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Boston Clear Sky Chart provides an Astronomical Forecast!
Harvard Clay Skycam All-sky camera on the roof of the Science Center
Harvard Clay Weather Station Weather station on the roof of the Science Center
Weather Underground gives a good overview and hourly forecasts. It also gives astronomy definitions as well as information about twillight and lunar phase.
Accuweather is another good site that provides hourly forecasts!
Current Clay Telescope Information - Latitude, Longitude, MPC code, moon stats and clear sky chart
Making Annotated Finder Charts - For generating finder charts
Skyview - For generating finder charts
Digital Sky Survey - For generating finder charts
Simbad - Astronomical Database
Hourly airmass calculator by SkyCalc
Julian date - USNO
Sidereal time - USNO
Picmonkey - Tool for photo editing
Celestial Calendar lists thousands of events to view, from irridium flares to eclipses!
Exoplanet Transit Database - transit predicter for all known transiting exoplanets
Stellarium - we use The Sky on our computers but this is a FREE program that does essentially the same thing!
Current Night Sky - what's up in Cambridge's night sky?
WEBDA - useful site for galactic open clusters or small magellenic cloud clusters
Satellite Flybys from Spaceweather