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WWW Links

Useful links:

• Society Facebook group

• Society Twitter feed

• Spaceweather.com - Aurora alerts and more

• Aurora Alerts UK - Interactive with your location

• Astrometry.net - Identify your "unknown" image of the stars

• Heavens Above - Satellite visibility and much more

• Cloudy Nights Forum

• Jodrell Bank - The Night Sky

• NASA

• British Astronomical Association

• The Society for the History of Astronomy

• North West Group of Astronomical Societies

• Astronomy Now

• Sky and Telescope

• Sky and Telescope Weekly Newsletter

• Galaxy Zoo

• Stellarium

• Cartes du Ciel

• C2A

• CalSky

• Astronomy Shed

• Eyes on the Sky - Telescope Basics - Videos on YouTube

• Starlust - One man's opinions about amateur telescopes & observing the night sky

• Go Stargazing

• Astrobin

• Atmospheric Optics

• UK Astronomy Buy & Sell

• Adaptainer - Bringing the Stars to You: A Guide for Building a Home Observatory

WWW Links

Astrophotography links:

• DeepSkyStacker

• RegiStax

• Backyard EOS

• Field of view calculator

• Imaging toolbox

• EzSkyView

• Anaglyph Maker

• Planetwarp program

• MSL Raw Images (make your own using left/right raw images)

• Mars 3D images

• Public Access Telescope

• Juno Probe Raw Data

• Cassini Raw Data

• Hubble Space Telescope Raw Data

• Wide Field Imaging for Solar Parker Probe

• www.schoolsobservatory.org (Use worldwide telescopes for your school project - plus more useful school stuff)

WWW Links

Presentation Aids links:

• Moonwise The night sky displayed for the current month

• Moon Calendar Daily images of the moon per month

  Note that the above link will take you to October 2023 - you will need to alter the month/year to suit

• Heavens Above

• Hubble

  Image gallery, Live Images, and "Tonight's Sky" video

• James Webb Space Telescope

• NASA - Mars Exploration Rovers

• Curiosity Rover page

• Mars Perseverence 2020 Rover

• The Sun

• ESA

• NASA Home Page

• YouTube

• 'Online' YouTube Clip Converter

• Clip Grab - Video clip grabber/converter program for download

• Armagh Planetarium Astronotes - 10 best Astronomy Sites

• Astrobin

Also see the "Useful Links" column for some other useful sites when making your own presentation

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