Astronomy Links from Jan/Feb 2009 Scouting Life Magazine

The January/February 2009 issue of Scouting Life Magazine featured an astronomy article "Explore the Night Sky" by Jim Cornish and a companion article "Make Your Stargazing Events Shine" by myself. These contained a number of web page links which you can find below:

Explore the Night Sky

1. Words Ya Gotta Know from Sky and Telescope
2. Printable Sky Maps from Skymaps.com
3. Printable Sky Maps from Starry Night Online
4. The Planets and Solar System from Astronomy Today
5. A Shooting Star Calendar from Meteorshowers Online
6. Artificial Stars from NASA Orbital Tracking

Indoor Stargazing Activities (sidebar)

1. Make your own Constellations (in a Canister) from About.com Space
2. The Mythology of the Constellations from Comfy Chair
3. Make a Star Finder from NASA's Space Place for Kids
   

Orion, The Hunter (sidebar)

1. StarDate Online Constellation Guide from U Texas
   

Make Your Stargazing Events Shine

1. This Week's Sky at a Glance from Sky and Telescope
2. Observing Forecasts for over 3,500 locations from Clear Sky Charts
3. Charts on Satellite, Space Station, Shuttle flights and others from Heaven's Above
   

2009 The International Year of Astronomy (sidebar)

1. Astronomy 2009 from the IYA

More Astronomy Links (Scouting Life Website)

1. Night Sky from Space.com
2. Night Sky Video from the Hubble Site
3. The 10 Brightest Stars from SPACE.com
4. The 26 Brightest Stars from WISC
5. Welcome to the Planets from NASA's JPL (corrected)
6. Shoebox Planetarium from Middleschool Science
7. Tin Can Planetarium from Familyfun (note: article is at the very bottom of the page)
8. Cyberchase Games Star Gazing from PBS Kids
9. Star Journey from National Geographic
10. The Hubble Space Telescope Site from NASA
11. Stargazing Basics from Sky and Telescope
    
12. Windows to the Universe from UCAR
    
13. Sky Almanac from StarDate Online
14. Stargazing Weather for Canadian Cities from The Weather Network
15. 2009 Monthly Sky Guides from About.com Space (updated)
16. Constellations by Month from WISC
17. Your Sky from Formilab
18. Sky Map from Sky Map
    
19. Sky Cafe Interactive Planetarium from Sky View Cafe
20. Google Sky