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Links to Astronomy
for Drennon's students of Astronomy, Broward Co. Florida and CVCHS in Visalia, CA
 Where did I go wrong????
Did my students ask profound scientific questions of the astronauts when they were orbiting over head? Well....click the image and see for yourselves!
Naked Eye Celestial Events:
Aug 14: Perseid meteors
Aug 22: Full moon 3:29 PDT
Aug 26: Moon at apogee
Sep 01: Saturn 2° south of moon (2° =1 finger width at arms length from eye)
Sep 04: Jupiter 4° south of moon (4° =2 finger widths at arms length from eye)
Sep 06: New moon, 8:10 p.m. PDT Usually, the best star-viewing day of month
Sep 07: Moon at Perigee.
Sep 08: Mercury 9° south of moon (1 fist at arms length = 10°)
Sep 08: Venus 8° south of moon (1 fist at arms length = 10°)
Sep 14: Mercury stands still in its dance through the sky
Sep 21 : Full moon, 6:59 a.m. PDT
Sep 22: Moon at apogee
Sep 23 :Autumn equinox, 9:55 a.m. PDT -- End of Summer and Start of Fall
Sep 26: Venus at greatest brilliancy (magnitude -4.6)
Sep 28: Saturn 2° south of moon (2° =1 finger width at arms length from eye)
Search our CVC website (nearly 1000 web pages!):
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LIFE ON MARS!
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M Y
P A G E S
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CONTACTS - Some of My Pages That Relate to Astronomy
http://www.cvc.org/physics/apollompeg.htm - Video and Streaming Video files that I made from NASA's avi files of the Apollo Missions. Great for classroom study of kinemetrics.
http://www.cvc.org/physics/index.htm - A look at astronomy via different forms of EMR ... original papers from my Physics students of March 1999. Worth the reading.
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/index.htm - My Comet Page (my photos, how-to photo, comet comparisons and data, general info on comets)
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/freeware.htm - Astronomy freeware (Freeware and Shareware that I have tested and use in the classroom. All are keepers.
http://www.cvc.org/2000/index.htm - The Y2K Problem made simple, along with free test software for your PC and solutions.
http://www.cvc.org/nicole/star.htm - Christmas Star (What might the Christmas star have been. And what is impossible? --by a student in one of my classes)
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/index.htm - My Home page (Drennon Dolphin WebSurfer)with links to science sites incl astronomy
http://www.cvc.org/science/kepler.htm - Kepler's Laws With Animation (includes my original animations + Biogs of Kepler and Brahe)
http://www.cvc.org/christmas/index.htm - My CVC Christmas site(a complete site on Christmas around the globe and through time, injected with humor and intertwined with astronomy-related info)
http://www.cvc.org/space/index.htm - Views from Space from Christmas 1968 to present
http://www.cvc.org/christmas/science.htm - A humorous spoof on why Santa Claus can't possibly do what is claimed that he does, based on science and spy mag article.
http://www.cvc.org/sci9oct.htm - My lesson plans (unique and original with no text book) for a high school astronomy unit with internet links related to the individual lessons.
http://www.cvc.org/sci.htm - All of my day by day lesson plans
http://www.cvc.org/astonomy/index.htm - This Astronomy link page
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/science.htm - My homepages with science stuff.
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G E N E R A L
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GENERAL LINKS:
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/comet.htm - Drennon's Comet Hale-Bopp page with links to other astronomy sites
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov -- The new NASA Human Space Flight for photos and info on shuttle and international space station.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.htm - Astronomy Picture of the Day: GREAT SITE!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html - Index to all Astronomy Picture of the Day: GREAT WAY TO LEARN!
http://www.astronomy.com/Calendar/Default.asp - Sky-viewing Calendar
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html - Solar System Live!
http://www.intothecosmos.comA Worm Hole In The Cosmos -- Excellent site for exploring the mysteries of the universe.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery - NSSDC Photo Gallery: Wonderful space photos in the public domain
http://www.kyes-world.com - Kye Ewing's site of low-tech Astronomy gives teachers great ideas for getting students involved in the current sky. This site is great.
http://www.cvc.org/search.htm - The ultimate search page. Find anything!
