Welcome to the Solarfinder page for Astronomy and everything pointing back to it. I have been a recreational astronomer for 14 years, and have been following NASA and ESA for quite a while. I followed the initial launch of Hubble and the lens debacle that shortly ensued. The funniest part of that was even though the the images were out of focus, they were still alot better than what would be found on terrestrial based telescopes. Now, with the era of Google and Space.com, the everyday enthusiast can veiw the skies for free and in a fairly friendly user interface.
Browsing some of the pages on the net, I found a pretty good site that provides users a base of information for star gazing. Go to http://www.accuweather.com/astronomy.asp and enter in your zip or the location of yoru choice. The following pages provide blogs, video, images, hobbiest portal, and comment forums for anybody interested in everything from basic lunar phase to nebulae to equipment. Accuweather.com is a weather site by nature, but they have teamed up with various sites to provide a good portal to check sky clearness and decent information on constellations and other heavenly starward objects.
Take a minute to view this site and browse the information. Report back and let me know if the information was useful, and any other sites to view. I will check this on a daily basis and enter in more information hopefully on a similar schedule.
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