Research & Information:
- Articles on Connecticut Astronomy (Academic Search Premier) (SCSU login required)
- Articles on Astronomy and Connecticut from the Smithsonian/NASA collection at Harvard -- click on the article number for an abstract and full citation -- check the Journal Locator for articles that aren't available in full text in this collection
- Astronomy History: New Haven astronomers are first in US to spot Sputnik!
(1957)
- New Haven Watchers Sight Russian Rocket. The Hartford Courant : Oct 11, 1957 (SCSU login required)
- Amateur Scientists, the International Geophysical Year, and the Ambitions of Fred Whipple (see the section "The Month of New Moons"). W. Patrick McCray. Isis, 2006, 97:634-658
- What did they see? Scroll down through this article for a picture, taken in Canada the night before the New Haven sighting: Meteoric Image (SCSU login required). Marshall, Debbie. Beaver: Canada's History Magazine, Aug/Sep2007, Vol. 87 Issue 4, p16-21
- The 40th anniversary celebrations: SCSU's Sputnik Forum; Sputnik & Southern (Southern Life, Oct. 2007); Siting Sputnik First (Hartford Courant, Oct. 3, 2007).
- Astronomy at SCSU is part of the Earth Sciences Department. See the Faculty pages for research interests and publications by SCSU Faculty
Places to visit:
Observatories and public viewing in CT:
- The Leitner Family Observatory at Yale is open to the public two nights a month. Lectures and special events are also held there (New Haven)
- The Van Vleck Observatory at Wesleyan holds public events and lectures (Middletown)
- Olin Observatory at Connecticut College (New London)
- WCSU's Observatories - public nights at the Midtown Observatory (Danbury)
- Rolnick Observatory managed by the Westport Astronomical Society (Westport)
- Stamford Observatory (Stamford)
Whirlpool galaxy M51
Captured using the Stamford Observatory's 22-inch telescope in photographic mode. - The Astronomical Society of New Haven has public events and information on astronomy, including weather and sky viewing conditions for the Connecticut area (New Haven)
- The Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford also has public events, and hosts the annual StarConn (Hartford)
Planetariums:
- Children's Museum: Gengras Planetarium (West Hartford)
- CCSU's Copernican Planetarium (New Britain)
- Discovery Museum's Henry B. duPont Planetarium (Bridgeport)
- ECSU's Wickware Planetarium (Willimantic)
- Mystic Seaport Museum Planetarium (Mystic)
- SCSU's Planetarium is used for classes and special events only, contact Dr. James Fullmer for more information
- Stamford Museum's Edgerton Memorial Planetarium (Stamford)
- Talcott Mountain Science Museum: Captain Alan L. Bean Hypospherium (Avon)
- UConn Planetarium - classes and special arrangements only, no public hours (Storrs)
- WSCU's Planetarium at the Midtown Observatory (Danbury)
- Planetariums in Connecticut, including schools
- Planetariums in Connecticut from NESSIE