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13.1
What Can We See in the Sky? |
Astronomy
Picture of the Day Astronomical
Sky Calendar. Type in the year, start month, end month,
observatory, west longitude, north latitude, site name, standard
time zone, time zone name, hours, and get a sky calendar.
Approximate
astronomical positions. A simple way to find which planets
you can see with a transit times chart. |
13.2
Sunrise and Sunset |
Data
Services. Get complete data for the sunrise, sunset, moonrise,
moonset, twilight, moon illuminations, eclipses, and more. |
13.6
Different Views of the Sky |
The
Maya Astronomy Page. This site contains information about
Maya Mathematics, The Maya Calendar, Maya Writing and more. |
13.7
A Seasonal Star Map |
The
Cosmic Thinglet. A page where the student can input date,
time, latitude and longitude and get a custom star map of the heavens. |
13.8
Observing the
Night Sky |
Using
a Naked-Eye Sky Map. Lots of people buy a telescope
only to discover that they can't find much of anything with it
in the sky. This page contains an article that teaches you how
to identify stars as seen with the naked eye.
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13.9
Light Pollution |
Astronomy's
Problem with Light Pollution. A good backgrounder on Light
Pollution and how it threatens astronomers.
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13.10
The Solar System |
The
Nine Planets. A large reference of data on the planets,
their moons, asteroids, meteors, spacecraft, and a glossary. Has
Quicktime movies, AVI movies, pictures, and music for seven of the
planets from Holst's composition, The Planets.
An
Overview of the Solar System. This site contains excellent
images of planets, comets, asteroids, and meteors.
Maps
of the Solar System. A solar system surface map database,
where you can download maps, or just look at the surface features.
Solar
System Live by John Walker. You can see where the planets
will be at any time using this page. If you know a lot about astronomy
already, this can be a useful tool.
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13.14
A Closer Look at the Planets |
Spacezone
— astronomy news and reference.
A very informative site by explorezone.com. The home page is set
up like a newspaper with current astronomical events along with
dozens of links to other areas of this content-rich site.
Windows
to the Universe. An amazing site from the University
of Michigan. Excellent graphics. |
13.15
Other Objects in the Solar System |
Comets.
At this site you will find information about comets. Find
information on how they are formed, what they are made of, how big
they can be, and more.
Bill
Bottke's Asteroid Research Home Page.
This site contains information about asteroid research, pictures
of asteroids, science questions about asteroids, photos of impact
crater, and more. |
