Astronomy Related Links
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Astronomy Dictionary, A-Z - very useful quick reference
Your Sky - Excellent online planesphere
Royal Astronomical Society
AuroraWatch UK
The International Astronomy Meetings List
Cool Cosmos - Very nice astronomy outreach site
PlanetQuest - Latest info from the NASA projects to detect extra-solar planets
UK sunrise and sunset times
Optics, Physics, Engineering ...
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
OPTICON - The Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy
AdaptiveOptics.org - provides news and information for the world-wide adaptive optics community
efunda.com - online reference for engineers
Journals
ADS abstract service - search and download astronomy and physics papers
uk.arXiv.org - open access to papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
Optical Society of America - includes Applied Optics, Optics Letters and Optics Express
MNRAS - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
PASP - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
SPIE - includes conference proceedings and Optical Engineering
Sources of distraction
XKCD
LabLit.com - “the culture of science in fiction and fact”
PhD comics
The Register
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