The University of Sheffield

Department of Physics and Astronomy

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General

Weather Information

Enter the departmental postcode of "S3" ("S3 7RH" is the full postcode) or "Sheffield" if necessary on the following sites

Met Office forecast for Sheffield
BBC Weather forecast for Sheffield [this site contains a weather video that is useful]
Netweather forecast for Sheffield
TheWeatherOutlook forecast for Sheffield
TheWeatherOutlook astronomy forecast for Sheffield
XCWeather forecast for Sheffield
Myweather2
AccuWeather
Metcheck forecast for Sheffield [NB: this site does not always work correctly]
Metcheck astronomy forecast [NB: this site does not always work correctly]

Observing

Northern Hemisphere BVRI Standards
UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Celestial Equator: Updates and Additions by Landolt (2009) [local copy in Downloads]
UBVRI Standard Stars at Northern Declinations by Oja (1995) [local copy in Downloads]
List of 250 prominent Open Clusters
WEBDA [enter cluster name in "Display the Page of the Cluster" box]

Tenerife

Astronomy Socities

Sheffield Astronomical Society