San Diego links

• San Diego Astronomy Association
• Oceanside Photo & Telescope Astronomical Society (OPTAS)
• Reubun H. Fleet Science Center astronomy site
• San Diego State University Astronomy Department
• University of California at San Diego Department of Astrophysics and Space Sciences
• Palomar College Astronomy Department
• Explore the Stars! - a group that gathers near Palomar Observatory occasionally
• Amateur Telescope Making - meets at CSUSM
• Oceanside Photo & Telescope
• ScopeCity
• Discovery Telescopes
• The Astronomy Connection - South, a Yahoo! Group.

On-line vendors

• Hands On Optics
• Orion Telescopes
• University Optics - source of highly-recommended eyepieces
• Siebert Optics - more highly-recommended eyepieces
• Surplus Shed - miscellaneous assortment of surplus optics

Information

Need to find your latitude and longitude? Here you go!
Compute local sidereal time

Vandenberg A.F.B. Launch Schedule
Vandenberg A.F.B. official launch site - Doesn't seem to actually have dates and times.

• Free, downloadable sky maps

• Science@NASA Astronomy - Astronomy news from NASA
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - tons of excellent links and information!
• Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews - more excellent info!
• ScopeReviews.com - Telescope reviews
• Excelsis - Reviews of telescopes, eyepieces, binoculars, etc.

Publications

• Sky & Telescope magazine - one of "the" astronomy magazines, and tons of great info on-line, too
• Astronomy magazine

Software

• XEphem - the greatest piece of astronomical software I'm aware of! And it's free if you run a real operating system, or are willing to compile and install CygWin on your system... :-)
• SEDS Planetarium software - A list of astonomy-related programs