Astro Links

Alt-Az Astrophotography from top Astronomer Nigel Gilchrist get you inspired and started using a fairly inexpensive mount and producing wonderful images.

Astronomy Mounts Review Service Tuning and Repair .. the group description lies in the title... A little Hub to showcase your knowledge, give help and advice, recommendations.. video howto's, links to dealers.. Price comparisons... A positive resource where new astronomers get to talk about the MOST IMPORTANT piece of Astronomy Equipment you'll ever buy...

Astro Night Sky Notebooks for jotting down stuff while preparing or out observing - Something different really nice...

Best Astronomy ISO guide for Canon DSLR Cameras 

Cleaning Astronomik Filters There is lot´s of advise how to clean optical surfaces. Usually any optical surface has to be treated with the highest care to avoid scratches or destruction. Here we want to give you some advise how to clean Astronomik Filters:

Dans Tools - a collection of various Astronomy tools that been helpful for many years. They are all available here for free for the developers and users out there who might find them useful. 

From an astrophotographer for astrophotographers - affordable astrophotography gear. Developed to optimize the capture process. Striving for stress-free astrophotography sessions. Amazing equipment especially the AF range of Astronomy Telescope Auto Focuser Units.

Canon Digital Rebel XSi (450D), XS (1000D), T1i (500D), T2i (550D), T3 (1100D), T5 (1200D), T3i (600D), T4i (650D), T5i (700D) & 6D Modification Instructions Removal of IR Cut Filter for Astrophotography & Infrared Imaging by Gary Honis last update: 11/1/16 How to article to DIY.

Faulkes Telescope Project Educational Resources

Fits Liberator ~ from NASA does what it says in the Title

Fitswork is a windows image processing program, mainly designed for astronomic purposes.It contains batch processing, histogram functions, many filters, etc.Fitswork works entirely in floating-point arithmetic.

Astronomers Light pollution map/gide - find your Bortle rating

pauls astrophotography guide - basics and setup neat little resource page -how to Astronomy drift align article

Astronomy Planets processing guide - Instructable, step by step instructions. focus on the general workflow.

PrimaLuceLab designs, builds and sells telescopes and accessories for astrophotography for amateur astronomers, schools, universities, even for research: we bring to everyone the best professional level technologies for astronomy!

Professor Ian Morison blog Astronomy Digest - neat articles -  in depth, without being too technical, advances in our knowledge, equipment and techniques of interest to all amateur astronomers.

Michael A. Covington, Ph.D.Daily Astro Digest Covington InnovationsSenior Research Scientist EmeritusInstitute for Artificial IntelligenceThe University of Georgia(Warning he can be a grumpy old codger)

Sequence Generator Pro - amazing Astro software

setting up a skywatcher focuser 72ED etc.

The Sky at Night Magazine

Steve Millar Astronomy Photoshop Tutorials ~ an absolute must to set you off on the long road and steep learning curve processing Astronomy Images with Photoshop.

The basics of Plate Solving for Astrophotography | Tutorial from AstroAdiict - a really helpful guide to setting up Platesolving

The basics of Plate Solving for Astrophotography | Tutorialfrom AstroAddict ~ get your plates solving sorted 

Here are some formulae that I find useful from time to time. CCD arc-sec/pixel and focal ratio arc-sec/pixel using known object size f/ratio focal length using known object size CCD Critical Sampling Focal reducers Focal reducers & refractors/lenses and Many More