Useful Links
See also links on the SAAO webpage
Useful Resources
- Stellarium
- SkyGlobe
- Celestia
- Google Sky
- Large collection on http://www.midnightkite.com/software.html
- Southern Sky Almanack for 2009
- African Skies Astronomy Cards Grade 4 - 9
- Astronomy Tools (scaling the solar system, your age and weight on different planets, ...)
- Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Guide
- Resources for Science Teachers
- NASA videoclips for educators
- Astronomy Education Review
Astronomy Groups or Projects
- The Indlebe Radio Telescope (Durban, South Africa)
- Universe Awareness Programme
- Global Hands On Universe
- African Cultural Astronomy Project
- The New Radiant (an international forum for amateur astronomers)
- Western Cape Primary Science Programme (PSP)
- Canoe Africa
- Southern Cross Observatory for Public Education (SCOPE)
Southern African Astronomy
- South African Astronomical Observatory
- Southern African Large Telescope
- Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Karoo Array Telescope
- Square Kilometre Array (see also SKA2009)
- Boyden Observatory
- Hermanus Magnetic Observatory
- Astronomy Society of South Africa (see also the press release from its Cosmology Section)
- Johannesburg Planetarium
- Iziko Planetarium (Cape Town)
- High Energy Stereoscopic System