Physics 101 - Astronomy  -  information on the sky and the weather

Night Sky viewing

Clear Dark Sky (check this prior to observing)
    http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/McmbILkey.html?1 

Moon Phase Calendar (to check for moonless nights)
    http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/

Night Sky (charts, satellite viewing, comets, ephemera)
    http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx?Loc=Macomb&Lat=40.459&Lng=-90.672&Alt=215&TZ=CST 

Space Weather
    http://www.spaceweather.com/ 

Astronomy Picture of the Day (check out the archives, too)
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html 

Planetary orbits
    http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?orbits 

View Earth from any point above surface
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html 

View Mars (opens several windows)
    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/applet.html 

NASA Eclipse home page
    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html 

Weather links

Macomb Airport Conditions:
    http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KMQB.html 

Unisys weather loop (national, 6 hour)
    http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html 

Unisys dewpoint (national, current)
    http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_con_dewp.html 

National Weather Service forecast for Macomb
    http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Macomb&state=IL&site=DVN 

Upper Mississippi Valley loop (one hour)
    http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/uppermissvly_loop.php 

NWS short range composite loop for Central Illinois
    http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=ILX&loop=yes 

NWS long range reflectivity from Quad Cities
    http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=N0Z&rid=dvn&loop=yes 

National Hurricane Center
    http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ 

Misc. links

    Time         http://www.time.gov/    or    http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

    Earthquakes        http://earthquake.usgs.gov/