Resources and Links
- Nature
- Astronomy
Bear Country, USA
A beautiful drive through Wildlife park located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This is where many of our wolves come from.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
The Space Place
We are a "Space Place" partner registered with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. This site has excellent educational content that is fun for kids of all ages. There is also information that teachers can use and print out for use in classrooms.
Heavens Above
This great web site will give you local times for the rising and setting of satellites, HST, or any number of man made objects. It has other great features like planet rise and set times.
SkyMaps
This site is a great place for getting a printed starmap of the evening sky. The maps are in Adobe Acrobat format and are for the current month. An archive is available for previous maps.
The Southeastern Planetarium Association
The planetarium and its staff are members of this regional organization that encourages interaction between planetariums in the South-Eastern side of the country. If you are interested in getting more information about this organization, use the following link to visit their homepage.
Milligan College
Milligan College website. We house their 8" refracting telescope in a special observatory dome here at Bays Mountain Park.
East Tennessee State University - Public Astronomy Activities
This site lists the Public offerings that ETSU is currently giving to the public. It lists lectures that are going to be given by Instructors, programming in their Planetarium, dates on when they conduct star parties, and the like.
Bristol Astronomy Club
This is a link for the club that meets at King College's Burke Observatory in Bristol, Virginia