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astronomy

Images

• HST - UK Support Facility
• mySky.org - Astronomical Image Database
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starcharts & ephemerii

• LASCO AAAS AMSIE '97 Press Release
• Space Calendar (JPL)
• Polaris_ Starchart Map Server
• Space Calendar
• NGC Catalogue in Excel format
• A Table of 42 Double or Multiple Stars
• Zipfile of best multiple stars
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Adaptive Optics

• UK Adaptive Optics Homepage
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Hardware

• The ATM Page
• Mechanical Parts Sources
• Stepper Motor Introductory
• ~Edwin Hirsch narrow band filters
• Interference filters
• Filters, Optical-Interference
• Mel Bartels famous scope drive
• Remote telescope focusers.
• Homebuild remote focuser
• StepFocus homebuld remote focuser
• Boxdoerfer Elektronik - Telscope mount upgradeds to GOTO systems
• cyanogen.com Maxpoint telescope alignment software
• Veio Spectrohelioscope & solar telescope design Archives
• COAA Telescope Controller WinCTC
• Review: Vixen GP-DX mount for CCD imaging
• OnStep Telescope controller repository
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Software

• AstroPlanner
• Astro Toolbox
• JCMT Pointing Model
• Starlink Software
• Search results for slalib
• Skyhound telescope software
• Skymap
• Skymap Auto Update Tool
• TheSky
• Apogee Maxim/DL
• cyanogen Maxpoint
• Spectroscopy, CCD and Astronomy
• Visual spec Spectroscopy for Windows
• Registax Download page
• ThumbsPlus Version 6 Release Notes
• Ephemerides Observable Comets
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Telescopes

• Vixen
• http--www.vixen.co.jp-english-telesco-vx1.htm
• www.ss2k-plaza.tk
• Meade
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whats up?

• Sleeping under the Stars - Recommended to me by Elliot At Harrison Park
• NOAA POES Auroral Activity
• AuroraWatch UK
• AstroSoc - University of St Andrews Astronomical Society Observing What you can see
• Daily Surf report
• SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
• NOAA POES Auroral Activity
• Solar Image Index
• Index of weather at src.doc.ic.ac.uk
• Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
• German Meteosat mirror
• Telescopius - night sky imaging planner
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Observatories

• MV Observatory website
• Fleenor Observatory
• The AstroGuide Domes Listings
• The Geodesic Dome Calculator
• CCD Astronomy
• Yahoo groups Amateur Observatories
• Yahoo groups Observatories
• Mount View Observatory, Sheffield
• ASCOM software and hardware
• Galaxies.Com - Astronomy web site designed for the amateur astronomer
• Webcam Timershot (Powertoy) 1.0 download page - tested and reviewed - shareware and freeware downloads from WebAttack.com
• Spanish Chris - AA plugins and Spanish Astronomy
• Robapol Observatory
• Morden Observatory Homepage
• Paul LeFevre's CCD Image Gallery
• Rob Gendler Astronophotography
• Ian Kings Astro Imaging
• Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss
• Hurricane 4
• Robin Leadbetters astro pages
• NGC7000NAN.jpg (JPEG Image, 1261x999 pixels) - Scaled (42%)
• Paul Buglass
• Paul LeFevre's CCD Image Gallery
• D Cash Astroimaging
• Pete Vasey
• ASTROPHOTOGRAPHER
• high valley observatory
• Canon D10 SLR focusing AstroPages
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CCD, Webcam, Digital and Film

• Main QCUIAG Page
• KODAK_ Technical Information
• Photoshop Image Processing Steps for Mars
• CCD Mailing List Archive_ Re_ shutters
• RAL Camera
• Arizona SEDs imager
• Photometrics
• CCD Astronomy Images
• Registax
• AstroStack 2 home
• K3's Astronomy Home Page
• Low light CCD Camera Data
• Sony Global SONY SEMICONDUCTOR
• Philips USB webcam API
• Remote control software for Nikon digital & more - PPC and laptops.
• RUWEBIT.net Snappixx v0.40 - Remote control for Nikon Coolpix cameras - PPC and laptops
• David Fischer's Java Programming Examples Capture Video from Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000 USB Camera with JMF
• making a coolpix e990 dual USB - serial cable
• Widescreen Centre : Photography, telescopes, adapters, Bits and Pieces
• SRB Photographic Filters, Adaptors, Accessories, and lots more
• Astro Webcam Building
• Webcam Capture software
• NewAstro book
• Low light focusing techniques.
• Testing telescope optics
• Dennis Webb's astronomical image processing tips
• Using Hartman masks as Image focus aides
• Richard Feynman Observatory : Hartman Mask focusing
• Starizona guide to CCD imaging
• astropix.com
• FOCUS3
• Larry Webers focusing algorithm pages
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Publications

• The Astronomer Magazine (UK)
• Astronomy Now Magazine (UK)
• Astronomy Magazine (US)
• Sky & Telescope Magazine (US)
• Ciel Et Espace ( Fr) Magazine
• SpaceFlight
• Monthly Notices of the RAS
• Astrophysical Journal
• British Interplanetary Society
• The Astrograph
• International Journal of Solar System Studies
• International Quarterly of METEORITES AND METEORITE SCIENCE magazine
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Image Processing

