BruAstronomy! Links

Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy. (http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html)
Great Debates in Astronomy. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/)
History of Astronomy and Space Science. (http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/astro/astrohistory.html)

University Lowbrow Astronomers - History of University of Michigan's Observatories.

Images

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures. (http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html)
NSSDC Photo Gallery (Part of the Goddard Space Flight Center). (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/)
"Pretty Pictures." (http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/yp_pictures.html)
Images from the Anglo-Australian Observatory. (http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html)
Welcome to the Planets. (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets)
The SEDS Messier Catalog. (http://www.seds.org/messier/)
Northern Cross Observatory Photo Album. (http://www.boonhill.net/NCO/members_pictures/index.html)
Larry's Deep-Sky Sketches. (http://www.city-net.com/~LSMCH/SKETCH1.HTML)
Nicolas BIVER --- Home page no2. (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~biver/)
Personal Pages of Astronomers. (http://my.voyager.net/stargazer/personal.html)

University Lowbrow Astronomers - Images.

Islam and Astronomy

Introduction to Islam (MSA Columbia Univ Webpages) (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/msa/)

QIBLA DIRECTION (Prayers), A Mathematical Determination (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/msa/files/qibladr2.html)

Islam and the Lunar Calendar (http://www.columbia.edu/~mnd/lunarcalendar1.html)

HINTS to Sight the Hilal, Crescent Moon (http://www.columbia.edu/~mnd/hintscrescent1.html)

Possible ORIENTATIONS of a Hilal (Crescent Moon)

List of Worldwide Critical Sightings (http://www.columbia.edu/~mnd/CriticalSightings.html)

Lunar Calendar (http://www.unizh.ch/ori/hegira.html)

Ummah web site (http://www.ummah.org.uk/ildl/mooncalc.html)

North American Coordinator (Since 1987), for Astronomical Information (http://www.columbia.edu/~mnd)

Dr.Monzur Ahmed's Excellent Internet Astronomy/Islam Resources

Mr.Khalid Shaukat's Excellent Internet Astronomy/Committee for Crescent Observation (CFCO) (http://moonsighting.com/home.html)

South African Muslim HomePage of Jamiatul Ulama (http://goofy.iafrica.com/~jamiat/hilaal.html)

Online Data, US Naval Obsevatory

Light Pollution

International Dark-Sky Association. (http://www.darksky.org/)
The New England Light Pollution Advisory Group. (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~graff/nelpag.html)
EMU Astronomy Club Light Pollution Page. (http://www.physics.emich.edu/sherzer/lightpol.htm)

University Lowbrow Astronomers Light Pollution Page (contains many additional links).

Magazines and Publications

Astronomy Magazine - Kalmbach Publishing. (http://www.kalmbach.com/)
Odyssey - Cobblestone Publishing. (http://www.cobblestonepub.com/)
Sky & Telescope - Sky Publishing. (http://www.skypub.com/)
Sky Calendar

Scientific American

Popular Science - The What's New Magazine

Popular Mechanics

Meteor Showers

The International Meteor Organization. (http://www.imo.net/)
The Aerospace Corporation Leonid Meteor Shower Page. (http://www.aero.org/leonid/)
Comets & Meteor Showers. (http://comets.amsmeteors.org/)
Yahoo's List of Leonid Meteor Shower Pages
The North American Meteor Network. (http://web.infoave.net/~meteorobs/)
The International Meteor Organization Leonid Activity 1999 Update. (http://www.imo.net/leo99/)

1999 Leonid Observer's Guide

Naked Eye Observing

Star Hustler (Jack Horkheimer: Director of the Miami Planetarium). (http://www.starhustler.com/)
Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University. (http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/)
The National Deep Sky Observer's Society (Observing the Deep Sky With the Naked Eye) (http://www.cismall.com/deepsky/eye.html)
Dibon Smith: The Constellations. (http://www.dibonsmith.com)

