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 Fremont Peak public programs.
The San Mateo County Astronomical Society
- Fremont Peak Websites:
FPOA (www.fpoa.net)
- Observing through the 30 inch.
Friday of the month.
- Regular meetings at the
College of San Mateo ( CSM ) Planetarium
at the west end of Hillsdale Bulb.
in San Mateo.
First
SMCAS Newsletter available online
as part of this website.
The Peninsula Astronomical Society meets at Foothill College
on the second Friday of the month in the lecture hall at the east end of building 5000. Bring eight quarters or two dollars for parking.
Member's website Directions
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 Automated extra solar Planet Finder at Lick Observatory
Music of the Spheres summer music program at Lick Observatory.
Public Astronomy Programs,
Mt. Tamaulipas State Park
NASA and Hubble Links
LINKS
- Night Sky Network, JPL NASA
- 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
- 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
- Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club
- Fraser Valley Astronomers Society
- 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
- 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?
- Physlink
- Orion, Telescope and Binocular
- Willmann-Bell, Inc.
- Edmund Scientific Company
Anchor Optics
- United Lens
- Lockwood Custom Optics
- Scope City
- Obsidian Optics
- Optic Wave Laboratories / Wooden Optics
- Swayze Optical
- Company Seven
- University Optics, Ann Arbor, MI
- Starlight Express, UK
- PitchLaps.com
- 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
- ewellobservatory.com, SMCAS member's work.
- Spectroscopy, CCD and Astronomy
Astrophotography using Web Cams
- 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
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 April 18, 2010
