation
• NASA Television broadcasts
• World Wide Telescope - simulated explorations of the universe
• Stellarium free planetarium software

Space Flight

• Space.com - latest spaceflight news
• The Planetary Society - space exploration
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Sun

• Space Weather - Solar wind velocity, density, sunspot numbers, flares, CME, aurora warnings
• Big Bear Solar Observatory Images
• Latest images of the Sun in Hydrogen alpha
• Auroral Activity Map - NOAA POES satellite image
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite - 24 hour surveillance of the Sun, UV images
• GONG - Global Oscillation Network Group - a network of six world wide solar observatories
• Stanford University Solar Center - lots of neat stuff here, even folklore

Weather

• Weather conditions at the MVAS BBO Observatory
• Real time Weather Satellite images and movies.
• Space Weather in Earth's neighborhood