Resources

• South African Astronomical

Observatory (SAAO) saao.ac.za • Astronomical Society of Southern

Africa (ASSA) assa.saao.ac.za • Auke Slotegraaf ’s Psychohistorian

site psychohistorian.org • International Dark-Sky Association

darksky.org • Edward and Lynnette Foster’s ELF

Astronomy page elfastronomy.com • Willie Koorts’ home page

saao.ac.za/~wpk • Cederberg Astronomical

Observatory cederbergobs.org.za •TelescopeShop telescopeshop.co.za • Eridanus Optics

eridanusoptics.com/store • Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

skatelescope.org • Southern African Large Telescope

(SALT) salt.ac.za • NASA, a huge and multifaceted

portal nasa.gov • European Space Agency (ESA)

esa.int/ESA • Sky & Telescope

skyandtelescope.com • Stellarium, a free open-source planetarium for your computer

stellarium.org/en_GB • Celestia, a real-time 3D space

simulator celestiaproject.net • Sterre en Planete, a weekly Sunday evening programme on Afrikaans radio station RSG

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

• University of Cape Town’s Astronomy Club meets every second Tuesday on campus. uctastroclub@gmail.com, ast.uct.ac.za/UCTAstronomyClub • The Orion Observation Group operates in the Boland. 082 729 2716 (Serena) • Southern Peninsula Astronomy Club 073 470 3185 (Peter) peter@tim.co.za • Kroonstad Astronomy Club 082 443 3246 (Barry) • Soutpansberg Astronomy Club 079 148 4934 (Kos) • West Rand Astronomy Club kennynev@telkomsa.net (Kenny)

Sky Guide Africa South (Struik/ASSA)