Astronomical Links

Local Interest
• Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society (Champaign Park District Club)
• Staerkel Planetarium
• U of I Professor Jim Kaler's website, which provides information on the uniqueness of stars.
• Mike Lockwood's Amateur Telescope Making Page
• The Illini Space Development Society (ISDS), space exploration and development
• StarDial
• UIUC Student Organization Archives for UIAS

Observing and Weather Information
• Champaign-Urbana Clear Sky Clock
• Phase of the moon calendar for this month
• Another phase of moon calendar
• Champaign-Urbana Current Star Chart from "The Weather Underground".
• Champaign-Urbana Weather Status, UIUC Department of Atmospheric Sciences
• SkyWatch Weather and Observing Conditions
• Mark Haun's aurora detectors, which will e-mail you when substantial aurora activity is in the area.
• NOAA Auroral Activity Page
• Solar Observing Solar and Auroral activity (NASA GSFC)
• UIUC Astro 100 course web page (observing schedules, etc)
• Telrad finder charts for the the Messier objects
• Estimating Limiting Magnitude by counting stars
• Estimating Limiting Magnitude by charts

Other Astronomy Clubs
• Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society (Champaign Park District Club)
• Bradley University
• Peoria Astronomical Society
• University of Chicago
• Ames (Iowa) Area Amateur Astronomers

Of astronomical interest, elsewhere on the Net
• sci.astro.amateur Newsgroup. Find out what amateur astronomers all over the world have been doing.
• Comet Observation page at JPL. Full of detailed information and photographs of many famous comets.
• International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), an organization promoting solutions to light pollution
• Astronomy Magazine
• Sky Publishing Corporation, the publisher of Sky and Telescope magazine and producer of many other sources of astronomical information.
• Look up your favorite objects on a digitized version of the National Geographic Society/Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.
• How to pronounce star names
• How to pronounce star names (2)
• Meade Advanced Products Users Group, lots of information for owners of Meade telescopes
• XEphem, free astronomy software for computers running Unix

Telescopes, Mounts, and Equipment
• Huge list of amateur telescope making links
• Cloudy Nights Equipment Reviews
• Scopereviews.com Equipment Reviews
• Todd Gross' Equipment Reviews
• Astro Equipment Rating Site
• Astromart
• Amateur Telescope Making, Newtonian Pages
• CCD imaging and SCT collimation, Thierry Legault's detailed site. (France)
• SCT collimation
• Aberrator, freeware for aiding in star testing telescopes

Astronomical Humor
• Astro humor
• badastronomy.com Bad Astronomy, misconceptions, movie physics, etc.
• Britney's guide to semiconductor physics
• M.C. Hawking
• Moon cartoons
• Things said by astronomy students

Other links
• UIUC Physics Department
• UIUC Physics Van
• UIUC Physics Society

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