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This page provides a general list of Astronomy, Science and related sites that you may find interesting, grouped according to the following categories:


Clubs & Societies

Link Comment

http://www.geocities.com/assabfn/

ASSA Bloemfontein

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/asa_www/asa.html

Astronomical Society of Australia

http://surf.to/wega

WEGA - Flemmish astronomical society

 

 


General Science

Link Comment

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_09jan01.html

Space Weather

http://einstein.stanford.edu/gen_int/relativity/qanda.html

Special & General Relativity Questions and Answers

http://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/

Pulse Jet Engine

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/

“Poetry” space science education - latest information about auroral science, and the study of Earth's magnetic field

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/

Finnish University and Research Network

http://www.chemicalelements.com/index.html

Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements

http://www.kiddoscience.co.za

Science for All ages.

   

Mathematics

Link Comment

http://mathforum.com/dr.math/

The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math

http://mathworld.wolfram.com Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics -a truly encyclopaedic reference

 

 


Observatories, Research Institutions & Planetaria

Link Comment

http://www.laughton.com/paul/rfo/rfo.html

The Dr. Richard Feynman Observatory

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/obs/obslist.html

Amateur Astronomical Observatories

http://www.wits.ac.za/planetarium/

Joburg Planetarium

http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html

Hobby-Eberly Telescope

http://www.excite.com/education/

universities_and_colleges/fields_of_study/

science_and_nature/astronomy_and_space/observatories

Astronomy & Space: Observatories

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html

Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Gallery

http://www.salt.ac.za/

Southern African Large Telescope

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/sciware/

Hartebeesthoek Radio Observatory

 

 


Publications & News Sources

Link Comment

http://skyandtelescope.com/

Sky & Telescope Magazine

http://www.astronomy.com/home.asp

Astronomy Magazine

http://www.theastronomer.org/index.html

The Astronomer Group

http://canopus.saao.ac.za/~wpk/map/sitemap.html

Willie's Home Page, Site Map

http://astronomylinks.com/

Astronomy and space links + astronomy news

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sfworlds.htm

StarWorlds - Astronomy and Related Organizations searchable database

http://midas.oma.be/www_root/serverdoc/www/Astronomy.html

ASTRONOMY on Internet

http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/yp_master.html

AstroWeb Database – HTML version

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html

IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

Solar System Exploration

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html

Latest HST Pictures

http://www.astronomynow.com/

Astronomy Now

http://spaceflightnow.com/

Spaceflight Now

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Space Weather Bureau – Science news & info about the Sun-Earth environment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/

BBC News | SCI/TECH

http://explorezone.com/archives/99_09/17_hubble_galaxies.htm

Hubble images show violent core of Milky Way

http://cnn.com/TECH/space/

CNN - Technology:Space

http://www.sat-net.com/spnews/

Space News International

 

 


Solar, Lunar & Planetary

Link Comment

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html

Moon Phases

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/news/010621eclipse/lusaka/lusaka.html

Eclipse 2001 - Louis Barendse

http://home.mweb.co.za/mw/mwgringa/

Chris Stewart’s eclipse website

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/

SDAC Eclipse Information

http://www.eclipse.com.zm/frameset.htm

Eclipse 2001 Zambia

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_09jan01.html

Jan. 9, 2001 Lunar Eclipse Gallery

http://www.eclipse.za.net/

Africlipse

http://www.mreclipse.com/TSE99reports/TSE99Espenak.html

Report on the Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11

http://www.mreclipse.com/

MrEclipse.com

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

Espenak's Eclipse Home Page

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7137/slolinks.htm

Eclipse & Lunar Occultation Links

http://www.bdl.fr/

Institut de mecanique celeste et de calcul des ephemeredes

http://www.inconstantmoon.com/index.htm

Multimedia tours of the lunar surface

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/

Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers

http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Earth and Moon Viewer

http://www.marssociety.org/content/marspetition.asp

The Mars Society - The Mars Petition

http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm

International Occultation and Timing Association

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

Solar System Exploration

 

 


General Astronomy

Link Comment

http://www.iol.ie/~pkcurran/index.shtml

Sky Router

http://www.novac.com/Jon/RA/

The Recreational Astronomer – articles for beginners & novices

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

http://origins.stsci.edu/news/2000/01/illustrations.html

Planet Hunters on Trail of Worlds Smaller than Saturn

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/index/Telescope.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day – 3D pic

http://www.astronomynow.com/breaking/9909/16hubble/index.html

Hubble spies giant star clusters near galactic core

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_319000/319865.stm

BBC News |Sci/Tech |Out of this world discovery – Extrasolar planet

 

 


Spacecraft & Satellites

Link Comment

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/

J-Track Satellite Tracking

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Heavens-Above

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html

Where is the International Space Station?

http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/2000may11/

displayngc3314.html

Hubble Heritage Project of Astronomy Pictures

http://near.jhuapl.edu/

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/

STARDUST

http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2000/mirrors.htm

Sandia News Release - Space telescopes & satellites

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast06apr_2.htm

Ulysses spacecraft has encounter with Comet Hyakutake

http://chandra.nasa.gov/chandra.html

Chandra X-ray Observatory News

http://oposite.stsci.edu/

Hubble Space Telescope public information

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/moc_atlas/

Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-299 Release

 

 


Equipment & Software

Link (Suppliers) Comment

http://www.astro-physics.com 

ASTRO-PHYSICS, Inc. State-of-the-art astronomical instruments

http://www.telescopesa.za.org/

Telescope SA - Telescopes, Binoculars and Accessories

http://www.observatory.org/vsengr.htm#return3

Van Slyke Engineering

http://www.sbig.com/

Santa Barbara Instrument Group

http://www.bisque.com/

Software Bisque

http://www.meade.com/

Meade Instruments Corporation

www.televue.com

Premium ota's, eyepieces, filters

www.losmandy.com Mounts, dovetail mounting systems
www.lumicon.com Premium filters, hypered 2145 film
www.mountaininstruments.com Premium German & fork mounts
www.starlight-xpress.co.uk CCD imagers
www.apogeeccd.com CCD imagers
www.fli-cam.com finger lakes CCD imagers
www.optecinc.com Temp compensated focussers, filter wheels, photometers
www.thousandoaksoptical.com Premium solar filters, Ha, Hb, OIII filters, eclipse viewers
http://winstars.free.fr/ Freeware star mapping program
   

 

Link (Telescope assistance) Comment
www.mapug.com Meade advanced products user group - for Meade SCT's
www.weasner.com/etx Mike Weasner's ETX knowledge base
http://members.aol.com/~ccdastro Bruce Johnston's LX200 tweaking notes, better polar alignment procedure
www.telescopeservice.com cct diagrams & repairs to LX200 circuit boards
www.mapug.com/ragreiner Doc Greiner's info page - mods & upgrades for LX200
   

 

 


Astronomy Education

Link Comment

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/

Bill Arnett's Nine Planets - Multimedia tour of the Solar System, an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system

http://pw1.netcom.com/~svydog/nine/nine.htm

Nine Planets - Freeware educational program based on Bill Arnett's Nine Planets site

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm

Fun Stuff for Kids to make

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum | Version 17

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/sciware/

HartRAO Visits

www.saasta.ac.za

South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA)

 

 


Oddities 

Link Comment

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Celestia, a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions

http://www.africaninspace.com/index.shtml

The first African in space project

 

 


Places to visit 

Link Comment

http://www.astronomische-reisen.de/index.htm

Astronomical travel

http://www.nfi.org.za/Tswaing/Index.htm

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/tswaing/tswaing.html 

Pretoria Salt Pan / Tswaing meteor crater

 

 

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