Astronomy is fascinating! Unfortunately, I have always lived in or near a city: too much light pollution for (serious) stargazing... So I never got around to acquiring a telescope.
- Jack Horkheimer Stargazer - based on the weekly TV program from WPBT2/Miami.
- Spaceweather - news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.
- Stardate - what to see where in the sky, and when.
- NAEVE Planetarium - an interactive sky map for exploring the stars and planets.
- Sky & Telescope - based on the magazine with the same name.
- Hubble site - all about the space telescope and its pictures.
- Seeing in the Dark (PBS)
External links last checked: October 2015
- Stellarium is an excellent freeware planetarium program!
Below are two great 1-hour videos of lectures by Bruce Margon, when he was still professor at Seattle's University of Washington (UW):
- "Cosmic Recylcing: We Are Made of Stars" - about the source of the elements (we are indeed just star dust).
- "Hubble Space Telescope".
When I lived in the Seattle area (1996-2001), I used to watch UW's lectures and courses on one of the local cable channels all the time!
University of Washington (UW), Prof. Bruce Margon, January 2005
University of Washington (UW), Prof. Bruce Margon, July 2003
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