These pages are primarily geared to the beginning astronomer, and/or give particularly interesting information. For a few of these pages, it may be necessary to enter the Latitude/Longitude of your observing site, and/or the Universal Time (also called Greenwich Mean Time or UT) you are planning to observe. (This page is always under construction)

• Apparent Disk of Solar System Objects - find out what a number of solar system objects (including the moon, Jupiter, and Mars) will look like through a telescope on a given date and time
• Can we see Apollo hardware on the Moon? - good site about imaging Apollo landing sites on the Moon
• Current Solar Images - images of the sun taken in different wavelengths of light
• Doomsday Asteroid - JAVA model of the Solar System (the sun, the nine planets, and an asteroid); you can change options describing the asteroid's orbit, and which planets are shown (editing the asteroid's options to 3, 0, 15, -5 gives it a nice elliptical orbit)
• Earth and Moon Viewer (also at another site) - view simulated pictures of the Earth and Moon showing interesting phenomena related to them
  • Earth View / Earth View - map showing the day and night regions right now
• Earth Impact Effects Program - a program that will estimate the seismic, blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced by the impact on the earth
• Earth Observatory - images of the Earth and events on the Earth from space
• Eclipse Home Page - everything you would ever want to know about eclipses, out of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
• Heavens Above Satellite Predictions - find predictions of what/when satellites are visible from ANY location on the Earth, including timings for the passing of the new International Space Station (ISS), and the spectacularly bright "flares" that are regularly produced by the Iridium series of communications satellites
  • Satellite Visibility Specifically for UM-Flint Campus
  • Satellite Visibility Specifically for Laramie, WY
  • Satellite Visibility Specifically for State College, PA
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon - lots of technical info about the moon
• Lunar and Planetary Observations and CCD Imaging - an amazing site full of time-lapse animation of celestial phenomena from eclipses, to the rotation of planets, to the motions of Jupiter's moons
• Lunar Photo of the Day - photo with description of the moon, changes daily
• Moon Phases Calendar - calanders showing what the moon will look like each night (they even have printable versions!), also available from StarDate Online
• Moon Phases JAVA - JAVA program illustrating the phases of the moon, as viewed from Earth, from space, or from both; works either as an animation, or hand enter a particular phase
• Night Sky Info - weekly information about the night sky, astronomy articles, and observations
• The Nine Planets - a multimedia tour of the Solar System
  • The Moon - LOTS of info about the Moon
• Phases of the Moon - a page that I made with diagrams to show the phases of the Moon from both space and Earth
• Phases of the Moon - a much more "flashy" page describing the phase of the moon and what causes them (its a lot better than the page I made)
• Phases of the Moon Tables - tables giving the date/time of New Moon, First Quarter, Full, and Last Quarter phases of the moon for many years
• Que Tal? in the Current Sky - an Earth in Space Monthly Newsletter
  • Moon Watch
  • Sun Watch
  • Planet Watch
• Solar System Live - find out where the planets are in their orbits and in the sky right now
• Space Weather -- news and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
• Sun and Moon Data for One Day - tables that give sun rise/set, moon rise/set, and start/end of twilight for any day and from any place
  • Apparent Disk of Moon
  • Apparent Disk of Solar System Object
• Touring the Moon with Binoculars
  • Moon Map - large image of the moon with interesting features labeled
• Views of the Solar System (English Version) - solar system learning guide for people of all ages
• What's a Blue Moon? - article about what a `blue moon' really is
• Where is Hubble Now? - shows current location of the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth
• World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness - satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness and stellar visibility

• Weather Links - find out what the weather will be like from your favorite observing site
  
  
• Bad Astronomy - have you seen "Deep Impact" or "Armageddon" and wondered if that could really happen? how about some of those sci-fi shows on TV? have you wondered why the sky is blue? and what causes the seasons? - for the answer to these and many more questions, AND to find out all about "bad" astronomy spread by the media you have to check out this site!


• Information about star naming and "buying" a star