Recommended Links
Astronomy Computer Programs
- Night Vision
A planetarium program that is free and easy to use. You will need to download and install it. - World Wide Telescope
Astronomy Online Resources
- Earth's Motion Around the Sun (video)
- Celestial Sphere Simulation
- History of Astronomy (video)
- The Sky Live
- The Hubble Telescope
- Crash Course Astronomy Episode One
- Solar System Exploration
- Where are the planets now?
- Various animations useful for the study of astronomy
- Eccentricity of an Ellipse
- Moon Motion (be patient - it takes awhile)
- 3-D Tour of the Solar System and our Planet - Requires Red/Blue 3-D glasses
- Mars - 3D Red/Blue
- Video: Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.
- Sun and Moon rise and set in Chicago
- Neutron Stars (youtube)
- Space Rocks (video)
- Ceres
- The Dawn Mission
- NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A few of the activities on this website: You can see the latest Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute images, take a tour of the solar system and visit the lunar eclipse page. - Wonders of the Solar System
- Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
- Best of SOHO Movies
- The Northern Lights
- Near Earth Objects
- The Fermi Paradox
- Understanding Lunar Eclipses (video)
- Earth and Moon motion simulation (video)
- What has New Horizons taught us about Pluto (video)
- Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
- Asteroid and Comet Watch
Fun Astronomy Links - Music, Stories, Culture
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Catch a Falling Star
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks Rabbit Spell
- Mythology of Saturn