sky2009.org

Today, Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at 8:17 UTC, will be the maximum total lunar eclipse. As the lunar ephemeris service programming in this page is not yet finished, you can see the event information in astronomia.org. This page give these ephemeris:

It's cool, isn't it? This Milky Way image in galactic coordinates in Mercator projection was obtained from “All-Sky Milky Way Panorama 2.0”, a wonderful page that contains version 2 of the sky image and raw data. The good thing about this view of our galaxy is that you can see very well the great dark nebulae and, having superimposed figures of the constellations, their distribution within the Milky Way.

I have been very slow to start this site dedicated to Amateur Astronomy (I was overworked), but I think the wait worth it. The main language is Spanish, althought this site is planned to be bilingual, with articles and utilities in English. Perhaps I will add content in French—with these languages many world population is covered.

This page is born in tribute to the International Year of Astronomy and, as over the years, being an amateur astronomer, I managed to gather a lot of information and catalogs, in addition I work in Vectorial Web Cartography, I thought thar there is no greater tribute than to make them available throught web services for consultation. Although it started late, perfectly fulfills the objectives of the IAU to promote this science. Nonetheless the sky is always at your disposal and web publishing is always evolving. I hope that in the years to continue you follow with interest its growth and that this site will became useful for you.

Note: The maps and graphs makes extensive use of SVG images, so I strongly recommend that you read the related articles in CartoVector so you can visualize them in your browser.