• NASA Home Page
• NASA TV
• JPL "Space Calendar"
• NASA's Comet Home Page
• Solar System Live!
• Astronomical World Wide Web Resources A very detailed (600kb) collection of resources with descriptions
• Solar System Tourist
• Solar System Simulator
• The Astronomy Cafe (Questions answered by professional Astronomers)
• Astronomy Notes

Current Missions

• Deep Impact - Your first look inside a comet!
• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan
• Stardust - NASA's comet sample return mission. Another good link about it.
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Members Pages

• Astronomy Shoppe (Tony Costanzo): Telescopes, Binos and Accessories; Discounts for club members!

• Astroimages by James Foy (our Star Party Coordinator)'s astrophography site

• Mike Deneen

• Merrill Clark: www.andovernights.com (Mainly lunar astrophotography)
• Leor Zolman: www.bdsoft.com/astro (Meager astro content, but good computer geek stuff elsewhere on the site)
• John Boudreau: www.spacescenes.com (Some seriously good astrophotography)

Astrophotography/Imaging Sites of Note

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• NASA Image of the Day
• Lunar Picture of the Day
  

Solar / Auroral Resources

• AuroralObserving (Yahoo Group)
• SpaceWeather.com - "News and information about the Sun-Earth Environment"
• Submit an auroral sighting to SpaceWeather.com
• Real-Time solar image (worth digging out the solar filter "right now"?)

Observing Aids

• Binocular Resources

• Clear Dark Sky (Is it worth going out to view at Veasey tonight?)

• U.S. Naval Observatory Moon Phase Page

• SpaceWeather.com Solar observing news, activity notification service
• Andy Martin's Observing List:
  • Unzipped spreadsheet (122K XLS File -- left-click to open directly, right-click to download)
  • Compessed spreadsheet (42K ZIP file -- right-click to save, or left-click may also work)
  • Web page with sample list

Local

• Merrimack College Observatory. Public observing every clear Wed. and every 3rd Thu. Call 978-837-5011.
• Gloucester Area Astronomy Club
• Aldrich Astronomical Society of Worcester  
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
• Astronomical Society of Northern New England
• Astronomical Society of Southern New England
• Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford
• New Hampshire Astronomical Society
• The New England Light Pollution Advisory Group
• Boston University Astronomy Department. Public viewing with 12 & 14" on Wednesdays.
• University of Massachusetts Astronomy Dept.
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, PA

• Sky & Telescope and CCD Astronomy Magazines
• Astronomy Magazine
• Meteorobs Mailing List A mailing list for amateur meteor astronomy
• Netastrocatalog Mailing List A mailing list for "deep sky" observers of all levels

Equipment Reviews

• Scope Reviews (N.H. amateur Td Ting's very extensive scope and accessory review page)
• Cloudy Nights

• Excelsis

• Makscopes

• Catadioptric Review Archive

• Home Planet Page A great astronomy/tracking freeware program for Windows
• Registax - Excellent, free digital photo processing utility
• Hubble Space Telescope Photo Archive
• University of Arizona chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Archive A big collection of astronomy software for Win, DOS, UNIX, Mac and more.
• Castle Point Astronomy Club - Free Planet and Solar System Software ("The Planets" ... you want this one!)
• Cartes du Ciel Sky Chart Software Provides a free planetarium/charting program and a free lunar mapping application
• Scott Pinkham's Page - Great, free remote-control software for the LX200 (Click on the "Astronomy" link at the top.)
• RAMDisk - Used in conjunction with Registax, can speed up processing considerably. Only one I (Leor) found that actually works well enough for this (email the author for the free version supporing extra-large volumes).

Last Updated May, 2004 by Leor Zolman