Project ASTRO Lending Library
All active Project ASTRO Participants are eligible to check out materials from the Bay Area Lending Library. The Library exists to supplement materials that that may not be available in classrooms including books, slide materials, lab equipment, activity supplies, and much more.
What is the Lending Library?
The Project ASTRO Lending Library is a resource and materials library designed to increase partners access to supplies and supplemental classroom tools.
How do I borrow an item?
It is easy. Just follow the steps below.
- Contact the Bay Area Program Coordinator at bayareaastro {at} astrosociety.org or 415-715-1426.
- Request the item and determine if it is available.
- Wait for directions from the Coordinator regarding delivery of object. (Some items, like the telescopes, must be picked up at the ASP. Other items may be mailed or shipped.)
What is in the Library?
The contents of the Library are always changing as we solicit donations and purchase equipment. If you are looking for a material or tool related to Project ASTRO that you do not have at your school, astronomy club, or workplace, please ask if we may have it – even if you don’t see it on this list. Click on a category below to see what is available or just browse.
Click here for a pdf version of the list of books available from the lending library.
Observing & Classroom Materials
Videos
Software/CD-ROMs
Slide Sets
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Library Materials
Bay Area Project ASTRO is proud to include the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s library as a part of our lending library. The ASP’s library includes hundreds of additional books on various astronomy related topics for both adults and children. Browse subjects alphabetically:
Project ASTRO Lending Library
Observing & Classroom Materials
A1. Telescope, Meade LX-200 GPS, 14″
A2. Telescope, Meade ETX-90EC
A3. Telescope, home made 12″ Dobsonian
A4. Telescope, Bushnell, 2.5″ Refractor
A5. Telescope, Meade, 6″ Newtonian
A6. Telescope, Meade ETX-125EC
A7. Telescope, Meade ETX-60AT
A8. Telescope, home made Dobsonian 13.1″
B1. Sun Spotter (3 available)
B2. Diffraction grating glasses (classroom set)
B3. Diffraction peepholes (classroom set)
B4. 20 oz cleaned plastic bottles (to make Planet Bottles)
B5. NASA Lithographs (large variety)
B6. NASA and SETI posters (large variety)
B7. Celestial Sphere, 30″
B8. Overhead Projector
B9. Star Gazer (Mini Portable star projector)
Videos
C1. A Private Universe
C2. All About Telescopes and Binoculars
C3. Asteroids: Deadly Impact
C4. Best Mind Since Einstein
C5. Big Bang
C6. Carl Sagan-A Cosmic Celebrity
C7. Changing Universe
C8. Colors Of The Sun
C9. Comet Odyssey
C10. Contact
C11. Cosmic Travelers
C12. Countdown To The Invisible Universe
C13. Death Star
C14. Doppler Effect
C15. Earth Revealed (5 video series)
C16. Evolution
C17. Expanding Universe
C18. Eyewitness Planets
C19. Galaxy Guide
C20. Lenses and mirrors
C21. Life in Universe Series-SETI
C22. Life on Mars
C23. Mars: Past, Present and Future
C24. Blue Planet
C25. Meteorites
C26. Milky Way’s Invisible Light
C27. NASA Astrophysics Presents: Supernova The Birth, Death Of A Star, and Supernova
C28. Newton’s Laws
C29. Planets – Published by Eyewitness (2 series set)
C30. Planets (5 series set)
C31. Powers of 10 (3 copies)
C32. Project ASTRO
C33. Sir Isaac Newton
C34. Solar System
C35. The ASP-Wimps vs. Machos: What’s the Matter?
C36. The Aurora Explained
C37. Things That Go Bang In The Night
C38. To The Moon
C39. Understanding the Universe
C40. What makes the Big Bang Big
C41. IMAX “Cosmic Voyage” with Morgan Freeman (DVD)
Software/CD-ROMs
E1. Earth and Sky, Radio Series
E2. Echoes of the Night Native American Legends of the Night Sky
E3. Explore the Planets
E4. Falling from the Sky meteor Resource CD
E5. Galaxy Guide – A Journey through the Constellations
E6. Gemini Observatory Virtual Tour
E7. NASA’s Everyday Classroom Tools
E8. Project ASTRO Saturn Workshop
E9. Real Sky- Digitized Southern Sky on 11 CD-Roms
E10. Real Sky – the Palomar Observatory, Sky Survey on 9 CD-Roms
E11. SDSS Sample Volume 1
E12. Sky Tools
E13. Star Gazer
E14. The Chromatics Astro Cappella 2.0
E15. The Dynamic Sun
E16. TRACE – Transitional Region and Coronal Explorer
E17. Tune in the Universe! A Radio Amateur’s Guide to search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
E18. Chandra-X-ray Observatory
E19. Hubble Telescope Picture CD -Hubble Universe
Slide Sets
F1. Stellar Evolution
F2. Glorious Eclipse
F3. Comet Impact
F4. The Planetary System
F5. Women in Astronomy
F6. Galaxies
F7. Andromeda Galaxy M31
F8. The Hubble Space Telescope
F9. Planet Picking, Part I
F10. Planet Picking, Part II
F11. Universe at Your Fingertips
F12. Mars Pathfinder
F13. Splendors of the Universe, Set 1
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Library Subjects
1. Amateur Astronomy
2. Ancient History
3. Asteroids
4. Astronomy and Physics text books
5. Astrophotography
6. Astrophysics
7. Atlases
8. Basic Observing Handbooks
9. Before Galileo
10. Binary Stars
11. Biographies
12. Black Holes
13. Celestial Mechanics
14. Comets
15. Comprehensive history
16. Computing Astronomy
17. Dark Matter
18. Dictionaries and References
19. Earth
20. Education
21. Einstein
22. Extraterrestrial Life / SETI
24. Galileo
25. Gamma Rays
26. General Astronomy
27. General Cosmology
28. General Physics
29. General Science
30. General Solar System
31. Herschel
32. High Energy
33. History
34. Hubble
35. Jupiter
36. Kepler
38. Mercury
39. Meteors
40. Milky Way
41. Moon
42. Neptune
43. Neutron Stars
44. New titles (not reviewed yet.)
45. Newton
46. Observational Techniques
47. Optical
48. Origin of the Universe
49. Oversized Books
50. Particle Physics
51. Philosophy of science
52. Pluto
53. Pseudoscience
54. Quasars
55. Radio Astronomy
56. Rare books
57. Relativity
59. Social science
60. Space
61. Stellar Evolution
62. Sun
63. Supernova
64. Telescope Making
65. Telescopes
66. UFOs
67. Uranus
68. Variable Stars
69. Venus
70. Women in astronomy
71. X-ray Astronomy