http://www.dogpile.com/ - the untlimate search engine
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/glossary.htm - glossary of terms used in jpl¹s pages
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/starpages.html - Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/starsfamily.html - StarPages
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ - calendar of space events
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.html - NASA NEWS
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology.html - chronology of all missions
http://www.osf.hq.nasa.gov/ - general space news page
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ - astronaut biogs
http://spacelink.nasa.gov - educational NASA site
http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.htmlAstronomy Magazine
http://www.exosci.com - space news (updated almost daily)
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C O N T A C T S
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CONTACTS - People Resources
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/index.htm - Drennon's (yours truly) Home page with links to science sites, including other astronomy sites
http://hermes.aston.ac.uk:8888/M - World directory - including a comprehensive NASA staff list.
http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~kmitchel/planetary/ - UK planetary scientists
http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~kmitchel/planetary/members.html
http://msslsx.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/planetary/
http://www.astr.warwick.ac.uk - UK Space and astrophysics researchers
http://igpp.ucla.edu/spa/scientists.html
http://mssla3.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/ - MSSL research (UCL)
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/jewitt.html - David Jewitt discoverer Kuiper Belt
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~kevin/SSD/cass_qmw.html - Cassinni team
http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/es/research/psrg/people/ - Lancaster Uni Planetary forum db
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/ingersoll/ingersoll.html - Andy Ingersol - Atmos. expert
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ - astronaut biogs
http://rosy.ukc.ac.uk/space/ - Kent Space Department
http://igpp.ucla.edu/spa/scientists.html - Who's Who in Space Physics
Academic Assistance Access
Academic Assistance Access(AAA) is dedicated to providing free tutoring services via the Internet, including astronomy.
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A U R O R A
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AURORA
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/rw/storm.htm--A great place to start on seeing and learning about the Aurora. We can not see it down here in Visalia. How sad!!
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A N T IU F O
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FIGHT UFOs and ASTROLOGY
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/crop/ufofake.HTM --See how crop circles are faked and other goo info to fight UFOs!! (from Denmark)
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C O M E T S
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Comets
http://www.theworks.com/users/bdrennon/comet.htm - Drennon's Comet Hale-Bopp page
Tempel-Tuttle Live --
Click here to prepare for the Leonids. It shows the present location of Comet Tempel-Tuttle's remains.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/cometchasers/ - Hale-Bopp Event
http://www.sji.org/ed/halebopp.html - another Hale-Bopp page
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E D U C A T I O N
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SPACE EDUCATION AND FUN
http://www.spacecamp.org - Space Camp: great place for kids
http://www.eso.org/seaspace/ESO Sea and Space
http://www.spaceday.com - Space Day - comprehensive and fun site for kids from Lockheed-Martin
http://www.spaceday.com/postcard/postcard.htm - Postcards from Space - from Lockheed-Martin
http://www.spaceday.com/brainwarp/index.htm Brainwarp - interactive site from Lockheed-Martin
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T H E
S U N
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THE SUN
http://solar-center.stanford.edu - Stanford Solar Center
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P L A N E T S
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The planets
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/ - The Nine Planets -- By far and away.. the best multi-media planet survey
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm - comprehensive planet by planet guide
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/ - nasa¹s planetary data systems nodes - total planetary data
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/meetings/ - planet conferences
http://www.dkrz.de/mirror/tnp/nineplanets.html - general purpose planetary site
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/venus/ven-dist.htm - Venus Project --Prove Ptolemus wrong using venus!
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~kevin/SSD/fring - Saturn f-ring stuff
http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/ - solar system pictures and historical astronomy stuff
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M A R S
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MARS
http://marslander.jpl.nasa.gov/lander/ -- Mars Polar Lander Interactive page. BE THERE STARTING DEC 3, 1999!
http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ntv/schedule.html -- NASA TV schedule. Find out when to view the shuttle crew live!
