Other useful sites

UCLan Links

• University of Central Lancashire Homepage

Disclaimer : UCLan are not responsible for the content of any of these external websites.

General Planetary sites

• Nine Planets

Competition websites

• University of Central Lancashire Transit of Venus Quiz
• Royal Astronomical Society newspaper competition
• Royal Society of New Zealand expedition competition

Transit of Venus web-pages

• European Southern Observatory
• Motivate Maths Transit of Venus video conferences
• Sun-Earth Day
• Orpington Astronomical Society
• American ToV site
• Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC
• Much Hoole Church
• Solarscope - a simple solar projection device

History Sites

• Jeremiah Horrocks from Lancashire Pioneers
• BBC Online Jeremiah Horrocks
• 4Reference Jeremiah Horrocks
• Historical transits by David Sellers
• 1882 Transit of Venus
• Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Utrecht University
• Melbourne Observatory
• Transits of Venus from Museum of the History of Science

Educational links

• Sun Trek
• Motivate Maths
• Paper plate physics
• Sunblock '99
• Stanford Solar Centre

Current Space-based Solar Observatories

• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Transition Region and Coronal Explorer TRACE
• GOES Solar X-ray Imager

Future Space-based Solar Observatories

• Solar-B
• STEREO Mission
• Solar Dynamic Observatory
• Solar Orbiter

Current Space-based Solar-Terrestrial Observatories

• Ulysses spacecraft
• Cluster II
• ACE

Ground-based Solar Observatories

• Kanzelhohe Solar Observatory
• Big Bear Solar Observatory
• Mount Wilson Observatory
• National Solar Observatory (for Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak)
• Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory
• Wilcox Solar Observatory
• BiSON Homepage
• GONG Homepage