Files available

• An overview of the planetarium session
• Northern hemisphere night sky for August 2011
• Northern hemisphere night sky for February 2011
• Equatorial night sky for August 2011
• Equatorial night sky for February 2011
• Southern hemisphere night sky for August 2011
• Southern hemisphere night sky for February 2011


• Other astronomy laboratory activities

Free Software

• Stellarium: A beautiful free planetarium for your PC or Mac
• Celestia space simulation
• ImageJ for astronomy
• Aladin sky atlas
• SAOImage ds9 astronomical visualization tool

On-Line Resources

• Google Sky
• Sky-Map virtual telescope
• This week's sky at a glance (Sky and Telescope Magazine)
• Monthly sky maps
• Coordinated Universal Time