Astronomy & Space
396 sites
http://newastro.com/
Ron Wodaski's companion site to his book 'The New Astronomy' offers a comprehensive online guide to CCD astrophotography, covering everything from focusing and exposure to advanced image processing. With ten full chapters available online by subscription, plus sample content and a community discussion group, it serves as a practical resource for beginner and intermediate amateur astronomers.
http://cometography.com/lcomets/2006p1.html
Gary W. Kronk's Cometography provides a detailed scientific profile of Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), covering its discovery, orbital calculations, and observer reports from around the world. The page includes historical highlights of the comet's brightness predictions, perihelion data, and observation logs with magnitudes and coma measurements, along with photographs taken at Paranal Observatory.
https://tas-online.org/
The Tacoma Astronomical Society is a non-profit astronomy club based in the Tacoma region, offering public observing nights, general meetings, outreach events for local schools, and an active student group for preschool through high school age participants. The site serves as a hub for club news, event calendars, a photo gallery featuring member astrophotography, and resources for amateur astronomers of all experience levels.
https://spacew.com/
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch is a 36-year-old space weather service offering near real-time auroral activity mosaics, solar wind data, X-ray flux readings, and experimental flare prediction heatmaps updated every two minutes. Visitors can track geomagnetic conditions, monitor the electrical power grid demand, and view stunning satellite imagery of aurora activity over both hemispheres.
http://parallaxinstruments.com/
Parallax Instruments, Inc. is a small business founded in 1991 that manufactures precision astronomical telescopes, German equatorial mounts, rotating tube rings, aluminum tubing, and observatory piers. Their product lineup includes large-aperture Newtonians, Dall-Kirkham Cassegrains, and custom-built instruments crafted in a fully equipped machine shop for serious amateur and professional astronomers.
https://spaceprojects.com/NASA
NASAWatch.INFO is an independent, sponsor-free watchdog site that critically examines NASA's bureaucracy, spending, and policies, advocating for commercial spaceflight and government reform. Visitors will find curated links, news articles, congressional bills, scandal coverage, and commentary pushing for a privatized, democratically accountable space program.
http://collectspace.com/news/news-061209a.html
CollectSPACE covers space history news and milestones, including this detailed article tracking which astronaut became the 500th person to fly into space during the STS-127 shuttle mission in 2009. The site provides a comprehensive numbered list of all 500 spacefarers up to that point, mission by mission, making it a valuable reference for space history enthusiasts.
https://solarham.com/
SolarHam is a comprehensive real-time space weather monitoring hub, tracking solar flux indices, sunspot regions, geomagnetic forecasts, CME activity, and X-ray data from sources like NOAA, SOHO, and STEREO. Packed with live imagery, solar wind feeds, and 3-day geomagnetic outlooks, it serves as an essential reference for amateur radio operators, aurora chasers, and space weather enthusiasts alike.
https://mm4rk3t.neocities.org/
A minimalist personal page from a creator known as mm4rk3t, built around a Latin aphorism about stars being visible only at night and the sleepless nights that make mathematicians and astronomers. The sparse, cryptic aesthetic and classical quotation give the site an enigmatic, philosophical quality that hints at interests in astronomy and mathematics.
https://mvas-ny.org/
The Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society (MVAS) has been connecting amateur astronomers in Central New York since 1989, offering public stargazing events, monthly meetings, and access to the Barton-Brown Observatory. The site includes astro photos, beginner tips, a newsletter archive, and a full schedule of club events and star parties for members and the public alike.