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ASTRONOMY RESOURCES

2MASS - 2 Micron All Sky Survey at UMass
httpp://pegasus.astro.umass.edu/GradProg/2mass.html

2MASS at IPAC
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/

2MASS Second Incremental Data Release Gallery
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/second/

60 Second Adventures in Astronomy
http://snipurl.com/26h3fuh

Abrams Planetarium - Skywatcher's Diary
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html

ADS Astronomy Custom Query Form
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

American Association of Variable Star Observers - AAVSO
http://www.aavso.org/

American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/

An Atlas of The Universe
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/

Ancient Observatories
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/

Armagh Observatory
http://www.arm.ac.uk/home.html

AstroGrid - Open Source Project Designed to Create a Working Virtual Observatory
http://www2.astrogrid.org/

Astronomical & Nightscape Photography by Chris Cook
http://www.abmedia.com/astro/

Astronomical League
http://www.astroleague.org/

Astronomical Resources on the Web
http://www.istl.org/02-spring/internet2.html

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/

Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/

Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrophysics/journal/159?detailsPage=description

AstronomyCenter.org
http://www.AstronomyCenter.org/

Astronomy Education and Outreach
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/astroed.html

Astronomy Education Review
http://aer.aip.org/aer/

Astronomy Internet Resources
http://snipurl.com/4su1

Astronomy Letters
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1562-6873/

astronomylinks.com - Astronomy and Space Links
http://astronomylinks.com/index.htm

Astronomy Notes
http://www.astronomynotes.com/

Astronomy Online™
http://www.AstronomyOnline.org/

Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

Astronomy Picture of the Day's Educational Links
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html

Astronomy Technology Today Magazine - Guide To Astronomical Equipment
http://www.astronomytechnologytoday.com/

Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
http://www.euro-vo.org/

Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal (ASAIP)
http://asaip.psu.edu/

AstroTurtle's Amateur Astronomy Page
http://www.astroturtle.com/

AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
http://www.stsci.edu/science/net-resources.html

Australian Centre for Astrobiology
http://aca.mq.edu.au/

Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
http://www.badastronomy.com/

Brian's Space Hot List
http://www.ssl.umd.edu/space/

Center for Astronomy Education
http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Photo Album - Chandra Images by Date
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html

Clear Sky Institute
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/

Cometography
http://www.cometography.com/

Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal (CAPJ)
http://www.capjournal.org/

Cool Cosmos
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html

Cornell University: Curious About Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/index.php

Cosmic Distance Scales
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/cosmic.html

Cosmic Journey - A History of Scientific Cosmology
http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/

Cosmochemistry
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/ccp/

Current Space Weather
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/

Daylight Hours Explorer
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html

Deep Sky Search:Deep Sky Database:Deep Sky Objects:Galaxies:Globular Clusters:Open Clusters:Nebulae:Double Stars
http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/

Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic

Down To Earth Astronomy
http://oposite.stsci.edu/

Earth & Sky
http://www.earthsky.com/

Earth View
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?op=-s

Encalc - The Free Online Scientific Calculator
http://www.encalc.com/

Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://www.astronautix.com/

Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html

Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/

ESO - The European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/

Famous Astronomers and Astrophysicists
http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/astronomers.html

Galaxies
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/04/galaxies.html

Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/

Galaxy Zoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/

Galileo Project
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Gary's Astronomy Homework
http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm

GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

Google Directory - Science - Astronomy
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/

Google Moon
http://www.google.com/moon/

Google Sky
http://sky.google.com/

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

HubbleSite
http://www.HubbleSite.org/

Institute of Meteoritics
http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/

International Association of Astronomical Artists
http://www.iaaa.org

International Outer Planet Watch
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/IJW/

International Year of Astronomy 2009
http://astronomy2009.us/

Journey Through the Galaxy
http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/index.html

kuro5hin.org Mars in 186 Seconds
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/23/133723/157

Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/

Lunar and Planetary Science at the NSSDC
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html

Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/

Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Spirit and Opportunity
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery
http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-320 Release
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/e7_e12_captioned_rel/

MARSOWEB - Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites
http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/index.html

Meteor Showers
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/05/meteor-showers.html

Milkyway@Home - Help Discover the Structures in the Milky Way Galaxy
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

