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http://www.calsky.com/- A free service that will show you when items of interest are overhead. They will email you alerts about International Space Station transits, supernovae, comets, Iridium flares, and many other events.

http://www.heavens-above.com/- A free service that will show you when items of interest are overhead. They will email you alerts about International Space Station transits, supernovae, comets, Iridium flares, and many other events.

http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/- This site specializes in predicting when the ISS will cross the face of the Moon or Sun from your location. Pictures of these transits are coveted goals of some astro-nuts.

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html- The source for supernova info on the web. Calsky.com links into this site for their supernova updates.

http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/index.html- If you are wondering what it will look like or “is that it?” This is the site for you. The Digital Sky Survey has photographs of just about every region of the sky. Type in an object name (NGC 7335, for example) and retrieve an image of it).

http://www.spaceweather.com/- A great site for information about what the Sun is doing. It is a great resource for Solar Observers.

http://clearskyalarmclock.com/v2/- Sign up for email alerts that give you notice when the sky is going to clear, transparent, and have stable seeing.

http://cleardarksky.com/c/OranCNYkey.html?1- The Clear Sky Clock for our area. A graphic forecast of seeing conditions.

http://skyandtelescope.com/- The premier astronomy magazine. There are some neat resources on their website.

http://www.astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html- Download this free (and very cool) virtual moon atlas to help you plan observations of the moon.

http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/- The “quick cam unconventional imaging astronomy group” is a yahoo group that specializes in low-budge astrophotography with webcams.

http://www.angelfire.com/space2/tgtan/- T.G. Tan provides the ultimate primer for processing CCD astrophotos.
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