- Tips/ Guides/ How-To's
- Sky maps - Maps and other links. This site has a monthly observation guide that you can download.
- Your Sky
- Astronomy Magazine
- Space Weather Now - Solar storm watch
- Space Weather - Canada
- Real-Time Auroral Oval from Canadian Space Science Data Portal
- Current Regional Geomagnetic Conditions - Southwestern Canada
- Current Regional Geomagnetic Conditions - Northern Prairies
- Spaceweather.com
- The Spacewatch Project
- The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- The Earth Observing System
- Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
- Cosmology description
- Open Course - Introduction to Astronomy
- Meteor Showers online
Photography and Art
- Astro-Photo - A good site on how to set your monitor for the best viewing of images.
- Digital Camera Astrophotography Tips and Techniques
On-line Projects - which you can participate in.
- Moon Zoo - Your chance to explore the moon.
- The Spaceguard Foundation - Help find Near Earth Objects
- FMO (Fast Moving Object) Project
- SETI@home
Space Missions
- JUNO mission to Jupiter
- Herschel images
- Cassini - Mission to Saturn & Titan
- Spitzer - Space Telescope
- The Hubble Project
- International Space Station
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission
- Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS Thermal Emmission Imaging System.
- ESA's Mars Express
- The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission - Swift is a first-of-its-kind multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) science.
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history.
- Gravity Probe B - Testing Einstein's Universe
Science News Links
- News @ Nature.com - The best is science journalism
- NewScientist.com - The Worlds No.1 Science & Technology News Service
- PhysOrg.com - The latest physics and technology news
- Science Daily - General science news.
- Newswise Latest news. - News and information mainly about medical research.
- The Mutating Mars Hoax
General Non-Astronomy Links
- Slashdot - News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - a free-content encyclopedia
- The complete work of Charles Darwin online
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- AllPinouts Main Page - Computer connector pin connections
Astronomy Software
- Stellarium - Free multi-OS software - Rivals Starry Night.
- Xplns - Free Linux/Unix software
- EXphem - Free multi-OS software
- IRAF.net - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
- AstrOmatic Collection of Astronomy image processing programs
Open Source Computer Software
- LibreOffice.org - A free and powerful office suite. Available for most operating systems. Replaces OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. Includes Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Database, and Math editor capabilities.
- GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) - Freely distributed software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- Blender - Full 3D drawing and animation program. Can be used to make 3D movies, 3D models or 3D games.
- Ninite.com - An easy way to install free and legal software on a Windows computer
- Open Source Initiative - OSI
- SourceForge.net - The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications
- Thunderbird - An extendable email program available for most operating systems.
- Google Chrome Browser - A secure and fast web browser.
- FireFox - An extendable, award winning web browser
- Ultimate Boot CD - This CD is a great tool full of very useful utilities including resetting Windows passwords.
- Backtrack - Computer security and forensic tools
- Ubuntu Rescue Remix - Tool to recover data on your system or deleted memory cards.
- The Fedora Project - Free, fully functional and powerful Operating System.
- The Ubuntu Project - Free, fully functional and powerful Operating System
