Plan your observing session

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Plan Your Observing Session
Take a look at the weather

National Weather Service
The Weather Channel

NOAA's Geostationary Satellite Server
Northwest visible image

Current Auroral Activity and Forcasts

Aurora links and images
Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES
The NASA Space Weather Bureau
Auroral Activity Observation Network
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch Hompage

Where is the ISS or other Satellites?
Nasa satellite tracking page
Heavens Above. Excellent site with star charts and satellite locations.

Great stuff from the US Naval Observatory

Pacific Time

Universal Time

Rise and Set Times for the Sun and Moon, plus civil twilight ending and start.
USNO home page

Current Images of the Sun

Lots of different images, including images from SOHO

What's happening up there?

S&T This Week's Sky at a Glance
Earth & Sky
Espenak's Eclipse home page

Star Charts on the web

National Geographic Star Chart, a very cool interactive chart that was in the magazine.
This one is a little more practical, but watch out for the java, it has eaten my AOL browser more than once.
Your Sky. You've seen the rest, now check out the best. This cgi-bin site is based on Home Planet.
Current (Your) Sky over Seattle.

Look at it here before you go out

The Digitized Sky Survey
SEDS Messier page