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs - Latest from Mars Global Surveyor. NEW!
http://mars.sgi.com - Mirror Site: Latest from Pathfinder/Rover
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/15.html - latest Mars pics.
http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/ - Mars weather today
http://www-mars.cnes.fr/mpf/marswatch.html - telescopic observations
http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/mars.htm - general intro to the planet
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~cerebus/mars/ - Mars in literature
http://www.marsshop.com/ -- Mats shop to buy land on the planet
http://www.iag.net/~crs/mars/ - The Ultimate Mars site with links..etc..
http://www-pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/mapmaker/mapmkr.htm - armchair tour of Mars
http://www.fas.org/mars - federation of american scientists - MASSIVE MARS LINKS
http://www.sense8.ch/downloads_down.htm#WTKDemos - Mars Rover drive
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D E E PS P A C E
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Deep Space Archives
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html - Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/ds.htm - Selected Deep Space Images
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/Messier.html - Messier Catalog
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn - The Web Nebulae
http://www.seds.org/billa/dssm/messier.html - Messier Object
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P R O B E S& M I S S I O N S
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Probes/missions
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ - NASA¹s New Millenium Programme
http://leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/home.html - inventory of all space probes ever!
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/discovery3.html -discovery Stardust/SuesUrey/Venus
http://pyroeis.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer/PN10&11.html - pioneer facts
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer10/ - pioneer facts
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov
http://www.ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe/ galileo facts
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
http://venus.hq.nasa.gov/office/discovery/vmpm.html - venus multi-probe mission
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/ - magellan to venus
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/m10.htm - mariner 10 info
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/viking.htm - viking 1 & 2 info
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/galileo.htm - galileo info
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ - galileo mission
http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe - Galileo probe home page
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/europa/e6anim1.html - Europa animation
http://galileo.ivv.nasa.gov/ - mirror site galileo mission
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo - galileo project scientists diary
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/mess43/ - galileo news letter
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/hubble.htm - hubble info
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/shuttle.htm - space shuttle info
http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/ULSHOME/ulshome.html - ulysees info
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mip/mo.html - mars observer (fell silent before arriving)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/ - mars global surveyor
http://mgs-www.jpl.nasa.gov/- mars global surveyor
http://www-mars.cnes.fr/default.html - mars pathfinder (mirror site)
http://mgs-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ - mars global surveyor
http://mpfwww.arc.nasa.gov/default.html - mars pathfinder (mirror site)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/database/www-nmc?MARS98L-mars surveyor lander ¹98
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/database/www-nmc?MARS98S -mars surveyor orb¹98
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mip/voyager.html - voyager 1 and 2
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ - cassini-huygens
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~kevin/SSD/art_class - cassinni-hygens images
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/ - stardust comet encounter
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/discovery/stardust.html - stardust comet encounter
http://www.estec.esa.nl/rosetta/html/info0497.htm - rosetta comet encounter 2013
http://hurlbut.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/ - Mathilde asteroid encounter
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/Missions/DS1/pip.html - Deep space mission (Comet encounter)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunarprosp.html - lunar prospector page
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo - On Line On Jupiter - stories from mission control
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo/bios/fjournals - past stories from Galileo mission
http://hpcc.engin.umich.edu/HPCC/recent3/index.html - solar wind & comet animations
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - SOHO mission
http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/Rutherford/index.html - SOHO at Rutherford Appleton Labs
http:/wundow.wustl.edu/rocky7 - Rocky Mars prototype Rovers
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S H U T T L E
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Space Shuttle
http://shuttle.nasa.gov
http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov - shuttle mir stuff - good human stories
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S T A T I O N
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Space Station
http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov/shuttle-mir/ops/mir/tracking/ - Sighting Opportunities for the MIR
http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov/shuttle-mir/ - the MIR Space station US Mission
http://station.nasa.gov - general space station page
http://station.nasa.gov/station/assembly/chron.html - chronology of assembly
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E A R T H
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Earth
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl - The
following government site will let you plug in a town and it's zip code. It
will then display a map with a marker which can be literally moved to the
top of your house. Below the map is the latitude and longitude of the
marker, displayed to 5 places to the right of the decimal.
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A S T R O P H Y S I C S
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Astrophysics from Antarctica
http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/cara/home.html - CARA - Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
http://www.southpole.com - A great education site on this subject
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N E W SL E T
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News Letters
http://www.sji.org - San Juan Capistrano Research Institute
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ORGANISATIONS:
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D E N M A R K
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Denmark
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/agsastro.htm - Great Links from Amtsgymnasiet i Sønderborg
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/rw/storm.htm--A great place to start on seeing and learning about the Aurora. We can not see it down here in Visalia. How sad!!
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/crop/ufofake.HTM --See how crop circles are faked and other goo info to fight UFOs!! (from Denmark)
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/venus/ven-dist.htm - Venus Project --Prove Ptolemus wrong using venus!
