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Home Overview Equipment Operation Processing Images Spectroscopy Links |
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The following links have been tested for accuracy at the time they were listed. If you find any that are dead or changed please notify us by e-mail. "Dr. G's Info site" A large site filled with useful information on how to improve your telescope's performance and get the most from your viewing time. "MAPUG Site" The Meade Advanced Products Users Group (MAPUG) exchanges information daily on topics of interest to users of amateur telescopes. This site has an organized presentation of the most interesting information discussed by the group "Astro Archive" Retrieve e-mail from the archives of over 50 mailing lists. 460,000 articles on file. key word search available. "The NGC/IC Project" A site that combines the efforts of amateur and professional astronomers to provide a comprehensive current data base for NGC and IC objects with a history of each object. Includes coordinates, images and catalog cross references. "Regulus The Astronomy Newsletter for Amateurs" A large site with images, papers and much more. "Digitized Sky Survey" Online photographic survey of the sky. Down load a image of any position in the sky in a few seconds. "ASCOM" Home page for the Astronomy Common Object Model. It promotes open scripting tools for astronomy. "SEDS" Home page for the "Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. A very comprehensive site with catalogs, images and lots more. "Space Science News" recent information about space. "Minor planet Mailing List" Site for info about small objects. "Space.com" News about space. "Starport" more news about space. "Naval Observatory Time Page" gives the time determined by the USNO. "Messier Catalog" Pictures and locations of all the Messier objects by SEDS "Astromart" Buy and sell astronomy equipment thru the classified adds on the web. "The Amateur Sky Survey" A program to search for variable stars. You can join their mailing list at this site. "HST Images" Space Telescope Science Institute web page for Hubble pictures. "Deep Sky Imaging" Tips for improving color images from Canada. "The Amateur Sky Survey" Large effort to map the sky using drift scanning. "Flat Fields" Good article on flat field techniques. "Amateur Observatories" A list of amateur observatories. "Amateur Adaptive Optics" Early article on adaptive optics. "CCD Info" Articles on CCD techniques. "Color in Astro Images" Good article on color image techniques. "International Supernova Network" Info on supernova and latest discoveries. "Linear Reconstruction" Discussion of the "Drizzling" technique to improve under sampled images. "Astronomical Image Library" Catalog of Astro images available on the net. "Observational Mishaps" What can go wrong with your images. "European Space Organization Home Page" Info about the ESA and some of their images. "MISAO Project" Use this software to look for new objects. "Solar Info" List of links on sun related sites. "Hubble Heritage" Info and pictures on the HST. "Amateur Observing Program" Use professional equipment at the Kitt Peak Observatory. Site includes a collection of the best pictures taken by participants. "Explore Zone" A web site with news on space, science and weather. "Star Cast" Check the expected observing conditions here. "GOES" NASA's weather center with interactive satellite imagery. "Astronomical WWW Resources" A detailed list of professional Astronomical web sites. "NASA JPL" Latest information from the Jet Propulsion Lab. "Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive" Professional site for information on the HST. "STScI" Home page of the Space Telescope Science Institute provides press releases and pictures from the HST. "Astronomical Data Center Archives" A professional site run by NASA. Has links to indexes of astronomical catalogs. To see the layout of the entire site use this link. "Astronomy Picture of the Day" A new professional picture each day together with a short background discussion by an astronomer. "Astrophysics Data System" Look up info in astronomical journals and catalogs. "IRAF" Home page for free professional astronomy software (requires UNIX or LINUX) "CCD University" Sponsored by Apogee Cameras this site has lots of useful information on how CCD cameras work. "Meade Corporation" The home page of the company that manufactures the LX200 telescope used by the observatory "Santa Barbara Instrument Group" The