Astronomy

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• Subject Directories
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Subject Directories

• Internet Public Library > Astronomy
• PhysLink > Physics & Astronomy Reference
• PSIGate > Astronomy Gateway

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Internet Sites

• Absolute Astronomy - basic information and images of the planets, moons, constellations, stars, Messier objects, nebulae, and galaxies
• Hubblesite - the Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA History and NASA Human Space Flight and NASA Lunar and Planetary Science
• Space Calendar - space-related events from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Stanford Solar Center - solar online activity resources
• Students for the Exploration of Space (SEDS) > Constellations and Nine8 Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
• Windows to the Universe - graphics-intensive site for different levels of users

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Textbook Sites

• Discovering the Universe - W.H.Freeman for GSC 1580

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Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• General Science Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Science Direct (Elsevier)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

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Selected Ebooks

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•  Riplan, Ian, ed.   A Dictionary of Astronomy.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
• astronomy -- charts, diagrams, etc.
• cosmology
• Galilei, Galileo
• supernovae

• Selected Reference Books
• Burnham, Robert, Jr. Burnham's Celestial Handbook : An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System. New York : Dover Publications, 1978.

  AH, OR, RO Reference QB 64 .B85 1978

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
• QB 40-237 Practical and spherical astronomy
• QB 349-421 Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics
• QB 460-466  Astrophysics
• QB 495-991 Descriptive astronomy
• TL 787-4050 Astronautics

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This page is maintained by Ann Walaskay and was last updated on 11/05/09.