Astronomy Links
Non-Governmental Organizations
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - national Canadian organization devoted to the advancement of astronomy and allied sciences. Has about 4500 members world wide.
RASC Kingston - Kingston Branch of the Royal Astonomical Society of Canada
Light Pollution Authority - dedicated to fighting wasted photons that ruin the night sky for millions.
SARA - Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers. And you thought you needed millions of dollars to do any work in radio astronomy. Ha.
The Planetary Society - dedicated to internationally furthering space exploration.
Governmental Organizations
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) - Almost everything you might want to know about Canada's space program and how we select our astronauts.
NASA - the guys who take care of the space shuttles and a variety of other far more cool things.
Comet Observation Home Page - a NASA/JPL site.
Eclipse Home Page - a NASA site.
NASA Human Spaceflight - a NASA site.
Online Magazines
SkyNews - The Canadian Magazine of Astronomy Magazine. My favourite astronomy magazine as much for it's Canadian content/slant as for the information it gives.
Astronomy Magazine - The best, easiest to read sky charts online and an awful lot of other information too, on just about any astronomy related topic you can think of.
Sky & Telescope - the other major player in the astronomy magazine field. Lots of information here, too.
Photographs
Astronomical Picture of the Day - a different bit of our universe each day.
SEDS Messier Database - the entire Messier catalog in photographs.
HubbleSite - Home Page of the Hubble Space Telescope. Pictures, science, newsletters and lots of info.
SETI
SETI Institute - Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence home site.
SETI@home - Help find the BEMs! Download a program that lets your computer analyze chunks of radio telescope signal.
Online Sky Atlases
Skyview - Virtual Observatory. Want to see what should be in your sky tonight?
Aladin - Interactive sky atlas.
Heavens Above - Great resource if you're interested in artificial satellites. Can give you orbital data and predictions of when dozens of the "brightest" ones will pass over your location.
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Page last updated: 19 Jan 2003