Here is an astronomical look at the Star of Bethlehem: Christmas Star . See if you can use Stellarium to recreate the events discussed in the slide show.
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Here you will find information about the astronomy course at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, CA. It is taught by Mr. Rodney Olson. I am a NGSS@NSTA Curator (High School Physical Science: Energy) as well as a CSTA NGSS Committee member, and a National Board Certified Teacher.
the planets as they appear on today's date (updates continuously each day)
This shows what the current sky looks like. The southern horizon is at the bottom. Directly overhead is located in the middle of the diagram.
The Andromeda Galaxy
Astronomy Web Sites
- MasteringAstronomy
- SpaceWeather-solar activity and satellite tracker
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- online planetarium (free) - Noctuasky.org
- Science@NASA YouTube channel
- Black Hole Apocalypse app
- The Cosmos video worksheets
- 16 things the movie Gravity got wrong
- Flipped Astronomy
- Flipped Astronomy - a second site
- National Geographic Starstruck
- University of Minnesota Astronomy Department
- Comets for 2014
- Comets for 2015
- Comets (an additional site)
- Comet Finder
- Celebrating Einstein-100 years of General Relativity (2015)
- Star Observer (multiple star systems)
- NASA scientist for a day essay contest
- Exo Planet
- Total Solar Eclipse in 2017
- Lowell Observatory amateur projects
- Moon Kam - take pictures of the Moon
- The World at Night (stunning astro photos)
- Astronomy Animations of eclipses, etc.
- the most massive star
- Spaceflight affecting astronauts' vision
- Dinosaur killing asteroid
- Saturn's Moon Iapetus
- Science Fiction becoming Reality
- NASA scientist for a day essay contest
- Space Shuttle from top to bottom
- Calsky-complete online astronomical calculator/object finder
- Constellation of the Month
- Eclipse Chasers
- Eclipses Online Portal (GREAT site!)
- Galaxy Zoo-online galaxy classification project
- Dark Sky locations
- NASA's Asteroid Watch
- Cygnus X-1 formation info
- UCLA Planetarium
- CSUN planetarium schedule
- How Stuff Works (astronomy)
- Space Related News at space.com
- Earth Tools (find latitude/longitude/elevation, etc.)
- Stellarium Computer Planetarium Program (free!)
- Observing Planner-search by object type
- Heavens-Above (great tool to use along with Stellarium)
- Tonight's Sky - great tool to use along with Stellarium
- Your Sky - make your own sky chart
- World Wide Telescope Planetarium Program (free!)
- Celestia Computer Planetarium Program (free!)
- Atlas of the Universe
- CCDOps Users Maual
- CCDSoft Users Manual
- Landolt Standard Stars
- Landolt star fields
- National Geographic Starstruck
- The Andromeda Project