Astro-LINKS (local and general)

Sky and Telescope Magazine

            - this week’s sky at a glance:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance

            - top ten telescope questions:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsgo/helpdesk/Telescope_Top_Ten.html

Stellarium 
 (a FREE high quality night-sky simulation /planetarium software program; avb. for PC or Mac)
             http://www.stellarium.org/ 

Star-Map downloads (free):

http://www.midnightkite.com/starcharts.html   = good basic map for the money (free!)

http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1052    = higher detail / more complicated

Moon-Phase CheetSheet (LINK) = everything you need to know for learning the Moon's cycle

Allegheny Observatory: 
Sorry, it seems Blogger can't handle the the observatory's address. Solution: click the link below; it will take you to a 404 error page; once there, ignore the text and simply place your mouse-cursor active in your browser's address-line and hit your "enter" key; it works...

http://www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry/

Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh (AAAP) :

            http://3ap.org/

Mingo Creek Park Observatory   (off Rte. 88 between Finleyville and Monongahela PA)

            http://home.comcast.net/~vmaestro/SHOproj/southframes.htm

AAAP (Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh) STAR PARTY Schedules 
for Wagman Observatory( Deer Lakes Park, North Hills) and Mingo Creek (South Hills)

            http://3ap.org/starParties.shtml

Bad Astronomy.com

            http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/index.html

Messier Objects

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messier_objects

2012 - ? TWO THOUSAND SHMELVE !  Why the world probably wont end in December of 2012 
           http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/2012-the-end-of-the-world/

SpaceWatchtower 
a space and science news-blog by GAWalsh, a local space enthusiast and community activist          

           http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/