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This page: Imagery & Data Resources || Observing Resources || Eclipses || Planetary Alignments || Telescopes, Satellites & Observatories

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Imagery & Data Resources:

Astonomical Data Center - GSFC/NASA.
Astronomy & Astrophysics at NSSDC - resources, current & past missions - NASA.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - from NASA
IAU: Minor Planet Center - information on observing and reporting comets & asteroids.
Space Telescope Science Institute - Hubble Space Telescope.
Where Is HST? - current location of Hubble Space Telescope.
See also: Telescopes, Satellites & Observatories listed below.

Observing Resources:

Auroral Acitivity - extrapolated from NOAA POES - SEC/NOAA.
Bright Satellites Over Washington, D.C. - US Naval Observatory.
Comets and Meteor Showers
Online Stargazer Map - from Mount Wilson Observatory.
SkyView - NASA Virtual Observatory.
Today's Space Weater - solar data - SEC/NOAA.

Eclipses & Transits:

Eclipse Home Page - NASA/GSFC
1999 Total Solar Eclipse, "This Eclipse Is History" - NASA/MSFC
Venus Transit 2004 - June 8, 2004

Planetary Alignments:

The Grand Alignment of Planets on May 5, 2000 - from BadAstronomy.com
Planetary Alignments - National Solar Observatory
SOHO view of planetary alignment
Mars Approaches Earth - Closest approach on August 27, 2003

Telescopes, Satellites & Observatories:

ASCA - Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics.
Arecibo Observatory
CHANDRA: X-Ray Observatory - orbital observatory launched from Space Shuttle 7/99.
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) - NASA/GSFC.
Deep Space Network Radio Observatory
FAME (Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer) planned for launch in 2004.
FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite launched June 24th.
Hubble Space Telescope (STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute)
Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission
W.M. Keck Observatory - Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff, Arizona.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Royal Greenwich Observatory - Greenwich, London.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Cambridge, MA.
SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - NASA.
U.S. Naval Observatory - Washington, DC.
X-ray Multi Mirror Telescope Misison - ESA space telescope mission.

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