Blackpool & District Astronomical Society Welcome page Who we are and how to find us Meetings for this year Imminent and planned Starmaps and weather forecasts for Blackpool Members' astrophotography Other interesting sites Contact the Society
Welcome page Who we are and how to find us Meetings for this year Imminent and planned Star maps and other guides Members' astrophotography Other interesting sites Contact the Society
Observing the night sky
(HEAVILY under construction - bare with us!)

BADAS Observing Projects

Chris Lord's Star Colour Observing Survey

Glossaries and guides to the night sky

Astronomy Glossary
www.nightskyinfo.com - Updated weekly
SPA SkyGuide from the SPA (pdf)
Sky and Telescope
BBC

Chris Lord's sky notes - Summer

Weather sites

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoforecasts/forspecialist.aspx
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/northwest/cloud.shtml
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOBBIES/astronomy.asp
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03318.html?extendedsun=sunon
http://uk.weather.com/maps/maptype/intlsatellite/index_large_animated.html


Lunar Observing

LPOD
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
Data Services - http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/
Lunar Exploration - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/
The Moon - http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html
Lunar Prospector - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunarprosp.html
NOVA Online - To the Moon - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/
Inconstant Moon - http://www.inconstantmoon.com/
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon - http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/hitchhiker.html
The Lunar Observer - http://www.zone-vx.com/tlo_back.html
Rick Evans' Amateur Lunar Photoclinometry, Spectroscopy, Astrophotography - http://www.freewebs.com/revans_01420/
Moon Phases - http://www.moon-phases.com

Planetary Observing

Mercury

Astrosoc's How To: Observing Mercury www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~astrosoc/data/how2/planet-1.shtml
SkyandTelescope.com www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/4548556.html
Observing Mercury www.physics.ucla.edu/~huffman/merc.html
Mercury http://library.thinkquest.org/C002416/mercury/observing.htm
Planet Mercury - Overview and Pictures www.solarspace.co.uk/Mercury/mercury.php
SPA Planetary Section - www.popastro.com/sections/planet/mercury.htm
Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)



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