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The sky's motion as seen by an earthbound observer

  Three figures for use with studying solar system formation:
Sizes of the planets to scale
Plantary orbits as seen from a point over the sun's north pole
The solar system, viewed from its edge
 
A high resolution image of the sun's absorption spectrum
 
Astronomy image archive
Some photographs of celetial objects taken by Dr. Pickett:
Sunspots
The Moon
The Milky Way, in the direction of Sagittarius
The Lagoon Nebula, M8
  A couple of rather poor photos
Jupiter
The Andromeda Galaxy, M31

Links to related sites.

The Evansville Astronomical Society's (EAS) website. The EAS is the not affiliated with USI, but is the local amateur astronomer's club. They meet at, and maintain, the observatory in Lynnville Park (see directions above). Their meetings are open to the public and are scheduled for the third Friday of each month, 7:30 pm (rain or shine).

The Soho orbiting solar observatory A satelite in permanent orbit around the sun, taking pictures at a variety of wavelengths and collecting information on the solar wind. You can make movies of the sun's rotation here.

The NASA homepage. This is where all those amazing Hubble photographs are. As a taxpayer, they belong to you. Also, Hubble telescope picture gallery

My favorite Messier object website.



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