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http://www.meteorobs.org/showers.html

http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html

http://www.amsmeteors.org/comets/meteors/showers/leonids.html

http://www.imo.net/leo99/leo99index.html

http://www.imo.net/news/leohints.html

http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/

http://www.amsmeteors.org/leo99update.html

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/.

http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~wiegert/AA29/AA29.html. Information on an asteroid travelling in the same orbit as Earth and that will eventually become a satellite of Earth. Discovered in early 2002 by the LINEAR space probe that searches for asteroids in near Earth orbits.

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)

Amateur Radio Astronomy  5.2 meter amateur radio telescope for 1420 MHz observing.

Amateur SETI home page (SETIFOX software for Icom R7000) {99/12/27)

BAMBI (Bob & Mikes Big Investment. Amateur RA with PC SETI software) {99/12/27}[99/5/26]

Berkeley Undergraduate Radio Astronomy Observatory (BURAO)

Bristol Student Radio Astronomers

Darrel Emerson's site (Professional RA by day)

EARAG (Edmonton Area Radio Astronomy Group) [99/12/27]

Eastern Michigan University Astronomy Club Radio Telescope

EME, RA, SETI and Amateur Radio Weak Signal Page

LoBERT (Low Budget Experimental Radio Telescope -C Band dish) (00/11/05) [00/10/27]

Merlin Observatory (DIY RA using sat signal strength meter)

Michael Fletcher's site (lots of microwave info)

Mike Gingell (RA & SARA meetings stuff) (00/11/05)

MoonBounce (EME) * Weak Signal * Astrophotography (FFTDSP Mike Cook - AF9Y) (00/4/22)

Nation River Observatory Carlton U, Canada, Eh?

Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis (online Radio Telescope)

Radio Astronomy Web Ring

Randy Stegemeyer [SignalONE] RA site (lots of good info)
Randy's 'Using a SmartTools digital level' as a remote dish inclinometer

SARA (Society Amateur Radio Astronomers)

Building a SETI Station: One Member's Odessy  (00/04/24) [99/08/27]

Solar Flare detection Utilizing Shortwave Fadeout
A 4 year study observing solar flares with a communications receiver and computer.

Stanback Planetarium Radio Astronomy

3.7-meter Student Radio Telescope (SRT)

University of Calgary students Excellent site describing their radio telescope, including schematics.

William Lonc  St. Mary's University, Halifax

Woodbury Group (Georgia Tech Students ) {99/12/27}[1996/12]

Yahoo's Radio Astronomy Section - Lots of sites related to Radio Astronomy

Area31Research Facility (Bob Stephens SETI and RA stuff) {99/12/27}

Area31 Radio Observatory (4.5Meter UPLINK dish!)

Arecibo

Argentinian Radio Astronomy (Spanish) (00/11/05) [99/06/30]

ATFN (Australia Telescope National Facility)

Beijing Astronomical Observatory Radio Telescope {99/12/31} [97/10/05]
Beijing Astronomical Observatory root page [96/12/20]

Big Ear (Ohio State Football Field) {99/12/31} [99/12/20]

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (U of Toronto) {99/12/31}[99/04/27]

Cavendish Astrophysics Group (Mullard  Radio Astronomy Observatory, U of Cambridge) {99/12/31} [99/07/08]

Clifton Scientific Trust

Cracow Observatory (Solar Radio Emission,  check out their FIGURES)

Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (Penticton.BC)

Five Colleges Radio Astronomy Observatory (U of Mass)

Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (Victoria & Penticton Canada)

Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope

MERLIN (217km RT in UK)

MIT Radio Astronomy Group

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

The Planetary Society

The Seti League

SETI Institute - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI@Home project

Square Kilometer Array (NFRA: Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy){99/12/31}[99/06/15]

Taunton Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO)

(smaller lists exist on most of the other sites)

Astronomical Resources (including VLBI's)

HomeSpace (NOISY (MIDIfied) Astronomy links.) (00/11/05)

NRAO Radio Astronomy links (Grand Daddy list of professional RA sites) {99/12/31} [99/12/24]

Radio Telescope Resources  (lots o' links)

SARA links page (Very extensive)

Radio Astronomy Web Ring (32+ amatuer radio astonomy sites) (00/11/05)

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Astroarchive (Searchable  web site archive of numerous astronomy mailing lists [JAVA or text]).

Down East Microwave(Lots of MW gear suitable for RA) (00/04/24)

Poor Man's Spectrum Analyzer  (Spectrum Analyzer Kit for cheap ($250 or so US). Just add scope) (00/04/24) [00/03/26]

Radio Astronomy Supplies (Commercial RA hardware offerings. $$ by very good.  Books too. Orlando, FL). (00/4/22)

Radio Sky Publishing. (Books, projects, newsletter and lots of useful info. Louisville, KY ) (00/4/22)

DKD Instruments (PC based spectrum analyzers. 810B now discontinued. PA2500 $$$ ) (00/4/22)

Edmonton Space & Science Center

University of Alberta
U of Alberta  Physics

AstroWeb: Astronomy Departments

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Calculating Quantization Correction Formulae for Digital Correlators

Central States VHF Conference

Committee on Radio Frequencies
    U.S. Radio Astronomy Observatories
    Non-U.S. Radio Astronomy Observatories

Earth Orientation (basic info)

Existing Digital and Analog Autocorrelators (Good  thesis)

Indiana University's Physics Department (some good links)

Interferometry Resources (bibliography)
Interferometry Techniques (bibliography)

Merlin Users Manual (good tutorial on methodology)

Methanol Masers

NASA's Basics of Radio Astronomy (PDF tutorial)

National Solar Observatory (USA) {99/12/27}

RadioAstron Project (10M VLBI satellite in space)

Real Time VLBI via Data Networks (reference  paper)

NOAA Space Environment Center
Solar Flux Radio Data (7 day history)

SkyView(lookup co-ordinates and find source)

Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble) {99/12/27}

Synthesis Imaging  (primer: HEAVY math treatment)

Vizier database of lists of radio sources.

 VLBI WCB(JPL's Wide Channel Bandwidth system)

ARTICLES:

Radio Maps of the Sky, Sky & Telescope, 63, 230 (1982).
Amateur Radio Astronomy, Astronomy, 5 ,no.12, 50 (1977).
J.Roy. Ast. Soc. Can., 72, L5, L22, L38, ... (1978).
Misc articles, Sky & Telescope, 55, 385 & 475; 56, 28 & 114 (1978).
Into Deep Space, Discover V20 #12, (Dec 1999).

BOOKS:
Amazon.com has lots of Radio Astronomy books. Some of the following are listed there.

Radio Astronomy, J.D. Kraus (Cygnus-Quasar Books, Powell, OH, USA, 1986) (also at Radiosky).
Radio Astronomy Projects, William Lonc, (Radio-Sky publishing, 1997) Table of Contents.

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada publications can be found at: http://www.rasc.ca/publications.htm.