Sky
at Night a new magazine from the makers of the BBC programme,
"The Sky at night".
International Astronomy clubs Websites
Night
Sky Info Weekly information about the night sky, astronomy
articles and observations.
Intenational Telescope Shops
Evergreen
Optics Online astronomy equipment shop selling telescopes,
binoculars, accessories and more.
Links to the web sites of our
guest speakers
Dr. Denies C. Gabuzda, from UCCDept. of Physics
is the Coordinator of the project to build a radio telescope in
Birr. This will be used on its own, to extend the MERILN
array and the European VLBI
radio telescope networks. A Radio Telescope for Ireland, ARTI,
will have its website ready soon.
David Lillis has an article
on the choosing of telescopes on the Shannonside
Astronomy club site. He also has many contributions to the Gallery
sections of that site.
Tony O'Hanlon, secretary of Shannonside,
makes regular contributions to the Observing
notes pages of the SAC
website.
Links to Space exploration missions.
The NASA
rovers continue to send back amazing pictures from the surface
of Mars.
The ESA satellite Mars
Express is imaging the planet from Mars' orbit.
The Cassini
Mission probe is now in orbit around Saturn with attached. On
Christmas day 2004 it released the ESA
Huygens lander for its historic landing on Titan on January
14th 2005. The speed and location of the spacecraft along its flight
path can be viewed on the "Where is Cassini Now?" webpage
The Japanese HAYABUSA
mission to bring back samples from an asteroid and investigate
the mysteries of the birth of the solar system.
For the first mission to Pluto, the
New Horizons mission, see its homepage
