EVENTS and LINKS ATM, Amateur Telescope Making

 

Tues. 3/15 7:00PM Dobsonian Telescope Making - 03/15/2011 07:00 PM  Randall Museum, San Francisco 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114 Build a telescope the Dobson way. You will learn about John Dobson and his reflector telescopes, as well as how these telescopes work. You'll learn the step-by-step method for grinding and polishing the mirror, building the mount, and assembling a complete telescope. Seeing the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter or the Orion Nebulae through a telescope you built yourself is a fantastic experience. Material fees, including mirror glass and plywood, will run approximately $300 to $400, depending on the size of the scope you make and are payable to the instructor. Posted March 14, 2011

SF Sidewalk Astronomers web site:
http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/


Telescope Makers Work Shop
Most Fridays at the Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland.


The Fremont Peak public programs.

• Fremont Peak Websites:
  FPOA (www.fpoa.net)
  
• Observing through the 30 inch.
  
  
  

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.
  
• SMCAS Newsletter available online
  as part of this website.
  

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
  

  

 

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

• 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
  
  

More NASA LINKS

SOFIA, The installation of an astronomical telescope in a
modified 747SP aircraft.

• SOFIA Home Page

LINKS, Links Table of Contents

Links to Institutions, Research, Public Outreach Links to Amateur Groups, Public Outreach, Telescopes Links to Regional Star Parties Links to Magazine and Commercial Internet Web Sites Links to Vendors Links to Manufacturers ATM, Amateur Telescope Making Astrophotography and Spectroscopy 'Do It Yourself' Professional Astronomy Links to Some Neat Sites and Software Audio Astronomy Programs Online and Astronomical Reference Online References for Professional Astronomers Space Art

 

Links to Institutions, Research, Public Outreach

• University of California Observatories / Lick Observatory
  
  
• Thirty Meter Telescope
  
  
• Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California, SC
  
  
• 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.

• Physics Students Online Reference
  

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

 

Links to Vendors

• Orion, Telescope and Binocular

• Willmann-Bell, Inc.

• Edmund Scientific Company
  Anchor Optics

• United Lens

• Lockwood Custom Optics

• Scope City

• Obsidian Optics

• Optic Wave Laboratories / Woden Optics

• Swayze Optical

• Company Seven

• University Optics, Ann Arbor, MI

• Starlight Express, UK

• 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

Links to Manufacturers

• Celestron

• Meade

• Astrovid

• Apogee-CCD

• SBIG, Santa Barbara

• Novosibirsk Instrument, Russian telescopes.

• Coronado Solar Filters

• Parks Optical / Lumicon

• Vixen

Astrophotography

• DSLR Photometry Tutorial
  
  
• Spectroscopy, CCD and Astronomy
  
  
• http://www.greenhawkobservatory.com/,   SMCAS member's work.
  
  
• ewellobservatory.com, member's work.
  

Astrophotography using Web Cams

• AstroCam

• Web Cam Adapters

• Scopetronics

'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.

 

Links to Some Neat Sites

• 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.

• Sky Map dot org

• SIM-BAD

• VizieR

• Aladin

• CDS tutorials

• NED

• NED overview

• NED Level 5

• ADS articles

 

Space Art

• 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 April 18, 2010