web site of SBIG who makes the camera, spectrograph and ancillary equipment used in image acquisition. "Axiom Research" The company that wrote Mira, the program that is used for much of the image processing work. "Diffraction Limited" Web site for information about Maximum DL, an image processing program that can be used to do Maximum Entropy Deconvolution. "Software Bisque" Home page of the company that developed the integrated software package that is used for telescope tracking and automated image acquisition. "RC Optical Systems" Manufactures Ritchey-Chretien telescopes. The design used for the Hubble Space Telescope. "Sky and Telescope" A monthly magazine that has information on ordering Desert Storm Shields, Kendrick Dew Heaters and many other telescopes and accessories. "Kendrick Astro Instruments" Manufactures the heaters and other equipment used for the observatory. "Optical Guidance Systems" Professional telescopes, mounts and control systems. "APM Telescopes" Large telescopes an accessories from Europe. "William Bell" Astronomy books on line. "Mettler Wedge" Info on one of several equatorial wedge designs. "Bonnie Lake Astro" Milburn wedge and custom machining. "Christian Buil Homepage" Comprehensive discussion of the acquisition and processing of spectra. Includes equipment construction and access to the Iris image processing program. "Spectral Standards" Spectrophotometric standards useful for calibrating spectrographs. "Model Spectra" Model spectra for stars. "Planetary Nebula" Emission line data for planetary nebula. "Forum for Amateur Spectroscopy" A site dedicated to providing information for those interested in astronomical spectroscopy. "Stellar Classification" Brief tutorial on Spectroscopy. "Nova Aql 99" Spectra on this nova from France. "Spectrashift" An amateur spectroscopy site with professional results! "Worchester Park Observatory" Maurice uses a SBIG spectrometer for his work. "Spectra of Gas Discharges" Spectral lines of many of the elements found in stellar spectra. "Digitized Spectral Data" A professional site with references to online sources of spectra data. "Spectra of Planetary Nebula" Spectra of 3 PN's and info on PN emission lines. Amateur Astronomer's Web Pages "Benoit Schillings Web Page" Benoit helped write the program "CCD Sharp" which is used with the AO-7 from SBIG. His pictures are works of art. "Al Kelly's Home Page" Author of the article on using "Cyan, Magenta, Yellow" filters for color pictures. "Cookbook CCD camera Home Page" Run by Richard Berry this popular site helps amateurs build a CCD camera. "Leslie Canyon Observatory" Home page for film and CCD images taken by Tony and Darcy Jennings. "Antonio Cidadao's homepage" Lunar and planetary images from Portugal. "Bobby Middleton's Astronomy homepage" Astro images from rural America. "Home page of Steve Crouch" CCD images taken with a C14 telescope in Australia. "Jeff MacQuarrie's Home Page" Lots of CCD images and links to other sites. "Home page of Robert Provin" Images taken with a 6" refractor in California together with hints on CCD image processing. "Nyrola Observatory" Located in Norway the observatory used a 16' Meade telescope and a ST-7. "Home page of Bill McLaughlin" Film and CCD images from the Night Sky. "Home Page of Ron Wodaski" Refractor and SC images. "Greg's home page" CCD imaging with a 10' LX-200 and the Cookbook 245 camera. "Home page of Kunihiko Okano" Images obtained with a 1K x 1K CCD camera in Japan. "Home page of Thierry Legault" Beautiful pictures and useful information from France. Collimation page is quite good. "Home page of Brad Wallis" Author of a popular book presents his images. "Home page of Wil Milan" film images from Arizona. "Home page of Bob Glender" author of several S & T articles presents his images. "Morden Observatory" Adrian Catterall's work and comments are on this site. "Advanced Observing Program" Use the Kitt Peak Observatory. "Deep Space 99" Lots of Astro images here at the home page of Frank Loch. "Bill Walser's Home page" Images taken with a 16' RC telescope. "Arcturus Observatory" Index to a remotely operated observatory in New Jersey. "Al Kelly's home page" Images taken with a 32" Newtonian. "Tenagra Observatory" Supernova search conducted here. "Plettstone" Web site of Michelle Stone. "Chuck's Astrophotography" Images and articles on astrophotography. "Home page of Bill Arnett" Images and Articles. "Wayne's Astronomy Page" Good discussion on using the LX-200.
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