The following are some websites of general use in all astronomy courses.  Weekly assignments may contain other websites of specific importance to that week's topic.

fourmilab.to/yoursky/
For web software to get sky map for viewing – free. Use Vancouver or Seattle for approximate coordinates.

neave.com/lab/space/planetarium.html
Planetarium, Naeve.com, this highly interactive site allows you to use your mouse to look around the sky (click to start/stop moving). Pointing at stars shows their name, magnitude and constellation. You can also change the date, time and latitude for a different sky view.

astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html
Chris Dolan’s sky-viewing site. Good all-round help for locating stars, constellations, data on various objects of interest to sky-watchers.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day with archives back to June 1995, good index by topic, and a good search engine.

planetarium.wwu.edu
WWU planetarium website.

whatcomastronomy.org
Website for WACO, the Whatcom area amateur astronomy club. Lists events including star parties, and has pictures taken by club members. Best local opportunity to do viewing without your own equipment, with help from experienced people with equipment.

science.nasa.gov
News stories from NASA. Has annual headlines back to 1996. Good way to keep up with news in science and astronomy of interest to NASA.

sci.esa.int/index.cfm
News from ESA, the European Space Agency (their equivalent to NASA in the U.S.) – an index to various web pages with research information in different areas of astronomy.

skypub.com/news/news.shtml
Recent news from publishers of Sky & Telescope.

astronomy.com
Astronomy magazine, news and recent articles

sciam.com
Scientific American magazine, with science news.

mars.nasa.gov/msl/
Home page for JPL/NASA Mars Curiosity mission

oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
Latest images from the Hubble space telescope, from space science institute. See images of deep space objects in optical and infra-red portions of the spectrum.

Brad's Astronomy Pages
Lots of short explanations of astronomical topics. A good general source of information for this course.