The Cheshire Cat's Astro Links
Thanks to Kisha for many of these links
Some of these are also in my Star Gazing page, so I apolgize in advance. If there is something good which is not on here, mail it to me.
- Goodsell Observatory The observatory here at Carleton College and briefly the home of the Physics/Astronomy dept. (Physics moved back into our home, Olin, at the end of this year). Few Carl's realize the full importance of this observatory in the College's history. Also, they run open houses open to students and locals. Please, check one out sometime!
- STSCI Homepage This is the homepage of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the folks who handle the HST (Hubble Space Telescope). Of course they have losts of very, very pretty pictures, all from Hubble, as well as captions for each expalining what they are. The page is nicely laid out, as well. Give it a try!
- Sky and Telescope Sky and Telescope is a leading amature astronomy magazine, and their page is also very helful.
- The Galileo Homepage You may have heard of the Galileo space probe now orbiting Jupiter. It is sending back a wealth on information, among it a great many surprises. All this despite a faulty tape drive and an undeployed main antenna. But check out the page, there is a lot of really good stuff here.
- Star Pics Star pictures from explosions to clusters, to single stars and jets.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Astronomical Image Library Searchable index of astro images on the Internet.
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal "To provide you with easy access to the publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs."
- The Nine Planets A really great tour of the nine planets of the solar system (multimedia).
- Eclipses Information about the upcoming solar eclipse.
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page (NEAT)
- Comets at JPL Comet Observation Home Page
- Views of the Solar System
- Pathfinder Mars Pathfinder, NASA's lander and rover to Mars
- Mars Global Surveyor Sent to map Mars from orbit.
- Shuttles Shuttle missions homepage.
- Cassini at Saturn Cassini, space probe to be sent to Saturn.
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous. NASA mission to the asteroid Eros.
- SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
- IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer.
- Infrared Space Observatory Still more bands to look at with satellites.
- The Good Old IAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite. An older infrared observatory.
- Compton Gamma-ray Observatory
- NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
- NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory, for those Radio Astronomers.
- The Astronomy Cafe
- Extra-Solar Planet Search Search for planets around other stars.
- The National Science Foundation. The good folks who fund lots of the work being done in astronomy, as well as other fields. From this, try the Math/Physical Sciences link to find astronomy things or you can browse through other sciences as well.
- International Dark Sky Assoc. Dark Skies good. Light pollution evil. Enough said.
- HEASARC Astronomy Resources Page Lots of links from here! Intended for general astronomy interest.
- Kitt Peak Kitt Peak...One of the finest observatories in the world, with the highest density of telescopes anywhere. Located just outside of Tucson ("just" in a relative sense), it has incredable seeing.
- Lowell Observatory Lowell Observatory was built by the wealthy and famous Percivel Lowell, after whom Pluto is sort of named (PLuto...the initials...oh, never mind.) The original observatory site is largely not in use now, so it has a very nice interpretive center. Plus, you can see the telecope building where Pluto was discovered! (they moved the actual 'scope). It, too, is in Arizona, but in Flagstaff, which is a hop south of the Grand Canyon.
- Mauna Kea Depending on how you do the measuring, the largest ground based scopes in the world. Great seeing. Plus, during the day, you can visit the Hawian beaches! My kind of astronomy....
- The American Astronomical Society.
If there are mistakes, mail them to me
John Weiss Last modified: Tue Jan 20 09:25:20 MST 2004