Astronomy




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Clubs
Sadly, it seems there are no longer web pages for these clubs. The links below lead to web.archive.org snapshots.
WPI Astronomical Society
RHS Astronomy Club



Weather
Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Images
Boston MA Forecast
USNO Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day
SpaceWeather.com
Latest SOHO images



Arm-Chair Astronomy
Hubble Data Archive - This is a huge site with tons of astronomy information including:

       The STScI Digitized Sky Survey - This allows you to download a picture from any part the Sky Survey. The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey is a series of pictures taken by the Oschiny Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope covering most of the northern hemisphere.
       Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures - An archive of all of the public images and text releases.


Bill Arnett's WWW Documents - This guy has written many informative HTML documents on Astronomy. They Include:

 The Nine Planets is a multimedia tour of our solar system's planets, moons, comets, and astroids.
   The Web Nebulae has pictures of a couple dozen of the more spectacular nebulae in the night sky.
    The Messier Objects contains a picture of each Messier object from the The STScI Digitized Sky Survey.
An archive of images of NGC objects.



Equipment
Software Bisque - In my humble opinion the maker of the best astronomy observation software called The Sky.
Meade Instruments Corporation
Celestron International
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
Tele Vue Optics
Santa Barbara Instrument Group
Apogee Instruments, Inc.