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G E R M A N Y
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Germany
http://129.247.214.46/ (DLR - Germany)
http://www.ba.dlr.de/NE-PE/ (DLR - Germany)
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E U R O P E
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Europe
http://www.esa.int - European Space Agency (ESA)
http://www.esrin.esa.it/ - links to all other space agencies around the world
http://www.estec.esa.nl/spdwww/h2000/html/whatsnew.htm - ESA¹s What¹s New page
Lunar Eclipse Project - Lunar Eclipse of Sept 16, 1997
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U S A
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USA
The Palm Beach Astronomy Club - The best astronomy club page in the USA, I think. Great information and links.
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
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R U S S I A
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Russia
http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/other.htm - comprehensive list of Russian space sites
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/pe.html - The Russian mission control centre at IKI in Moscow, where they used to coordinate planetary missions, and the factory where they make planetary spacecraft (last one being Mars 96): Lavochkin Association.
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IMAGES
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I M A G E S
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http://shuttle.nasa.gov/sts-95/images/esc/ -- See inflight photos of the current shuttle mission with John Glenn
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/ - Johnson Space Centre good shuttle pics (incl. lightning/aurora footage)
http://sundog.caltech.edu/daily/image.html - Big Bear solar observatory
http://sundog.caltech.edu/ - Big Bear home page some of the best solar time-sequences ever
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/history.html - kennedy space centre archives
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/images.html - comet pics (watch out for copyright statements)
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm nasa archive Mercury, Gemini, Shuttle stuff.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/ - nasa photo gallery
http://nix.nasa.gov - nasa¹s photo-library on line.
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/files/misc/videocat.txt - comprehensive JPL films list
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures - NASA archive info for film and pics.
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/science/schenk/RESEARCH/ - 3-D Atlas of the Solar System
http://www.nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cd-rom/misc/cd-rom_faq.html
http:/www-ssv.jpl.nasa.gov/SSV/SSV_home.html - movies
http://www.tornadoproject.com - Tornado movies
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/anim.html - Hale-Bopp comet animations
http://ing.iac.es/PR/Caption_ING397.html - New Comet Tail pictures
http://www.seds.org/ - more pics. It is a s l o w site, though. Ftp available at ftp.seds.org
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E X T R A S O L A R
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Extra-solar planets
http://www.obspm.fr/departement/darc/planets/encycl.html
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L E S S O N S
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Lessons and Lesson Plans
CVC Science Lessons
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/venus/ven-dist.htm - Venus Project --Prove Ptolemus wrong using venus!
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S O F T W A R E
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Astronomy Freeware
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/freeware.htm - Great astronomy freeware and shareware that I have classroom tested...NOW FUNCTIONAL!
http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/astro/software.html - Software Links
http://cybersky.simplenet.com/d.html - Download CyperSky2.0b : planetarium software for Windows 3.1/95
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/software/ - Animation (AVIs) & Display Software at Los Alamos
http://bang.lanl.gov/win- Los Alamos : Microsoft Windows software
ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/software/ - Animation/Display and other Software from SEDS
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE/ - Software from explorer.arc.nasa.gov
ftp://ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/software/ - Software from ftp.jpl.nasa.gov
ftp://ftp.univ-rennes1.fr/pub/Images/ASTRO/anim/soft/ - Animation Software
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S T U D E N T
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Student Astronomy Pages
http://www.cvc.org/nicole/star.htm - Christmas Star (What might the Christmas star have been. And what is impossible? --by a student in one of my classes)
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/comet.htmComet Page by Sheetal Sharma
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/mars.htmMars Page by Vinod Itty
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/brown.htmBlackhole Page by Norman Brown
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/rhea.htmRhea (Saturn Moon) Page by Rhea Sancassani
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/mc bobo.htmEmission Nebulae Page by Victor Weller, Ria Basdeo, and Richard Daly
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/jennimkev.htmDark Nebulas by Jennimkev group
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A S T R O L I N K S
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More Astronomy Links
http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/agsastro.htm - Great Links from Amtsgymnasiet i Sønderborg
http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/HotLinks/HotLinks.htmlA large list of Astronomy Links from Astronomy Magazine
http://www.atro.dal.ca/~andromed/ Software LinksMike Boschat's Astrpnomy Page of Links.
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