2026-07-07 HOME The Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society (RVAS) is a Virginia-based astronomy club offering monthly meetings, observing sessions, newsletters, and astrophotography resources for members. The site includes clear sky charts, a DSO of the month feature, member pages, and meeting announcements with guest speakers covering topics like astrophotography techniques.
2026-07-07 Home Cedar Amateur Astronomers (CAA) is an astronomy club based in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area, hosting regular public programs, monthly business meetings, and stargazing events at their Pal-Dows Observatory. The site provides event schedules, Zoom recording links for past programs, a clear sky chart, and resources through affiliations with the Astronomical League and the Night Sky Network.
2026-07-07 Home Bob Riddle's 'Qué tal in the Current Skies' is a long-running amateur astronomy site that began in the late 1980s as posts to the Big Sky Telegraph BBS and evolved over 30+ years into a web resource covering Earth and Space topics. The site now serves as a transitional landing page pointing visitors to his continuing work on Substack, with archived daytime and nighttime sky photos, calendar data, and astronomical observations.
2026-07-07 Home The Fort Worth Astronomical Society (FWAS) has been bringing amateur astronomy to North Texas since 1949, making it one of the oldest and largest such clubs in the country with over 200 active members. Visitors can find information on membership, club meetings, dark sky observing sites, star parties, and public outreach events conducted for local schools and organizations.
2026-07-07 Home - Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston (ATMoB) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit astronomy club that meets monthly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, welcoming the public to join in observing, telescope making, and outreach events. The site offers club history, star party schedules, a clubhouse sky-conditions monitor, photo albums, and resources for getting started in amateur astronomy.
2026-07-07 Home - Central Texas Astronomical Society The Central Texas Astronomical Society operates Meyer Observatory and the Turner Research Station near Clifton, Texas, hosting public open houses and member star parties with large-aperture telescopes. Their mission spans stargazing outreach, astrophotography, astronomy education, and research for both newcomers and experienced observers in the Central Texas region.
2026-07-07 Home - Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers The Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers (DVAA) is a club serving astronomy enthusiasts in the Philadelphia region, offering star parties, loaner equipment, observing site guides, and an expert Q&A forum for beginners and seasoned stargazers alike. The site features astrophotography resources, member image galleries, outreach event coverage, and a newsletter, making it a rich hub for amateur astronomy in the area.
2026-07-07 HOME - SkyMarvels.com SkyMarvels is an astronomy education site that guides visitors through the night sky and solar system using interactive animations, videos, and the free 3-D simulation software Celestia. Covering everything from individual planets and moons to deep-sky objects and the scale of the cosmos, the site offers a genuinely immersive experience suitable for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
2026-07-07 Home of the Riverside Astronomical Society, the best astronomy club in Southern California | RAS The Riverside Astronomical Society (RAS) has been serving Southern California astronomy enthusiasts since 1957, offering star parties, public outreach, monthly meetings with professional astronomers, and access to their dark sky site GMARS in Landers, CA. The site features event calendars, member resources, sky cameras, weather data, and information about their annual Nightfall star party event.
2026-07-07 Home Page The Woman Astronomer is a dedicated resource celebrating women in astronomy, featuring interviews with professionals like planet-hunter Dr. Debra Fischer, historical profiles of pioneering figures like Antonia Maury, and student essays submitted through its Cosmic Campus section. Visitors can also find job listings for astronomers, a free ezine, and links to related resources, making it a rich hub for anyone interested in women's contributions to the field.
2026-07-07 Home Page - The ATM's Workshop John D. Upton's comprehensive resource for amateur telescope makers (ATMs) covers tips, techniques, and projects spanning optics grinding, metalworking, woodworking, electronics, and astrophotography. Built over two decades of hands-on experience, the site documents the rewarding crossover hobby of crafting your own telescopes and specialized astronomy accessories from scratch.
2026-07-07 Home Page | Amateur CCD Astronomy Richard D. Jacobs, M.D. shares his CCD astrophotography captured from his backyard in Chandler, Arizona, showcasing diffuse nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, planetary nebulae, and solar system objects despite significant light pollution. The site also covers the technical side of amateur CCD imaging including astrometry, spectroscopy, and photometry, making it a useful resource for urban amateur astronomers.
2026-07-07 Home | Bob's Knobs Bob's Knobs sells specialized collimation thumbscrews that let telescope owners align their Cassegrain and Newtonian telescopes without any tools. The product line covers knobs for popular telescope brands including Losmandy, Celestron, and TeleVue mounts, with custom sizing options and downloadable installation guides.
2026-07-07 Home | SF Bay Area Astronomy Connection The SF Bay Area Astronomy Connection (TAC) is an informal network for amateur astronomers across the greater San Francisco Bay Area, connecting observers without the formality of dues, officers, or bylaws. The site features an extensive list of observing sites throughout the region, curated observing lists, equipment guides, and resources for both beginners and seasoned stargazers.
2026-07-07 Homepage < GAAC The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club (GAAC) is a casual, no-dues astronomy group founded in 2003 that meets monthly at the Lanesville Community Center in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The site features member photo galleries, ephemerides, aurora alerts, object rise/set times, and a calendar of events for anyone curious about the night sky.
