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Virtual Tour of Lick Observatory
Our coolest offering for our Astronomy section is our XPLORE Tour of Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observatory. We are proud be recognized for it as Astronomy site of the day for October 17, 1996. If you came here via our home page, you've probably seen it already. If you haven't seen it, then click the XPLORE icon now and embark on the journey!
Star Parties
If you have never attended an astronomy club star party, you must do so at least once. You do not need a telescope. Astronomy clubs welcome visitors and are always pleased to show off the night sky to people who drop in. 
The night sky from a hilltop away from city lights is a sight to behold. It is great even without a telescope, with the Milky Way stretching across the sky and occasional shooting stars going by. The sights through amateur telescopes are even more exciting. Things are not as bright and colorful as in magazine pictures, and this sometimes disappoints newcomers.
However, sights through a telescope are exciting because you know you are seeing the actual light from the distant objects. The first time you see the actual light from a spiral galaxy thousands of light years away, you will know what I mean. Why don't you look up an astronomy club in your area and go to one of their events. It will be a night to remember.
Michael has taken a great interest in astronomy and has compiled some of his thoughts on learning about it.
There is an enormous wealth of space and astronomy resources on the Internet. With so much available, we will not build a large FTP library of our own. Instead, we provide just a few fun files in our library and provide Web links to the great collection of Internet resources. Here are links to some of the great Internet resources for astronomy. You could spend years studying it all. (and perhaps you should)
- Yahoo Astronomy Page
- The Yahoo entry for Space and Astronomy Pictures
- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources (tons of stuff)
- The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system
- SEDS Messier Database
- Robert Lentz's Astro Resources
- Robert Lentz's Space Resources
- Ames Area Amateur Astronomers
- The amazing Earth Viewer
Irving Family Web Pages Don Irving ([email protected])
