Podcasts
MPR Podcast "Jet Streaming" for December 17 (featuring Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society)
Where to Buy Telescopes in the Twin Cities
National Camera
Radio City
Recommended Books
Love, Drake, and Collins, "Kids Book of the Night Sky"
Terence Dickson, "Night Watch"
Chet Raymo, "365 Starry Nights"
Astronomy Software
Stellarium (free open source planetarium software for your computer)
Cartes Du Ciel (free program to draw sky charts)
Websites
Stargazing for Beginners (article with advice on how to begin stargazing)
Celestron's Sky Scout (site for personal handheld planetarium)
www.skymaps.com (skymaps)
Heavens Above (real-time satellite, ISS, and Space Shuttle orbital pass information, sky charts, and more)
Astronomy Picture of the Day (images with explanation)
NASA's Planetary Photojournal (images and information from various missions and instruments)
Starchild (a learning center for young astronomers)
Space Telescope Science Institute (resources and programs)
SpaceWeather.com (information about the Sun-Earth environment)
Space Weather Now (real-time space weather)
Sky & Telescope Magazine (magazine of astronomy)
SOHO: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (sun, corona, and solar wind site)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (astronomy society with a lot of information)