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Welcome to our "Main Links" page! On this page you can find several links in many fields of astronomy we are interested in. In addition, there are also links to our original home country, Turkey and where currently we live in, Massachusetts. In order to see more links in each astronomical category, you can use the links at the bottom of this page to go to respective pages.

VARIABLE STARS
AAVSO, founded in 1911, the American Association of Variable Star Observers located in Cambridge, MA is the largest organization of variable star observers worldwide, with members and more than 550 observers in over 40 countries.
AFOEV, established in 1921, the Association Francaise des Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables is headquartered at the Strasbourg Observatory and led by Michel Verdenet; the former president Emile Schweitzer remaining as the honorary president of the association.
BAA - VSS, British Astronomical Association's Variable Star Section.
B.R.N.O., Czech Astronomical Society - Variable Star Section.
Cataclysmic Variables Circular, by Tony Vanmunster, published from 1994 to 1998, currently discontinued.
Center for Backyard Astrophysics, a global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.
General Catalog of Variable Stars, prepared by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Commission 27 (Variable Stars), located at Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
HAA - VSS, Hungarian Astronomical Association's Variable Star Section.
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, provided by the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary.
International Supernova Network, by Mirko Villi, Italy.
International TOAD Watch Mirror Site, Tremendous Outburst Amplitude Dwarf novae.
Recurrent Object Programme, coordinated by Gary Poyner.
Sky and Telescope's Variable Stars Page, a very informative site.
VSNET, Variable Star Alert Network from Japan.

COMETS
BAA Comet Section, maintained by the Director of the British Astronomical Association's Comet Section, Mr. Jonathan D. Shanklin, this site contains the most uptodate information about comets currently observable, methods of comet observing, meteors and the latest meetings in cometary astronomy.
ALPO Comets Section
Gary Kronk, the renowned comet and meteor observer, writer and researcher from Troy, IL.
International Comet Quarterly, the official comet information site at Harvard University's Center for Astrophysics.
JPL Charles S. Morris, comet observation home page.
Silicon Sky Comet Page, contains information about comets and a logbook on Comet Hale-Bopp.
Sky and Telescope Comet Page, to find out more on comets.

ECLIPSES
Mr Eclipse Homepage, solar eclipse veteran NASA's Fred Espenak's extensive personal web site for solar and lunar eclipses.
Eclipse Chasers WebRing, a list of solar eclipse related web sites around the globe.
NASA Eclipse Site, official NASA web site for solar and lunar eclipses prepared by Fred Espenak.
Dr. Eric Flescher, Black Sun Eclipse, this site includes photos and highlights of several eclipses, accounts, information about future eclipses and trips, personal accounts and published accounts by several people.
Sky and Telescope Eclipse Page

OBSERVING DEEP SKY
Arp's Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies, by Dennis Webb
CCD Images of Galaxies, The Electronic Universe
Deep Sky Home Page by Mark and Carolyn
Galaxies, from SEDS
Star Formation in Galaxy Mergers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The Galaxy Catalog, by Zsolt Frei and James E. Gunn
The Messier Catalog from SEDS

DOUBLE STARS
Observing Doubles: The Spirit of 33, by Luis Arguelles
Double Star Observer, by Ronald Tanguay, Saugus, MA.
Fifth Catalogue of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars (2001), US Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.
Orbits of 150 Visual Binaries, by Richard Dibon-Smith, The Constellations Web Page
The USNO Double Star Library, US Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.
Webb Society Double Star Section
Please check out our "Double Star" page for more links.

OTHER CELESTIAL EVENTS
International Meteor Organization
American Meteor Society
ALPO Meteors Section
North American Meteor Network
BAA Meteor Section
Dutch Meteor Society
Sky and Telescope Meteors Page
IOTA Home Page, International Occultation Timing Association led by David Dunham.

OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
In The Sky Tonight, from Orion Telescopes and Binoculars.
What to Observe This Week?, from Sky and Telescope.
What to Observe This Month?, Abrams Planetarium Skywatcher's Diary, East Lansing, MI.
Current Astronomical News, from Sky and Telescope.
Tips for Backyard Observers, from Sky and Telescope.
Learning Center, everything you want to know about astronomy, from telescopes to deep sky, by Orion Telescopes and Binoculars.
Spacewatch Backyard Astronomy, from SPACE.com

ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES
2MASS, Two-Micron All Sky Survey.
ADS, The NASA Astrophysics Data System.
Aladin, Interactive Sky Atlas
APS POSS Database, Automated Plate Scanner of Palomar Observatory Sky Survey from the University of Minnesota.
Astronomical Catalogs & Data Tables at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Digitized Sky Survey, provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute, this site contains the digitized version of the Palomar Sky Survey.
The NGC / IC Project, by Bob Erdmann
Simbad Database, from Strasbourg Observatory.
Star Pages, from Simbad Database at Strasbourg Observatory.
VIZIER, from Strasbourg Observatory.

SCIENCE FICTION
My Page on Star Trek Saga
Various Science Fiction Resources

ASTRONOMY IN OUR ORIGINAL HOME COUNTRY: TURKEY
ASTRONOMICAL SITES, where you can find the following: Amateur Groups, Clubs and Societies; Universities' Astronomy Departments; Astronomical Observatories; Personal Homepages; Astronomical Directories; Astronomical Vendor Sites and All Other Sites.
List of Turkish Astronomical Links at Sky and Telescope's Clubs and Organizations page, published thanks to Haldun's efforts to promote Turkish astronomy.

TURKISH TOURISTIC SITES
Turkey, A Gateway to Paradise, by Turkish Ministry of Tourism
Ministry of Tourism
Before Traveling to Turkey
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Turkey Home Page
Other Interesting Links in and to Turkey, worth a look!, includes Turkish newspapers on-line, Live Turkish TVs and Radios over the Internet, Search Engines and much more!

ASTRONOMY IN MASSACHUSETTS
Amateur Groups, Observatories and Planetariums, from Sky and Telescope.
Selected Astronomical Sites in Massachusetts and New England

MASSACHUSETTS & NEW ENGLAND TOURISTIC SITES

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS
Other Interesting Astronomical Links, we find worthwhile, includes links to astronomy and science magazines worldwide, astronomical instrument manufacturers, astronomy links in other related websites and much more!
Astronomical Links: A Compilation, a list of several astronomical links compiled by us for the last eight years.
CBAT Headlines, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams' last minute updates on discovery and/or recovery of comets, variable stars and minor planets.
Sky and Telescope's Astronomical Resources
Map of Day & Night, from the Center for Backyard Astrophysics.

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