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Evaluates the Night Sky Live website, which provides views of the sky from dusk to dawn at different locations using continuous-use all-sky cameras. Features of the website; Advantages and disadvantages; Problems with the website.

Provides information on World Year of Physics 2005, a yearlong celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of physicist Albert Einstein's publication of three seminal papers. Organizations sponsoring the celebration; Web site address of the event; Activities that are being planned as part of the celebration.

Focuses on the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard for astronomical photography. Recommended software for processing FITS files; Suggested resources for astronomical photography enthusiasts.

Focuses on astronomical events and its causal role in bringing people online for images and information. Consideration of the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 onto Jupiter in 1994 as one of the most spectacular astronomical events; Estimated number of people who had logged on with their modems to download images taken by the newly repaired Hubble Space Telescope and other large instruments on July 16, 1994; Identification of the landing of the Mars Rover Spirit in January 2004 as the latest record-breaking Web event by National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Reviews the educational video released on DVD entitled "Way Cool Science: Space Trekkers."

Provides an overview of the articles related to astronomy published in the June 2004 issue of the "Sky & Telescope." Emphasis on the transit of Venus; Creation of sky charts; Transition of Venus to the Sun.

Focuses on the Create a Crater simulation program at the Meteor Crater museum in Arizona. Value of seeing a big crater firsthand; Details of how the simulation program works; Details of Douglas P. Hamilton's Solar System Collisions calculator, a program similar to Create a Crater; Speculations on the possible effects of a meteor landing on Earth.

Answers questions regarding amateur astronomy. Ways some eyepieces can offer the widest possible true field in any telescope; Mistakes in the meaning of the expression "blue moon" which have become accepted by dictionaries; Software from the Internet for analyzing original optical designs of telescopes.

Reports on weblogs -- Web-based journals that chronicle the doings of their writers -- that specialize in astronomical observations. Web sites of the writings of David A. Wallace, an amateur astronomer in Massachusetts; Canadian Paul Markov; and David W. Opderbeck; Skyblog funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science project.

Features website that offers information on astronomical activities. Organization of a major education initiative; Electronic discs for educational use; Development of a software tool that will predict the International Space Station will cross the disk of the sun or moon.

Announces the launch of "Venus in Transit," by Eli Maor. Revision of the content of the book; Availability.

Highlights the discovery of a solar body designated as 2004 DW at Palomar Mountain in California as of February 17, 2004. Use of the Palomar-QUEST camera, a mosaic of 112 CCD detectors; Approximation of the object's distance from the planetoid Sedna; Similarity of the orbit with that of Pluto.

Focuses on Web sites that feature photographs and provide information about the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Spirit rover mission to Mars. Characteristics of Mars as shown by the photographs; Associations that feature the report on their Web sites.

Reports that the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has a long-running program that links astronomers to classrooms. Partnerships with Project ASTRO which benefit students, teachers, researchers, and amateur astronomers; Collaboration among the ASP, NASA, and the Astronomical League called the Night Sky Network at nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov.

Presents several astronomy-related weblogs. globeofblogs.com; spacetramp.blogspot.com; blogwise.com.

Focuses on astronomical Web sites on the Internet. Web site of the magazine "Sky & Telescope"; Benefits of Internet addresses with easy recall; Checking available domain names.

Highlights the Web sites of the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club, the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society and the Rose City Astronomers. Site design and features; Volume of information and links offered; Products and services.

Features the two-meter Liverpool Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands, manufactured by Telescope Technologies Ltd., which became the largest fully robotic telescope in the world. Observing time offered to secondary school students in Great Britain; Background on the other telescopes manufactured by Telescope Technologies.

Presents computer network resources on the subject of cosmology. Examination of the cosmic wave background radiation at the web site of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe; Exploration of various cosmological parameters on the web site of astronomer Ned Wright; Effects of altering cosmological parameters on the web site by cosmologist max Tegmark.

Focuses on an incident where a meteor blazed across a remote region of Southern Siberia and how it allegedly burned a forest in the area in September 2002. Luminosity and total energy of the meteor; Fallacies to the alleged destruction caused by the meteor; Lack of evidence supporting the claim that the meteor may have caused the burning and destruction of the forest.

Focuses on web sites featuring data from astronomical surveys. Two Micron All Sky Survey site; Digitized Sky Survey data; Images contained in the sites.

Explores several web sites about amateur astronomy. www.tmspa.com; www.stellafane.com; www.okie-tex.com; www.mksp.ca.

