Astr210 Links

Some great sites are available locally:

• Skylights gives weekly sky news, pictures, and a "star of the week"
• Portraits of Stars and their Constellations compiles the stars of the week and includes pictures of the constellations that contain the stars.
• The Natures of the Stars gives an introduction to stars and stellar evolution, illustrated with outside links to other sites.
• Spectra gives an elementary introduction to stellar spectra

Observations/Experiments

• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and the Sun in real time

  real-time movies

  real-time images

  collected recent images from LASCO--see the solar wind, and the Sun's motion relative to the celestial sphere

  HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: main page, image gallery, "heritage" gallery

Online Data

Celestial Events

• sky calendar with phases of the Moon
• eclipse schedule

The Stellar Hit Parade

• Jim Kaler's tabulation of the (apparently) brightest 125 stars
• RECONS summary of the data on the 100 nearest stars
• searchable database on nearby stars

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

Some of these links are useful for the cosmology option of the computational project.

• Survey goals and methods
• Sky Server
• Navigate the digital sky!
• list of key spectral lines
• finding chart

Mirror Site for Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

As of 4:30pm on Nov 18, Murphy's Law has prevailed and the main SDSS site is down. Aargh! Fortunately, there is an idential mirror site in Italy that is still working. Here I repeat where to find all of the SDSS links on this mirror site.

• Survey goals and methods
• Sky Server
• Navigate the digital sky!
• list of key spectral lines
• finding chart