• Affinity for astro processing
• Jerry Lodriguss' image processing guide
• Photoshop basics for astrophotography
• HaRGB technique
• LRGB technique
• LLRGB Technique
• Gradient removal
• Chuck Vaughn's guide to correct level adjustment
• Starizona: Image processing with Photoshop
• Starizona: Advanced image processing with Photoshop
• Steve Cannistra's image processing tutorial
• Chris Schur's lunar and planetary enhancement guide
• Kanevsky's tips includng Improving Contrast of Galactic Dust Lanes using the Unsharp Mask, Reducing Star Bloat in PhotoShop, How to properly adjust levels in PhotoShop,Selecting stars in PhotoShop, DDP Processing for PhotoShop, including automated action, Take H-alpha deep-sky images without an H-alpha filter
• Reducing star bloat with PS
• Carlos Milovic Fabregat's method with Orion
• Paul Hyndmans 4MB Solar H-Alpha primer (PDF)
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Groups, clubs, organisations

• Space Science Department Office System Information
• British Astronomical Association Home Page
• AstroWeb_ Astronomical Internet Resources
• ASDS Search Page
• SAL Gateway to Astronomy Internet Services
• ADS Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract Service
• National Space Development Agency of Japan Home Page
• The Society for Popular Astronomy
• Maidenhead Astronomical Society
• Reading Astronomical Society
• Current Comet observing Yahoo group
• UK Astronomy Centre, Cambridge.
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retail

• UK astronomy dealers
• Alpine Astro - US dealer of Baader accessories
• Markus Ludes & APM Telescopes Germany
• ASTRONOMY Magazine Classified Ads
• Astronomy-Mall.com Shortlist
• Astro Ads UK
• ASTROMART - The Global Astronomy Marketplace
• UK Astronomy resource guide: PPARC listing of equipment suppliers
• ASTROMART - The Global Astronomy Marketplace
• UK Astronomy resource guide: PPARC listing of equipment suppliers
• Astronomy House (Fr)
• Astronomy suppliers listing from PPARC
• Astro-physics.com-
• Baader Planetarium Accessories
• Company Seven Astro-Optics Division Home Page
• Digital Astronomy.com
• DG Optical - High quality lenses, mirrors and components for the optical industry - Manheim, PA
• David Hinds Ltd, astronomy, telescopes, astronomical suppliers UK.
• Ealing
• Edmund Scientific offers a broad range of science related products, optical, lens, telescopes
• EfstonScience
• Jims Astro
• Leisuretec - Vixen & others
• Europixel
• Kood Camera Accessories
• Focus Camera, Inc.
• Meade Main Index - Meade Instruments Corporation
• Ocean Photo - California Meade shipper
• Optical Vision
• Optics by Mail
• Opticron Home Page
• Orion Optic UK
• ScopeTronix Quality Astronomy Products
• SCS Astro BORG dealers in UK
• Telescope House
• Telescope-Service - Germany and US
• teletrade US
• UK astronomy dealers
• Warehouse Express Online
• Venturescope
• Wycombe Astronomical Society
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Locations

• B &B on the Algarve : COAA Portugal
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• PIC Internet and Design Resources
• Welcome to rswww.com
• Maplin Electronics - 1999 Online Catalogue
• Welcome to PicPoint
al
• Fairchild Semiconductor - Search Entire Fairchild Website
• Atmel Corporation
• Maxim Product listing
• Texas
• Analog Devices
• SGS Thomson
• Maxim
• Nat Semi
• 68HC11 Microcontrollers Resources
• Farnell UK
• Intersil Corporation Home Page
• SPI Serial Interface
• Greenweld Electronic Components - Bargain List 137 - 138
• GPS Product Data Server
• Harris
• - Europe's largest surplus stockist - 16,,
• ARROW.COM _ Find Parts Online
• Stepper Motors
• Philips Semiconductors Search Page
• Chip directory
• Philips Semiconductors; Home
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computing

Computer hardware & Interfacing

• RS-232 Stepper Motor Control
• http___www.mentorcomput...TWAIN_EZTWAINReadMe.txt
• Internal.com
• Direct io NT
• The PC's Parallel Port
• Fil's FAQ-Link-In Corner_ Ports_ Main Index
• Comp
• Fil's FAQ-Link-In Corner_ Ports_ Serial FAQ
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Software Sites & mirrors

• The HENSA Archives - funded by JISC
• UK Mirror Service_ Homepage
• HENSA_micros_ Browse Software Collections
• HENSA UNIX - Mirrored software - Slackware Linux
• Drivers _ Patches
• VSL_ Front Desk in Ljubljana, Slovenia
• VSL
• EMWAC Home Page
• Microsoft shareware site
• The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
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Programming Journals & technology news

• Java Developer's Journal
• The Register
• The Computer Journal Home Page
• The PC BookShop Home Page
• Dr. Dobb's Web Site
• Internet Resources for Windows Developers
• Windows developer journal
• Electronic Software
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IDL

• Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming
• Amara's Wavelet Page
• Directory of _STP_SOLAR_DATA
• Directory of _pub_henke
• The IDL Astronomy User's Library
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PIC

• microcontroller resources index
• PIC 16Cxx C Compiler
• David Tait's PIC Links
• Microchip Technology - Development Software Updates
• PIC Microcontrollers
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