Moon, Mars and Beyond
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html

Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (STScI)
http://archive.stsci.edu/

NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator
http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA Space Shuttle Missions,International Space Station News, Astronauts News and Moon & Mars, Aeronautics,Science & Technology
http://nasa-image.blogspot.com/

NASA-Sponsored Classroom of the Future
http://www.cet.edu/?cat=cotf

NASA Sun Earth Media Viewer: Live Solar Images
http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/flash.html

National Virtual Observatory
http://www.us-vo.org/

NetAstroCatalog - A Mailing List For "Deep Sky" Observers Of All Levels
http://www.visualdeepsky.org/

NOVA: Sputnik Declassified
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sputnik/

Open Directory - Science: Astronomy
http://dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/

Planetary Picture List
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html

Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

Planet Four - Help from Stargazers to Explore the Surface of Mars
http://planetfour.org/

Planet Hunters
http://www.planethunters.org/

PlanetScapes
http://planetscapes.com/

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/

QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group
http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/

Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics - RSAA
http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/home.php

Satellite and Space Shuttle Tracking in Real Time
http://www.n2yo.com/

Science @ NASA : Astronomy
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/Astronomy.htm

SEDS Messier Database
http://www.seds.org/messier/

Shade Tree Physics
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/

SIMBAD Astronomical Database
http://simbad.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WSimbad.pl

Sky and Telescope Magazine
http://www.skypub.com/

Sky and Telescope News
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/

Skymania - Guide to Astronomy and Space News by Paul Sutherland
http://www.skymania.com/

SkyMap Software
http://www.skymap.com/

Sloan Digital Sky Survey - SkyServer
http://www.sdss.org/

Solar System Views
http://www.solarviews.com/

Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
http://www.spacew.com/

Space Calendar (JPL)
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html

Space Exploration
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/education/space_ex/index.html

Space Feeds
http://feedspace.blogspot.com/

Spaceflight Now
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/

Space Science and Astronomy News
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/

Space Station/Shuttle Blog
http://spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/

SpaceWeather
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Space Weather Now
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

Spitzer Space Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

Starry Night Astronomy Software
http://www.starrynight.com/

Stellarium - Open Source Planetarium for Your Computer
http://stellarium.org/

Student Astronomy Resources
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/astronomy

The Astronomy Center
http://www.astronomycenter.org/

The Astronomer Magazine
http://www.theastronomer.org/

The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator
http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/index.html

The Meteoritical Society
http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/

The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
http://www.nineplanets.org/

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/

The Virtual Amateur Astronomer®
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/virtualastronomer/

The Web Nebulae
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/

U.K. Society for Popular Astronomy
http://www.popastro.com

Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide by Robert Roy Britt
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html

USGS Astrogeology Research Program
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/

Venus Transit
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_zillman_archive.html#108576106074833301

Views of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/

View to the Edge of No-Return
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article835.htm

Virtual Sky!
http://virtualsky.org/index.html

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/outreach/webstars.html

WIKISKY - Consolidating Astronomical, Astrophysical and Other Space Objects
http://www.wikisky.org/

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/

World Sunlight Map
http://www.die.net/earth/

WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research
http://www.WorldWideTelescope.org/

Yahoo Directory Science - Astronomy
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/astronomy/

Your Sky
http://www.fourmilab.to/yoursky/



ASTROPHYSICS

Astronomy Research at Rutgers
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/ast-research.html

Astrophysical Bulletin
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/practical+astronomy/journal/11755

Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory
http://wugrav.wustl.edu/ASC//

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html

Computational Astrophysics: Digital Demo Room
http://rainman.astro.uiuc.edu/ddr/

Google Directory - Science - Physics - Astrophysics
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Physics/Astrophysics/

Inside Einstein's Universe
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
http://iucaa.ernet.in/

NASA AstroPhysics Data System (ADS)
http://adswww.harvard.edu/

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

Ohio State University-Astrophysics and Cosmology
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~astro/

Open Directory - Science: Physics: Astrophysics
http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Astrophysics/

Physics and Astronomy - PhysLink.com
http://www.physlink.com/

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
http://adswww.harvard.edu/

STARBASE - Topics in AstroPhysics and Cosmology
http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/astrophysics/files/home.html

