Astroblog: Videocast - The Dance of The Planets in May 2011

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Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.

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My Website

• Southern Skywatch

Disclaimer

• Disclaimer Be careful out there, I'm not your mum.

My GRAS Blog

• GRAS Monthly Heads Up

Other Blogs I Contribute To

• The Pandas Thumb
• AAVSO writers bureau

Posts By Theme

• Weekly Sky
• Where to Look (the basics of observing)
• Unaided Eye Observation
• Astrophotography
• Using the freeware program GIMP for astrophotography
• Exoplanets
• Using the free simulation program Celestia
• Using the free planetarium program Stellarium
• Eclipses
• Seeing Venus and other objects in Daylight
• Unexpected Rainbows
• Moonbows and rings around the Moon

Weblogs

• Pharyngula
• Evolving thoughts
• The Drought Resistant Philosopher
• Ediacaran
• The Austringer
• Frankenblog
• Talking Squid
• sneedle flipsock
• Starts with a Bang

Astronomy Weblogs

• Bad Astronomy Blog:The Good, the Bad, the Astronomy
• A Voyage to Arcturus:R.A. 14:15:39.7, Dec. +19°10'57"
• Astronomy Blog:UK astronomy
• Tom's Astronomy Blog
• Dirty Skies
Experiences in Urban Backyard Astronomy
• Stars Over Kansas:Kansas Astronomy News and Information from Exploration Place
• Astronomy Blogging from Far North Australia
• Megans Blog
• Comet Al Down Under cometary imaging with a twist
• Comet Al's New Blog
• Dave P's astronomy
• Top of the Lawn, Astronomy in Central Park
• Systemic the exoplanet blog
• Centauri Dreams lots of good stuff, including exoplanets
• Will Gater's science and astronomy blog
• Chris Linholt's Universe
• The e-astronomer
• The planetary society weblog with Emily Lakdawalla
• The Universe Today and Carnival of Space
• Cosmic Diary

Nice Astronomy Websites

• Global Rent a Scope telescopes for everyone.
• Ice in Space Australian Amateur Astronomy
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• The latest SOHO images
• Heavens Above, Satelite prediction page - See the ISS
• Space Weather - Aurora etc.
• NASA's Satellite tracker
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Page
• SEDS and the 9 planet tour
• Solar System Simulator
• A 3D virtual Tour of the galaxy
• Extrasolar Planets
• Stellarium free photorealistic sky charting software
• Celestiareal time 3D space simulation
• Planet Hunters helping to search the Kepler data for exoplanets

Astronomy/Science Publications

• Sky & Space
• Australian Astronomy Almanac
• Cosmos, Australian-based Science Magazine

ABC Science Online

• Australian ABC Science Portal
• Australian ABC Science in Space
• Australian ABC Science Space News

Astronomy/Science Podcast

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• Jodcast Jodrel Bank Astronomy Podcasts
• Star StuffAustralian ABC Astronomy and Cosmology
• The Science Show
• Science in the City New York Academy of Sciences

Books I've been published in

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Previous Posts

Southern Skywatch May 2011 Edition Up Carnival of Space #195 is here. Footpath Constellations Don't Forget - Moon and Bright Planets line Up Apr... Carnival of Space #194 is here. Sorry to Dissapoint the Nibiru/Elenin Folks, It's ... Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter Line-up; 26 April... The Sky This Week - Thursday April 28 to Thursday ... Comet Elenin: the FAQ for the worried. Carnival of Space #193 is here.

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