Do you have recommendations for books, web pages and other resources that can help get one started with learning about astronomy? Super beginner level? Please post them in the replies! 🔭 - ThreadSky

mpoessel.de • 31 days ago

Do you have recommendations for books, web pages and other resources that can help get one started with learning about astronomy? Super beginner level? Please post them in the replies! 🔭

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Thank you for your response!
I have always been fascinated by astronomy but remain very uneducated. I was hoping for suggestions on books, pages, channels that would help me learn. Super beginner level explanations of the terminology and physics/science of it all. Thank you!

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benneholwerda.bsky.social•31 days ago

Crash course Astronomy and the openstax textbook! And the Roman Education exercises.

mpoessel.de•31 days ago

Thanks! Collecting the links here:

mpoessel.de•31 days ago

This one presumably? (Not sure I would have classed this as for super beginners, though.)

missmustermann.bsky.social•31 days ago

📌

mpoessel.de•31 days ago

And this? https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/learningresources.html

benneholwerda.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sorry no Rubin education!

https://rubinobservatory.org/education

Great exercises!

mpoessel.de•30 days ago

Ah, yes! That makes much more sense :-)

owengwynne.bsky.social•30 days ago

Phil Plait presented the Crash Course Astronomy series on Youtube. It's a great place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPAJr1ysd5yGIyiSFuh0mIL

pilangodraig.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/@TheRoyalInstitution/search?query=astronomy

pilangodraig.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/astronomy-images-the-universe/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

pilangodraig.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/astronomy/astronomy-online-telescope/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab

pilangodraig.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Our-Accidental-Universe-by-Chris-Lintott/9781804995914

pilangodraig.bsky.social•30 days ago

Gresham college astronomy. Checkmark astronomy in topics to see available lectures.
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/browse-all?see-all

skymaps.com•31 days ago

Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson is likely the most popular book for learning the night sky. Other titles are of course available, some of which are listed at: https://skymaps.com/learn/
Also, The Evening Sky Map (free PDF) is an easy-to-use guide to the night sky each month: https://skymaps.com/tesm/ 🔭

starcatcherjohn.bsky.social•31 days ago

Also if you’re looking for a good planetarium software ( free ) https://stellarium.org/

starcatcherjohn.bsky.social•31 days ago

If you are interested in astrophotography I recommend Cuiv the lazy geek. https://youtube.com/@cuivthelazygeek?si=Tnr-V1aRDE_fILPn

okuboheavy.bsky.social•31 days ago

Can I ask for recommendations for books for kids too? My 9 year old is very interested in learning astronomy. We plan to build a small telescope this Summer.

kilroi22.bsky.social•31 days ago

You have to join The Planetary Society, but they are free after that: https://www.planetary.org/courses Of course their publication, The Planetary Report, is another great resource.

chrfrde.bsky.social•31 days ago

Astronomy Cast podcast. They have a backlog of 700+ episodes by now, some "current space news" items from 15 years ago will be a bit dated but there is lot of basic astronomy topics explained for the general public. https://www.astronomycast.com/

chrfrde.bsky.social•31 days ago

Also shout-out to professor R. Pogge who recorded three of his introductory astronomy courses and put them online for free as an experiment from 2006 seems they are still around https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/pogge.1/Ast161/Audio/

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