FLORIDA ASTRONOMY
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CLICK THE TABS/LINKS TO FIND ASTRONOMY CLUBS, PLANETARIUMS & OBSERVATORIES, DARK SKY SITES, ASTRONOMY EVENTS, WEATHER PAGE, FREE TOOLS TO FIND OBJECTS IN THE SKY AND ASTRONOMY GEAR.
Florida light pollution image by NASA above. FOR INFO ABOUT DARK SKY SITES IN FLORIDA FOR BETTER OBSERVING, GO TO THE DARK SITES PAGE
There are public Astronomy events in Florida's parks, star parties and New Moon observing events with Astronomy clubs from dark sky sites, and events at observatories and planetariums. I list the ones I hear about at the Florida Astronomy Events page.
FOR MORE FREE TOOLS TO FIND THINGS IN THE SKY, GO TO THE TOOLS PAGE
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All images above by Jason Higley
Space Telescope Science Institute's September Tonight's Sky
A recent video by Anton Petrov on YouTube
A recent SpaceTime with Stuart Gary on YouTube
A recent video by Dr. Paul M. Sutter on YouTube
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Today's sunspots via NASA's SOHO satellite.
Below is the latest GOES SUVI image of the Sun. When present, you can see coronal holes in this image that look very dark and large.
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THERE'S AN ABSOLUTELY FREE HIGH QUALITY ASTRONOMY TEXT BOOK WRITTEN BY ASTRONOMY PROFESSORS AND SOME OF THE LEADING ASTRONOMERS IN THEIR SPECIALTIES, AT OPENSTAX AS A PDF, OR ON AMAZON KINDLE, OR APPLE IBOOKS OR VIEW IT ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE.
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Andrew Fraknoi (who is one of the authors of the book) wrote on April 11, 2025 " "Saving Astronomy Students $92 Million - The non-profit OpenStax project at Rice University just announced that the free, open-source book Astronomy, by A. Fraknoi, S. Wolff, and D. Morrison, is now the most-adopted, introductory astronomy textbook in America, having been used by more than 1.3 million students at 2,100 universities, colleges, and schools. OpenStax estimates that the book has saved astronomy students about $92 million in textbook costs already. Anyone can see the book at..." https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e
"...The textbook, which can be read on line or downloaded via the free OpenStax app, has also been used by more than 100,000 independent readers. It is part of a project (supported by several major charitable foundations) to lower the cost of college by developing free, high-quality textbooks for every introductory class students take."
They've made updates to it and even have some other resources available now in conjunction with the book for professors. Go check it out, IT'S FREE!
"...The textbook, which can be read on line or downloaded via the free OpenStax app, has also been used by more than 100,000 independent readers. It is part of a project (supported by several major charitable foundations) to lower the cost of college by developing free, high-quality textbooks for every introductory class students take."
They've made updates to it and even have some other resources available now in conjunction with the book for professors. Go check it out, IT'S FREE!
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ASTRONOMY NEWS LINKS
ASTRONOMY PODCASTS
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EVERY DAY IS ASTRONOMY DAY!
Hi, I'm Jason Higley (father of that kid), and I've made this website so that we all can find things related to Florida Astronomy. You can let me (and others) know if you have Florida Astronomy related news, events or info by e-mailing me at reachjasonh@ (and add gmail.com to the end of that) and I can share it with everyone here. Here are some minor notes about some other Astronomy things I've done can be seen at my Some Astro Images page.
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THE SKY AS IT APPEARS RIGHT NOW OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA,
OTHER FLORIDA LOCATIONS WILL APPEAR VERY SIMILAR. THE RED LINE IS THE ECLIPTIC (WHERE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM'S PLANETS, SUN AND MOON TRAVEL.)
OTHER FLORIDA LOCATIONS WILL APPEAR VERY SIMILAR. THE RED LINE IS THE ECLIPTIC (WHERE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM'S PLANETS, SUN AND MOON TRAVEL.)
