space.com will give you a really good overview

Posted by rtlange268, on August 27th, 2008, at 3:40 am. #.

This is a good one.
Here´s another:
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Posted by DrAnders_pHd, on August 29th, 2008, at 1:01 pm. #.

Hi All you need is curiosity. Here is a free program that can show you what you are looking at. Start with just your eyes, move to a good set of binoculars, then consider a good quality telescope. (Not the other way around.)

Posted by Cirric, on August 31st, 2008, at 11:52 am. #.

Start with the big picture. Atlasoftheuniverse.com is a great site for seeing the big picture. The film “powers of ten” will do the same. its viewable on a number of sites including powersof10.com.

Posted by Richard R, on August 31st, 2008, at 9:31 pm. #.

if you want to start at the beginning don’t go web. get the book astronomy for dummies it really explains it in terms a beginner can understand then move on to the web and use the book as a reference and it will be a lot easier for you

Posted by Ranken, on September 3rd, 2008, at 8:58 am. #.

Try
My website isn’t of dubious quality and yeah Nightwatch is a great book for starters, so is Skywatching by David Levy which you can find in a library (unless you have a phobia of libraries)

Posted by Sakib, on September 4th, 2008, at 9:40 am. #.

Let me suggest that you do something radical: Read a book! You’ll get a much clearer and more complete picture of astronomy from a good book, than from a bunch of web sites of dubious quality. The book I’d recommend is NightWatch by Terence Dickinson (Firefly).

Posted by Geoff G, on September 5th, 2008, at 9:03 am. #.