I have listed below a series of general web sites dealing with astronomy. These give great information and will help develop your knowledge of your hobby.
Astronomy Picture of the Day -
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ - one of the must sees regarding astronomy on the net.
Astronomical Society of New Zealand -
http://www.rasnz.org.nz/ - if you look at one site this should be the one. It gives information on the constellations, stars, solar system objects and satellites from a southern hemisphere view – a great help for amature astronomy.
Nine Planets -
http://www.nineplanets.org/ - as they describe it, a multimedia tour of the solar system.
Astronomy 161 lecture notes -
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/ - Series of lectures on the solar system and how it works to some depth. Can only get this series of lectures and would have to sign up (buy access) to the other series in this site.
Moon Maps -
http://www.cpither.freeserve.co.uk/moon_maps.htm - title kind of says it all.
Sky Maps -
http://skymaps.com/ - online access to monthly sky maps
Heavens Above -
http://www.heavens-above.com/ - gives satellite, comet and solar system information for your site and printable sky charts.
Cosmic Voyage -
http://hometown.aol.com/billferris/ - Bill Ferris’ site giving general astronomical information – well worth a look.
Utah Sky’s Messier Telrad Charts -
http://www.utahskies.org/deepsky/mes...dFrameSet.html - a set of observation charts with telrad reference circles to help locating the Messier objects. This is a huge site with much information on many subjects.
Mars Rover Page -
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ - NASA site following the progress of the Mars Rovers.
Cassini-Huygens Saturn Page -
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm - NASA site following the progress of the Cassini Probe.
