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Credits: Many images are my own, shot with a 50 mm camera. Many other images are courtesy AURA, STScI.  Material created with support to AURA/ST ScI from NASA contract NAS5-26555 is reproduced here with permission. For credits see here. Star maps were done with Redshift, (c) Maris Multimedia. Animations were created with Redshift, (c) Maris Multimedia, and GIF construction Set, (c) Alchemy Mindworks. 

Special Thanks:

Jackie Jacobsen, WNCC Technology Enhanced Education Director. 
Paul Jacobsen, WNCC Executive Dir. Info Tech. 
Dan Delgado. 

 

   
    Left: a composite of  Hale-Bopp and Solar Eclipse 1999, Holzkirchen, Germany. Right: using proper solar filters.     by Andreas Veh

Program note: This class is again offered entirely online this summer semester 2007, May July 02 - August 11. The course number is PHYS-1070 Astronomy, Western Nebraska Community College (WNCC). Awarded are 4 credits, meeting the science with lab requirements. For General Information such as current tuition and enrollment procedures visit http://www.wncc.net/students/getting_started/registration_online_student.html

 Email me at aveh@wncc.net or call WNCC at 1-800-348-4435 (nation-wide). You may also contact the Registrar, Roger Hovey at rhovey@wncc.net, or call him at extension 6010 (he's also an amateur astronomer).
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Since there are already plenty of GREAT astronomy websites, I tried not to duplicate contents, but rather present something in addition (see my planetary motion online labs, the Summary of Stellar Properties, and my Eclipse animations) and a lecture style that should get you to look up many of the other astronomy web sites.