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Listed below are Web sites you may find interesting and helpful. If you know of any other astronomy Web sites that may be of interest to the membership, please send your suggestions and comments to: Webmaster

Niagara Sky Clock

Heavens Above

Associations/Societies

http://www.atmjournal.com Amateur Telescope Makers Association
http://www.aavso.org/ American Association of Variable Star Observers
http://www.amsmeteors.org American Meteor Society
http://www1.tecs.com/oldscope/ Antique Telescope Society
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/ Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
http://www.astrosociety.org/ Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
http://www.atmpage.com ATM Page
http://www.casca.ca Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
http://www.space.gc.ca Canadian Space Agency
http://www.css.ca The Canadian Space Society (CSS)
http://www.darksky.org International Dark Sky Association (IDSA)
http://www.imo.net International Meteor Organization
http://www.occultations.org/ International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)
http://na,nmeteors.org North American Meteor Network
http://www.marssociety.org The Mars Society
http://planetary.org/ The Planetary Society
http://www.ras.org.uk Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
http://www.seds.org Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Astronomy Clubs - Ontario

http://www.deepskies.com Barrie Astronomy Club
http://www.bellevilleastronomyclub.ca/ Belleville Astronomy Club
http://www.geocities.com/bcastronomy Bruce County Astronomical Society
http://www.drastronomy.com The Durham Region Astronomical Association
http://www.elac.ipfox.com Elliot Lake Astronomy Club
http://amateurastronomy.org Hamilton Amateur Astronomers
http://www.mississaugaastronomicalsociety.ca Mississauga Society
http://www.gateway-to-the-universe.org/ North Bay Astronomy Club
http://www.ontariorocks.ca/nseaa/ North Shore Erie Amateur Astronomers
http://www.nyaa-starfest.com North York Astronomical Association
http://www.oaog.ca Ottawa Valley Astronomy and Observers Group (OAOG)
http://www.rasc.ca/belleville RASC - Belleville Centre
http://homepages.interscape.net/homeroom/rascsite/index.htm - Hamilton Centre
http://www1.kingston.net/~rasc RASC - Kingston Centre
http://www.yugoslavia-online.net/rasc/ RASC - Kitchener-Waterloo Centre
http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~rasc/ RASC - London Centre
http://www.rascniagara.com RASC - Niagara Centre
http://ottawa.rasc.ca/ RASC - Ottawa Centre
http://www.sarnia.com/groups/astro RASC - Sarnia Centre
http://www.geocities.com/rasctb/tbrasc.htm RASC - Thunder Bay Centre
http://openweb.ca/~rasctoronto/ RASC - Toronto Centre
http://www.mnsi.net/~rasc RASC - Windsor Centre
http://www.starseekersnetwork.org Starseekers' Network
http://www.sudburyastronomy.com/ Sudbury Astronomy Club
http://www.yorku.ca/yuac/ York University Astronomy Physics Club
http://www.ysastronomers.com York-Simcoe Amateur Astronomers

Educational Links

http://www.galileo-galilei.org Galileo Galilei
http://www.the-planet-jupiter.com The Planet Jupiter
http://www.the-planet-mars.com The Planet Mars
http://www.seds.org SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Dev. of Space
http://www.the-solar-system.net The Solar System in Pictures

Magazines

http://www.astronomy.com Astronomy
http://www.astronomynow.com Astronomy Now
http://www.skynewsmagazine.com SkyNews
http://www.skypub.com Sky & Amp; Telescope

Observational Astronomy / Other

http://www.astromart.com AstroMart
http://www.astronomy-mall.com Astro-Net Astronomy Mall
http://www.absolutebeginnersastronomy.com/ Beginner's Home Page
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/ Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/stellar/scenes/skymap_e/aumap_e.htm The Clickabe Map
http://cloudynights.com Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
http://osr.org/en-us/articles/coment-meteor-showers/ Comet Observation Home Page
http://messier45.com/cgi-bin/dsdb/dsb.pl The Deep Sky Browser
http://www.geocities.com/area51/corridor/2120/ Deep Sky Home Page
http://www.belmontnc.4dw.net/dblstrs.htm The Belmont Society Double Star List
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7137/ez.htm Eclipse Zone
http://www.heavens-above.com Heavens Above
http://www.mysky.org/mysky/ mySky.org
http://www.maa.mhn.de/Maps?Const/constS.html The Munich Archive Astromaps
http://concam.net/ The Night Sky Live
http://www.procyon-sys.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/StarGazersOnline
http://www.sky-watch.com SkyWatch
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/ Solar Data Analysis Center Eclipse Information
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/dss_form.html The Space Telescope Digitized Sky Survey
http://education.gsu.edu/spehar/FOCUS/Astronomy/index.htm Star-hopping (Art's Astronomy
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/ravenmyst/starwatch.html Starwatch
http://www.scopereviews.com/ The Telescope Review Web Site
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus0412.html Transits of Venus - 2004 and 2012
http://www.sel.noaa.gov/today.html Today's Space Weather

RASC Centres

http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/providers/rasc/rasc.html St. John's
http://www3.sympatico.ca/brian.gorveatt/home.html Charlottetown
http://halifax.rasc.ca/ Halifax
http://members.attcanada.ca/~pejensen/rasc/ Moncton
http://rascmtl.tripod.com/ Montreal
http://ottawa.rasc.ca/ Ottawa
http://members.kingston.net/rasc Kingston
http://www.rasc.ca/belleville Belleville
http://openweb.ca/~rasctoronto/ Toronto
http://www.rasc.ca/hamilton Hamilton
http://kw.rasc.ca Kitchener-Waterloo
http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~rasc/ London
http://www.sarnia.com/groups/astro Sarnia
http://www.mnsi.net/~rasc Windsor
http://www.geocities.com/rasctb/tbrasc.htm Thunder Bay
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/rasc/ Winnipeg
http://www.regina.rasc.ca/ Regina
http://duke.usask.ca/~ges125/rasc Saskatoon
http://www.syz.com/rasc Calgary
http://www.edmontonrasc.com/ Edmonton
http://www.vts.bc.ca/pgrasc/ Prince George
http://www.m51.ca/ Okanagan
http://www.pcis.com/rascvan Vancouver
http://victoria.rasc.ca/ Victoria

The Sky This Month

http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/ Abrams Planetarium
http://www.astronomydaily.com Astronomy Daily
http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance This Week's Sky at a Glance

Space Missions

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan
http://xrtpub.harvard.edu/ Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo Project Galileo - Bringing Jupiter to Earth
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/ Lunar Prospector Mission
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mars Exploration Program
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/index.html Mars Global Surveyor
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/ First-Time-Ever Snapshot of Amazing pics
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/near.html Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission

Weather Sites

http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/scripts/citygen.pl?client=ECCDN_e&city=YSN Environment Canada
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalStd.asp?loc=kiag&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast - Niagara Falls, New York
http://cleardarksky.com/c/Niagarakey.html Niagara Clear Sky Clock
http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/htmls/mainpage.html Weather Forecast for Astronomy
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/cities/can/niagara_falls_ON.htm The Weather Network
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/CAXX0416 The Weather Channel
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/71262.html Weather Underground