Welcome to http://www.handsonuniverse.org/activities/Explorations/Links/

Links Useful to Various HOU Projects

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What's Up?

Abrams Sky Calendar
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SkyCalendar/Index.html

Skylights
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/skylights.html

Uncle Al's Sky Wheel - Make your own star finder.
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/starclock/skywheel.html

Tonight's Sky
http://www.intellicast.com/Star/World/UnitedStates/TonightsSky/

Stardate Online
http://stardate.org/

Clear Sky Clock, The University of Chicago Yerkes Obs. in Williams Bay, WI
Also has links to Star Maps, Lunar Data, etc.
http://cleardarksky.com/c/YerkesObILkey.html

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To Make Finder Charts for Observing

*Skyview Virtual Observatory
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/  Choose Advanced. http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/skvadvanced.pl

Type in Object Name or Coordinates
Survey: Digitized Sky Survey

Optional Parameters: 
Image size: 300x300 or 400x400 or 500x500
Image Size: Default to .3 or .4 or .5 degrees
Brightness Scaling: Log(10) to Linear
Color Table: Stern Special to B-W Linear
Grid: Yes if you need coodinates, No for just finding chart.

Submit Request Now
Look for Request results in a new web window!

Overlays:  Helpful Catalogs for Research Projects when you are doing analysis; usually not necessary for just finding charts. 
Select with Ctrl key if more than one catalog.  This is useful for finding names of stars, magnitudes, or galaxies names, etc.

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To Find Right Ascension and Declination Coordinates for Requesting Images of Solar System Objects:

*Astronomical Sky Calendar
Select Yerkes Observatory
Gives Moon's RA and Dec Coordinates by Date
http://imagiware.com/astro/skycalendar.cgi

*On-Line Ephemeris Generator
Choose Yerkes Observatory from Display List of World Observatories
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph
Select Target Body.  Generate Ephemeris.
Gives RA and Dec and other data of Solar System bodies for each date at
midnight. 

*Planet and Moon Positions, 15th of the Month
http://www.learnwhatsup.com/astro/current/rise_set.shtml

*Sun and Moon Tables, including coordinates.
http://www.ls.eso.org/lasilla/Sun-Moon/Sun-Moon.html
http://www.ls.eso.org/lasilla/Sun-Moon/

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Interesting Links for Solar System Studies

Planet Plotting
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/lessons/FindPlanets/plot.html

Moon Map
http://www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm

Moon Phases
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

Apollo Moon Missions
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/apollo/flight-summary.htm

Lat/Long. of Moon Landings
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_tables.html

Moon Features
http://www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/moon_obs.htm

Planet Fact Sheets
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

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Links to Collaborating Projects for Research and Astronomy Education

Hands-On Universe
http://hou.lbl.gov/

NASA Space Center for Education and Outreach at DePaul University
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/NASABroker/

American Association of Variable Star Observers
http://www.aavso.org/

International Supernovae Network
http://www.supernovae.net/isn.htm

Latest Supernovae
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/

HOU Supernova Research Project
http://www.nmhschool.org/astronomy/supernova.htm

Northwestern University's Collaboratory
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/

Near and Far Sciences for Illinois
http://nfsi-server.yerkes.uchicago.edu/

SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/sofia.html

Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://www.sdss.org/

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/

Research Based Science Education
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/rbse/

Astronomy Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/education.html

University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory
http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/

NRAO - Greenbank, WV
http://www.gb.nrao.edu/

NASA Center, DePaul University
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/NASABroker/

Association of Astronomy Educators
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/aae/

More links to HOU Collaborators and Funding Agencies
    http://hou.lbl.gov/info/collaborators.html

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Find out about HOU - http://hou.lbl.gov/
Join HOU and Order HOU Materials including software. 
HS Teachers' Opportunity Summer 2002: Register  for NSF study. 

Judith Novak, HOU Project Manager
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Hall of Science #5200
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
Phone: 510-642-0552 (Judith Novak, joining or ordering materials)
Phone: 510-642-7500 (Amelia Marshall, technical support)
Fax: 510-642-1055
houstaff@hou.lbl.gov

Carl Pennypacker, Co-PI, pennypacker@lbl.gov
Alan Gould, Co-PI, agould@uclink4.berkelely.edu

HOU Teacher Resource Agents
http://hou.lbl.gov/info/tras.html

Vivian Hoette
University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory
373 West Geneva St., Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 53191
Phone: 262-245-5555, Fax: 262-245-9805
vhoette@hale.yerkes.uchicago.edu
Observing Opportunities and Teacher Workshops