McDonald Online (McDonaldObservatory.org) Link List

General Information NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day-http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html NASA- Excellent general astronomy & news site-http://science.nasa.gov/ Royal Greenwich Observatory-http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/ Students for the Exploration and Development of Space-http://www.seds.org/ Yahoo (Search Engine) Astronomy Sites- http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/

Meteor Related Pages NAMN-North American Meteor Network http://www.namnmeteors.org/ NASA Leonids site-http://aio.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/ Meteor (Barringer) Crater, AZ-http://www.barringercrater.com/

Eclipse Information Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA-http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

Telescopes/Accessories Online Orion-http://www.telescope.com/ Meade Instruments-http://www.meade.com/ Celestron International-http://www.celestron.com/products.htm Discovery -http://www.discovery-telescopes.com

Educational StarDate Online - http://stardate.org SPACE.com - http://www.space.com NASA-http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/index.html Kids Adventures in Space-http://www.stargazers.freeserve.co.uk/Default.htm AASTRA-http://www.aas.org/~aastra/aastra.html

Software Freeware and Shareware download site - http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/specials/free.html Freeware and Shareware download site - http://www.shareware.com/ Starry Night Software - http://www.starrynight.com/ The Sky/Software Bisque - http://www.bisque.com/ VoyagerII/Carina Software - http://www.carinasoft.com/

Astrophotography Tony & Daphne Hallas page-http://www.astrophoto.com/ Matt BenDaniel's Starmatt Astrophotography Site - http://starmatt.com

Hubble Space Pictures HST-http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html

NASA Sites NASA Home page-http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html

Cassini/Saturn- http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/index.shtml Space Shuttle related-http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ Shuttle landing Groundtracks-http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/groundtracs/index.html Galileo {JPL} (Jupiter) mission-http://www.jpl.nasa.gov:80/galileo/ Marshall Space Flight Center-http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/ Space Mission Acronym List - http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/MissionLinks.html

Universal Time Signals USNO Clock-http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html

Observatories McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy- http://mcdonaldobservatory.org South African Astronomical Observatory-http://www.saao.ac.za/ Mt.Wilson Observatory-http://www.mtwilson.edu/ Palomar Observatory-http://www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/ Mauna Kea Observatory-http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/ La Silla Observatory (Chile)-http://www.ls.eso.org/index.html Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile)-http://www.ctio.noao.edu/ Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia)-http://www.sao.ru/Doc-en/index.html Anglo-Australian Observatory-http://www.aao.gov.au/ Pic du Midi Observatory (in French)-http://www.obs-mip.fr/omp/pic/ National Optical Astronomy Observatories-http://www.noao.edu/ MMT Observatory-http://sculptor.as.arizona.edu/foltz/www/mmt.html Lick Observatory-http://www.ucolick.org/ Apache Point Observatory-http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/ Mt. Graham International Observatory-http://mgpc3.as.arizona.edu/ Lowell Observatory-http://www.lowell.edu/ S.C.O.P.E Consortium-http://stardate.utexas.edu/scope/scope.html

Planetaria Armagh Planetarium-http://www.armagh-planetarium.co.uk/ SW Association of Planetariums-http://www.tyler.cc.tx.us/SWAP/ Houston Museum of Natural Science-http://www.hmns.org/hmns/hmnshome.html

Solar Related Solar activity and its effects on Earth-http://www.spaceweather.com/ Solar Activity Cycle-http://www.sunspotcycle.com/ Stellar evolution-http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/topics/StellarEvolution.html Nat’l Solar Obsv. Sac Peak-Solar info/general astronomy-http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/index.html Big Bear Solar Observatory-http://www.bbso.njit.edu/

Lunar & Planetary Related

Earth & Moon Viewer- http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Lunar & Planetary Institute-http://www.lpi.usra.edu Nifty Lunar info-http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html NASA/Apollo 11-http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html StarDate Solar System Guide-http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/ Welcome to the Planets/JPL/NASA-http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Supernovae List of SN since 1885/Harvard-http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/Supernovae.html List of Recent SN/Harvard-http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/RecentSupernovae.html Int’l SN Network-http://www.supernovae.org/isn.htm NF Observatory-http://www.nfo.edu/nfo.html SN info on the www-http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7212/montes/sne.html Supernaovae-http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/SNe.html Robert’s SN Page-http://www.astro.su.se/~robert/SN/

Amateur Publications & Resources StarDate - http://www.stardate.org/ Sky & Telescope-http://skyandtelescope.com/ Astronomy Mag-http://www.astronomy.com AASTRA-http://www.aas.org/~aastra/aastra.html

Satellite tracking

Satellite Visibility Page- http://www.heavens-above.com/ (you'll need your precise lat/lon for accurate predictions ... see Tiger Mapping Services below) NASA J-Track 2.5- http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html Tiger Mapping Service (Find your Lat/Long)- http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer

Weather Information Real-Time Weather Data- http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/ Intellicast-http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/ The Weather Channel- http://www.weather.com/ UM WX Radsat- http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/radsat.html U of WI Cloud cover 4cast- http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html#cras Clouds/T/Precip 4casts- http://grads.iges.org/pix/ez.cent.html (Use east,west, or cent) CRWS jetstream 4cast- http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html CNN- http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/images.html

Astronomical Resorts Stargazers Inn - http://www.stargazersinn.com/

Elderhostel Programs Elderhostel, Inc. - http://www.elderhostel.org/ Davis Mountain Education Center - http://www.dmectexas.org/