Updated March 4, 2010
Greetings! Greetings! Fellow Astronomers!
Happy New Year!! 2010
Well we had a great year in 2009 Astronomy and the future looks bright ahead!!
Email Beaufort Amateur Astronomer
Beaufort South Carolina Amateur Astronomer is a FREE information web site concerning Amateur Astronomy around the Beaufort South Carolina area. Amateur Astronomy is my hobby. All links are open FREE information to anyone that has an interest in Astronomy.
Beaufort, South Carolina, United States of America
Latitude 32.2 degrees North
Longitude -80.3 West
Click on the clear dark sky chart below to get meanings of boxes and colors
blue is good no cloud cover
blue is good transparency
blue is good seeing
blue is good darkness
white is all poor
Beaufort South Carolina Amateur Astronomer Web pages Archive 1999 to 2007
AMATEUR ASTRONOMER INFO Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
FAQ AMATEUR ASTRONOMER INFO Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
NEW LINK October 6, 2009 The Everything Hubble Site
September 7, 2009 The JPL NASA Amateur Astronomy Index
August 30, 2009 Free Stellarium Astronomy Program 3D Space Planetarium software
Stellarium press F1 for the tool bar which will show up at very bottom of screen, you may have to grab and move your bottom start bar to the left of screen to be able to see tools.
August 30, 2009 Free Celestia Astronomy Program Space Simulation software
February 19, 2010 Free Celestia Motherlode Astronomy Program Space Simulation software Addons
Please check back once in a while as the web page is always changing! Please let me know of any links that do not work. And any mispellings! Thanks!
Astronomy Year is April 2009! We celebrate 400 years since Galileo charted the night sky with a very simple telescope!
Clear skies!
Click here to Email me at Beaufort South Carolina Amateur Astronomer
JULY 2 2009 Listen to the sound of Jupiter from NASA here
My yard has viewing zenith straight up which is best and less atmosphere to have to view through and a South view where I can view M6 and M7 on fairly clear nights.
Most viewing here in Beaufort is best in winter time. The Moon is always a lot of fun to view! And our next home in space!
The best telescope and binoculars are the ones that you use the most!
Keep Looking Up!
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Beaufort South Carolina Weather Clear Sky Clock!
Click here for link to Astronomy Parks Googled
From abc net Australia full story on amateur astronomer's find
Click here and check out Portland,Oregon Rose City Astronomers
NEWLINK! Click here and check out International Year of Astronomy 400 years
Click here and check out Bill Arnett's Amateur Astronomy Build your own Observatories website!
Click here to get US Navy sky faq's
USC Beaufort Library Astronomy web page!
Click here and check out Kevin Bozard's Astronomy website!
Click here to get and listen to recorded Pulsar sounds!!
Oglethorpe Astronomical Association - Savannah, Georgia
Francis Marion University Planetarium web page!!
Francis Marion University Observatory web page!!
College of Charleston - observatory
Click here and check out "Amateur Astronomy Magazine" website!
"Astronomy Magazine" web page!!
"Sky and Telescope Magazine" web page!!
Starmaps from Kym Thalassoudis
Location:
Latitude 32.4 North Longitude 80.7 West
Beaufort, South Carolina, United States ofAmerica
Information about Amateur Astronomer activities in the Lowcountry of South Carolina
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First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
From John F. Kennedy speech joint session of Congress May 25, 1961
Click here to go to Solar Center web site!
Click here to go to Hubble Telescope web site!
Click here to go to Hubble Telescope 799 picture collection web site!
Click here to go to Sky View Cafe, very nice!
Click here to go to Star Map from Mt. Wilson
Click here to go to Skymaps.com
Click here to go to Planet Finder
Click here to go to star chart program by Akkana Peck
Click here to go to MyStarsLive
Click here to go to Space at home
Click here to go to Solar System Simulator from JPL
Clear Skies!
New!Celestia Space Exploration site
New!Charlotte Astronomers site
In Constant Moon information very good site!
Live 10 telescopes around the world
United States Naval Observatory
Click here to go to Solar System Simulator from JPL
Clear Skies!
New! Celestia Space Exploration site
New!Charlotte Astronomers site
Backyard Astronomy for Amateur Astronomers
Yakima Astronomical Society Washington State web page
North American Meteor Network web page
Aiken,South Carolina : DuPont Planetarium, Ruth, Patrick ScienceEducation Center.
Clemson: Planetarium, Phys./Astr. Dept. ClemsonUniversity
Greenville: T. C. Hooper Planetarium, Roper Mountain Science Center
Orangeburg,South Carolina: Stanback Planetarium, I. P. Stanback Museum
Rock Hill, South Carolina: Settlemyre Planetarium,Museum of York County
Earth and Sky daily seeing information
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Roper Mountain Astronomers South Carolina
MAC-Hunter Astronomical Observing Site
2MASS gallery of infrared images of universe web page
International Dark Sky Association
"BINOCULAR HOLDER A SIMPLE HOMEMADE" fromPAO'S webpage
Keep Looking Up!!
Clear Skies!