Astronomy Links

From Ray Kaville

Clear Dark Sky
https://www.cleardarksky.com/ec/2024-04-08/NwHvnCT.html

How to view solar eclipse 2024 with items from around the home
https://www.space.com/view-total-solar-eclipse-2024-items-around-the-home

View the ‘devil comet’ during the eclipse
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1239056873/devil-comet-solar-eclipse-12p-pons-brooks?fbclid=IwAR1_Gi_ahu8Pkd3U9fUurv_ErItlRLGBnO8xFzxqU2RAJjuZdrOiKg2j5lM

Eclipses in 21st century
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

Total and Annular eclipses thru 2030 with images
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/future
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c358b6e4b01b8adb4d5870/c2dab970-7c81-4945-b310-121bb754623e/DecadalEclipseMaps_2021-2030.jpg?format=2500w

EarthSky Eclipses over North America
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/whens-the-next-total-solar-eclipse-in-the-us/

https://earthsky.org/upl/2018/07/21stCenturyNorthAmericanEclipses.png

Total Eclipse timing for New Haven
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/new-haven?iso=20240408

AAS
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters

ABC News8
https://www.wtnh.com/eclipse-2024/connecticut-eclipse-map-which-cities-will-have-the-best-view/

A dramatic view of the Pleiades and surroundings:

Seven Sisters rolling in the deep — AAPOD2.COM

Anniversary of Galileo’s discovery:

410 Years Ago: Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons – NASA

100th Anniversary of Edwin Hubble’s discovery:

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1230hubble-first-galaxy-outside-milky-way/#:~:text=1924%3A%20Astronomer%20Edwin%20Hubble%20announces,was%20the%20center%20of%20creation.

Ambitious attempt to build a fusion rocket:

https://www.freethink.com/space/fusion-rocket?fbclid=IwAR3XtMm4vGAcUQWaJx1rU48TTPBShZSOM2CA-0UNets-bFTuM4F2mkl-W_4

Good basic information on star types:

https://lco.global/spacebook/stars/types-stars/

Cecila Payne-Gaposchkin and the chemical composition of stars:

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cfm

Eratosthenes’s measuring the circumference of Earth:

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/dayintech-0619/

From Greg Barker

A good informative website about weather, atmosphere, tides, weather satellites, etc:

https://scijinks.gov/

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