Here are the web links—plus some new material—from the Next Steps section at the back of Stikky Night Skies

The Next Steps section condenses a large amount of material into a few pages. It was specifically designed for beginners whose interest in astronomy has been sparked and who are hungry for more.

If you know of a resource you feel we should list here, please email it to: insider1 (at) stikky.com.

• Sky & Telescope magazine, www.skyandtelescope.com
• Astronomy magazine, www.astronomy.com
• Free star maps at www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky
• Free star maps at www.skyviewcafe.com
• Free star maps at www.skymaps.com
• Free (Java) star maps at www.astroviewer.com
• A list of star mapping software packages at www.seds.org
• The home of Starry Night software is www.starrynight.com
• PDA (Palm) software Planetarium, www.aho.ch/pilotplanets
• PDA (Palm) software 2sky, http://in2space.com
• Terence Dickinson's book NightWatch
• Guy Consolmagno and Dan M Davis's book Turn Left at Orion
• Burnham's Celestial Handbook (Volume 1)
• Philip Harrington's book Star Ware
• The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's annual Observer's Handbook


• The Astronomical League, www.astroleague.org
• Artificial objects website, www.heavens-above.com
• The International Comet Quarterly is at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html
• NASA's comet and asteroid collision avoidance site is http://impact.arc.nasa.gov
• Eclipse listings are at http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/
• The American Meteor Society is at www.amsmeteors.org
• Your local night sky events can be found at www.astronomydaily.com
• Lick Observatory, California, www.ucolick.org
• Chabot Observatory, California, www.cosc.org
• Leander McCormick Observatory, Virginia, www.astro.virginia.edu
• Allegheny Observatory, Pennsylvania, www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry
• Dearborn Observatory, Illinois, www.astro.nwu.edu
• Yerkes Observatory, Illinois, http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes
• Lowell Observatory, Arizona, www.lowell.edu
• Steward Observatory Astronomy Camp, Arizona, www.as.arizona.edu/steward
• Pine Mountain Observatory, Oregon, http://pmo-sun.uoregon.edu

Stikky recommended websites

There are hundreds of websites related to the night skies. Here are a few more of our favorites:

• www.exploratorium.com, possibly the world's best online museum
• http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu, the seti@home project lets your computer help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov, a virtual telescope, perfect for cloudy nights
• http://hubblesite.org, pictures from the greatest telescope ever built
• http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/starrymessenger.html, Cambridge University's history of astronomy
• www.spacelibrary.com/education/astronomy, a Virtual Astronomy Laboratory with resources for students and teachers
• www.badastronomy.com, a frequently-updated place debunking astronomy myths, often hilarious