EVENTS and LINKS ATM, Amateur Telescope Making
SF Sidewalk Astronomers web site:
http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/
Telescope Makers Work Shop
Most Fridays at the Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland.
The San Mateo County Astronomical Society
Regular meetings at the
College of San Mateo ( CSM ) Planetarium
at the West end of Hillsdale Bulb.
in San Mateo. First Friday of the month.
Alcoat version of SMCAS Newsletter available online
as part of this website. Updates monthly ( June 6, 2012 )
The San Jose Astronomical Association meets at Hogue Park
in Campbell on the Saturday night near the full moon.
San Jose Astronomical Association newsletter, "Ephemeris".
The SJAA Astronomy Association has quite a schedule
with monthly in-town star parties.
( April, 2008 )
- Chabot Space Center, Oakland
- The new Chabot
The Fremont Peak public programs.
- Fremont Peak Websites:
FPOA (www.fpoa.net)
- Observing through the 30 inch.
Music of the Spheres summer music program at Lick Observatory.
The Automated extra solar Planet Finder at Lick Observatory
Public Astronomy Programs,
Mt. Tamaulipas State Park
NASA, ASP and Hubble Links
More NASA LINKS
- Night Sky Network, JPL NASA
Night Sky Events Calendar
- Created in 1991, for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students.
NASA Ames Aerospace Encounter is a unique, interactive educational
program for children and adults.
- Project Astro
- Hands-On Universe
- Hubble Space Telescope, Amazing Space
- JPL/NASA Amateur Astronomy Page
SOFIA, The installation of an astronomical telescope in a
modified 747SP aircraft.
Links to Institutions, Research, Public Outreach
- University of California Observatories / Lick Observatory
- Thirty Meter Telescope
- Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California, SC
- Blandford, Kipac, Kavli Institute, Stanford
- Canada France Hawaii Telescope
- Kitt Peak
- Very Large Array
- AANC
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Science Lab, Links to Links
- Lawrence Berkeley, refining the Hubble Constant, type 1A nova search.
- Extra Solar Planet Search, and http://oklo.org/
- European Southern Observatory
- Chabot Space Center, Oakland
- California Academy of Sciences
- Mount Wilson Observatory
- Department of Planetary Science, University of Arizona
- College of Optical Sciences
- Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory
- Have we actually gone to the Moon?
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Exploratorium, San Francisco
- The Tech Museum, San Jose
- The Intel Museum
- Computer History Museum
- NASA's Ames Research Center
- SETI Institute
- SETI SERENDIP
- Infrared Topics at Cal Tech
- Solar and Lunar Links
- Mars and Mars Probes and Rovers
- Interferometers and Space Telescopes
- Academic Earth, college course videos
Links to Amateur Groups, Public Outreach, Telescopes
- Astronomy Clubs in the USA ( source, HAS )
- The San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers, sfsidewalkastronomers.org
- The Urban Astronomer, San Francisco
- San Mateo County Astronomical Society
- Santa Cruz Astronomy Club
- The Astronomy Connection
- Astronomy with Paul Mortfield
- East Bay Astronomical Society
- Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club
- Fraser Valley Astronomers Society
- The World At Night.org
- Antique Telescope Society
- William Herschel Museum
William Herschel, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope builder.
Links to Regional Star Parties
- Riverside Telescope Makers Conference
- Table Mountain Star Party
- Black Forest Star Party, Pennsylvania
- Stellafane
Links to Magazine and Commercial Internet Web Sites
- Sky and Telescope Magazine
Gary Seronik/Telescope Making
- Astronomy Magazine
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Astronomy Technology Today
- Amateur Astronomy
- Sky News Magazine, Astronomy in Canada
- The Planetary Society
- Universe Today - space news from around the Internet, updated every weekday.
- Astronomy Mall
- Astromart
- AstronomyLinks
- Astronomy Online
- ATM Journal
- Galactic Images
- SpaceWeather.com
- What's out Tonight?
- Astronomy Cast dot com
- Physlink
- Orion, Telescope and Binocular
- Willmann-Bell, Inc.
- Edmund Scientific Company
Anchor Optics
- United Lens
- Lockwood Custom Optics
- Scope City
- Optic Wave Laboratories / Woden Optics
- Swayze Optical
- Company Seven
- University Optics, Ann Arbor, MI
- PitchLaps.com
- Meridian Telescopes
- DobSTUFF.com
- Moonlite, focusers and truss tube accessories
- Equatorial Platforms
- Salem Distributing Company
- www.casesandcovers.com
- e-scopes
- ScopeTrader.com
- McMaster-Carr, on line parts catalogue
- Celestron
- Meade
- Astrovid
- Apogee-CCD
- SBIG, Santa Barbara
- Novosibirsk Instrument, Russian telescopes.
- Coronado Solar Filters
- Parks Optical / Lumicon
- Vixen
Astrophotography
Astrophotography using Web Cams
- DSLR Photometry Tutorial
- Spectroscopy, CCD and Astronomy
- Spectroscopy, Myspectral
- http://www.greenhawkobservatory.com/, SMCAS member's work.
- ewellobservatory.com, member's work.
'Do It Yourself' Professional Astronomy
- planethunters.org/
- zooniverse.org/home
- oklo.org/downloadable-console/
- Setiquest.org
SETI has terabytes of data to search.
They need humans to search for phenomenon that computers miss
as well as programmers to develop algorithms to find such phenomenon.
- IRIS, image processing software.
- Heavens Above, satellite viewing times.
- AstroArts
- Distant Suns
- Systemic extra solar
- The Solar System Live
- J.G.'s GeoAstro Applet Collection
- Find your Latitude and Longitude
- Forecasts of seeing conditions,
San Francisco Area
- Registax, Picture stacking software
- PLOP, Mirror Cell design software
- Your Sky, printable star maps
Audio Astronomy Programs Online and Astronomical Reference
- Stardate
- BBC Radio, The Sky at Night
- Australian Broadcasting Company, Star Stuff
- Lets Talk Stars, David Levy
- Absolute Astronomy, Astronomical Reference
- History of Astronomy
Online references for Professional Astronomers
Sky & Telescope, March 2002, page 52.
- Extra Solar Planet Art
International Association of Astronomical Artists
Un manned spaceflight dot com
From January, 2010 Sky and Telescope, 'Spacecraft Imaging for Amateurs'.
Other Art
Made with Molecules
Links tested June 21, 2012
