Brother Albert Heinrich's Astronomy Page

NASA PHOTO OF ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31) between 2 and 3 million light years from us! Our Milky Way's nearest Spiral Galaxy. (Click on Image for enlargement!)

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February, 2004 Discovery of the most distant object in the universe: A galaxy seen by gravitational lensing with a redshift of 7.0. It's light emerged 13 billion years ago when the universe was only 750 million years old. [Image in oval by Jean-Paul Kneib, Richard Ellis and Nasa/Esa]

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• A Complete Course Outline and Topic Index and notes for my Introductory Astronomy Course (first given:Fall, 2007)
• Monthly ASNNE Skylights Newsletter featuring What's Up column by Bernie Reim of ASNNE.
• History summary of Astronomy as of (2/3/2001)compiled by Brother Albert Heinrich.
• External astronomy course Notes by Dr. Gareth Wynn-Williams (University of Hawaii Survey of Astronomy)(Link used with his blessings!)
• Dr. Nick Strobel of Bakersfield College in California has extensive Astronomy Notes.
  

• Sky and Telescope's Almanac Page for Notre Dame in Alfred, ME.
• Locate Earth artifical satellites visible from Alfred, Maine:
  Heaven's Above.
• Real-Time Science Data Access Page.
• U.K.'s Astronomy Now Online Magazine. Check daily for the latest astronomy news!
• Spaceflight Now. Check Daily for latest news in spaceflight and astronomy.
• Get current location of the SpaceStation and Space Shuttle in real time:
  NASA. You must input latitude and longitude.
  (For Alfred, Maine use Lat=43.500779 Lon=-70.715327).
  (Site has 3Dimensional J-tracking for nearly 500 man-made Earth satellites!)
• Space Weather News site: Check daily.
• Science@NASA: Check daily.
• Earth and Sky has audio feeds on many science issues.
  Earth and Sky also has a daily sky-observing tidbit.
• 
  Astronomy Picture of the Day Check daily!
• Latest happenings from
  Space.Com
• Skylights weekly astronomy updates by Jim Kaler.
• Night Sky Monthly from Jodrell Bank in England.
• Star Gazer from Jack Horkheimer of national PBS TV. Check weekly!
• Celestial Observer: Get personal astronomy data for your location and astronomy expertise level.
• JPL online Horizons Solar System Data and ephemerides.

• Astronomy Center
• SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (University of Arizona)!
• Additional Sky Link Different astronomy links from Sea and Sky.
• Astronomy Today TEXTBOOK Course Link
• A very comprehensive list of Astronomy Web links by Patrick Baker.
• Astronomical Data Center
• Astronomy HyperText Book.
• Web site for Explorations by Thomas Arny. An introductory astronomy textbook published by McGraw Hill.
• Some real neat Astronomy Interactives from Thomas Arny and McGraw-Hill.
• How to use a starchart by Thomas Arny.
• Web site for Astronomy Journey to the Cosmic Frontier by John D. Fix. Another introductory astronomy textbook published by McGraw Hill.
• Another animation page from John Fix and McGraw Hill.
• Lawrence Hall of Science Astronomy Links.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific Educational Resources.
• Web sites for College Astronomy Instructors.

• Sky & Telescope's This Week's Sky at a Glance.
• McRel Comprehensive Science Web Links
• Check Monthly: Learn What's Up Astronomy Site from Bruce Dale.
  (It also has a Parent's Resource Center (PRC).)
• Link to Astronomical Applications of U.S. Naval Observatory.
• Human Spaceflight site.
• Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides Server.
  A French site for astronomy time calculations.
  (You might need to input latitude and longitude.
  For NDI in Alfred, Maine use 70º 42' 55" W and 43º 30' 3" N)
• 3000 Year Perpetual Calendar with links that will tell you more about calendars than you ever wanted to know.
• Check out the NASA astronomy headlines archive.
• A Space Calendar from N.A.S.A.
• The Remote Sensing Tutorial from N.A.S.A. Goddard Space Flight Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Brother Albert Heinrich's Home Page on the internet .