StarDate Online
http://stardate.org/

The SuperString Theory
http://www.superstringtheory.fanspace.com/

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/www_info/webstars.html



BIOASTRONOMY

AstroBiology and SETI - Papers, Articles and Essays
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.php

AstroBiology Curriculum
http://astrobio.terc.edu/

Astrobiology Journal
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/ast

Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php

AstroBiology at NASA
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/

AstroBiology Web
http://www.AstroBiology.com/

Astromaterials Curation
http://www.geo-guide.de/cgi-bin/ssgfi/anzeige.pl?db=geo&nr=001517&ew=SSGFI

Bioastronomy 2004
http://bioastronomy2004.os.is/

Bioastronomy - The Net Advance of Physics
http://snipurl.com/4tby

Carnegie Institution: Astrobiology
https://nai.gl.ciw.edu/

Cosmic Evolution
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.htm

Extreme Life, Biospeology & Astrobiology
http://www.elba.bioflux.com.ro/

IAU COMMISSION 51 - Bioastronomy: Search for Extraterrestrial Life
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/iau/

Introduction to Exobiology
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/

NSCORT
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/nscort/

SETI and Astrobiology
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_astrobiology_030529.html

SETI.net - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://www.seti.net/

SETI - The Planetary Society
http://seti.planetary.org/

UCLA IGPP Center for Astrobiology
http://www.astrobiology.ucla.edu/pages/home.html



RADIO ASTRONOMY

AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/?branch_id=168&release_id=179046

Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/

Basics of Radio Astronomy
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/radioastronomy/

Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies
http://www.astron.nl/craf/

Deep Space Network (DSN)
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/

Duel of the Winds
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103182

e-MERLIN
http://www.merlin.ac.uk/e-merlin/introduction2.html

European Radio Astronomy Club
http://www.eracnet.org/

European VLBI Network
http://www.evlbi.org/

Gallery of Radio Telescopes
http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~kotaro/RTs/rts.html

GAVRT - Lewis Center for Educational Research
http://www.lewiscenter.org/force/1068/projects/gavrt.php

Google Directory - Radio Astronomy
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/Amateur/Radio_Astronomy/

Jodrell Bank Observatory - VLBI Group
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/

LOFAR
http://www.lofar.org/

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center: Arecibo Observatory
http://www.naic.edu/

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/

Open Directory - Radio Astronomy
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/Amateur/Radio_Astronomy/

Radio Astronomy for Scientists Teachers and Students
http://www.radiosky.com/

Radio Astronomy Internet Resources
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_radio.html

Radio Astronomy Meteor Scatter Detection
http://page.to/meteor/

Radio Astronomy Supplies
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ras.html

RadioNet
http://www.radionet-eu.org/

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=106492

SARA: Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
http://www.qsl.net/SARA/



ROBOSCOPES

Automatic Astronomy: New Robotic Telescopes See and Think
http://snipurl.com/4tds

Bradford Robotic Telescope
http://www.telescope.org/

eSTAR Project
http://www.estar.org.uk/

Iowa Robotic Telescope Facilities
http://phobos.physics.uiowa.edu/index.shtml

Links to Robotic Telescope Projects
http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/MONET/links.html

Liverpool Telescope
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/

Lowell Education Online
http://kraken.lowell.edu/leo.php

NSO: The National Schools Observatory
http://www.glam.ac.uk/roccoto/observatory.php

Rent-a-scope
http://www.arnierosner.com/are/index.htm

Robotic and Remotely Controlled Telescopes
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/roboscope/the_list.html

ROTSE - Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
http://www.rotse.net/

SLOOH - Astronomy, Remote Control Telescopes, Observatories, View the Universe
http://www.slooh.com/homejs.jsp

Telescope Technologies Ltd
http://www.ngat.com/

The Faulkes Telescope Project
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/

The National Academies Space Studies Board
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/index.html

UCSB Remote Access Astronomy
http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~jatila/raap/cmb_ppt.html

Yahoo Groups - RoboScope
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoboScope/



DATA MINING RESOURCES FOR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
http://cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html

Digitized Sky Survey
http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/

University of Strasbourg
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr



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