Stargazing

[Papaso]

I've always loved to gaze at the stars and I recently found the best book I've ever seen on the subject. It's by H.A. Rey the author of the Curious George the curious little monkey. The book is called The Stars: A new way to see them. I'm more than sure that everyone who's into stargazing will really enjoy this book.

[deniski]

thanks for the reference!  I just started a renewed interest in stargazing and I've been using a little childrens guidebood called "Stars" from the 1950's Golden Guides (sad to say, but I hardly ever get rid of books....this one was mine as a child).  Anyway, I PROBABLY need to update a little... we hadn't even got to the moon yet in the book I've been reading through....  

[Gone-Camping]

Well, if you're really into Star Gazing, try this website...once there click on obeserving and you'll get some very matter of fact pointers as to what's going on and when & where to look.

http://skyandtelescope.com/
 
This is one of my favorite websites!!!
 
KEEP LOOKING UP!!! :rolleyes:

[campingcop]

Not a lot of stars but a nice trip.

http://www.spacewander.com/USA/english.html

[AustinBoston]

If you want more than stargazing, try NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (even if you're not interested, check it out, your TAX $$$ pay for it):

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

They have one picture a day with a short write-up by a professional astronomer with lots of links if you want to know more.  The pictures are usually outstanding, and the image usually links to a much larger version if you click on it.

Subjects include telescopic pictures (Hubble, Keck, etc.), profiles of famous astronomers, images from space probes, pictures of the equipment itself, even unusual atmospheric phenomena.  

Their archive goes back to June 16, 1995.  Check out their April Fool's images.

Austin

[birol]

AB, the link you provided is not working ...

[AustinBoston]

AB, the link you provided is not working ...

I know this ain't much help, but "It works for me!"

The real problem is your in Canada, eh, and so your tax dollars don't pay for it eh, so it's not available to you, eh?

I dunno.  Every once in a great while (maybe 10 times in the 5 years I've been reading it) they go down for a few hours, but it appears to be working right now.  Anybody else have trouble with it?

Austin

[birol]

Still no go eh, maybe they check the origins of the ip address eh, but it doesn't even resolve eh

in anyways thanks eh


 

[Papaso]

Out of the hundreds of e-mail I recieve daily (most of them garbage) the one from NASA is truly one of my favorites. The planets have been impressive and the site has been keeping me up to date. What's great about the book is that you have it in your hand and it's different prespective on viewing the constellations. Jack Horkheimer's site is also one of the good ones http://www.jackstargazer.com/ . The book along with these sites has made me a sort of stargazing guru and it's been fun to say the least.