Chabot College Astronomy

Interesting Astronomy Links

• Astronomy Site of the Day... with history, facts, "sky"lights
  
  
• Abrahm's Monthly Sky Calendar ... a great monthly chart & info source

• StarDate Audio Magazine...a great source of audio, visual and text information about the sky!
  
  
• Yahoo's ASTRONOMY Resources...perhaps the best place to begin a search
  
  
  
• Sky & Telescope's WHAT'S UP!... from one of the best Astronomy Magazines
  
  
• All About Comets & Meteors... a great source of information from a STAR site!
  
  
• Moon Phase Pictures... an interesting virtual moon phase predictor for any date
  
  
• Moon Phase Calculations...more numerical specifics about moon phases

• NASA-Goddard Solar Eclipse Site ... the best source of information on the web!

• Upcoming Eclipses -- from the US Naval Observatory...more actual paths and date/time info

• Eclipses from the NASA Solar Eclipse Site...and even more images

• Tide tables for the SF Bay Area...match these to the moon phases and see if you detect a pattern!
  
  
• An on-line Constellation Quiz!...test your knowledge of the stars here!
  
  
• Comet Hale-Bopp...one of the best comets of the century... Check it out!
  
  
• Constellations, Stars & Other Resources... a comprehensive source of star info
  
  
• Hubble Space Telescope Images ... with the latest in amazing pictures from space!
  
  
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific... a local organization with great products
  
  
• Native American Star Lore... a new source of cultural info about Lakota & other
  tribal lore on the stars. The picture below comes from their page

• More Native American Star Stories...

• Native American Cosmologies

The 3 natives marvelling at the moon -- some kind of eclipse -- was drawn by John Fadden
(Mohawk artist) in 1970 or so, to illustrate a book of traditional stories by his father,
elder Ray Fadden (Tehanatorens), several of which are star legends. It was then
published in Akwesasne Notes.

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