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Astronomy on the Internet

• SAC's Scobee Planetarium Links to information about classes and public shows, the planetarium's newsletter "Skyline" and "What's Up" it's weekly astronomical calendar.
  
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
  
• Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants Updated to July 1995, from the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
  
• Central Coast Astronomical Society provides a directory of links to astronomy web sites. Includes links to NASA project web sites, such as Hubble and Chandra, commercial news sites, image libraries, etc.
  
• Information Pamphlets from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
  
• The Messier Catalog A complete guide to the 110 objects in the Messier catalog.
  
• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• NASA Spacelink Intended primarily for educators and students, But it is also a user freindly guide for all to use in navigating NASA's many Web sites. The search engine provides easy access to any publicly accessible NASA information.
  
• The Nine Planets A multimedia guide to our solar system. Created before the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto.
  
• Sky & Telescope From the magazine of the same title.
  
• Sky-Map.org Interactive, detailed, online sky map of objects outside of our solar system. Search for a star, constellation, Meisner object, etc. and a sky map is generated from the database. This web site also inlcudes high-resolution optical images of the sky from the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey. However, the SDSS is far from complete so your object may not be available. See the link for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for more information.
  
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey An ongoing project to create detailed, high resolution optial images of more than a quarter of the sky and a detailed 3-dimensional map of about a million galaxies and quasars. Based at a telescope on Apache Point, NM and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a consortium of 25 international institutions and government agencies, including NASA.
  
• StarDate OnlineWeb page for the popular University of Texas at Austin radio program heard on National Public Radio stations.
  
• The Star*s Family - StarBits Searchable list of abbreviations and acronyms related to astronomy.
  
• The Star*s Family - StarWorlds Searchable international list of organizations, institutions, associations, etc. Includes addresses, phone numbers and linked URLs when available.
  
• Space Weather
  • Solar VortexesMovies from NASA of the recently discovered Solar Vortexes.
  • Today's Space Weather More current, real-time displays of space weather information from NASA..
  • Science news and information on the earth-sun environment. Includes some information on planets in our solar system and near-earth asteroids.
  • The Sunspot Cycle, activity peaks every 11 years and can disrupt telecommunications, electrical power distribution, etc.
  • Space Weather Resources List of Web links on space weather from Rice University.
• Telescopes
  • Astromart Includes classified ads, information about telescopes, news items, articles and reviews.
    
  • Orion Telescopes and Binoculars and accessories. Information about telescopes and binoculars, astronomical images, night sky information, etc. for the star gazers.
    
• Views Of The Solar System Images from and information about our solar system. Includes links to other sites of interest.