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Daytime Sky
- Sunlight and Blue Sky: Jim Kaler's page
and pictures; Webexhibits page;
Exploratorium activity page.
- Observing the Sun: Sky & Telescope page;
Analemma.com site.
- Planet Transits: 1882 Venus transit page;
1999 Mercury transit APOD;
NASA 2004 Venus transit page.
Night Sky Observation -
Subjects
(see also the Constellations and Stars pages)
- Local Skies and Events: North American Skies site; John
Walker's Your Sky site;
Stardate Online Stargazing page;
Night Sky magazine page.
- Images: concam.net's Night Sky Live.
- Angular Sizes: Rice University page
on angles and radians; NASA page
on its relationship with actual size.
- Occultations: Sky & Telescope page.
- Satellites: NASA's Liftoff homepage.
- Activities: Sky & Telescope suggestions page.
Amateur Astronomy (for other telescopes, see the Telescope links page)
Night Sky Observation -
Viewing
- Light Pollution: International Dark-Sky Association
website; Outdoor
Lighting Associates website;
Haas' Light Pollution Awareness site;
Connecticut Efficient lighting law;
Sky & Telescope's "Saving dark skies" page;
Amateur Observers' Society of NY page.
- Binoculars: R. Dibon-Smith's guide;
Birdwatching page
on how binoculars work.
- Astrophotography: Matt BenDaniel's site;
Dennis Mammana's SkyScapes site;
Jerry Lodriguss' Catching the Light site;
Pekka Parviainen's Polar Image site;
NASA's Astronaut Photography site;
Benoit Schillings site;
Russell Croman site;
Ed Grafton site.
- Astronomy in Mississippi: Rainwater
Observatory and Planetarium; Oxford Clear Sky clock.
Books
- G. Cornelius, The Starlore Handbook: An Essential Guide
to the Night Sky, Chronicle 1997.
- S. Brunier & A. Fujii, The Great Atlas of the Stars,
Firefly Books 2001.
- H.J.P. Arnold, Astrophotography: An Introduction,
Sky & Telescope.
- S. Massey et al., Video Astronomy, Sky & Telescope.
- T. Ferris, Seeing in the Dark - How Backyard Stargazers
Are Probing Deep Space And Guarding Earth From Interplanetary
Peril, 2002.
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