EXTRAS FOR LESSON BUILDING
Images
Virtual Observatory - SkyView http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/
All The Sky http://www.allthesky.com/
Digital images of the night sky. Constellation photos point out interesting objects in the constellation.
StarDial http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/stardial/
Nightly photographs of a patch of sky, raw and ready to be used.
NED - NASA/IPAC Extraglactic Database http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
SIMBAD - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad
DSS - Digitized Sky Survey http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/
Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml
Aladin is an easy way to retrieve images. The atlas interface can run from
the site or from software downloaded to your own computer. I recommend
downloading the software to run from your computer.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://cas.sdss.org/dr3/en/tools/