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Time Before Clocks
asteroids and exoplanets
Mercury - its history - its transit Messenger
Venus - its history - its transit Venus Express
Mars - its history latest updates
Jupiter - its history latest updates
Saturn - its history and Cassini updates
Uranus - its history
Neptune - its history
Siberia
History of Siberia Part One the geology and early history
mammoth hunters and World-Surveyor-Man
Chukchi Directions
Directions of Time and feng shui origins
bronze and iron age civilizations from Siberia
Shamans and Time
Medieval Siberian Invaders.
British and Russians discover Siberia.
16th century Yakutia: origin of the Sakha
17th century Yakutia and the Russian Invasion
18th century Yakutia the explorers: part one
18th century Yakutia the explorers: part two
Russian America 18th and 19th centuries
Yakutia 1820 to 1890 extreme tourism
Japan attacks Russia
Siberia 1890-1912 and a British gold mine starts a revolution
Tunguska event As seen by shamans and scientists
Siberia: 1917 to present
The Great Bear and the Cosmic Hunt the ancient sky calendar and myths. (More being added.)
The Moon
The Moon and Calendars
Origins of modern calendar
Moon and Eclipses and history links
Stonehenge and Winter Solstice
Spring Equinox
The Cosmic Mill
Iron Age astronomy: the mathematicians.
The Ptolemy Effect Medieval astronomy.
Hampton Court Clock The story of the astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace. Full details are in Inside the Hampton Court Clock.
Tudor Bastard
King Edward VI's Defence of Astronomy
Lady Jane Grey's Clocks
Astronomy in the 17th century The impact of the telescope new observatories France, China and other places.
Harrison More on John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude in this book which also has information on Harrison's scientific work.
18th century astronomy drinking song and fuzzy blobs
space travel - its history
astronomy in the 19th to 21st centuries red shift and big bang problems with Big Bang and dark matter.
Story of the Westminster Clock only clock used as sewer ventilation shaft
The First Batteries.
taking part in astronomy and other scientific discoveries.
astronomy data
observing from back garden and other parts of the world
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Things to do in astronomy.

Coming soon: Apps

iPhone, Android, iPad, etc.
recommendations welcome

What's Going on

Track ESA satellites and see where the ISS is.

Track NASA satellites and see where the ISS is.

spaceweather.com. Solar flares coming our way, asteroids on collision course, satellites passing by, etc. All here and they want you to contribute.

The next transit of Venus. Will you be able to see it and when.

You must not, never, look directly through your telescope at the sun. Just move your telescope so you can see the image of the sun on a sheet of white paper or card placed under the eyepiece of the telescope. Then you will be able to watch and take photos of the transit in this image. (If you are lucky enough to be in a place where it can be seen from and it is not cloudy.)

Taking part in the research

You don't have to be entirely on your own with these projects as you can discuss any odd things you discover.

Explore the Sun

Download the helioviewer and explore the Sun using data from SOHO. This is on the NASA website.

Asteroids

Take part in finding out more about asteroids.

You need to use a telescope for this.

Looking for the Higgs particle

Help the Large Hadron Collider, from your own home computer, to search for new fundamental particles.

Search for Aliens - the SETI project.

Find them before they find us.....

also

Search for Aliens - live.

Galaxy Zoo

You use the same log-in for all these:

Galaxy Zoo
Sign on and classify galaxies at home in your spare time. It is very relaxing. (Exploring far off massive galaxies in the universe makes your own problems seem a lot smaller.)
Colliding Galaxies
or cosmic mergers - everyone loves these - what better way to chill out - to see galaxies blowing each other apart. Merger Wars on the cosmic scale.
Moon Zoo
For something nearer home. If you wanted to go to the Moon, you can at least help to map it.
Hunt for Supernovae
Change from comparing galaxies, Hunt for Supernovae.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way
Find and identify previously unknown weird and wonderful things in our galaxy.
Solar Storms
Solar scientists need you!
Help them spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth. Your work will give astronauts an early warning if dangerous solar radiation is headed their way. And you could make a new scientific discovery.
Planet Hunters
Join the planet hunters looking for planets around other stars.
Find more planets on the outer edge of our Solar System.
take part in the New Horizons Ice Hunters Mission to the outer edge of the solar system. New Horizons left Earth in 2006, to look at Pluto and then to other - some bigger - icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt which it will not reach until 2015. Find out about it here.

and more.....

Space websites for children

astronomy for children, part of an educational website. Has star maps, Jupiter's moons, as well as other science information, games and tests.
ESA - the European space agency has space information and games for school children of all ages.
NASA's space site for school children of all ages with learning games.
Track Santa on Xmas Eve as he leaves the North Pole and delivers the presents - see the places he visited and when he is coming to you. Note: Santa starts at the Bering Straits and heads west around the world. That way he always arrives at each place some time on Xmas Eve - as the world is turning towards him - and it is less tiring for the reindeer.