The 1997 and 1998 Summer Science Institutes' Astronomy Course

Internet Astronomy

This Astronomy Lab was developed as part of the 1997 and 1998 Howard Hughes Summer Science Institutes' Astronomy Course for high-school and community college teachers. The instructors are Gerald Dunifer, Scott Payson, Jim Johnson and Charlie Payson.

Pictures of the Laboratory Sessions

Astronomical CCD pictures taken during and after Institute

Internet Astronomy Links

• Physics WeatherCAM http://gluon.physics.wayne.edu/weather/camera.html
• Department of Physics http://hal.physics.wayne.edu/
• Jim Johnson http://gluon.physics.wayne.edu/jim.html
• Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com
• WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com
• Solar Center http://solar-center.stanford.edu
• SOHO Synoptic Database http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/ synoptic/
• Sundial Maker http://www.astro.indiana.edu/personnel/ rberring/sundial.html
• Effects of sun on cable TV http://www. xcity.com/nhe/solar.htm
• "Butterfly plots" http://home.worldonline.nl/~slooten/
• Solar Cycle http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/answerbook/sunspots.html
• Big Bear Solar Observatory http://sundog.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/daily.cgi
• Mt. Wilson http://www. astro.ucla.edu/~obs/intro.html
• Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.umich.edu
• The Nine Planets http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
• NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
• Clementine satellite http://www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib/
• Map of total solar eclipses throughout the world http://www.lvaas.org/Astronomical-info/Eclipses/World-eclipse-map.html
• SkyView Virtual Telescope http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html
• Hale-Bopp pictures http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/meech/HB.html
• The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory http://enemy.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/
• Keck Observatory http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu:3636/
• University of Hawaii http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/ifa.htm
• The Anglo-Australian Observatory http://www.aao.gov.au/ images.html
• Super Kamiokande http://www.phys.washington.edu/~superk/
• Lick Observatory's Catalog query page http://www.ucolick.org/~mountain/cata/
• Allentown School District http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy/home.html
• Astronomical Records, e.g., biggest and smallest http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/record/records.html

  Extra Links

• Black Holes http://ispec.ucsd.edu/virtual/black_holes.shtml
• SETI for Teachers http://www.seti-inst.edu/ed-litu.html