University Lowbow Astronomers: Naked Eye Observer's Guide

News

Astrobiology Now News

Latest Astro News

What New @ KSC

News Flashes

Astro News & Astronomy News

News Groups

(Note some browsers cannot handle the "news:" type links)

sci.astro . (news:sci.astro)
sci.astro.amateur . (news:sci.astro.amateur)
sci.astro.research . (news:sci.astro.research)
sci.space.science . (news:sci.space.science)
sci.space.news . (news:sci.space.news)

Observatories

Yahoo's List of Observatories. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Research/Observatories/)
The Sky and Telescope Magazine List of Astronomy Related Organizations. (http://www.skypub.com/astrodir/astrodir.html)

University Lowbrow Astronomers - Open House Information.

Occultation

The International Occultation Timing Association

Online SkyChart

Sky & Telescope's Interactive Sky Chart (http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/#)

Organizations

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). (http://www.aavso.org/)
The American Astronomical Society. (http://www.aas.org/)
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/)
The Astronomical League (http://www.astroleague.org/)
Astronomical Society of Australia. (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/asa_www/asa.html)
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. (http://www.aspsky.org/)
Australia Telescope National Facility. (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/ATNFHomePage.html)
The International Astronomical Union. (http://www.iau.org/)
International Dark-Sky Association. (http://www.darksky.org/)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (http://www.nasa.gov/)
National Optical Astronomy Observatories. (http://www.noao.edu/noao.html)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory. (http://www.nrao.edu/)
The Planetary Society. (http://www.planetary.org/)
The University of Arizona Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
The Webb Society. (http://www.webbsociety.freeserve.co.uk/)

Organizations (Indices)

The Sky and Telescope Magazine List of Astronomy Related Organizations. (http://www.skypub.com/astrodir/astrodir.html)
StarWorlds - Astronomy and Related Organizations. (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/starworlds.html)
Yahoo's List of Astronomy Clubs. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Clubs/)
Yahoo's List of Astronomy Departments.
Yahoo's List of Astronomy Organizations
Yahoo's List of Observatories. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Observatories/)

Professional Astronomy Sites

Harvard - Smithsonian

Minor Planet Center

Space Calendar SC Online

MPC Astronomical Headlines AstHead Mag

Stardust Comet News Comet News

Research

(Note some browsers cannot handle the "news:" type links)

sci.astro.research . (news:sci.astro.research)
AAS WWW bibliographical/abstract service. (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/aas/index.shtml)
NASA Astrophysics Data System. (http://adswww.harvard.edu/)
Astronomy and Space Science. (http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/science/astronomy/index.html)
Hubble Space Telescope - Hubble Data Archive. (http://stdatu.stsci.edu/)
International Jupiter Watch (IJW), Atmosphere Discipline (http://atmos.nmsu.edu/ijw/)

The University Lowbrow Astronomers Telescope Observer's Guide.

Rockets

Saturn Press Products.

Search Engines and Indices

The StarPages - Astronomy Yellow Pages on the WWW. (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/starpages.html)
Yahoo. (http://www.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo's Astronomy List. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/)
Google. (http://www.google.com/)
Alta Vista. (http://www.altavista.com/)
WWW-VL: Astronomy and Astrophysics & AstroWeb
The AstroWeb Consortium (NRAO site). (http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html)
The AstroWeb Consortium (STScI site). (http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/astronomy.html)

Software

Search Yahoo for Astronomy Software.

(See also "Calculations" above.)

Sienna Software (http://www.siennasoft.com)

Software Bisque (http://www.bisque.com)

StarryNight (http://www.starrynight.com)

Astrotips-Astronomy Freeware and Shareware (http://www.stargazing.net/AstroTips/english/index.html)

Solar

The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers Solar Section. (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/solstuff/)
National Solar Observatory: Images. (http://www.nso.noao.edu/synoptic/)
NASA: Solar Data Analysis Center: Images. (http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/)

Solar Eclipse

The San Francisco Exploratorium Solar Eclipse Site. (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/index.html)
NASA: Solar Eclipse Home Page. (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html)

University Lowbrow Astronomers - William Hughes. "Confessions of an Eclipse Chaser."

