EXTRA INFORMATION FOR ASTRONOMY 1035 Spring 2006

• Directions and Map to ETSU Observatory
• Map showing the ETSU planetarium (top floor of Hutcheson Hall, in room 207).
• Clues to finding the constellations
• Chris Dolan's constellation web page
• Peoria Astronomical Society constellation web page
• Dr. Don Luttermoser's web page on UFOs and Life in the Universe
• Planet Finder web page: shows the locations of the planets and the moon on the sky
• Current positions of the planets in the solar system
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's list of the moons in the solar system.
• The Jet Propulation Laboratory's solar system web page
• Interplanetary Spacecraft
• Extrasolar Planet web page
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• U.S. Census Bureau World Population Clock
• The Doomsday Clock of the Federation of American Scientists
• Astronomical Calendar (with Moon phases and rising/setting times)
• Neal Evan's Extraterrestrial Life course web page at the University of Texas, containing links to various relevant web sites.
• Terry Herter's binary star software at Cornell
• The Periodic Table
• Planned Extrasolar Planet Searches:
  • COROT
  • Kepler
  • GAIA (primary goal is to make 3-dimensional map of Milky Way; will also find extrasolar planets).
  • JWST (general-purpose telescope; will also find extrasolar planets).
  • SIM
  • Darwin
  • The Terrestrial Planet Finder Telescope
  • New Worlds Observer
• Past and Present Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  • ORGANIZATIONS:
    • The SETI Institute
    • SETI League
    • The Planetary Society
  • SETI TELESCOPES AND SEARCHES:
    • The Allen Telescope Array: SETI web site
    • The Allen Telescope Array: Berkeley web site
    • Optical SETI
    • Optical SETI at Berkeley
    • Optical SETI at Harvard
    • Optical SETI at Princeton
    • Planetary Society Optical SETI Telescope
    • Project Argus
    • Project Beta
    • Project SERENDIP
    • seti@home
• The Deep Space 1 Spacecraft
• The Space Shuttle