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B.A.S.E. 502 - This website is packed with glossy, high-quality pictures documenting Felix Baumgarter's freefalls, base jumps and skydives. Clocking Off - Whether you have an afternoon to spare or a few weeks holiday, Clocking Off can help you make the most of your free time. Activities are grouped into three simple categories: feeling adventurous, just want to get out, and spot of culture. Extreme - This site is promoting the documentary-style feature film Extreme, by Canadian director Jon Long. "Extreme is simply one of the most visually impressive pieces of film ever assembled" - Louis Gerald, SPIN MAGAZINE. Extreme Ironing Bureau - Home of extreme ironing, the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt. Selling Antiques - This website is a huge resource for antiques created by UK Antique Dealers. Artcyclopedia - If you are after any kind of art then check this amazing reference site. ArtMuseum - check this multimedia art website. ArtOnline - From Arcimboldi to Vemeeer and Angelico to Velasquez, the unmistakable flourish of these masters is reproduced here in the form of thousands of online images. British Arts - Great links to the world of British art. Easy Art is a website that sells art prints and frames but you can actually have a lot of fun with it without spending a penny. My Gallery is a section within the site where you can create your own private collections of framed art, saving your favourite images and sharing them with friends. Jake Tilson's The Cooker - Whether you love or hate Tilson's work, this site remains something to admire. Learn to draw - If you want to draw people, caricatures, or find about basic rules of art, check this website. Sheeran Lock Art Gallery offers an eclectic and excellent range of art, with excellent quality of the images. You can zoom in on individual artwork to reveal astonishing detail of each painter’s masterly stroke. Best of all is the use of media, particularly video. Gallery curator John Sheeran has created a series of illuminating films of UK artists which are a pleasure and an education to watch. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts - If you can't go in person then pay a virtual visit to this amazing collection. The National Gallery - A superb complementary resource to a visit to one of London's finest galleries. Ukrainian sand artist proves that reality TV's got talent - Kseniya Simonova, the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent, has become a YouTube phenomenon by telling stories through sand animation. In this one, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war. She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. Simonova looks like some vengeful Old Testament deity as she destroys then recreates her scenes - with deft strokes, sprinkles and sweeps she keeps the narrative going. She moves the judges to tears as she subtitles the final scene "you are always near". Check this video on YouTube. Van Gogh Gallery - This site is not a substitute for a real thing (Van Gogh Gallery in Amsterdam), but is a faithful and chronological representation of the artist's work. You can buy prints of most of the paintings too. White Cube - Art lovers can experience excitement of this gallery in London in Hoxton Square with its excellent interactive design.
SETI@home
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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of
thousands of 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.
There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the
faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth. space.com - Catch up on the latest space news, browse the message boards, join others in the chat rooms. Be sure to visit the Area 51 section for the latest on UFOs. The Puckett Observatory - Tim Puckett loves comets. So much so that he actually has his own observatory! On his site you'll find dozens of great comet images and much more. INFORMATION ON SATELLITES The following sites offer information about the satellites themselves, such as their purpose, mass, dimensions etc. Alan Pickup's SatEvo Page - Decay predictions for satellites close to re-entry. Jonathan's Space Report - Issued about once a week, it provides information on all recently launched satellites. Mark Wade's Encyclodedia Astronautica - Information on most satellites in Earth orbit and beyond NASA Human Spaceflight Pages - Information on the ISS and Space Shuttle missions Spacewarn Bulletin - The SPACEWARN Bulletin is issued at the first of each month and provides a listing of launches and brief details of each launch from the preceding month. OBSERVING SATELLITES NASA satellite tracking page - A set of Java applets to generate pass predictions and show current satellite positions. SOURCES OF SATELLITE ORBITAL ELEMENTS CelesTrak WWW - Historical data for a selection of satellites Mike McCants' Elements - A good page containing elements of satellites organised by category, and stored in ZIPped files for easy downloading. Also contains elements for classified satellites, and a single large file with the most recent elements of most satellites. OIG - NASA's Orbital Information Group, responsible for making unclassified orbital elements available to the public. SPACE AGENCIES BNSC - The British National Space Centre CNES - The French Space Agency (in French, in English is Under Construction) CSA - Canadian Space Agency DLR - The German Aerospace Research Center (in German) ESA - The European Space Agency IKI - Russian Space Research Institute NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASDA - The Japanese Space Agency For more links on Astronomy check here. If you want even more about Astronomy, probably UFO's, Research, Satellites, Solar System, etc click here you won't be disappointed. Check for huge number of Astronomy related links by clicking on image below.
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