Victoria, BC Astronomy Resources
- Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
http://victoria.rasc.caStar Parties in September on the Malahat - Le Centre de l’Univers / The Center of the Universe
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/hia/centre-universe.html
Images
- Astronomy Picture of The Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.htmlArchive:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html - HEASARC Picture of the Week- Images from X-ray and Gamma ray astronomy. Check back each week
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/ - The Planetary PhotoJournal
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html - Solar Views
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/index/index.html
History
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://www.astronautix.com/ - History of Astronomy: Index of Persons
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers-index.html - A Brief History of Astronomy
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9454/overview.htm - Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr - Apollo Over The Moon – Online Book – Human Space Exploration
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/contents.htm
Space People
- Stephen Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk - Astronaut Biographies
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios - Carl Sagan
http://www.carlsagan.com - Galileo Project
http://galileo.rice.edu
Space Calendar
- Everything upcoming in space for exploration and astronomy.
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar
Solar System
- A Tour of the Solar System, major resources and links to more resources
http://nineplanets.org Glossary:
http://nineplanets.org/help.html - NASA-JPL Solar System Simulator
http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Hitchhikers Guide To The Moon
http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/hitchhiker.html - Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of “space.”
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system - The Solar System Live – Welcome to Solar System Live, the interactive Orrery of the Web.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html - News and Information About the Earth-Sun Environment
http://SpaceWeather.com - Phases of the Moonhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html#y2006
The Galaxy
- What Are Constellations?
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html - Your Sky – StarMaps
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky - TerraNova – Planet of the Day
http://www.fourmilab.ch/terranova/terranova.html - Star Names Table
http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html - SuperNova
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html
The Universe
- Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu - The Universe Within – Powers of Ten
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10 - NASA’s Imagine the Universe
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/homepage.html - Answers to the Cosmos from “Ask An Astronomer” – Astronomy Cafe
http://www.astronomycafe.net
Space Exploration
- Cassini – Mission To Saturn
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm - Sky Watch – Want to know when a spacecraft will be flying over your city?
http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings - Space Exploration Timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration - NASA-JPL
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov - Mars Observation Images
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov - Jonathan’s Space Pages
http://www.planet4589.org/space - The Space Shuttle and Space Station Pages
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html - Space Shuttle Updates
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html - MAP – WMAP : NASA Explorer Mission measuring the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky,
remnant heat of the Big Bang provides answers to fundamental questions about the origin and fate of our universe.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
The Great Observatories
- Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cgro/images/epo/gallery/index.html - Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml - Chandra X-Ray Telescope
http://xrtpub.harvard.edu - Hubble Space Science Institute
http://www.stsci.edu/resources - Hubble Heritage Image Archive:
http://heritage.stsci.edu - Hubble Email list:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/e-mail_lists/sign_up
The Search For Life – Astrobiology
- Exoplanet Exploration Program
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/ - ThinkQuest – Astrobiology
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763 - Astrobiology.com
http://www.astrobiology.com/ - SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
http://seti.org
Resources and Activism
- The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/home/ - The Mars Society
http://www.marssociety.org - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
http://www.seds.org - The Dark Sky Association
http://www.darksky.org - Center for Backyard Astrophysics
http://cbastro.org
Some Publications
- Sky and Telescope Magazine
http://skyandtelescope.com - Astronomy Magazine
http://www.astronomy.com - Space.Com
http://www.space.com - Universe Today and Bad Astronomy (Forums, Daily Reports)
http://universetoday.com - Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/index.html - Florida Today
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS02 - Mars News
http://www.marsnews.com/ - SkyHound – Observer Information
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html - The Star Pages – Astronomy Yellow Pages on the WWW
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/spages.htm - Russian Space Web
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/index.html
Mailing Lists
- NASA Science
http://science.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.asp
RSS Feeds
- Astronomie (fr)
http://api.blogmarks.net/rss/tag/astronomie - Eureka Alert for Space
http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/space_planetary.xml - Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
Blogs
- Tom’s AstroBlog
http://tomsastroblog.com - Bad Astronomy Blog
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog
Software
- Stellarium: free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time
http://www.stellarium.org
Lat and Long for Victoria, BC : Latitude 48° 25′ Longitude 123° 21′
Space Agencies
- Agence Spatiale Canadienne / Canadian Space Agency
>http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca - NASA National Aeronautics and Space Agency
http://www.nasa.gov - European Space Agency
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html - Russian Federal Space Agency
http://www.roscosmos.ru
Careers in Space
- Agence Spatiale Canadienne / Canadian Space Agency
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca - Studies and Careers:
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/careers.asp
More Links
- Yahoo Solar System Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Solar_System
Last Updated November 28, 2013