Hanford Observatory

Way-Cool Web Sites

Astronomy

·       Earth & Sky: Welcome!

·       NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory  (Wow! Latest photos from robotic spacecraft & rovers)

·       http://www.telescope.com/content/inthesky/content6main.jsp (Orion Telescope and Binocular's "learning center"; show & tell on what's up in the sky this month)

·       SKY Online - Sky Publishing Corporation (Sky and Telescope magazine; GREAT interactive sky chart)

·       SpaceWeather.com - meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, etc.

·       STScI_HST Public Information   (Hubble – Space Telescope Science Institute)

·       TCACmainpage  (Tri-City Astronomy Club)

Movers & Shakers

·       PNSN - Short-Period (Green) Webicorder Records (Seismographs)

·       http://earthquake.usgs.gov/  (Information and nice maps and stats on earthquakes)

·       http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ (Ocean buoys – current wave height, weather at sea)

Weather

·       Weather Underground: Richland, Washington Forecast

On-Line Log Books for LIGO Hanford Observatory

·       http://apex.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/ilog/ (username = reader; password = readonly)

Stuff to Buy

·       http://www.astro-physics.com/ (Baader Planetarium Supplies links has info on solar filter material)

·       Orion Telescopes and Binoculars (Great source for free star charts, $15 planispheres and $130 green laser pointers)

·       Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Organization of professional and amateur astronomers active in education has some awesome educational materials.)