HOME Mirror Sites


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

Primary Site

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico
This is the primary site for "Views of the Solar System". It is maintained by Calvin J. Hamilton, the author.

USA

Texas Tech University Department of Physics; Lubbock, Texas
This site is maintained by Alan Sill; 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.
Internet Tidal Wave; Allentown, PA

Europe

ALTAIR association at the Ecole Polytechnique. See also their homepage.
Astronomische Arbeitsgruppe Laufen e.V.
This site is maintained by Otto J. Pilzer. See also the Societies homepage.
University of Coimbra, Portugal.
This site is maintained by Miguel Marques. See also the University of Coimbra homepage.
Video On Line.
See also their other Astronomy related pages.

Australia

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at the Australian National University.
This site is maintained by Craig Savage.

Japan

International Systems Research. See also their homepage.

Setting Up Your Own Site

If you are interested in setting up a mirror site for Views of the Solar System, feel free to do so. Views of the Solar System can be freely distributed as long as the pages are used for non-profit applications, are not modified, and my name stays on each page. Here's what you need to do to obtain your own copy:

Views of the Solar System Mirror File - (Updated on January 3, 1995)

  1. You will need 8 MB of disk space.
  2. Make a directory and copy the file http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/solar.tar.gz (5 MB). This file can also be obtained from the /pub/cjh directory of the anonymous ftp site ftp.c3.lanl.gov.
  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. Point your WWW browser to solar/homepage.htm; you should be up and running.

Author: Calvin J. Hamilton