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Lincolnshire Astronomy

  • Famous Lincolnshire People listed on this website have made a profound contribution to astronomy, exploration, scientific and mathematical understanding and thinking.
  • Cleethorpes Astronomical Society
  • The Cosmic Elk
  • StarLincs is Lincolnshire's only Mobile Planetarium.
    For booking details contact: info@starlincs.co.uk
  • Paul Money's Astrospace website gives useful information and links to local and national astronomy sites.

    The annual Horncastle Astronomy Weekend
    takes place each September. A very good event.
    2008 dates: 12 - 14 September.

    Run by Paul Money in association with
    the British Astronomical Association and
    Horncastle College.
    For further information, contact Paul Money
    via his website.

    Paul Money's Gibraltar Point Starnights 2008
    Watch his "Events" page for updates on all future Starnights.
    You can also order his invaluable publication, "Night Scenes 2008"

    For on-line newsletters on what to look out for in the night sky each month.

  • Sky & Telescope
  • Jodrell Bank Events page
  • Sky at Night Newsletter
  • Solar Terrestrial Dispatch for alerts of Solar Flares and related phenomena.

     
    The Sun, Moon, our Comets and Planets

  • BBC On-line Solar System Click on the sun, the planets or the minor objects to explore them for yourself.

    The Sun. Sites to check regularly are:

  • Current Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Image
  • SOHO
  • UK AuroraWatch
  • Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
  • Hourly STD DMSP/POLAR Auroral Activity

    and The Moon

  • Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures created from ray-traced images of the Moon.
    You can view the phase of the Moon for any date and time [1800-2199 A.D].

     
    Meteors

    Meteor showers are somewhat unpredictable, so it is a good idea to look out for meteors before and after the predicted peaks. You might catch an unexpected display.

    Useful Meteor Shower pages and related information.

  • Comets & Meteor Showers by Gary Kronk.
    Excellent Meteor resource. Comet information too.
  • International Meteor Organisation for more scientific presentation of Meteor information. Very good.
    Details of major showers are posted on this site, which is packed with well presented facts, figures and diagrams!

     
    Eclipses

    A Partial Solar Eclipse is visible from Lincolnshire on 1st August 2008, starting at 09.30hrs BST and ending at approx. 11.10 hrs BST.
    End of eclipse approx. 02.20 hrs

    A Total Lunar Eclipse is visible from Lincolnshire on 21st February 2008, starting at 00.35 hrs UT, totality begins 03.00hrs and ends approx. 03.50 hrs.
    End of penumbral eclipse approx. 06.15 hrs

    A Partial Lunar Eclipse is visible from Lincolnshire on 16/17th August 2008, starting at moonrise at 21.00 hrs UT, mid-eclipse is at 10.10hrs and the eclipse ends just before 01.00hrs on 18th August.

    For accurate timing data see Paul Money's Night Scenes 2008 (Astrospace Publications).

  • Eclipse Home Page with details of coming eclipses and their visibility.
  • Eclipses. For lots of Eclipse information and links. Nicely wacky.
  • Fred Espenak's Website

     
    Light Pollution

    Prefer dark skies? Worried about the impact of light pollution on wildlife?
    If you are fed up with tacky, sentimental, energy-wasting and potentially
    harmful lighting of buildings, radio masts and monuments and at holiday resorts, ports &c. check out:

  • Humber Bridge lighting trials Andrew Credland's photograph of the 1999 [now-scrapped] project says it all! But the lighting idea still has support in some quarters!
  • The Campaign for Dark Skies
  • Towerkill
  • The Fatal Light Awareness Program

     
    "SpaceLinks"

  • Final Frontier from the BBC and OU. Lots of good information and links.
  • Jodrell Bank Observatory – Home of the Lovell Telescope. Lots of useful information and links.
  • National Schools Observatory – La Palma robotic telescope.
  • BBC – The Sky At Night – with Patrick Moore.

  • National Space Centre – Leicester.
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph of the universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
  • Time Conversion Chart UTC/GMT, EST, EDT &c.
  • Wallace Sargent's Homepages Exiled Winterton Astronomer and Astrophysicist. Many good links.

  • Heavens-Above – Chris Peat's website runs dynamic web pages which generate visibility predictions for visible satellites and Iridium flares and a wide range of related astronomical information for any location on the Earth. Fantastic site!
  • History of Astronomy [and Science] website by Wolfgang R. Dick. Useful library of links.
  • Bad Astronomy An "antidote" site by Phil Plait.

     
    "SETI"

    The Search for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is on! There's little enough intelligence here on Earth, so we could do with it!

  • Jodrell Bank and the SETI project. The Lovell 76m radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank and the 305m Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have begun to conduct the most sensitive and comprehensive search ever undertaken for radio communication signals from Extra-Terrestrial Civilisations beyond our Solar System.

  • SETI@home. A scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyses radio telescope data. Sign up on the BOINC website. Their free software can be downloaded there. You can "attach" to any of the projects using this. Then sign up to support the Lincolnshire SETI group.

  • UK branch of the SETI League aims to provide information which is of specific interest to members of the SETI league in the UK, or to non-members who are interested in the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.


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