South Pole

The Viper Telescope. (http://cmbr.phys.cmu.edu/vip.html)
The Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica. (http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/home.html)
Antarctic Support Association. (http://www.asa.org/)
Bert's South Pole Page. (http://alizarin.physics.wisc.edu/rschwarz/index.html)
South Pole Emergency Air Drop (July 11, 1999). (http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/info/spopress.html)

Space Missions

(Note some browsers cannot handle the "news:" type links)

The NASA home page. (http://www.nasa.gov/)
The Johnson Space Center. (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/)
sci.space.news . (news:sci.space.news)
Jonathan McDowell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): Jonathan's Space Report. (http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html)
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission. (http://near.jhuapl.edu/)
Lunar Prospector Mission. (http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/)
The Center for Mars Exploration (NASA's Ames Research Center)
Missions to Mars. (http://marsweb.jpl.nasa.gov/)
International Space Station / NASA shuttle. (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/)
Project Galileo. (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/)
The Cassini Mission. (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/)
Ice and Fire Missions: Europa Explorer, Pluto-Kuiper Express and Solar Probe
Space Research Institute (IKI) - Russia. (http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/Welcome.html)

(See also "Rockets" above.)

Star Parties

Astrofest. (http://www.chicagoastro.org/)
The Texas Star Party. (http://www.metronet.com/~tsp/)

Enchanted Star Parties (New Mexico) (http://www.socorro-nm.com/starparty.html)

Grand Canyon Star Party (Arizona) (http://www.tucsonastronomy.org/gcsp.html)

Telescopes

Amateur Telescope Making Web Page. (http://www.polaris.net/~tas/atm/atm.html)
A WWW Resource For Amateur Telescope Making. (http://www.atmpage.com/)
The Telescope Review Web Site! (http://www.scopereviews.com/)
Astronomy Classified Advertisements. (http://www.seds.org/Astro-Ads/)
Search Yahoo for Telescopes.

University Lowbrow Astronomers - Doug Scobel. "Beating the High(?) Cost of Amateur Astronomy."
University Lowbrow Astronomers - Doug Scobel. "Get a 60 Inch Telescope for $100.00!"
University Lowbrow Astronomers - Doug Scobel. "To Dew or Not to Dew."

Telescope Observing

Ron Muir's Deep Sky Guide. (http://www.star-telegram.com/homes/rmuir)
Amateur Astronomers Kiosk. (http://sol.stsci.edu/~mutchler/HSTamateur.html)
TASS: The Amateur Sky Survey. (http://www.tass-survey.org/)
The National Deep Sky Observers Society. (http://www.cismall.com/deepsky/)
Planetary Nebula Observer's Home Page. (http://www.blackskies.com/index1.html)
Hawaiian Astronomical Society. (http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/index.html)

Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers.
The University Lowbrow Astronomers Telescope Observer's Guide.
(See also specific topics above and below).

University Departments

(See "Astronomy Departments" above.)

University Science Malaysia (http://www.falak.usm.my)

Variable Stars

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). (http://www.aavso.org/)
An Intensive International Mailing List on Variable Stars. (http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/)
Center for Backyard Astrophysics. (http://www.astro.bio2.edu/cba/)
International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry. (http://www.iappp.vanderbilt.edu/)

Weather

Brunei meteorological department

University Lowbrow Astronomers - Weather Links.

Online Weather Maps

Links

Home Page for the University Lowbrow Astronomers.

The University of Michigan Astronomy Department.

The University of Michigan Gateway.

A List of Other Astronomy Clubs in SE Michigan.

Online Data, US Naval Obsevatory