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FOR KIDS What's a Planetarium?:Â find out how a planetarium works. http://www.laserium.com/planetarium/morris_book/morris_1.html Liftof Academy:Â learn about space travel and astronomy (for teens) http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/ NASA Kids: learn about space travel and astronomy (for kids under 13) http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/ Astronomy Picture of the Day:Â the Goddard Space Flight Center displays pictures daily http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Solar System Live: get a drawing of what the Solar System looks like right now! http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html Galaxies:Â learn about galaxies and their shapes http://www.seds.org/messier/galaxy.html StarChild:Â get a variety of astronomy information http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html (also available in Portuguese and soon in Spanish) Views of the Solar System:Â see pictures of the planets http://www.solarviews.com(also available in Spanish and Portuguese) Space Coloring Book:Â print this out and color! http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/color.html What is the Sun?:Â We see it almost every day, but what is it? http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/education.html Kids Web Astronomy Page http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/astronomy.html Spacecamp:Â How to be an astronaut! http://www.spacecamp.com Check out your local Planetarium: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/planetarium/pages/skywatch.html Track Spacecraft in Orbit! http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html Heavens Above: Find out when the Space Station is visible! http://www.heavens-above.com See the Sun at Big Bear Solar Observatory http://www.bbso.njit.edu Your Sky: Make your own sky map! http://www.fourmilab.to/yoursky Index
FOR TEACHERS Dreyfuss Planetarium, the SkyWatch page features the night sky: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/planetarium/pages/skywatch.html Space Telescope Science Institute:http://hubble.stsci.edu/ NASA Spacelink,Â information about the space program, as well as astronomy resources: http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov The Nine Planets,Â a wealth of images of the planets and their moons: http://www.nineplanets.org Universe in the Classroom:Â back issues of this excellent science educator's newsletter http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/tnl.html Space and Astronomy News: http://www.universetoday.com Yahoo:Â a large directory of web pages, including: http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Math_and_Science_Education Novaspace Galleries will sell you artist's views of space: http://www.novaspace.com/Teacher.html Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" page deals with astronomical misconceptions: http://www.badastronomy.com Index
LOCAL ASTRONOMY CLUBS North Jersey Astronomical Group: http://www.njastro.org/ Amateur Astronomers Inc.: http://www.asterism.org Rockland Astronomy Club: http://www.rocklandastronomy.com Morris Museum Astronomical Society: http://members.tripod.com/mmastrosociety For a more extensive list of NJ Astronomy Clubs, United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey: http://users.erols.com/njastro Index
TELESCOPES & OBSERVATORIES Buying and Using a Telescope: http://www.astronexus.com/saafaq/index.html Buying the Best Telescope: http://skyandtelescope.com/howto/scopes Buying Binoculars: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pharrington/binobuy.htm Used Telescopes: http://www.astromart.com For local observatories, see Astronomy Clubs listed above. Sky & Telescope's Resource directory: http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/organizations Index
PLANETARIUMS The Newark Museum's Dreyfuss Planetarium: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/planetarium Raritan Valley Community College Planetarium: http://www.raritanval.edu/planetarium NJ State Museum Planetarium: http://www.state.nj.us/state/museum/planetarium Novins Planetarium, Ocean County College: http://www.ocean.edu/campus/planetarium Index
IMAGES Latest Images of the Sun: http://www.bbso.njit.edu National Optical Astronomy Observatory: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery European Southern Observatory: http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Hubble Space Telescope: http://hubblesite.org Astrophotography by David Malin: http://www.aao.gov.au/images NASA Photo Gallery: http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo NASA's Planetary Photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov NASA Image Exchange: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov Index
CALENDARS, ALMANACS, SUN & MOON For upcoming cosmic events:2002 Astronomy Calendar Frequently Asked Questions About Calendars: http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html For rise and set times of the Sun and Moon, visit the U.S. Naval Observatory at: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/aa/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html Phases of the Moon: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html Crescent Moon Visibility: http://www.moonsighting.com Equinoxes, Solstices, Aphelion, Perihelion: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html For Moon Phases see: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/MoonPhase.html Positions of the Sun & Moon: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html Positions of the Planets: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/Planets and http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar Index
LIGHT POLLUTION International Dark Sky Association: http://www.darksky.org New Jersey Good Lighting Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/njgl LiteLynx: http://members.aol.com/ctstarwchr/LiteLynx.htm Index
ECLIPSES NASA Eclipse Page: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html Sky and Telescope's Eclipse Page offers viewing & photography tips: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/eclipses Index
METEORS & METEORITES Meteorite Central: http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/meteorites.html Meteorites and their Properties: http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu(also available in Spanish) Meteor Showers: http://comets.amsmeteors.org Index
AURORA NASA's Spaceweather page: http://www.spaceweather.com Space Weather Now:http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/ Latest Aurora Sightings: http://www.spacew.com/www/auroras.html Index
SETI SETI Institute: http://www.seti.org SETI League: http://www.setileague.org SETI@Home: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu Index
SOFTWARE Astronomy Software: http://www.seds.org/billa/astrosoftware.html Free software from Sky & Telescope: http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/software Index
FAVORITES Index