Solar X-rays: Geomagnetic Field:

• From n3kl.org
  

• Sun information from Planetscapes web site.
• Solar Cycle Update. NASA article of Oct. 14, 1999.
• SOHO Daily Images of the Sun.
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Home Page.
• U.S. Naval observatory's Sun and Moon Rise and Set Times for one day.
• Get Sunrise-Sunset Times. There is a feature to get a custom monthly chart if you know your latitude and longitude.
• Sun Rise/Set Times (From Sky & Telescope Magazine)
  For Notre Dame in Alfred, Maine, USA
• Hinode Solar X-ray Telescope Site.
• NASA press release (March, 1999) on sigmoids and Coronal Mass Ejections
• Same basic NASA press release with diagrams.

• Paul Carlisle's Moon Calendar. (A work in progress.)
• Paul Carlisle's Lunar Science and Exploration Page. (A work in progress.)
• Old Farmers' Almanac Moon Phase Calendar
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon.
• U.S. Naval observatory's Sun and Moon Rise and Set Times for one day.
• Get Moonrise-Moonset Times along with Sunrise-sunset times if you know your latitude and longitude.
• Moon Rise/Set Calculator (From Sky & Telescope Magazine for NDI in Alfred, Maine)

• Link to University of Alaska Geophysical Institute for Aurora information.
• TODAY'S SPACE WEATHER with links to daily solar images and auroral activity estimates.
• Another SPACE WEATHER site. Check daily or subscribe for e-mail alerts.
• NOAA Space Environment Center

• Anglo-Australian Observatory
• Green Bank National Radio Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.
• List of the World's Largest Telescopes.
• Significant list of Orbital Telescopes.
• Link to pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope.
• The twin Twin Keck Telescopes are the World's largest at 10.0m (393 inches)each.
• Spitzer Space Infrared Telescope.
• Science Daily Space Telescope News.
• Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)(Canary Islands)(2008).
• Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).
• The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)(2015).
• Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)(2016).

• Spacecraft landed on Mars: Phoenix Mars' Mission!
• Latest information on JUPITER from 2 current manmade explorers!
• Basic statistics on the Solar System.
• PlanetScapes. Different views and information on the Solar System.
• Tour of the Solar System.
• Text on NPR Story on Morning Edition about Pluto becoming a planet again.
• August, 2006 Pluto gets demoted.
• A new definition of planet is needed!
• March 8, 2007 Pluto is again a Planet!
• March 15, 2007 PLUTO is a planet again!
• August 24, 2011 Should Pluto be a planet again?
• Extra Solar Planets Encyclopedia.
• Chicxulub, Mexico and the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs!

• Download and print out monthly Skymaps.
• A real neat Java-enabled planetarium, star chart,and ephemeris web site:
  Sky View Cafe.
• JPL NASA's Night Sky Network set of monthly star charts:
  Where are the Distant Worlds?
• Weather Underground's star chart for Notre Dame in Alfred, Maine.
• Your Sky is an interactive web planetarium from Switzerland.
• AstroImage Star Chart .
• StarGazer Online Generated Sky Chart
• National Geographic Star Chart: Star Journey .
• Portraits of Stars and their Constellations.
• Alphabetical Listing of Constellations
• Historical Star Atlasses and Star Maps
• Star Maps of Natures of Stars.
• Star Maps of Spectra of Stars.
• Star Maps of Stars arranged by class.
• A complete list of constellations.
• Star Maps of constellations.
• Messier Catalog
• Using a telescope to search for Messier Catalog Objects.
• Ron Muir's Astronomy page with an excellent link on observable Deep Sky Objects.

• Sky and Telescope Magazine website.
• Astronomy Magazine website.
• Astronomy Now OnLine. from the UK.

• Astronomical Society of Northern New England meets on the first Friday of the month.
• Astronomical Society of Northern New England Starfield Observatory's clear sky clock.
• Southern Maine Astronomers meet on the third Friday of the month.
• Southern Maine Astronomers clear sky clock.
• Stark County Ohio's Wilderness Center's Astronomy Club.
• Astronomy Club of Akron, Ohio.
• Chagrin Valley Astronomical Society
• Warren Rupp Observatory and the Richland Astronomical Society of central Ohio.
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific website.
• Oklahoma City Astronomical Club web site.
• The Springfield, Vermont Telescope Makers web site.(STELLAFANE)
• Etna, California Astros web site.
• NASA's Night Sky Network.
• The Astronomical League.