Views of the Solar System is maintained at several different sites on the Internet. Please use the one most local to you.

Primary Site

Hawaiian Astronomical Society.

This is the primary site for "Views of the Solar System." It is maintained by Calvin J. Hamilton, the author.

USA

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.

This site is maintained by Calvin J. Hamilton, the author.

Texas Tech University Department of Physics; Lubbock, Texas

This site is maintained by Lee Burnside; see also their home page.

Astronomy Department, University of Washington; Seattle, Washington

This site is maintained by Alan Cairns; see also their K-12 Astronomy Education pages.

Spaceman.com. See also their home page.

Asia

Singapore: Schools Online Singapore.

This site is maintained by Wynthia Goh.

Australia

MITS Limited, Australia

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at the Australian National University.

This site is maintained by Craig Savage.

Czech

Czech Astronomical Society

Primary Mirror Sites in Europe

Denmark: Tycho Brahe Planetarium.

This site is maintained by Lars Lindberg Christensen. See also the homepage of the Planetarium which is powered by the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Copenhagen.

France: ALTAIR association at the Ecole Polytechnique.

See also their homepage.

Germany: Astronomische Arbeitsgruppe Laufen e.V.

This site is maintained by Otto J. Pilzer. See also the Societies homepage.

Italy: Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri.

This site is maintained by Carlo Baffa. See also their homepage.

Netherlands: The Phoenix Public Observatory.

This site is maintained by Angelo Lamme. See also their homepage.

Portugal: University of Coimbra.

This site is maintained by Miguel Marques. See also their homepage.

Spain: School of Mines, University of Oviedo.

This site is maintained by Antonio Bello Garcia.

United Kingdom: Earth Sciences Department of Cardiff, University of Wales.

This site is maintained by Tim Young. See also their homepage.

Additional Mirror Sites in Europe

Italy: UdA Planets - Department of Sciences - Univ. d'Annunzio of Pescara.

This site is maintained by Attilio Grilli. See also their homepage.

Germany: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie.

This site is maintained by Borut Podlipnik. See also their homepage.

Germany: Goettingen University, Geochemical Institute.

This site is maintained by Dr. Klaus Simon. See also their homepage.

Japan

International Systems Research. See also their homepage.

Latvia

Views of the Solar System in Latvia. See also their homepage.

Russia

Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This site is maintained by Marina Shevchenko. See also their homepage.

South America

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

This site is maintained by Kepler Oliveira. See also their homepage.

Setting Up Your Own Site

You are permitted to set up a Views of the Solar System mirror site as long as you follow the following guidelines: Views of the Solar System may be distributed on the World Wide Web as long as it is used for non-profit applications and the pages are not modified. Views of the Solar System is copyrighted © 1997 by Calvin J. Hamilton and under no circumstance may it be used for profit applications with out the written consent of the author. I give teachers permission to make hard copies for their students. Many of the images are in the public domain and may be used without further permission, but many of them are copyrighted. For additional information consult the copyright page.

At the bottom of each page of Views of the Solar System is a HOST button that links to host.htm. You may modify the host.htm file to point to your host. I would appreciate that you leave the link to the most up-to-date mirror listing, the link to the main server, the Views of the Solar System icon, and my name at the bottom of the page. You may add additional buttons and information about your server. Here's what you need to do to obtain a mirror copy:

Views of the Solar System Mirror File - (The new English mirror file is now available at this time)

1. You will need about 11 MB of disk space.
2. Make a directory and copy the file http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/solar.tar.gz (7.5 MB).
3. Extract the archive with gunzip and tar. All the files will end up in the directory "solar".
4. Check the ownership and permissions; they should be set for public read-only access.
5. If so desired, add a link to your host in the host.htm file.
6. Point your WWW browser to solar/homepage.htm. You should be up and running.
7. Send me an e-mail message, and I will added you to the mirror list.

Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.