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Helpful Links

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Weather links

Science Center Weather is our very own weather station right on the roof! It has infomation on wind speed, temperature, sunrise/set and more!!

Boston Clear Sky Chart provides an Astronomical Forecast!

Weather Underground gives a good overview and hourly forecasts. It also gives astronomy definitions as well as info. about twillight and lunar phase.

Accuweather is another good site that provides hourly forecasts!

Online converters

Julian date - USNO

Sidereal time - USNO

Hourly airmass calculator by SkyCalc

What do I look at?

Celestial Calendar lists thousands of events to view, from irridium flares to eclipses!

Stellarium - we use The Sky on our computers but this is a FREE program that does essentially the same thing!

WEBDA - useful site for galactic open clusters or small magellenic cloud clusters

Current Night Sky - what's up in Cambridge's night sky?

Satellites

Satellite Flybys from Spaceweather