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Galileo's The Starry Messenger & Other Readings

Discussion Led by Scott Hildreth

An Overview of the Solar System - Contents & Scale: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/overview.html

Powers of Ten - Java Simulation: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Retrograde Motion of the Planets: http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/data/Retrograde/

A Summary of Greek Astronomy

Moon Phases:

Information: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html

Crater Structures: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/science/craterstructure.html

Images: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/graphics/Moon_phases.jpg

Eclipses:

12/14/2001: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2001Dec14A.gif

January 9, 2001 Lunar Eclipse: http://www.georgedingwall.freeuk.com/images/Animation2.gif

Animation of Path of Totality: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE1999/T99animate.html

Images (Total): http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl99/secl99_n.html

11/23/2003: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE2003/TSE2003.html

Transits across the Sun: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/transit.html

Moons of Jupiter:

Galileo's Images: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/galileo.4.html

Java Simulation: http://gorillaman.com/java/jupiter/JupiterSimulation.html

Java Applet: http://www.geocities.com/jl1n/a.html

The ongoing Galileo Mission to Jupiter:

Image Archive: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.htm

On the way - passing Earth & our Moon: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov:80/galileo/slides/slide14.gif

Ganymede in Stereo: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ganymede/121896.html

Phases of Venus

http://www.venus-transit.de/PlanetPhases/ (animation)

http://home.planet.nl/~onielsen/cam/venus.html

http://www.dstrange.freeserve.co.uk/phases.htm

The Milky Way Galaxy:

Optical wide-angle images: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/mw/MilkyWay.html

Optical wide-angle image (1946): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960213.html

Typical Telescopic View of Northern Sky (what Galileo could have seen): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960515.html

Typical Telescopic View of Southern Sky (what Galileo could NOT have seen): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960503.html

Additional Views:

Multi-Color: http://www.ngcic.org/milkyway/default.htm

Infrared: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950908.html

Longer term exposure: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960605.html

Milky Way Clusters: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/starclusters.html

Structure: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/mway/

Orion:

Constellation: http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/orion/constell.html

Nebulae: http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/n1976.html

The Pleiades Star Cluster:

Pleiades: http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/m45.html

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Sunspots:

Galileo's Book: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/3letters.html

First Drawing?: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/great_moments.html

Galileo's Drawing: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/great_moments.html

Scheiner's Drawing ("Appelles"): http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Images/Astro/Sunspots/tres_epistolae.html

Proof the Sun Rotates: http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/sunturn.gif

The Sun Today (NASA): http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

X-ray image: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_eit_284.gif

Evidence for an 11-year cycle: http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/zurich.gif

Transit of Venus (1882): http://www.venus-transit.de/1882/index.html

Transit (2004): http://eclipse.span.ch/transit.htm

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/g_sunspots.html

http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/

http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/solar/sunspots.shtml

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/lectures/sun.htm

http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/press/oct03_sunspots/sunspotsWholeHiRes.jpg

http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/press/AR10486/

 

Comets

Image Archive: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/images.html

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Comet Page: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-releases-03/20031002-pr-a.cfm

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/23/images/a/formats/web_print.jpg

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/23/images/a/formats/print.jpg

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981018.html

Exploring Seasons: http://online.chabotcollege.edu/shildreth/astronomy/seasons.html