What follows are links to some of the best informative and useful astronomy sites on the web.
- Calendar 2013 Astronomical Calendar.
- http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ Generate a view of the solar system as seen from just about anywhere in space.
- http://www.heavens-above.com/ Heavens-Above -- your site for satellite tracking. Create an account with your latitude and longitude (see link below) for accurate observation times.
- http://world.maporama.com/idl/maporama/ Find your latitude and longitude for any street address -- useful for the Heaven-Above site.
- http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=15222 In order to look up in the sky, the weather must certainly be clear. My favorite weather site is Wunderground.com. All you need to do is enter you ZIP code. What follows is for Pittsburgh. The site also contains an astronomy section detailing rising and setting times, twilight times, moon phases, a start chart, etc.
- http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/ Keep your PC clock in sync with atomic time. If you are always connected to the Internet, this free software can be configured to adjusted your clock automatically on startup.
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Simply beautiful, the astronomy picture of the day.
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html Archives of the Astronomy Picture of the Day are located here.
Panoramic view of our Milky Way Galaxy
Honorable mention:
This is the book that introduced me to Astronomy. It was published in 1965.