Friday, January 2, 2009

International Year of Astronomy and an offering of cheap telescopes

Galileo's Telescope


The U.S. International Year of Astronomy 2009 opening ceremony is set for January 6th in Long Beach, California. Space.com has intimated that cheap telescopes will be offered to the general public.

International Year of Astronomy: Get Cheap Telescopes!



International Year of Astronomy 2009...gaining momentum



Amateur scientist will collaborate with astronomers

Amateur scientists

An Iron Core For The Sun And More?


An over zealous Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington?


Another meteor in Colorado

Book review-- "Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe"

Brian May...Ph. D. in astrophysics

Canadian November 20th meteorite

City Observatory, Calton Hill--Edinburgh, Scotland

Colonial America--David Rittenhouse astronomer

Cosmic ray adventures in Argentina

Credit where credit is due--"Big Bang"

Deceased--Frank Kelley Edmondson

Deceased--Martin A. Pomerantz

Deceased--Robert Jastrow

Deceased--Tony Fairall

Double star observations--Galileo Galilei

Eden Prairie, Minnesota and their free telescope

Ethical advertising--name a star

Fred Hoyle--cosmologist

Giordano Bruno--conference of 2003 now in print

Giordano Bruno--visionary?...a new book

Greek astronomy texts

Humbleness on November 20th, 2008

Industrial Light and Magic...Thomas Smith

International Year of Astronomy 2009

Lick Observatory...100 years of astronomy

Mars...Percival Lowell's romance with the red planet

No lunatics

Odysseus and the 1178 B.C. total solar eclipse

Old observatories

Origin of science

Palomar Observatory

PBS Palomar documentary

Richard Carringto and the 1859 super solar flare

Saturn loses rings on Christmas morning--NAW

Sir John Herschel...astronomy photography

Sir Patrick Moore--British amateur astronomer and more

Sun's astrophysicist...John N. Bahcall

The astronomy/cosmology debates of the 1930's & 1940's

"The Great Debate" [1921]--Shapley & Curtis

"The Universe is Rated R"--maybe violence is universal?

Therapy in the stars?...sure

Vatican Astronomy

Victorian popular astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball

Wellesely College buys Copernicus book

What will you do with your "leap second"?

What's in a name?--Pluto

Here are some cool places to visit...



ASTRONOMY

ASTRONOMY GLOSSARY

ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY

ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHS [THOUSANDS]

CASSINI-HUYGENS [SATURN AND TITAN MISSION]

CONSTELLATIONS

EARTH & SKY

ESA [EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY]

GALILEO PROJECT

GOOGLE SKY

HAYDEN PLANETARIUM

HIRISE [HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (MARS IMAGES)]

HUBBLE TELESCOPE

JAXA [JAPANESE AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY]

JOHN HARRISON AND THE LONGITUDE PROBLEM

KECK, W. M. OBSERVATORY

KIETH'S MOON DATA

MESSENGER [MERCURY MISSION]

NASA

NASA PATCHES

NASA-TV

NASA WATCH

NEW HORIZONS [PLUTO MISSION]

PLANETARY SOCIETY

PLANET FINDER

SKY & TELESCOPE

SKY CHARTS

SOLAR SYSTEM

SPACE.COM

SPACEDAILY

SPACEREF.COM

SPACEWEATHER.COM

STARDATE

UNIVERSE TODAY


And here are some on line books, monographs, and essays...

Aristotle


Ball, R. S.


Bethe, Hans

"Supernovae"


Brahe, Tycho

Astronomicall Coniectur [A New Star]


Copernicus, Nicolaus


Elger, Thomas Gwyn

The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features


Galilei, Galileo

"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"


Gamow, George

"Astronomy: The Transit of Venus"

Figures:

#1

#2

#3

#4


Guillemin, Amédée

The Sun


Hoyle, Fred

Frontiers Of Astronomy


Koresh [Cyrus Reed Teed]

The Cellular Cosmogony: Or, The Earth a Concave Sphere

Lowell, Percival

The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902


Milne-Home, David

Essay on Comets, Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowe's Prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (1828)


Mitchel, O. M.

The Astronomy of the Bible


Murray, David

"The Transit of Venus"

Figures:

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5


Newcomb, Simon

Sidelights On Astronomy


Proctor, Richard A.

Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits, From the First Observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the Transit of A.D. 2012


Ptolemy

Tetrabiblos


Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio

"The Rotation and Physical Constitution of the Planet Mercury and the Planet Mars"


Serviss, Garrett P.

Curiosities of the Sky: A Popular Presentation of the Great Riddles and Mysteries of Astronomy


Smith, Charles H. [editor]

Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds


Somerville, Mary

Mechanism of the Heavens


Stimson, Dorothy

The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe


Todhunter, I

A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 1

A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 2


Tyson, Winston C.

Celestial Amusements


Wallace, Alfred Russel

Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals," With an Alternative Explanation


Whewell, William

The Plurality of Worlds

Finally, some vintage educational films...



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