| | Useful links Information about the night sky: Heavens Above (sky and satellites visibility) http://www.heavens-above.com/ Stellarium (downloadable planetarium) http://www.stellarium.org/ Globe at Night (how dark is your sky at night) http://www.globe.gov/GaN/index.html Astronomy Picture of the Day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Infrared satellite cloud map http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_ir.html Planetary photos from spacecraft http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov Links for information for schools: IYA2009 UK home page http://www.astronomy2009.co.uk/ Hubble Space Telescope site http://hubblesite.org/ STFC Schools http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PandS/Contents.aspx RAS Schools http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=49 IOP Schools and Colleges http://www.iop.org/activity/education/index.html RAS Education Resource Database http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_formamend&task=search&form_id=15 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network (Science and Engineering Ambassador scheme) http://www.stemnet.org.uk/ The Jodcast (astronomy podcast) http://www.jodcast.net 365 Days of Astronomy (daily astronomy podcasts) http://365daysofastronomy.org/ Astronomers willing to give talks to schools http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=102 Organisations for amateur astronomers: Society for Popular Astronomy http://www.popastro.com/ SPA Young Stargazers http://www.popastro.com/youngstargazers/ British Astronomical Association http://www.britastro.org/baa/ For a local astronomical society: Federation of Astronomical Societies http://www.fedastro.org.uk/fas/ Things to do: National Schools Observatory http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk Bradford Robotic Telescope http://www.telescope.org The Liverpool Robotic Telescope http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk Help SETI look for signals from space http://setiathome.berkeley.edu | |  | |||||||||||||||
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