There are many places on the World Wide Web where you will be able to find out more things about the Sun. A few of these are listed below with a brief explanation of what each site is about.
UK Solar Eclipse is the official UK web-site for the August 1999 Solar Eclipse. An alternative based in the US is also available.
If you want to see some impressive eclipse photos by Fred Espenak, then visit the Sun Earth Connection site in the USA .
The European Space Agency also had an impressive amount of information about the eclipse on its web pages. Have a look at ESA Eclipse99.
Tips for photography can be gleaned at this New York Institute of Photography site.
Yohkoh Public Outreach Project is designed to bring you images and movies depicting the Sun as seen by an X-ray telescope on board the Yohkoh satellite.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) pages can give you the very latest images of the Sun. SOHO is a joint ESA/NASA project.
The European side of the SOHO project was managed by the European Space Agency
The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) is providing sharper images of the Sun than ever before.
The Marshall Space Flight Center's solar website in the US contains some great science and educational material.
The solar educational site at Stanford University is just fantastic.
Take a trip to NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center's outreach site .
While you're at GSFC, visit the International Solar Terrestrial Programme, ISTP educational site as well.
Okay, so you prefer the Rockies in Colorado, then visit the High Altitude Observatory.
The glossary used in the SunBlock '99 pages is based on the glossary for the Solar Flare Theory web site by Gordon Holman and Sarah Benedict. Some of the definitions are also derived from the On-Line Glossary of Solar-Terrestrial Terms and from Kenneth R. Lang's book: Sun, Earth, and Sky.
The Sun Block `99 wordsearch was adapted from source code courtesy of JavaShop which was hosted by NASA's Remote Sensing Public Access Center.
The images of famous mathematicians are reproduced courtesy of the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive based at the University of St. Andrews.
Hurricane Erin images were obtained from Unisys Weather and ECOCM.
Images of the Space Shuttle, Robert Goddard, the International
Space Station, space walks, the Hubble Telescope, Polar and
XTE are reproduced courtesy of the
National Aeronautics and
Space Adminstration.
The
British Antarctic Survey web site.
Many of the animated gifs used on this site were obtained from
Badger's Animated Gif Gallery
and
VR-Mall .
Researchers at the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico sent out strong radar signals
towards SOHO. Acting as the bat's ears, workers at Goldstone,
part of NASA's Deep Space
Network, listened for any radio echo from SOHO.....
A wealth of data is available from
Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office.
Visit the
Norman Lockyer Observatory site for more details.
How about a trip to the
Space Place, USA.
The journal
NATURE, founded by Norman Lockyer is perhaps one of the most
prestigious scientific journals in the world.
Learn more about
Galileo .
Are you an
Arthur C. Clarke fan?
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