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SECTION 1 SOME CALGARY
RASC HOME LINKS ++Sept'02 
SECTION 2 MORE LINKS (LOTS) ++Oct, Nv'02
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SECTION 1 - SOME CALGARY R.A.S.C. HOME PAGE LINKS
Calgary
Centre's Starseeker newsletter PDFs - index
Sky Highlights
What's Up
in the Sky
Calgary
and for Caroline Clear Sky Clocks, by Attilla Danko - cloud and transparency
predictions
(BTW, want to see quickly the
whole globe's overall cloud patterns? see link here
)
Centre
Event Wallpaper by Ed Reddy
...and be sure to see Calgary RASC HOME Page for many other useful links 
Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada national home page 
LPAC website
++Sept'02 Light Pollution, homegrown site!
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SECTION 2 - MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
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TIMINGS FOR SATELLITES, LAUNCHES, GREAT RED SPOT, ETC...
Times when ISS and Other Satellites are visible over Calgary (and
other locales)
- NASA's Human Space Flight site - SightingData/Calgary
for the ISS. Note, some dates will not indicate any suitable viewing
orbits; if so, check later. (I also suggest, as you probably do already,
to start looking a bit before any predicted times.)
- Heaven's Above
has timings for Calgary (MDT) and other locations for ISS, Envisat,
etc ++
- Their Orrery By the way,
the word orrery refers to the 4th Earl of Orrery, Charles Boyle, who had
an early mechanical model made.
- Official
Time (+/- due net delay; link set for Calgary, check whether MDT or MST;
can change time zones there)
- ++ An interesting website with diverse
information about daylight savings including worldwide, historical
and economic aspects is at http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
Launch Schedules
Great Red Spot TransitTimes
- Sky and Telescope Great Red Spot Transit predictions Times there are UTC. Magazine
suggests a light green or blue filter may help make GRS a bit more noticeable.
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John Mirtle (astrophotos)
- Be sure to see Calgary RASC member John's fine work here! URL updated
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Star-hopping Maps for some of interesting asterisms
(and related virtualsky views)
- Kemble's Cascade,
a delightful, circumpolar string of stars sparkling down into NGC1502,
visible essentially year round. Thank-you to Roland for first showing me
how to find Kemble's Cascade.
OR
- Animated GIF Locating Kemble's
Cascade (illustrates both mag 7 limit to help locate area when seeing
is limited, and mag 9+ limit for best view)
- ++ Jack Milliken sent in this link
to the "Small Telescope Asterism Roster" (STAR) List and
notes the names to the right in the list of objects include Kemble's
Cascade.
- Straight line of 8 or so
faint stars under Leo, A rather WIDE, BINOCULAR dark site object,
Mag. 8 and fainter stars amidst a few brighter stars, spotted by yours
truly a year or two ago at an OG at WCO. This is a somewhat "sparse"
region for object viewing (unless you're into Very faint galaxies) and
high-power narrow fields will miss it, so you may never have seen this
goodie before. Let me know
when you find it and what you think of this asterism (and if your think
most of the stars in the line might be physically proximate to each other??!
Thanks to Father Kemble who inspired me to wonder that one.)
- Virtualsky.org* view of this area under Leo (URL revised)
Note the star-hopping arc of three bright stars dominating middle and
upper left; line of stars is in lower right; click to zoom in (to zoom
out instead, select zoom-out button on left of virtualsky window)
*Virtualsky.org
is an excellent website to explore further (and practice starhopping on
cloudy nights); photos courtesy of Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey .
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Extrasolar Planets...
Earlier Information on Extrasolar Planets and Other Nearby Stars,
by local RASC member and enthusiast Barry R. Leggett
- 3D chart of nearest stars, various including some with extra-solar
planets, see Starseeker February 2001, p8 , or online PDF
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Satellite Tracking (this section of links under construction)
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Palm Astronomy Applications
- Planetarium
an excellent app for the handheld (can even interact
with some telescopes, easily customized databases; used by your calendarWebmaster
to calculate twilight times, etc. for these pages)
- PocketSat
uses two-line Element Sets for near-earth orbit satellite tracking
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ROTHNEY ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY (south of Calgary)
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MISCELLANEOUS (This section will get subdivided
when it gets biggg, like Malin-1)
- Canadian
Space Agency
- American Astronomical
Society
- International Astronomical
Union the professional site, interesting to explore even if one is
an amateur astronomer
- Space Day: SiteMap (non-Flash page, especially handy
for library terminals which don't use FlashPlayer. Some non-flash pages
can be found there. If using the plug-in, start with their home-page link
at top of their site-map.)
- Calgary Science Centre's Exhibits and Shows page
- RASC national Observer's
Handbook Resource Page (various links, also OH updates/corrections)
- RASC national list of Educational Links (that
list updated July 2001 per recent check)
- RASC national Light Pollution Abatement Program
- Forthcoming Close Approaches To The Earth list from the IAU
of predicted minor-planet and comet encounters to within 0.2 AU of the
earth. Date that list was last updated is at bottom of their web page.
