Paul Derrick's Stargazer

Astronomical Links

• American Assn. of Amateur Astronomers  (internet astronomy club and online store)
• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical League
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Astronomy (Astronomy magazine and Kalmbach Publishing)
• Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA)
• Celestron  (maker of telescopes and other equipment)
• Central Texas Astronomical Society  (serves amateur astronomers in Waco, Temple, Belton, Killeen and surrounding areas)
• Chuck Ayoub's the planets.com  (some basic info and images on the planets)
• International Dark-Sky Association
• Jack Horkheimer - Star Gazer  (seen on PBS tv stations, formerly known as the Star Hustler)
• Let's Talk Stars  (astronomy talk radio hosted by David H. Levy)
• McDonald Observatory  (University of Texas at Austin's observatory located in far west Texas near Ft. Davis)
• Meade (maker of telescopes and other equipment)
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• NASA's Human Spaceflight
• Orion  (maker of telescopes and other equipment)
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy  (don't be fooled by the title -- this is a good and legit site)
• Planetary Society
• Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute
• Sky and Telescope  (Sky and Telescope magazine and Sky Publishing)
• SkyMaps.com  (publication quality sky maps and charts)
• SOFIA  (NASA's airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
• Space Telescope Science Institute's Amazing Space Web-based Activites
• Space Telescope Science Institute's Down-to-Earth Astronomy
• StarDate  (published by the University of Texas at Austin and McDonald Observatory)
• Texas Star Party  (great star party held each spring at the Prude Ranch in far west Texas near McDonald Observatory)
• Universal Workshop  (source of Guy Ottewell's annual Astronomical Calendar and other interesting publications)

Last  updated:  June 2007