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Dr. Carl Sagan was the first in history
to attempt to demonstrate to the lay public what it may be like to travel at light speed.
His lifelong mission...to create interest in the Cosmos.

Just a note about telescopes: The more aperture you can afford, the more fUn!
I have a little 90mm Meade Maksutov-Cassegrain....I think it's a year or two before the Autostar controller came out.
Amazing terrestrially, and in the solar system...butIwannaseegalaxies!....I've heard best bang for the buck is Dobsonian.

We'll miss ya, Jack - we're looking up
Just in case you need some space music:
Mauna Kea Web Cams
RocketCam - great video from shuttle point of view at launch.
Allen Telescope Array
NASA AstroBiology
What is the DRAKE EQUATION? - Try it yourself...
Geoffrey Marcy WebSite
The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society's S.E.T.I. Pages
The Very Large Array - New Mexico.
Aricebo Observatory - Puerto Rico.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Professor Stephen Hawking - Cambridge U.
Stephen Hawking's Universe
The Universe Today - Space Exploration News from Around the Internet.
Track the International Space Station
www.KidsAstronomy.com!
Sky and Telescope Magazine
Astronomy Magazine
Mees Solar Observatory - Dedicated to education and research on our nearest star, the SUN - This facility is 10,000 feet above sea level on Maui...check out the weather condtions there - info is updated every 10 minutes!
AstroBiology Web
NASA's Asteroid and Comet HyperLinks Page
EarthSky.com
Orion Telescopes and Binoculars
Celestron - Telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, etc.
Meade - Telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, etc., etc.
Astroptx - Telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, etc. by ALL the big manufacturers.
www.Space.com
C-Ship - any concept of time and distance in space...?
List of Astronomy related WebSites from Dr. Sagan's Home University - Cornell U.
Jack Horkheimer - Star Gazer - One of my favorite WebSites...
NASA's Solar System Simulator
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SpaceDev - A private sector enterprise - mining asteroids, etc.
NASDA - National Space Development Agency of Japan.
StarChild - A Learning Center for Young Astronomers.
Fourmilab
EarthWeb
University of California at Berkeley - Dep't of Astronomy.
Rise and Set Times for the SUN, MOON, and PLANETS - from the Old Farmers Almanac - if you're tracking/observing!
Heavenly Details from The Old Farmer's Almanac
Astro-photos!
Many Observatories!
NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
Live from the Hubble Space Telescope.
S.E.T.I. - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The SETI Institute.
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Founded in 1889
The Aurora Page - WebSite dedicated to the Northern Lights
NASA's Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard WebSite
A Virtual Space-Time Travel Machine - Une Machine Virtuelle a Explorer l'Espace-Temps - Fun Place with many interesting graphics - just click around in this intense hall of Physics and Astrophysics!

In 1784, Charles Messier compiled his famous list of fuzzy objects in the sky. More than a century later in 1888, the New General Catalogue (NGC) list was created by J.L.E. Dreyer.
	Our closest galactic neighbors (approximately 2 dozen galaxies) are known as "The Local Group" of galaxies.
In the 1920's, Edwin Hubble classified spiral galaxies with an "S" followed by an a, b, or c depending on how tightly wound the arms around the galactic center.
	Understanding The Law of Red Shift will help you to visualize the immensity of the Cosmos.

	Have a look at another favorite object - M104 - NGC4594 is in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies - about 65 million light years.
Read about LIGHTSPEED and the properties of LIGHT.
	Go to the m51.com Lightspeed Sector.

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