Galileo's TelescopeThe 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 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY
ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHS [THOUSANDS]
CASSINI-HUYGENS [SATURN AND TITAN MISSION]
HIRISE [HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (MARS IMAGES)]
JAXA [JAPANESE AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY]
JOHN HARRISON AND THE LONGITUDE PROBLEM
And here are some on line books, monographs, and essays...
Ball, R. S.
Bethe, Hans
Brahe, Tycho
Astronomicall Coniectur [A New Star]
Copernicus, Nicolaus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Philosophy of Physical Science
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Space, Time and Gravitation : An Outline of the General Relativity Theory
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe
Eddington, Sir Arthur
The Nature of the Physical World
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
Gamow, George
One Two Three...Infinity: Facts & Speculations Of Science
Gamow, George
Theory of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Energy Sources
Gillet, J. A.
"Astronomy: The Transit of Venus"
Figures:
#1
Guillemin, Amédée
Hoyle, Fred
Frontiers Of Astronomy
Koresh [Cyrus Reed Teed]
Lowell, Percival
The Evolution of the Worlds
Lowell, Percival
Milne-Home, David
Mitchel, O. M.
Murray, David
Figures:
Newcomb, Simon
Proctor, Richard A.
Ptolemy
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]
Somerville, Mary
Stimson, Dorothy
Todhunter, I
Tyson, Winston C.
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Whewell, William
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