Charts And Links

Charts And Links:

WASI Observatory Training:

BFRMO Observatory Use Basics v18 Presentation

Current Charts:

No Special Charts available at this time.

Create Charts of your own at Heaven’s Above:

https://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx?lat=39.647237&lng=-76.986485&loc=Blaine+F.+Roelke+Memorial+Observatory&alt=0&tz=EST

Monthly Astronomy Chart and Objects of Interest at SkyMaps.com. (Downloadable PDF):

These maps are great as handouts for Outreach Events: http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html

Links to some helpful astronomy resources:

USNO Data Services:

    USNO Rise/Set/Transit/Twilight Data

• Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day
• Table of Sunrise/Sunset, Moonrise/Moonset, or Twilight Times for an Entire Year
• Rise/Set/Transit Times for Major Solar System Objects and Bright Stars
• Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year

• Dates of Primary Phases of the Moon
• Fraction of the Moon Illuminated

NASA’s Joint Propulsion Laboratory:

JPL Solar System Dynamics

• JPL Horizons Web Interface
• JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine
• JPL Small-Body Database Browser
• JPL What’s Observable

International Astronomical Union:

AU The Minor Planet Center (MPC)

Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg:

These are French Astronomy and Astrophotography resources:

Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg

• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• VizieR Astronomical Catalogs
• Sesame Name Resolver
• Aladin Lite

Other NASA Links:

• Goddard Space Flight Center SkyView
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

Astronomy Software:

• Aladin
• ASCOM
• AstroCC
• Astrometry.net
• Cartes du Ciel
• HNSky
• INDI
• KStars
• Stellarium
• XEphem