Evaluates various astronomy-related Web sites. Web site contents; Internet access.

Reports on the availability of aurora-related information over the Internet. Provision of various aurora images; Presence of real-time maps and magnetograms; Accessibility of the online sources.

Presents radio shows related to astronomical broadcasting in the U.S. Discussion of terrestrial matters in 'Earth & Sky'; Participation of celebrities in the radio program 'Let's Talk Stars'; Information on astronomy programs featured in 'SkyTour.'

Relates the experiences of the author on solar eclipse in Hawaii. Distinctions between solar and lunar eclipses; Techniques of monitoring the paths of the solar eclipse; Availability of various catalogs on solar and lunar eclipse.

Features astronomy shareware that are available on the Internet. Small utilities available on VersionTracker; Description of a three-dimensional space simulator called StarStrider; Guide to cheap Windows and DOS astrosoftware provided by Hugo D. Valentim's Astro Tips.

Focuses on several Web sites that provide information on the galaxy NGC 4414 images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. HubbleSite of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland; Interactive New General Catalog Online; Astrographics.

Focuses on the plan of Liverpool, England-based Telescope Technologies Ltd. to mass produce robotic telescopes. Specification of the telescopes; Background of the company; Cost of the telescope; Advantages of a robotic telescope.

Recommends several Web sites which provide information and services to computer-controlled telescopes. Mighty ETX Web site owned by Mike Weasner; NexStar Resource Site owned by Michael Swanson; NexStar 5/8 FAQ's Knowledge Database Web site.

Presents information on several Web sites which feature the mission of New Horizons to Pluto. Scheduled launch of the New Horizons mission; Details of the controversy associated with the mission to Pluto; Number of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects discovered by astronomers.

Describes the meteor images that have been captured on video through the use of high-technology videography. Significance of the video images in determining the initial pinpoint glow of the meteor; Source of the bright plasma of meteors.

Evaluates the Astronomy Club Web site. Features; Benefits to users.

Reports on the color of the star called brown dwarfs. Person who coined the name brown dwarfs; Spectral classifications of brown dwarfs; Analysis of astronomer Adam Burrows and his colleagues on the appearance of brown dwarfs.

Discusses the popularity of the planet Saturn among astronomers and amateurs. Location of Saturn in the sky in January, 2002; Cinema trivia on Saturn; Release of a photograph taken from Voyager 1 space probe; Web sites containing pictures of Saturn; Web site tracking the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cassini space mission.

Reports that trace elements from the sun found in lunar soil collected in 1972 may provide some insights into processes in the solar atmosphere.

Discusses online piracy in astronomy. Concerns regarding plagiarism in the Internet; Factors to consider in using online astronomy images; Information on the use of Google.com and AltaVista.com to search for plagiarized images.

Focuses on the use of the earthshine to characterize earth's reflectance of albedo. Information on earthshine; Observations on earthshine through the use of refractors and advanced cameras; Albedo differences of the earth resulting from seasonal changes.

Presents an article on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and how it is invalidated by the creation of scientific systems over the Internet. How the aspects of relativity was misunderstood; Implications of the easy promotion of information in the Internet on the dissemination of false knowledge.

Presents tips on how to search for the BASIC interpreter QBasic on the Web site of Microsoft Corp. Keywords to use; Features of the BASIC Archives Web site; Importance of BASIC computer language.

Focuses on the total solar eclipse educational initiative of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Information on the total solar eclipse on June 21, 2001; Web site address of the college; Requirements in order to participate in Vassar's total solar eclipse expedition.

Deals with the observations on catalysmic variables, which are binary systems composed of a white dwarf and a main-sequence companion star. Details on the orbiting movement of the binaries; Information on the theory regarding the reduction of speed in two orbiting stars; Findings of astronomers, Steve B. Howell and David R. Ciardi regarding the binaries.

Focuses on home pages or Web sites offering online information resources on astronomy in the state of Florida. Information offered by the homepage of the Kennedy Space Center; Event sponsored by the Southern Cross Astronomical Society at scas.org; Web site of Maurizio Di Sciullo, a builder and seller of Newtonian telescopes.

Details the discovery of the precise orbital location of S/2000 J 1, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter that was first observed in 1975 by Charles Kowal. Astronomers who rediscovered the moon after it get lost in 1975; Details on the moon.

Focuses on the signatures and other messages placed in a CD-ROM which will be brought to space by the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft. Details on the rocket-your-name-into-space game played for Mars Polar Lander.