Want to know how the Sun appears at this moment through a telescope? Check out the current solar images assembled by NASA.
Time:
USNO Master Clock.
A
map of the Earth
showing the day and night regions at this moment,
at John Walker's
Earth and Moon Viewer
website.
Weather:
Links to weather information can be found on the
FSU Observatory Webpage.
What might be interesting to observe right now?
Here is
current observing information
from
Sky and Telescope Magazine.
Satellite Viewing:
Satellite information for observers at or near
Fayetteville State University from
Heavens-Above.com
(if you will view a satellite more than 50 miles from Fayetteville, data for
the position of FSU will not be accurate; for Iridium flare magnitudes, 5 mile
precision is required).
Information about Meteors and Meteorites:
Meteor shower information.
Meteorites and their Properties, an on-line book by David A. Kring
seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/meteorites.html
Langheinrich Educational Meteoritics (nice photos, also
meteorites for sale)
Information about the Planets:
The
Eight Planets Solar System Tour from the
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS).
JPL's Solar Sysytem Ephemeris Generator.
More Information for Amateur Astronomers:
National Deep Sky Observers Society
The International Occultation Timing Association HomePage.
Multiwavelength Messier Museum (from the SIRTF project)
The
Messier Object Index for the
Messier Catalog from
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
Also from SEDS,
The Interactive NGC Catalog Online
The Constellation Table at
Richard Dibon-Smith's Constellation Website.
Miscellaneous:
Satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness.
Manufacturers:
Santa Barbara Instrument Group
Automated Telescopes on the Internet
CONtinuous CAMera (CONCAM) Network
Bradford Remotely Operated Telescope
University of Iowa Automated Telescope Facility
Optical telescopes
Radio
National Radio Astronomy Observatories (NRAO)
Infrared telescopes
X-ray telescopes:
Gamma-ray
Gravity-wave Observatories:
WWW.LIGO.CALTECH.EDU HOME PAGE
JPL SPACE VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY PROJECT
Here is the Website for the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Here is
information about the hazards of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
NPR Story about Dihydrogen Monoxide.
NASA Educational Resources
NASA Space Flight
Amazing Space from STScI
Cosmic Distance Scales
NASA Education Resource Directory.
Education Group at NASA Space Science
Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA CORE, your resource for multimedia materials for the classroom
Did humans really go to the Moon?
The FOX television network has recently broadcast a provocative program
concerning the Moon Landings, entitled,
"Conspiracy Theory - Did We Land On the Moon"?
Here is a rebuttal by Jim Scotti
entitled,
Comments on the FOX Moonlanding Hoax special.
More links of potential interest:
Seeing Our World in a Different Light (Infrared, from SIRTF)
The Hands-On Universe
Teacher's Newsletter from the Astronomy Society of the Pacific
Astrophysics Visualization Archive
at the
Hayden Planetarium.