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)

Murphy's Law has been known to strike and the main SDSS site goes dark right when you need the data. 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