Nigel's Astronomy Links

Get the latest from the Hubble space telescope. You can download images like this map of Pluto.

Radio Astronomy

Arecibo Observatory
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA).
The Very Large Array (VLA) consists of 27 antennas arranged in a huge Y pattern up to 22 miles across. Each antenna is 25 meters (81 feet) in diameter and it is located on the Plains of San Augustine, west of Socorro, in New Mexico, USA.
Jodrell Bank.
Darrel Emerson, (AA7FV, G3SYS) has written some interesting articles relating to radio astronomy topics. Here is his home page on compuserve, and here is his page at the NRAO.
Here is a link to SkyView which will plot a map of the radio sky.
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers - SARA.
Radio-Sky Publishers, and their page of interesting links.
AF9Y's EME & Weak Signal Page. EME stands for Earth-Moon-Earth, ie communication by reflecting radio signals off the Moon.
Tom (W3IWI) Clark's Totally Accurate Clock.
Want to help with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Inteligence? Then take a look at the SETI League home page. This is what the 'Wow' signal looked like. It was received at the Big Ear radio observatory in 1977. Here is a bigger version of the 'Wow' image.
The Space Enviroment Lab's current solar forecast.
Solar Eclipse Bulletins from NASA.
There are alot of radio astronomy links here.
AstroWeb - collection of pointers to astronomy related info on the net.
NASA's Primary digital image collection - PDS.

Here is a false-colour image showing the entire sky, measured at 408 MHz. The data, from SkyView is shown in an RA-dec coordinate frame. The angular resolution of the image is 0.85 degrees.

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