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Please bookmark our site and revisit with us soon. We look forward to your next visit, in the meanwhile, please find below a number of interesting and informative web sites on all things Astronomical.

LINKS TO WEATHER INFORMATION

For cloud cover images of eastern Australia derived from NOAA satellites http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~map/weather
 

LINKS TO OTHER ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETIES

Many astronomical societies  have home pages. They contain information for newcomers to astronomy, up to date information about current astronomical phenomena and details of what can currently be seen in the night sky.

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
(www.asv.org.au


The Astronomical Society of Victoria's Home Page provides a great deal of information on astronomical matters and has links to many societies, observatories and major telescopes.  Through it these can be easily accessed.
Other Astronomical Societies

 

 

LINKS TO ASTRONOMICAL SITES OF INTEREST 

There are countless astronomical sites with a vast range of fascinating and up-to-date information.  Some of special interest are:

Quasar Publishing
QUASAR PUBLISHING which issues the excellent annual "Astronomy - A practical guide to the night sky" has a web site which gives monthly highlights. Its URL is: www.quasarastronomy.com.au/month.htm

A NASA orbit calculator
 http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?sstr=Ceres

Great for solar system exploration
  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/index.cfm

More solar system
http://www.marssociety.org.au/amec2004/amec2004.html

The Starlight initiative
 http://www.starlight2007.net/

ROBOTIC TELESCOPES

These are telescopes which can be accessed and used remotely through the Internet.  The web sites give full details of how to access and use the instruments.

Bradford Online Telescope

Micro Observatory Online Telescope


 

Galileo
Galileo Mission to Jupiter

Cassini Mission to Saturn

Mars Global Surveyor

CURRENT SPACE MISSIONS
It is possible to keep continuously up-to-date with the space missions and in some cases there are projects, especially for students, based on new data as they become available.


 
 

GENERAL ASTRONOMY

The range of images from major telescopes and space missions is tremendous, and the Solar System is extremely well covered. One good site is the Nine Planets Tour

The Nine Planets Tour

The Universe Today site is a news reporting service for space exploration stories from around the Internet.

SIMPLE ASTRONOMY

Starchild

Starchild is best described as a 'learning centre for young astronomers'.


 

 ASTRONOMY MAGAZINES

Astronomy Now
Sky & Telescope

Scientific American
Astronomy (US)

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