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	Astronomy Meade Instruments Founded in 1972 and public since 1997, Meade is a world leader in the design and manufacture of telescopes and accessories for amateur astronomers. The Company's innovative and technologically advanced products are recognized to be among the best in the world. Orion Orion Telescopes & Binoculars is the largest direct-to-consumer brand of quality optics for amateur astronomers and outdoor enthusiasts in North America. Established in 1975, we've built our reputation on providing high-quality products backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee, competitive prices, and the best customer service and support in the industry. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA Here's your opportunity to learn more about NASA as an agency. Explore the many facets of NASA, from our administration and leadership, to our mission and vision for the future, to business, research and career opportunities. Celestron Celestron, based in Torrance, CA, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of computerized and non-computerized telescopes as well as binoculars and sport optics products. Celestron products are sold and distributed both domestically and internationally. Sky & Telescope magazine(US) Sky Publishing Corp. was founded in 1941 by Charles A. Federer Jr. and Helen Spence Federer, the original editors of Sky & Telescope magazine. In addition to Sky & Telescope and SkyandTelescope.com, the company publishes an annual magazine called SkyWatch as well as books, star atlases, posters, prints, globes, and other fine astronomy products. Sky & Space magazine(AUS) The SKY & SPACE story began way back in 1987, when we saw the need for a local magazine that catered for Southern Hemisphere amateur astronomers... especially for those in Australia and New Zealand. So we set about to rectify that situation, with the publication of our first issue in April 1988. Astronomical Society of NSW The largest and most active Astronomy club in New South Wales.We provide Astronomical observing facilities for members, educational lectures for members and the public, and we assist members and the public to select, use and even construct telescopes and related instruments. Binocular & Telescope Shop - Sydney At The Binocular and Telescope Shop we have something for everybody. From the Novice and Intermediate to the Advanced Amateur Astronomer, Astrophotographers, Telescope Makers, Birdwatchers, Sportsgoers and Theatre and Opera goers. Frontier Optics - Sydney Frontier Optics is an online shop for quality astronomical products. I use it myself and I was happy with their products and service. Astronomy Magazine KALMBACH PUBLISHING CO. is a publisher and distributor of high-quality consumer and trade magazines and books covering hobby, special interest, and leisure-time subjects; and is a sponsor of consumer shows. Seti@home SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. SETI Spy SETI Spy is a little program to "spy" on the progress and performance of the SETI@home client. StarCalc - freeware (mirror 1, mirror 2) StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of semispherical whole sky or any of the user defined sub-areas. These images can be zoomed at different scales, rotated, screen-captured and printed. Also, StarCalc has many other functions of calculation and showing of sky objects. Best of all StarCalc is freeware. Cartes du Ciel - freeware Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts) This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown. Your Sky - freeware Your Sky, the interactive planetarium of the Web. You can produce maps in the forms described below for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. The Sky Screen Saver - freeware The Sky Screen Saver shows the sky above any location on Earth, including stars (from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue of more than 9000 stars to the 7th magnitude), the Moon in its correct phase and position in the sky, and the position of the Sun and all the planets in the sky.

	Spanish resources Spanish-language texts The Electronic Text Center's collection of online Spanish-language texts. Anacleta's Spanish & world language / culture resources Spanish & world language/culture resources for children & their parents & dual language, immersion,& bilingual teachers. spanish.about.com This site has a guide who maintains the links to a wealth of resources for the student of Spanish. Cervantes "El lugar de referencia de la lengua espanola y la cultura hispanica..." Spanish language resources Visitors will find a very nice series of concise, annotated links organized under familiar headings. From Lauren Rosen at the University of Wisconsin; this site is worth a visit. Latin America - links Latin America Spanish resources. This site is in progress and will be added to regularly. Houghton Mifflin College Division Spanish Language Resource Center - Web Links

	French resources The Electronic Text Center The Electronic Text Center's collection of online French-language texts.

	German resources The Electronic Text Center The Electronic Text Center's collection of online German-language texts.

	Books Online Project Gutenberg 1 Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts). Project Gutenberg 2 Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). bartleby.com Bartleby.com presents the complete 70 volumes of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time.

	Romanian resources desprecopii.com Desprecopii.com reprezinta casa celei mai puternice si masive comunitati virtuale românesti unitå de dragostea si interesul pentru copii. Aici veti gasi informatie, spatiu, emotie, si consiliere pentru evenimentele ce marcheaza fertilitatea, preconceptia, sarcina, nasterea, dezvoltarea copilului si nu in ultimul rând sånatåtea familiei. Haideti alaturi de noi! parinti.com Comunitate virtuala dedicata actualilor si viitorilor parinti si copiilor lor, vorbitori de limba romana de pretutindeni. Biserica Sf Maria Site bilingv (englez-roman) dedicat bisericii ortodoxe romane Sf Maria din Sydney culinar.ro Pagini dedicate bucatariei romanesti si straine, continind un mare numar de retete culinare romanianvoice.com This site offers a cultural insight on Romania. At Romanian Voice, you will find: 1,000+ Romanian Poems in five languages, 135+ professional Romanian Images in true color, a searchable Romanian Directory, add your own site too, romanian poetry, short stories, theatre, humor, lyrics and more, romanian traditional, folk and rock music - including RealAudio and mp3s.

	Essential utilities WinRAR - shareware WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. //www.textpad.com/ - shareware TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. //www.ghisler.com/ - shareware Total Commander, is a shareware file manager for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and Windows® 3.1. Features: Two file windows side by side, Multiple language support, Enhanced search function, Compare files / synchronize directories, Quick View panel, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins, built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support, parallel port link, multi-rename tool, new: tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons, ZoneAlarm lite - freeware ZoneAlarm Pro firewall that provides excellent protection, and is highly customizable, and works with little fuss. IrfanView - freeware ...one of the most popular viewers worldwide! IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. ReplaceEm - freeware ReplaceEm, premiere-quality, freeware string-replacing utility for Windows. Colour Coder lets you specify colours for all the standard elements in an HTML document. It also allows you to specify a background image to be used, and various browser-specific tags. Background Tester - freeware Mihov Background Tester is a program used to test different images and see how they would look as a tiled background. This is very useful for testing background images for home pages. It can show you jpg and gif images (for web sites) and also bmp images (for Windows background). Web photo album generator - freeware Free web photo album generator AMP Font Viewer - freeware AMP Font Viewer, is the best font viewer I found on the Net. WordWeb Pro - freeware WordWeb Pro is a quick and powerful English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to lookup words from almost any Windows program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. Absolute HTML Compressor - freeware Absolute HTML Compressor is an award-winning tool that optimizes HTML files so that their size reduces. The program doesn't corrupt most HTML files unlike other optimizers.

	Freeware Sites Top Quality Freeware To download some programs you need to be a member, and it's not for free. Web Grid This site contains Freeware. Nothing more, nothing less. The Freesite And another one... The Freeware Publishing Site Offers a collection of the best freeware for WINDOWS. The software presented is no shareware or commercial demoware. But... real FREEWARE. Every day new Freeware is presented ... TinyApps.Org Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC. Virtually all of the programs listed here are free of charge and for use under Windows. The Freeware Home And yet another site dedicated to freeware. No Nags Nonags is listing also shareware programs. UtilityGeek Site containing diagnostic tools and utilities for your PC. Yart Yart - Essays On Software Development. This site contains a very nice solution to implement a local search engine on your website. And it is FREE. Well done.

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