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The (almost) definitive list of
useful websites with thanks to Rob Trevan. Please submit any additions
or broken links to
webmaster@basingstokeas.org.uk
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BAS Web Site |
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The Astronomer Magazine |
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Spectacular Astrophotography |
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Astronomy Picture of the Day |
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John Murphy’s Home page |
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Thierry Legault’s home page |
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Christian Buil – Spectroscopy, CCD & Astronomy |
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Eddie Guscott |
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Philip Perkins |
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Pedro Re |
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Nik Szymanek |
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Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss |
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Weasner’s Mighty ETX Site |
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Societies |
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British Astronomical Association |
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The Federation of Astronomical Societies |
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Farnham Astronomical Society |
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Guildford Astronomical Society |
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Newbury Astronomical Society |
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Reading Astronomical Society |
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Andover Astronomical Society |
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SAGAS |
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Observatories |
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Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes |
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The Faulkes Telescope Project |
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W.M. Keck Observatory |
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ESO – Paranal Observatory |
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ESO Overwhelmingly Large Telescope |
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Largest Refractor |
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Found the ‘tenth’ planet |
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Caltech Astronomy |
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Anglo-Australian Observatory |
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Radio Telescopes |
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Jodrell Bank Observatory |
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Parkes Observatory |
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Arecibo |
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - New Mexico |
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Weather |
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Cloud predictions for the UK |
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Weather Report |
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forcasts |
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Info |
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Visible Satellite predictions |
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Space News |
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Wikipedia – Astronomy |
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QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group |
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NASA |
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Hubble Site |
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The Hubble Space Telescope |
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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ESA Portal |
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ESO – The European Southern Observatory homepage |
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SOHO – Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
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The Sun in 3D |
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Spitzer Space Telescope |
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Mars Global Surveyor |
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Mars Express |
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MarsNews.com |
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Voyager |
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html |
New Horizons |
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Doc G’s Info Site |
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UK Astro Ads |
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Richard Berry – Digital Imaging and CCD Cookbook Camera |
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Bad Astronomy – Hoaxes and common myths debunked |
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The Nine Planets |
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Views of the Solar System |
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Astronomy for Kids! |
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Space.com |
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Jonathans’s Space Report |
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The World’s Largest Optical Telescopes |
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Catalogues & Maps |
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Celestia |
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Cartes du Ciel |
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Stellarium – free planetarium software |
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Magazines |
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Astronomy Now |
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Adrian Berry – Science author and columnist |
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BBC Sky at Night Magazine |
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Sky & Telescope |
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Astronomy |
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Nature |
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NewScientist |
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Scientific American.com |
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Software |
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IRIS – Christian Buil’s homepage |
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Registax |
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K3CCD Tools |
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DSLR Focus |
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PEMPro (Periodic error correction) |
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ASCOM Standards for Astronomy |
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GuideDog (Standalone Autoguiding for Webcams) |
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AstroArt – Image processing Software |
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MaximDL, MaxDSLR |
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TheSky6, CCDSoft, TPoint |
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Skymap Pro |
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Starry Night |
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Redshift |
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FTP directory /pub/software/ at seds.lpl.arizona.edu |
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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations |
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Matlab – The language of Technical Computing |
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Specialized |
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Maurice Gavin – Spectroscopy |
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Department of the Navy – Time Service Department |
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Space Track – TLE database |
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Radio Astronomy for Scientists Teachers and Students |
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Hypering Film |
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ATM |
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Resources and Techniques for the Amateur Telescope Maker |
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University Optics |
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Edmund Optics |
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Publishers |
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Physics and Astronomy Publishers |
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Springer Verlag London Ltd |
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Willmann-Bell Inc |
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Cambridge University Press |
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W.H.Freeman |
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Books |
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Astrophotography for the Amateur – Michael A. Covington |
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Suppliers |
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Telescopes and
telescope accessories for beginners and advanced astronomers |
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Optique Unterlinden |
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Adirondack Astronomy – Stella Cam |
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Telescope House - BC&F (Broadhurst Clarkson and Fuller) |
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