Web between the Worlds

The idea behind the "Wayback Machine" is simple, to archive the Internet.   The entire Internet.   Every page.
Point your browser at:

http://www.archive.org/ 

.....and take a look for yourself.

FITS stands for `Flexible Image Transport System' and is the standard astronomical data format endorsed by both NASA and the IAU. FITS is much more than an image format (such as JPG or GIF) and is primarily designed to store scientific data sets consisting of multi-dimensional arrays (1-D spectra, 2-D images or 3-D data cubes) and 2-dimensional tables containing rows and columns of data. Take a look at it at

Virtual reality maps of the sky are nothing new. Here is another one.

http://www.honeylocust.com/Stars/

Tatsuro Matsumoto's site at http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/mazmoto/index-e.htm explains his invention, the Erecting Mirror System, and is also a useful launching point for the Telescope Making Ring. A ring, as you may now, is a chain of thematically related websites, linked so that you can travel from one to the next, eventually returning to your point of origin. Here is another ATM, also on the Telescope Making Ring.

http://users.uniserve.com/~victorp/

Clear skies!
Evan Dembskey