Links
updated: 13.05.2014
| Science, Astronomy & Physics news (Hebrew) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hayadan | - | Online science news (Hebrew) website. Updated daily! Editor: Avi Blizovski |
| Astronomy, Science and Space Forumns in Israel | ||
| Nana Astronomy Forum | - | The best astronomy forum in Israel. Amatures interacts on daily basis mainly on telescope and observations related topics |
| Science, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space educational Organizations in Israel | ||
| TAU AstroClub | - | Voluntary activity of graduate students in Tel-Aviv university for promotion of astronomy and astrophysics education in Israel, through lectures, videos, and public observations. All the activities are free of charge |
| Young@Science | - | Education for sciences in the Weizmann Institute |
| Maslul | - | Group of engineering students based in the Technion that organizes space and astronomy activities in Israel. |
| Israel Astronomical Association | - | Association of amatures astronomers, based in Givatayim |
| Israeli Space Society | - | Promoting space activities and astronomy in Israel |
| Observatories in Israel | ||
| Wise Observatory | - | The only proffesional observatory in Israel, operated by Tel-Aviv university. |
| Wise observatory projects: | ||
| TAUVEX | - | Tel Aviv University UV Explorer |
| Spaceguard | ||
| CONCAM | - | CONCAM images taken at Wise Observatory, ISRAEL |
| Eductaional observatories in Israel | ||
| TAU Astroclub | - | The TAU AstroClub operates a small telescope for educational public observations. Particpating in the observations is free of charge. Like other telescopes located in big cities, we are limited by the light pollution in the Tel-Aviv area. Given this conditions we are concentrating on objects easly observable. |
| Sea of Galilee Astrophysical Observatory | - | A public educational observatory located near the "Kinerat". The observatory is operated by Emek-Hayarden collegae. Other Resources in Emek-Hayarden collegae website: APOD in Hebrew Astronomical Dictionary Schol projects in astronomy ASTROTOP - High schol projects in astronomy |
| Givatayim observatory | - | A public educational observatory located in Givatayim |
| Bareket Observatory | - | A private educational observatory located in "Modiin" |
| StarTrip - Mobile Educational Observatory in the Negev | - | Astronomical Activities in the Negev Area |
| Education | ||
| APOD | - |
Astronomy picture of the day. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. APOD in Hebrew - operated by the Emek-Hayarden collegae |
| Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | ||
| Geography Teachers Network (Israel) | ||
| Window for Physics (Israel) | ||
| Binary star simulation | ||
| SETI@home | ||
| Powers of ten | ||
| Physics 2000 | - | An interactive journey through modern physics! Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices. |
| Astronomical utilities | ||
| The Wise observatory schedule | - | Generate monthly calendar including, sun rise/set, moon rise/set, moon phase, sidereal time, Julian day, Moon position. For every date from 2000BC to 5000AD. |
| Meteor showers | - | Calculate the peak of a meteor shower |
| Moon Phase | - | List of Moon phases from 1950-2060 |
| Gegenschein | - | Calculate the Gegenschein position |
| Moon and Sun rise and set | - | Calculate daily Sun/Moon Rise/Set/Twilights in local time or sidereal time |
| Heavens Above | - | Web site of choice for generating predictions for bright satellites passages and Irridium flares |
| Lunar occultations | - | Predictions of lunar occultations and grazing events observable from Israel |
| Sky maps | ||
| Wise observatory CONCAM images | - | Online images of th e whole sky visible from Israel. Including optional star names |
| Skymaps | - | FREE* Sky Maps Each Month |
| Sky & Telescope | - | Sky & Telescope interactive sky chart |
| Your sky | - | Your sky interactive planetarium |
| Monthly Sky Maps | - | Monthly sky charts for Israeli observer |
| Proffesional sites | ||
| Papers and databases | ||
| ADS | - | ADS is a database of papers in astrophysics and related subjects. Including reference, abstracts, and full papers, for millions of published and unpublished papers |
| SIMBAD | - | SIMBAD is a database of astronomical objects, their position, names, references and measurments |
| VizieR Service | - | A tool for searching information within thousands of astronomical catalogs |
| The STScI Digitized Sky Survey | - | The Digitized Sky Survey is a collection of digitized images of the whole sky to limiting magnitude of about 21 in several bands |
| NASA Extragalactic Database | ||
| NASA high energy and astronomical catalogs database | ||
| Ephemerides (Position of solar system objects) | ||
| Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service | - | Generate minor planets and comets position |
| PL's HORIZONS System | - | The best tool for generating ephemerides of solar system objects |
| Rings Node On-line Tools | - | Generate position of satellites and rings of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune |
| Weather | ||
| Medium Range Forecasts for Europe | - | Forecasts issued by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| Meteosat Images | - | Images of the globe are taken routinely by EUMETSAT's Meteosat satellites from the geostationary orbit |
Seminars & Events
03
Jul
11:10
Astro-Coffee Meeting
Kaplun Building, Room 103
03
Jul
14:00
Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar: Binary Supermassive Black Holes: A bridge Between Galaxy Evolution and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Shenkar Physics Building, Holcblat Hall 007
07
Jul
14:00
Physics Colloquium: Laplace Universality for Rare Events in Transport in Random Media
Shenkar Building, Melamed Hall 006