Also see their Web policy document.
- NASA's Near Earth Objects Program news and other NEO links
there to orbits, images and lots more.
- Searching Nasa Info page from NASA's Spacelink/Educator
Focus site
- searching ALL of NASA's public items via their search page
- note: search-returns can include .rtf's .pdf's .txt's etc. If
you want just html's or htm's, for example, go to above search page but
then link to "advanced" search, enter URL criteria (e.g.htm or
html) as well as search words.
- For image searches use NASA's
Image EXchange (NIX)
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- Auroral Activity
Extrapolated from NOAA POES updating-maps useful for those who enjoy
watching aurora (or maybe avoid if want dark sky viewing). Watch for sub-storms
pushing southward across our region.
- Total Solar Eclipse of 2002 December 4: Table of Contents.
Technical information from umbra.nascom.nasa.gov
- Current
solar images A wide selection of current views of our BUSY star!
- Dr. Phil Plait's Bad
Astronomy valuable site debunking myths and misconceptions in Astronomy.
- Next to M91 is Malin
1, a giant low-surface-brightness galaxy. Of course to see it you
would need to use some method comparable to David Malin's special photographic
technique and a really big light bucket, since it is so faint. A Scientific
American web article in '98 described it as the largest known galaxy, several
times the diameter of our own galaxy! Interesting to know about if you
are looking at the Virgo cluster during a Messier Marathon or any time.
Some web refs including further links...
- Update list for this calendar
site
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Virtualviews and maps
- The
MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars MGS MOC Release
No. MOC2-299, 1 Feb 2002
- Virtualsky.org
is an excellent website to explore - and practice
starhopping on cloudy nights
- North
America at night, from the International Darksky Association
Regularly updated map of land/sea temps and clouds for Entire globe
from the Space Science and Engineering Centre, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
- Handy for seeing our weather in light of the larger picture. For example
Calgary's
Very Snowy Weather in May (!) is far more understandable when one sees
the cold and
clouds pushed over the arctic regions mainly onto our continent compared
to Eurasia.
Of course the map changes so you can see what happens as the days and months
progress.
- ++ Note that the technicalities
behind producing this global map mean such things as areas interpreted
as clouds may not always match satellite photos or actual local conditions
("ground-truth" in remote-sensing terminology, or should that
be "atmosphere-truth"?:-)
- Information notes in overview.
- This and other current graphics are linked at their Satellite Composite Images page
including "Rotating Globe Movie" updated every three hours. Though
some items are
quite technical, they make for fascinating viewing. The global views do
much that local
weather maps simply cannot in giving an overall feel for what mother-nature
is up to.
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Research, Radio Astronomy, etc (this section of links under construction)
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Solar Sytem
- Space Weather
News diverse information and photos
- Solar Sytem Views
Solar system/planet orbits as would appear if viewer were approaching
our system from centre of Milky Way galaxy.
The Galaxy is shown horizontally, with our solar system steeply tilted
into it, a view not always shown correctly or at all in textbooks, movies,
etc.
Also notes, projects. Site/graphics by calendar-webmaster B Fenerty
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- Many thanks to the late Sid
Lee, Calgary member of the RASC, who helped us all in so many ways,
and personally helped me, among other things, with fine tuning the web
calendar pages in their starting stages.
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- Main
Index to some sites (Astronomy and other topics) by your calendar-webmaster
B Fenerty
- Digital Camera Astrophoto experiments ('97 Moon eclipse,
Saturn) page put back on-line Jan2002
Note that the pictures take a while to download, so I suggest scrolling
down versus using the
in-page navigation links until the pictures are complete, else a reload
may be needed.
- Solar
System views - graphics of the planets' orbits specifically representing
the system as would be encountered from someone (something?) visiting our
system from the centre of the Milky Way (or at least from the direction
of Sagittarius). Of special note is the steep tilt of our solar system
compared to the plane of the Milky Way; obvious perhaps for we naturalists
of the night (as someone on the Rascals list once describe us) who see
the galaxy angling overhead; yet many texts, even movies have, in the past,
portrayed our system as almost level with the galaxy. The current version
shows the planet's positions in March 2002; if I get time I may update
their positions occasionally, but most of the time they will have to do
it themselves.
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Next to M91 is Malin 1, a giant low-surface-brightness galaxy.
Of course to see it you would need to use some method comparable to David
Malin's special photographic technique and a really big light bucket, since
it is so faint. A Scientific American web article in '98 described it as
the largest known galaxy, several times the diameter of our own galaxy!
Interesting to know about if you are looking at the Virgo cluster during
a Messier Marathon or any time.
- Some web refs
to Malin 1 including further links...
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