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International Year of Astronomy: Get Cheap Telescopes!
International Year of Astronomy 2009...gaining momentumAmateur 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 ColoradoBook review-- "Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe"Brian May...Ph. D. in astrophysicsCanadian November 20th meteoriteCity Observatory, Calton Hill--Edinburgh, ScotlandColonial America--David Rittenhouse astronomerCosmic ray adventures in ArgentinaCredit where credit is due--"Big Bang"Deceased--Frank Kelley EdmondsonDeceased--Martin A. PomerantzDeceased--Robert JastrowDeceased--Tony FairallDouble star observations--Galileo GalileiEden Prairie, Minnesota and their free telescopeEthical advertising--name a starFred Hoyle--cosmologistGiordano Bruno--conference of 2003 now in printGiordano Bruno--visionary?...a new bookGreek astronomy textsHumbleness on November 20th, 2008Industrial Light and Magic...Thomas SmithInternational Year of Astronomy 2009Lick Observatory...100 years of astronomyMars...Percival Lowell's romance with the red planetNo lunaticsOdysseus and the 1178 B.C. total solar eclipseOld observatoriesOrigin of sciencePalomar ObservatoryPBS Palomar documentaryRichard Carringto and the 1859 super solar flareSaturn loses rings on Christmas morning--NAWSir John Herschel...astronomy photographySir Patrick Moore--British amateur astronomer and moreSun's astrophysicist...John N. BahcallThe 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?...sureVatican AstronomyVictorian popular astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell BallWellesely College buys Copernicus bookWhat 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 Astronomicall Coniectur [A New Star]
Elger, Thomas Gwyn
The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features
Galilei, Galileo
"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
"Astronomy: The Transit of Venus"
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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)
The Astronomy of the Bible
"The Transit of Venus"
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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
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
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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