Educational Software
Image Processing
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image
processing resources for teachers -
Guide
to FITS images -
guide to sky
display and FITS display software -
Hands-On
Universe -
Hands
On Astrophysics Variable Star Activities
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interactive blackbody
radiation virtual reality (requires netscape's Live-3D) -
Starclock
2.0 watch stars evolve on the H-R diagram (free PC software) -
Binary
Stars (from Claud Lacy)
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Eclipsing
Binary Stars (from Dan Bruton) -
form
your own galaxy!
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download-able
astronomy software in BASIC, from Sky and Telescope -
CLEA
-- Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy
- 7 download-able high-quality simulations usable in college or advanced high school (Hubble redshift law; H-R diagram of the Pleiades; radar reflection determination of Mercury's rotation period;photon random walk in the sun; determining Jupiter's mass using its moons; spectral classification; large scale structure of the universe)
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The
Sky 5.0 from Software Bisque (this one costs real money)
NASA
CERES Astronomy Data Resource
The following groups have created a number of interactive exercises involving astronomical image processing that are appropriate for high school science classes
Remote
Access Astronomy Project
Other software
Astronomy Texts of the Future
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Astronomy
HyperText Book
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Virtual
Astronomy Library
Other Educational Resources
Movies and animations
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MPEG
movie trips to black holes and neutron stars
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Galaxy
collisions
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astronomy
and space animations 317 (!) including solar eclipses, shoemaker-levy
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Interacting
Binary Stars John Blondin's talk at the 1997 AAS meeting in Winston
Salem
lectures
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1920
Shapley-Curtis Debate Are the "spiral nebulae" inside or outside of
our galaxy?
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1995
Lamb-Paczynski Debate The Distance Scale to the Gamma-Ray Bursts
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1996
The Scale of the Universe
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1998
The Nature of the Universe
catalogs
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Arp's
Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies
miscellaneous
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ExInEd
Home Page
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Educational
Activities at the Space Telescope Science Institute
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Biographical
Index to Sky & Telescope Nov '41 - Oct '97
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AAS
Education Initiative in Astronomy
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Digital
Archive of Historical Astronomical Pictures
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AAS'
Working Group on Astronomy Education newsletter
Web
Sites for Instructors of Introductory Astronomy Courses
Search
AASED Database
Newsletters, Journals, and Preprints
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Sky
and Telescope including What's up in the sky; their catalog of
books, software, observing aids; telescope reviews and more
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Astronomy
magazine
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Astronomy
Now the leading astro magazine from Great Britain
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Universe
in the Classroom Teacher's Newsletter
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The
Astrophysical Journal full text of articles, letters, and the supplement
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Astrophysics
preprints from Los Alamos
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the latest Solar
News electronic newsletter
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Astronomical
Journal
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Publications
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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Astrophysics
Data System Abstract Service
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Arp's
Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
Organizations
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American
Astronomical Society
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Astronomical
Society of the Pacific
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American
Association of Variable Star Observers
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International
Planetarium Society
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The
Planetary Society
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SETI
Institute
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American
Lunar Society
Astro Courses at Colleges and Universities
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Astro
and Physics Course List compiled by Alan Cairns in Washington
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Astrophysical
Dynamics (Joshua Barnes, Institute for Astronomy)
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Galaxies,
Quasars, and Cosmolgy (Mike Merrifeld, Southhampton University)
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Cosmology
and the Origin of Life (Bothun, University of Oregon)
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Intro
to Astrophysics (Jim Imamura, University of Oregon)
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North
Carolina State University Stellar Astrophysics (John Blondin)
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Astrophysics
(Brian Martin, King's University College)
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University
of Tulsa
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University
of Washington (Nick Strobel)
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A
mini-course on the solar atmosphere with text and pictures of sunspots,
flares, prominences, the corona, etc.
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Multimedia
minicourse on Stars and Galaxies requires an audio player and an mpeg
player
send mail to kolena@neverland.ncssm.edu or kolena@phy.duke.edu