Astronomy Links

Posted by Prescott on April 26, 2011

If it wasn’t enough for Dennis and Cheryl Ward to come down from Erie and give a presentation on Astronomy and Citizen Science, they’ve sent along links for some of the software and information they used.  A number of the Scouts were asking for where they could get this kind of info and where they can find the planetarium software the Wards used.  Here it is.  And, thanks again to them for coming.

Planetarium software Dennis used during the presentation:

• http://www.stellarium.org/

Web sites that allow you to be part of astronomical science and discoveries:

• http://www.zooniverse.org/ - galaxies, moon, planets, etc..
• http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/starcount/
• http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/gan.php
• http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php
• http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Virtual tours of Astronomical Observatories:

• http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mthopkins/obstours.html

Watch live imagery through professional scale telescopes:

• http://www.slooh.com/