Favourite Links
Science & Technology: Astronomy
- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov - Godard Space Flight Center, NASA
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
- http://www.nasa.gov/today/ - Today@NASA
- http://www.nasa.gov - NASA
- http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html - Solar System Live
- http://planetscapes.com - Views of the solar system
- http://www.planets.org - The Planetary Studies Foundation
- http://www.google.com/sky/ - Google Sky
- http://www.heavens-above.com - Heavens Above (satellite, spacecraft, planet tracking, star charts, sun/moon timings)
- http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ - Celestia (free real-time space simulation)
- http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html - Home Planet (a comprehensive astronomy & satellite-tracking package)
- http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/ - Cartes du Ciel (free astronomy program - sky charts)
- http://www.stellarium.org - Stellarium (free astronomy program for Windows and Linux)
- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ - Astronomy Picture of the Day
- http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3d.html - JTrack (realtime 2D/3D tracking of satellites & spacecraft)
- http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov - A Space Library (simulator, maps, art)
- http://www.lpi.usra.edu - Lunar & Planetary Institute (Lunar Atlas, Mars info etc.)
- http://www.badastronomy.com - Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy page
- http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/partiview/ - Partiview (navigate through three dimensional data sets, including astronomical data)
- http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html - NOAA Sunrise/Sunset Calculator
- http://www.jgiesen.de/welcomeEnglish.htm - Juergen Giesen's Astronomy Applets (articles on calculating sunrise/sunset etc.)
- http://www.alcyone.com/software/botec/ - BOTEC (astrophysical & orbital mechanics calculator in Python, including all named Solar System objects)
- http://www.sergebrunier.com/gallerie/pleinciel/index-eng.html - The Sky of Earth (a panoramic photograph covering the whole sky)