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Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, and Twilight
  Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day
  Table of Sunrise/Sunset, Moonrise/Moonset, or Twilight Times for an Entire Year

Moon Illumination
  Phases of the Moon
  Fraction of the Moon Illuminated

Eclipses
  Recent and Upcoming Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
  Lunar Eclipse Computer

Positions of the Sun and Moon
  Altitude and Azimuth of the Sun or Moon During One Day
  Position of the Sun at Noon for Washington, D.C.

Data for Solar System Bodies and Bright Stars
  Web Version of MICA - Multi-Year Interactive Computer Almanac
includes positions, rise/set/transit, physical ephemerides - plus sidereal time & Julian dates
  Orbital Elements of Asteroids
provides an online interface to a database of orbital elements and other properites of known solar system small bodies (NEOs, main-belt asteroids, Centaurs, trans-Neptunian objects, but not comets)
  Apparent Disk of Solar System Object
creates a synthetic image of the telescopic appearance of the Moon or other solar system object for specified date and time

Dates
  Earth's Seasons - Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion,and Aphelion 1992-2005
  Spring Phenomena, 25 BCE to 38 CE
  Date of Easter
  Julian Date Conversion

Celestial Navigation
  Celestial Navigation Data
provides computed altitudes and azimuths and other data for an assumed position and time
  Navigational Star Chart

Miscellaneous
  International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) - Important Links
  Occultations of Stars by Asteroids (International Occultation Timing Association)
  Transit of Mercury - 2003 May 7
  General description and geocentric data (PDF)
  World map of visibility (PDF)
  List of ingress/egress times for major world cities (PDF)
  Transit of Venus - 2004 June 8
  General description, geocentric data and list of ingress/egress times for major world cities (PDF)
  World map of visibility (PDF)
  Eclipses/Occultations of the Galilean Satellites 2002 - 2003

DoD Information
  DoD Information (restricted access)

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