Astronomy Links

This contains some very interesting, some very useful and some simply rear links. This is the collection of the most popular and the staff's favorite places on the web when astronomy is concerned. Hope you enjoy them.

Theodor Jacobsen Observatory
This is the UW observatory home page.

University of Washington Astronomy Department

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Breath taking pictures of close and far along with explanations and links. A new one comes daily, but there is also the archive that you can search for a specific topic or date.

Astronomy Daily
You can tell the program where you live on the globe and it gives to information about what is up and coming in your night sky. Very useful and convenient.

Heavens Above
This is the place to find how the sky will look at a given time at a given place. It has also a lot of additional information, form iridium flares to the names of each star on the most popular constellations.

Seattle Clear Sky Clock
Yes, we have a lot of cloudy day and nights here in Seattle, so this is a good website to check out if you want to know when is it worth it to go in your back yard and stair at the skies. For when it is cloudy you won't see much, when it is clear, and especially if you don't live too close to downtown, then there is quite a view to catch.

Ask an astronomer
You have a question about astronomy? Well, you should ask an astronomer. This is a good place to get answers on simple questions all the way up to advanced complicated physics on the mysteries of the cosmos.

NASA
This is the offical NASA site. Weather you are interested in science or in astronomy, weather you want to know what are the upcoming missions or the newest discoveries in the cosmos. This is a good place to explore.

The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope and also the Hubble Heritage Gallery