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General Astronomy and Space

• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the central location for finding out about NASA’s many great scientific missions, like the remote control robots they’re playing with on Mars!

• Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews

  Mainly a great site for astronomy equipment reviews but also has many other articles about observing and general astronomy.

• SpaceWeather

  A NASA site dealing with Solar astronomy and how it affects Earth. Notable for its display of realtime data and photography sent in by visitors to the site.

• Heavens Above

  Excellent site for finding the ISS, Satellites, Iridium Flares, Asteroids, Comets and much more! This link sets the location as Belfast by default but the site has a user friendly location database for changing this.

• The Flame Trench

  Excellent Space blog from Florida Today – lots of inside info from The Kennedy Space Center

• Aurora Watch UK

  The Best source of UK Aurora information

• The Moon.ie

  Excellent educational resource by Irish Astronomer Dr. Donnacha O’Driscoll

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Telescopes etc

• North Down Telescopes

Run by Past President of the IAA Dr Andy McCrea, North Down Telescopes provides excellent friendly advice, competitive prices and delivery to anywhere in Ireland!

• The Binocular Sky

Everything you need to know about binoculars and what to see with them – Excellent site by Steve Tonkin

• UK Astronomy Buy & Sell

UK wide site for trading gear

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Ireland-wide Organisations

• Armagh Observatory

• Armagh Planetarium

• Armagh Planetarium Astronotes

• QUB Astrophysics Research Centre

• Dunsink Observatory

• Blackrock Castle Observatory

• OM Dark Sky Observatory

• Astronomical Science Group of Ireland

• Newgrange

• Inishowen Planetarium

• Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies (IFAS)

• The Irish Astronomical Society (IAS)

• Astronomy Ireland

• IYA 2009 Ireland

• Astronomy & Space Magazine

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Amateur Astronomers’ Websites

• Night  Sky Hunter (Martin McKenna)

• Paul’s Photography (Paul Evans)

• Dr Kate Russo’s Eclipse site

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Irish Astronomy Clubs, Societies, Associations etc

• Cork Astronomy Club

• Galway Astronomy Club

• Kerry Astronomy Club (KAC)

• Midlands Astronomy Club (MAC)

• NUIG Astronomy Society

• Limerick Astronomy Club (LAC)

• South Kerry Astronomy Group

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UK Sites

• Royal Astronomical Society

• British Astronomical Association

• Society for Popular Astronomy

• Jodrell Bank

• Jodrell Bank Visitors Centre

• National Space Centre

• Astronomy Now

• Sky at Night Magazine

• Stargazers Lounge

• Binocular Sky

• Go Stargazing

• LROC Lunar Image Browswer

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Software Resources

• Deep Sky Stacker

  Free Stacking and Processing package for Deep Sky Objects taken with a DSLR

• Registax

  Free Stacking and Processing package for Lunar and Planetary images taken with a webcam

• Sharpcap

  Free capture utility for webcam imaging.

• WX Astro Capture

  Free capture utility for webcam imaging. Windows and Linux versions – the Windows version can guide a scope too!

• Stellarium

A Fully featured Planetarium on your Windows or Linux desktop – Free!

• Cartes du Ciel

  Free star-mapping and telescope control

• Virtual Moon Atlas

  For anyone who wants to find their way around our natural satellite, this is the tool for the job