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About Me


Welcome to WWW.ASTROVOX.GR the biggest Greek Astronomical Community, with friends and regular visitors all around Greece. This is unofficial fan site.
We're here in Myspace to meet friends of astronomy from all around the world.
Feel free to visit our website (in greek) to be introduced Astronomy, the science that was born in Ancient Greece or to visit our forums

Here are various Astronomy Clubs that have been founded around Greece the last years and astronomy photos of our members (updated constantly)
GREEK ASTRONOMY LINKS:
astronomia.gr
The first greek astronomical encyclopedia.
Greek Astronomical union
Site of the Greek Astronomical Union
ofa.gr
Omilos Filwn Astronomias (Thessaloniki|)
orionas.gr
Orionas. Astronomical Union of Patras
hellas-astro.gr
Hellenic Amateur Astronomy Association
greekastronomy.gr
Site of the Greek Astronomy Club
5th Hellenic conference of amateur astronomy
Astrosynedrio 2007. 5th Greek astronomy conference.
EXTERNAL LINKS and software :
Atlas of The Universe
A detailed map, beyond the vicinity our Sun till the far ends of the universe
Celestia
A unique program that lets you travel beyond our solar system and Milky way galaxy and explore the universe in four dimensions
Stellarium
Freeware planetarium program with very good options for the beginner/intermediate user and a very good graphic environment
Sideralis
Free star map for your mobile phone.Displays star and planets' positions for any date and location.
Wikisky.org
Online database of 500 million stars up to magnitude +19 or +20. Even this huge number, is less than 0.5% than all the stars that actually lie inside our galaxy
National Aeronautics ans Space Administration
NASA's site
European Space Agency
ESA's site
Mediterranean Greetings to all the sky-watchers!
CURRENT MOON about the moon

My Interests

Telescopes,
astrophotography,
astronomical observations,
maths,
physics,
cosmology,
astronomy software,
greek observatories

I'd like to meet:

Friends of astronomy everywhere, greeks, non-greeks, geeks and non-geeks

Music:

spaces sounds,
classical tunes and more

Movies:

2001: A space odyssey,
A mission to Mars,
Red Planet,
Contact,
Supernova, etc.

Television:

Discovery channel,
astronomy documentaries

Books:

The Stars : A New Way to See Them - Hans Augusto Rey,
A Walk Through the Heavens - Wil Tirion,
The Backyard astronomer's guide - Terence Dickinson,
Left at Orion - Guy Consolmagno, Dan Davis,
Messier Objects - Stephen James O'Meara,
Cambridge Star Atlas - Wil Tirion,
Advanced Amateur Astronomy - Gerald North,
Astrophotography for the amateur - Michael Convington

Heroes:

IPPARCHOS, inventor of the astrolabe, the first man in the western world that compiled a concise star catalogue

PTOLEMAIOS,writer of the almagest , the most important source of information on ancient Greek astronomy

ARISTARCHUS of SAMOS,
the first man that
proposed heliocentricity instead of geocentricity

ERATOSTHENES,the first man than counted Earth's circumference

JOHANNES KEPLER,famous for his three planetary motion laws

GALILEO GALILEI
TYCHO BRAHE

EDWIN HUBBLE

CARL SAGAN

My Blog

ASTRONOMY AND SCIENCE FORUMS (INTERNATIONAL)

ASTRONOMY FORUMS: in cloudy nights: http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php in astronomy.com: http://www.astronomy.com/ASY/CS/forums/ in popular astronomy: http://www.popastro.com/phpB...
Posted by Astrovox on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:41:00 PST

ON ASTRONOMY SOFTWARE

Below there is a list about almost all available astronomy programs in the internet for every operating system.   Feel free to check some, my favourites are Cartu de ciels, Stellar...
Posted by Astrovox on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:38:00 PST