Polaris Observatory Association
Below is a list of some astronomy related links.
Astronomy Associated Web Sites
Online Star Charts
Miscellaneous Astronomical Sites
Professional Research
Amateur Research
Equipment & Telescope Making
Observing Related Sites
Astronomy Departments
Online Data & Catalogs
Public & Private Observatories
Ground-Based Telescopes
Space Agencies & Space Centers
Astronomical Societies
Space Astronomy Missions
Planetary Science Missions
Solar Observatories
Magazines & Journals
Astronomy Software & Misc. Data
Newsletters
Robotic Telescopes
Large Scale Structure
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Miscellaneous Astronomical Sites
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Space Telescope Science Institute
Yahoo! Science:Astronomy
Hubble Space Telescope Public Information
Harvard Astronomy Links
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Professional Research
Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands
Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA)
Brown University Planetary Geology
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Carnegie Observatories
UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT)
European Space Information System
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Science @ NASA
CLEMENTINE
San Juan Capistrano Research Institute (SJI)
SETI Institute
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
U.S. Geological Survey Astronomy WEB links(USGS)
U.S. Naval Observatory
Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antartica
(JACARA)
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Amateur Research
The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS)
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
Galilean Satellite Eclipse Timings
International Meteor Organization
International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)
IOTA Asteroid Occultation Section
International Supernovae Network
North American Meteor Network
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA)
Visual Satellite Observers
VSNET -- Variable Stars, Novae, and Supernovae
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Equipment & Telescope Making
Antique Telescope Society
ATM Journal
Cookbook Camera Home Page
Frequently Asked Questions of the ATM Mailing List
Hercules 41-inch Portable Telescope Project
Mel Bartel's Home Page
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Observing Related Sites
Riverside Telescope Makers Conference
Stellafane
Texas Star Party
Winter Star Party
Amateur Astronomy Observers Log
Astra's Star Gate
Astro-Guide
Aurora Page
Online Ephemeris Page
Visual Deep-Sky Astronomy Site
Comets and Meteor Showers
Astro Page
The Silicon Sky
The Double Star Library
Lunar Eclipse Observer
Moon Calendar
NASA's Comet Observation Page
NASA/GSFC orbital data bulletin board (satellite orbital elements)
The Shallow Sky
Jeff Bondono's Home Page
Mr. Galaxy's Supernovae
NASA Solar Data Analysis Center
New Star Gazers
Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page
Rawhide Space Page (Vandenberg AFB)
Satellite Passes over North American Cities
SkyTour -- Introduction to the Sky
Visible Satellite Predictions
Visual Limiting Magnitude Estimation
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
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Online Star Charts
AstroImage
Hawaiian Astronomical Society's Storybook and Deepsky Atlas
National Geographic's Star Chart
Java Based Sky Chart
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Astronomy Departments
Caltech Astronomy Department
UCLA Astronomy Department
University of NSW Astrophysics & Optics Dept
(UNSW)
Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antartica
(JACARA)
University of London Physics & Astronomy Department
(UCL)
Ohio State Astronomy Department
Ohio University, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cambridge Astronomy
University of Alabama
University of Texas at Austin
Joint Astronomy Centre Hilo, Hawaii
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
University of Michigan Astronomy Department
University of Massachusetts Astronomy Department
Northwestern University Physics & Astronomy
New Mexico State University - Department of Astronomy
Harvard University Astronomy Department
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Public & Private Observatories
Gov Aker Observatory (Arizona)
Valley of the Moon Observatory Association (California)
John C. Hook Memorial Observatory (Indiana)
Limber Memorial Observatory (Texas)
Polaris Observatory Association (California)
Thunderchild Observatory (Australia)
Vega-Bray Observatory (Arizona)
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Ground-Based Telescopes
The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
Anglo-Australian Observatory (Epping, Australia)
Apache Point Observatory (New Mexico)
Arecibo Observatory
Big Bear Solar Observatory (Big Bear City, California)
Burke-Gaffney Observatory (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Cambridge University
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO, Chile)
Clinemhaga Observatory (British Columbia, Canada)
Concordia College Observatory (Moorhead, Minnesota)
David Dunlap Observatory (Ontario, Canada)
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
European Southern Observatory (ESO, Germany & Chile)
Gemini 8-meter Telescopes (Hawaii & Chile)
Hard Labor Creek Observatory (Atlanta, Georgia)
Haystack Observatory (Massachusetts)
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (Texas)
Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF, Hawaii)
Keck (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
Kitt Peak National Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT, Hawaii)
Large Binocular Telescope (LBT, Arizona)
Las Campanas and Magellan
Lick Observatory (California)
Lowell Observatory (Arizona)
Lund Observatory (Sweden)
Mauna Kea Observatories (Hawaii)
McDonald Observatory (Texas)
Mount Wilson Observatory (California)
Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT, Tucson, Arizona)
National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO, Arizona)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, AZ, NM, VA, WV)
National Solar Observatory (NSO, Arizona, New Mexico)
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT, Hawaii)
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT, Canary Islands)
Palomar Observatory (California)
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Tenerife, Canary Islands)
San Fernando Solar Observatory (Sylmar, California)
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Steward Observatory (Arizona)