2026-07-07 How many stars ...? How Many Stars is a long-running international citizen science project now in its 22nd year, dedicated to measuring light pollution and night sky visibility through naked-eye observations submitted by volunteers worldwide. Participants count visible stars in specific regions and submit their reports, contributing to a global dataset tracking the degradation of dark skies over time.
2026-07-07 If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system Created by Josh Worth, this site presents a scale model of the solar system where the Moon is reduced to a single pixel, requiring visitors to scroll endlessly through vast empty space to appreciate the true distances between planets. The experience is both humbling and educational, with witty commentary along the way and the ability to toggle between kilometers, miles, AU, and other quirky units of measurement.
2026-07-07 IKI - Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences The Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences is Russia's principal organization for robotic space research, designing scientific instruments and leading missions such as Spektr-RG, ExoMars, and the Luna lunar program. Founded in 1965, this archived English-language site offers institutional history, department structure, mission summaries, and links to international conferences spanning decades of Soviet and Russian space science.
2026-07-07 In-The-Sky.org Created by Dominic Ford, In-The-Sky.org is a richly detailed astronomy portal offering real-time night sky guides, interactive planetarium tools, satellite tracking, and event calendars for celestial phenomena like eclipses, conjunctions, and meteor showers. Visitors can explore 3D solar system maps, rising and setting times for planets, deep sky object catalogs, and even printable planispheres and astrolabes, all tailored to their geographic location.
2026-07-07 Inconstant Moon – multimedia tours of the lunar surface Inconstant Moon offers nightly multimedia tours of the lunar surface, complete with maps, photos, animations, and music to guide both beginners and experienced observers through the Moon's craters, seas, and phenomena. A Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Awards honoree and BBC Space featured site, it includes a Cyclopedia Selenica and Selenographia making it a comprehensive reference for lunar astronomy.
2026-07-07 index.html Robert Gendler's astrophotography site showcases a stunning image gallery of astronomical objects alongside essays on 140 popular celestial subjects and a beginner's astronomy primer. The site also features technical articles on advanced imaging techniques like hydrogen alpha color imaging and Photoshop mosaics, plus information about Gendler's published books on astronomy.
2026-07-07 Indiana Astronomical Society The Indiana Astronomical Society is a membership-based club dedicated to amateur astronomy, offering monthly public lectures, access to the historic Goethe Link Observatory, dark-sky observing sites, and outreach programs for students across central Indiana. With resources ranging from a beginner Astronomy 101 crash course to star party event listings and a member collaboration site, it serves everyone from curious newcomers to seasoned sky watchers.
2026-07-07 INTER-SOL Programme International programme for sunspot observation: The INTER-SOL Programme (ISP), run by Volkssternwarte Paderborn e.V. in Germany, is an international citizen science initiative coordinating daily sunspot observations by amateur and professional astronomers since 1977. The site offers fundamentals about the sun, methods of sunspot counting and registration, an observers network, photo galleries, and INTER-SOL data archives, all presented in both English and German.
2026-07-07 IOTA The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) is a volunteer scientific organization founded in 1983 that coordinates amateur astronomers in timing astronomical occultations, including stars being blocked by asteroids and the Moon. The site offers observing guides, equipment recommendations, occultation predictions, citizen science campaigns, and published data that has contributed to real discoveries such as new double stars and improved asteroid shape models.
2026-07-07 IOTA Main Table of Contents The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) is a scientific organization dedicated to observing, timing, and reporting occultations and eclipses, including lunar grazes and asteroid occultations. The site serves as a comprehensive hub with prediction tables, observing guides, software tools like LiMovie and KIWI-OSD, and regional sections spanning Europe, the Middle East, India, Australasia, and East Asia.
2026-07-07 Iridium Flares A detailed reference page dedicated to Iridium satellite flares, covering why and how these spectacular visible reflections occur, flare prediction tools, orbital data, and launch history. It features one of the earliest known photographs of an unpredicted Iridium flare, observation reports, and an extensive directory of related resources for satellite observers.
2026-07-07 Isaac Newton Telescope The official site for the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), a major optical telescope operated by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Visitors can explore telescope instruments, apply for observing time, access data archives, check object visibility tools, and browse publications from this working research facility.
2026-07-07 Italian Meteor and TLE Network The Italian Meteor and TLE Network (IMTN) is a national Italian surveillance network dedicated to observing and studying meteors, fireballs, and Transient Luminous Events (sprites, jets) in the upper atmosphere between 20 and 120 km altitude. Founded in January 2009, the network operates permanent and mobile video and radio stations around the clock, connecting university researchers, amateur astronomers, and scientific associations across Italy.
2026-07-07 J. G.'s GeoAstro Applet Collection Juergen Giesen's GeoAstro Applet Collection offers more than 65 interactive Java applets for tracking the precise positions of the sun, moon, and planets, including sundials, moon phases, eclipse data, and sky maps for any location on Earth. Featured in Sky & Telescope magazine and honored with the Griffith Observatory Star Award, this site is a remarkable labor of love for amateur and professional astronomers alike.