International Year of Astronomy and an offering of cheap telescopes
Galileo's TelescopeThe U.S. International Year of Astronomy 2009 opening ceremony is set for January 6th in Long Beach, California. Space.com has intimated that cheap telescopes will be offered to the general public.
International Year of Astronomy: Get Cheap Telescopes!
International Year of Astronomy 2009...gaining momentum
Amateur scientist will collaborate with astronomers
Amateur scientists
An Iron Core For The Sun And More?
An over zealous Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington?
Another meteor in Colorado
Book review-- "Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe"
Brian May...Ph. D. in astrophysics
Canadian November 20th meteorite
City Observatory, Calton Hill--Edinburgh, Scotland
Colonial America--David Rittenhouse astronomer
Cosmic ray adventures in Argentina
Credit where credit is due--"Big Bang"
Deceased--Frank Kelley Edmondson
Deceased--Martin A. Pomerantz
Deceased--Robert Jastrow
Deceased--Tony Fairall
Double star observations--Galileo Galilei
Eden Prairie, Minnesota and their free telescope
Ethical advertising--name a star
Fred Hoyle--cosmologist
Giordano Bruno--conference of 2003 now in print
Giordano Bruno--visionary?...a new book
Greek astronomy texts
Humbleness on November 20th, 2008
Industrial Light and Magic...Thomas Smith
International Year of Astronomy 2009
Lick Observatory...100 years of astronomy
Mars...Percival Lowell's romance with the red planet
No lunatics
Odysseus and the 1178 B.C. total solar eclipse
Old observatories
Origin of science
Palomar Observatory
PBS Palomar documentary
Richard Carringto and the 1859 super solar flare
Saturn loses rings on Christmas morning--NAW
Sir John Herschel...astronomy photography
Sir Patrick Moore--British amateur astronomer and more
Sun's astrophysicist...John N. Bahcall
The astronomy/cosmology debates of the 1930's & 1940's
"The Great Debate" [1921]--Shapley & Curtis
"The Universe is Rated R"--maybe violence is universal?
Therapy in the stars?...sure
Vatican Astronomy
Victorian popular astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Wellesely College buys Copernicus book
What will you do with your "leap second"?
What's in a name?--Pluto
Here are some cool places to visit...
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ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY
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GOOGLE SKY
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HUBBLE TELESCOPE
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JOHN HARRISON AND THE LONGITUDE PROBLEM
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NASA
NASA PATCHES
NASA-TV
NASA WATCH
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PLANETARY SOCIETY
PLANET FINDER
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SPACE.COM
SPACEDAILY
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SPACEWEATHER.COM
STARDATE
UNIVERSE TODAY
And here are some on line books, monographs, and essays...
On the Heavens
Ball, R. S.
Great Astronomers
Bethe, Hans
"Supernovae"
Brahe, Tycho
Astronomicall Coniectur [A New Star]
Copernicus, Nicolaus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Philosophy of Physical Science
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Space, Time and Gravitation : An Outline of the General Relativity Theory
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe
Eddington, Sir Arthur
The Nature of the Physical World
Elger, Thomas Gwyn
The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features
Galilei, Galileo
"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
Gamow, George
Gamow, George
One Two Three...Infinity: Facts & Speculations Of Science
Gamow, George
Theory of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Energy Sources
Gillet, J. A.
"Astronomy: The Transit of Venus"
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Guillemin, Amédée
The Sun
Hoyle, Fred
Frontiers Of Astronomy
Koresh [Cyrus Reed Teed]
Lowell, Percival
The Evolution of the Worlds
Lowell, Percival
The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902
Milne-Home, David
Essay on Comets, Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowe's Prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (1828)
Mitchel, O. M.
The Astronomy of the Bible
Murray, David
"The Transit of Venus"
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Newcomb, Simon
Sidelights On Astronomy
Proctor, Richard A.
Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits, From the First Observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the Transit of A.D. 2012
Ptolemy
Tetrabiblos
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
"The Rotation and Physical Constitution of the Planet Mercury and the Planet Mars"
Serviss, Garrett P.
Curiosities of the Sky: A Popular Presentation of the Great Riddles and Mysteries of Astronomy
Smith, Charles H. [editor]
Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds
Somerville, Mary
Mechanism of the Heavens
Stimson, Dorothy
Todhunter, I
A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 1
A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 2
Tyson, Winston C.
Celestial Amusements
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals," With an Alternative Explanation
Whewell, William
"Our Mr. Sun"--boomer classic
- Astronomers And Public Perception
Abstract: Society's view of astronomers has changed over time and from culture to culture. This review discusses some of the many ways that astronomers have been perceived by their societies and suggests ways that astronomers can influence public...
- Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli--belated Birthday
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli March 14th, 1835 to July 4th, 1910 A belated birthday to Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli along with "pi" and Albert Einstein. His maps of Mars led Percival Lowell to formulate his "canal" ["canali"] hypothesis of Mars....
- Victorian Popular Astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Sir Robert Stawell Ball 1840-1913 Sir Robert Ball SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL Free, online books: A Popular Guide to the Heavens A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy Astronomy Elements of Astronomy Experimental Mechanics: A course of Lectures Delivered...
- Science References
Places to visit: ARCHAEOLOGY ANCIENT EGYPT ARCHAEOLOGY BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS CURRENT WORK IN EGYPTOLOGY EGYPTOLOGISTS' ELECTRONIC FORUM ...
- Classic Essays, Monographs, Books
The Internet is huge and it is often difficult to discover individual monographs, essays, or books even if search engines are used. So here is a list of those classic texts arranged by subject and by author. ASTRONOMY/COSMOLOGY Aristotle On the...