My Favorite Astronomy Web Sites

Dr. Michael Kaufman - SJSU Physics

Astronomy Applets

Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project http://astro.unl.edu/naap/splash/

Astronomy Java Applets
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/applets/  
I like the 1/r² one

Astronomy and Physics applets from U of Oregon
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/

Les Tomley’s homemade applets
http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/tomley/demos.htm

Planetarium-like web sites

Skyview Café: click on “Interactive Planetarium”
http://www.skyviewcafe.com/

Heaven’s Above: star charts, spacecraft passes, etc.
http://www.heavens-above.com/

Other nice locations  

My home page, with “telescopes” presentation at lower left
http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/mkaufman/

Scale Model meta-page – everything you need to know about scale models and the solar system, including the 1000 yard model.
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/solarsystem/

Spectrum Explorer (for more advanced students)
http://lite.bu.edu/spex/v2/index.html

How astronomers make color images (from the Hubble Space Telescope Institute)
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/

Mt. Hamilton time lapse movies
http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam/

Mauna Kea Observatories
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/

Cool Cosmos: infrared astronomy
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu//

Sloan Digital Sky Survey science projects
http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/

Current NASA missions (Note: click on a mission, then scroll to the bottom of that missions page to find each mission’s official web site, with educational materials, latest pictures, etc.)
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

… and of course, Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html