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http://backbayastro.org/
The Back Bay Amateur Astronomers (BBAA) is a non-profit astronomy club serving the Hampton Roads, Virginia area, dedicated to public outreach and bringing stargazing to the community since 1978. The site offers event calendars, observing programs, a photo gallery, telescope donation info, scholarships, and archives of newsletters and eclipse coverage.
http://mathres.kevius.com/art.html
Bruno Kevius has assembled an extensive link collection covering mathematical art, fractals, chaos theory, and geometry, featuring resources on M.C. Escher, polyhedra, cellular automata, and fractal software. With over 120 curated links spanning strange attractors, tessellations, origami, and geometric sculpture, this is a rich reference hub for anyone exploring the intersection of math and visual art.
https://www.qsl.net/w6ka
The W6KA Pasadena Radio Club is the official web presence for a California-based amateur radio club serving the Pasadena and Altadena area. The page serves as a gateway to the club's main sites and connects visitors to the Amateur Radio World Ring webring network.
https://cometchasing.skyhound.com/
Comet Chasing, maintained by Skyhound, provides monthly up-to-date observing guides for telescopic comets visible this month, complete with finder charts, observing synopses, and brightness predictions tailored to your latitude and equipment. It covers current comets like Kreutz sungrazers and PANSTARRS discoveries, making it an invaluable tool for amateur astronomers who want to hunt comets visually or through imaging.
http://setileague.org/
The SETI League is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the privatized electromagnetic search for extraterrestrial intelligence, coordinating amateur radio astronomers worldwide in the hunt for signals from other civilizations. The site offers extensive technical resources covering antennas, receivers, and software, alongside publications, press releases, and the popular "Ask Dr. SETI" column.
https://www.qsl.net/w4amc
The Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club (BARC) of Greenville, NC maintains this hub for club members and ham radio enthusiasts, featuring meeting info, membership rosters, newsletters, and emergency preparedness resources. With callsigns W4AMC, W1VOA, and W4UHS, the club covers everything from Skywarn weather spotting to DX activity links and real-time solar data.
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez
John Baez is a mathematical physicist and emeritus professor at UC Riverside whose sprawling personal site features decades of expository writing on math and physics, including his long-running column 'This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics.' Visitors can explore course notes, research papers, talks on topics from category theory to the Standard Model, and accessible blog posts bridging cutting-edge science with public engagement.
http://hanssummers.com/
Hans Summers (G0UPL) shares his deep passion for radio, electronics, and computing through dozens of detailed project pages covering QRSS beacons, WSPR kits, homebrew transmitters, Nixie clocks, frequency counters, and more. The site is a treasure trove for QRP enthusiasts and homebrewers, showcasing everything from crystal radios to synthesizer design and the popular QRP Labs kit lineup.
https://fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
Solar System Live is an interactive web orrery created by John Walker that lets visitors visualize the entire solar system or inner planets at any date, time, and viewpoint they choose. Users can track asteroids and comets using orbital elements, generate custom star maps, and save personalized configurations as bookmarks, making it a genuinely useful tool for amateur and serious astronomers alike.
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https://ap-i.net/skychart//en/start
Skychart, also known as Cartes du Ciel, is a free open-source planetarium program that lets users draw detailed sky charts using star and nebula catalogs while also displaying the positions of planets, asteroids, and comets. This multilingual wiki serves as the official documentation and download hub for the software, supporting Linux, Windows, and macOS with both stable and beta releases.