Re: RE: Apple II on AOL

[joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

>> I'll dearly miss the Astronomy Club, but there you have it.

Welcome to the Net, John. Once you start exploring, you won't be
missing AOL. Since you're interested in astronomy, you'll be pleased
to know that by being on the net, you'll have access to so much
information that it would take you several lifetimes to digest it all.

A good place to start is by accessing NASA's world wide web "Home
Page". That provides hypertext links to ground based telescopes and
observatories world-wide. From NASA's Home Page, you'll also be able
to view images transmitted by the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager,
Magellan, and Galileo.

You can access the World Wide Web by typing the word "lynx" from your
shell account. If lynx is not installed on your dial up host, you can
also access it via telnet. Just open a Telnet connection to
hnsource.cc.ukans.edu and log in as www

Once lynx is running, press "G" and you'll be prompted to enter a URL.
Capture the following URL in your buffer, and send it when prompted:

http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html/

Once you see the view of NCG2300 from Hubble Space Telescope, I
guarantee you that you will no longer miss AOL's astronomy area.

And, if that doesn't convince you, use the NASA home page as an easy
way to open a connection to SpaceLink. They currently have 2 gigabytes
of information online that you should find of interest. And, if that
doesn't do it for you, open a link to the Keck Observatory from the
NASA home page. If that doesn't do it for you, back up to Lynx's Home 
Page, and use the option to Search by Subject. Astronomy is one of the 
subjects. From there, you will have access to virtually every 
astronomical resource in existence. 
 
Joe Kohn
Publisher, Shareware Solutions II

         (finger or e-mail joko@crl.com for subscription information.)