Listed here are a few useful links, if you find any that don't work let me know (dave at astromag dot co dot uk)
Personal home pages
Starryscapes Loke Kun Tan's Astrophotography website. Excellent CCD images.
Christian Buil's Home Pages A site dedicated to the use of CCD detectors in the field of astronomy and spectroscopy
Tom Carrico's "Argo" site Superb site with details of CCD imaging with G-11/Gemini and MI250 mounts
DIY Sundials Make your own sundial, photographs of many examples plus free software to design your own
Chris Woodruff ST7 CCD images from several scopes and mounts
Bruce Sayre's ATM page This has to be one of the best scope building sites on the Internet. It even includes CAD drawing files to download!
Alistair Symon If you thought the modest Meade LX10 telescope wasn't up to CCD image taking, think again. Alistair has some really good images taken with a Starlight camera.
Todd Gross's 'Weatherman' site A terrific source of information, especially on taking colour CCD images with the Starlight MX5 series cameras.
Philip Perkins UK based astrophotograper Philip Perkins -stunning colour images
Jerry Lodriguss's photography page Some of the best amateur images to be found on the internet together with plenty of hints and tips on taking astro photographs. Includes use of digital SLR cameras (Canon and Nikon) and a Photoshop "how to" article. Rated 10/10 .
David Ratledge's home page Excellent CCD images and telescope making hints and tips.
Kunihiko Okano's web page If you thought the best CCD images came from Jack Newton and Don Parker take a look at Kunihiko's page, he's darn good!
The Astronomer World famous web magazine, a Point Survey "Top 5% web site".
Miscellaneous and professional web pages
Astronomy resources directory of Astronomy related websites.
Space Weather Solar weather data.
Aurora Watch Includes an auroa altert service via SMS message to your mobile phone, live magnetometer graph and details of how to make simple magnetometers.
Astronomy-UK Astro Equipment, Buy, Sell, Trade.This is a free UK-based advertising service for astronomy related items
Sheridan Williams Solar eclipse data
SEDS home page Probably the best place to read about Messier, NGC and other deep sky objects.
Fred Espenak's web page If you want to view an eclipse this is the best place in the universe to find out about it!
The STScI Digitized Sky Survey Save thousands! Just type in the object's name and download a professional image of it!
The UK ATM Page Stephen Tonkin's web site giving useful information such as a list of UK parts suppliers.
COAA Astronomers from the UK think of COAA as their holiday home, see what Portugal has to offer. Plenty of pictures, booking details - even weather prospects! For users of the Starlight Express CCD cameras, Bev has some interesting (some free) software to down-load. He also sells a low cost pc interface for the Vixen GP series, Losmandy G-11 and other mounts that use stepper motors.
Campaign for dark skies If you think no one bothers to write to the council, parliament etc. Think again, this is how to start the ball rolling.
FOTOSEARCH Extensive image library for professional use (including astronomy and space images).
Hardware
TMB Optical Ultra high performance apochromatic telescopes and accessories
Losmandy One of the best German equatorial mount manufacturers around. Scot also makes dovetail bars, finder scope rings and counter-weights for many common telescopes
True Technology Ltd Manufacturers of flip mirror finders, colour filter wheels etc. prices and specification available on line.
Starlight Xpress The home page of the excellent Starlight Xpress CCD cameras. Includes a user message board, helpful hints, specifications, prices, software and sample images.
AWR Technology Telescope Drives (simple and GOTO), Sidereal Time Clocks and other electronics equipment for serious astronomers
Coronado Instruments Solar telescopes and accessories.
Software -all include programs to download
IRIS Free astronomical image processing software from Christian Buil
Qcfocus Webcam control program, needs the webcam driver files from your camera. Excellent and free
RegiStax Image stacking program, especially designed for use with webcam AVI files. Superb and free
Earth Centered Universe Star charting program and database. The shareware version will interface to many types of digital setting circles, inc those by Tangent
Megastar Star charting program. Version 5 includes updated interface for more mounts and setting circles.
Sky Map Pro Comprehensive star charting program with high precision calculations and a great deal of user configurability. Tends to run slower than Megastar.
HNSKY Freeware planetarium program for windows 95/98/NT/3.1. It's complete with the SAO, PPM, Tycho-2 star databases, SAC 7.1 deepsky database and can access the GSC 1.1 and USNO CDROM databases. Everything is available for free download, needs broadband for the larger databases as they are CD sized.
Astroart Image processing program. Includes many plug-ins for taking and processing images with CCD cameras, including Starlight and SBIG. A very capable program.
UK telescope dealers
Ian King Imaging On line shop of the well know astronomer
David Hinds Celestron main dealer
Orion Optics Own model scopes plusVixen
Broadhurst, Clarkson and Fuller Offers free next day delivery.
SCS Astro Adirondack, Teleview,Intes
Venturescope Parks and Losmandy importer
Picstop Telescopes and binoculars from Long Marston, near York
GPS navigation
Garmin GPS receiver manufacturer
Purple connectors 'Share hardware' connectors for the Garmin receivers - save money by making up your own leads
OziExplorer Des Newman's OziExplorer Page. Use your own scanned maps with a GPS for moving map navigation. Shareware - download working version from the site.
Joe Mehaffey Comprehensive articles and links for GPS users
Weather pages
National Weather Service HomePage Check the live weather data links to various airports around the world (inc. UK airports).
The Unofficial Radio Shack WX200 support page Support for the Radio Shack WX200/Oregon Scientific WM918 weather station.
Skyview systems UK based weather software and instrument supplier, including Davis , Oregon Scientific and others.
Prodata UK based weather software and instrument supplier. Major stockist of Davis Instruments
European weather charts German site. A good looking chart is under 'Fax', HIRLAM and 6 hour.
Non astro web pages
PCB designers Individual Assistant Used for designing printed circuit boards, this shareware program is simple to use and will enable you to print board layouts for my telescope inverter project. |