Starfire Optical Range (SOR Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory (Nacogdoches, Texas)
Teide Observatory (Tenerife, Canary Islands)
Telescopio Infrarosso del Gornergrat (TIGRO, Italy)
University of Iowa Automated Telescope Facility
Case Western Nassau Station(Cleveland, Ohio)
Yerkes Observatory (Williams Bay, Wisconsin)
Mt Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatory
(MSSSO)
Australian Telescope National Facility
(ATNF)
Royal Observatory Edinburgh
(ROE)
Cambridge Astronomy
including Royal Greenwich Observatory
European Southern Observatory
(ESO)
United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
(UKIRT)
Joint Astronomy Centre Hilo, Hawaii
(JACH)
SUBARU Telescope
Canada France Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT)
Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
San Diego State University - Mount Laguna Observatory
Pine Mountain Observatory - University of Oregon
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Space Agencies & Space Centers
European Space Agency (ESA)
NASA Home Page
NASA Ames Research Center (California)
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (California)
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York)
NASA Goddard Space FlightCenter (Maryland)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California)
NASA Johnson Space Center (Texas)
NASA Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia)
NASA Lewis Research Center (Ohio)
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Alabama)
NASA Stennis Space Center (Mississipi)
National Space Development Agency of Japan
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Space Astronomy Missions
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Cluster
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO)
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE)
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)
Italian-Dutch X-ray Satellite (BeppoSAX)
Hipparcos
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
LIGO Home Page
Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP)
Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST)
Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas B (SAC B)
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)
SPARTAN 201
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE)
VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP)
Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)
X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM)
X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE)
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Planetary Science Missions
Cassini
Clementine
Deep Space 1, 2, 3, ...
Galileo
Galileo Atmospheric Probe
Lunar A
Lunar Prospector
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Pathfinder
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
Pioneers 10 and 11
Outer Planets
Voyager
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Online Data & Catalogs
Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
Digitized Sky Survey
JPL's Solar System Dynamics Group
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
NGC/IC Project
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS)
Planetary Data System (PDS)
SkyView
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center
Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy (URANIA)
U.S. Naval Observatory's Astronomical Applications Dept.
ISSA Data
Astrocat Galaxies
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Solar Observatories
Digitized Solar Images
Solar Image Index
Mees White Light Telescope
Hawaii Solar Astronomy
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Wilcox Solar Observatory
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Astronomy Magazines & Journals
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Amateur Astronomy Magazine
The Astrograph
Astronomical Journal
Astronomy Now
Astrophysical Journal
ATM Journal
Icarus
Journal of the British Astronomical Association
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Observatory
Publication of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Meteorite!
The Planetarian
Sky & Telescope
The Astronomer
Astronomy
Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Mercury - ASP
Popular Astronomy
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Newsletters
Sky & Telescope - Weekly Astronomy News Bulletin
Star Hustler
Sky & Telescope - This Weeks Sky
Astro Notes Online
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
Barred and Ringed Spiral Galaxies Newsletter
The BeStar Newsletter
Delta Scuti Star Newsletter
The Martian Chronicle
The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter
Newsletter of Chemically Peculiar Red Giant Stars
NOAO Newsletter
Radio Pulsar Newsletter
Standard Stars Newsletter
Star Formation Newsletter
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Astronomy Software & Misc. Data
ADS
Astronomical Data Centre at GSFC
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
CDS Abstract Service
AXAF Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Centre
Centre for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics
European VLBI network/jive
ST-ECF - Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
NASA Planetary Data System Archive
STARLINK NEWS
RAL/Starlink
IRAF- Astronomy Software (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
HST's Greatest Hits - Photo Gallery of the Universe
Web Nebulae - collection of astronomy images
Comet information page - NASA)
Planetary Rings Node (NASA)
Welcome to the planets (NASA)
The Aurora Page
Sky & Telescope
's BASIC Program Listings
Searchable shareware library (search by Astronomy and platform)
Jackson and Tulls'
PC's in Space
Space Telescope Science Institute's Electronic PictureBooks and software for Macs and PCs
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Astronomical Societies
American Astronomical Society - Division on Dynamical Astronomy
ASA - Astronomical Society of Australia
ASNSW - Astronomical Society of New South Wales
ASP - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
RASNZ - Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand
AAS - The American Astronomical Society
IAU - International Astronomical Union
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
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Robotic Telescopes
Bradford Robotic Telescope
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Large Scale Structure
CfA Research - Structure of the Universe
Structure and Evolution of the Universe
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