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NJNightSky An Online Astronomy Community. Amateur astronomy and telescope building for
beginners and up. I am the ATM moderator here.
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Supporting Amateur Astronomy, Backyard Observing and CCD Imaging. A must view site.
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Site with a wealth of knowledge for the beginning astronomer.
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Personal astronomy website that includes my astrophotography album, feature
photos, equipment used, remote imaging setup, optics calculations, clear sky clocks, moon phase, weather forecast, message
board, etc.
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Favorite Astronomy Links
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Astro-tom.com is dedicated to amateur astronomy
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Very informative site. A must visit.
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Site dedicated to getting beginning astronomers started
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This site contains links to a wealth of information that caters to
anyone from the budding young amateur to the seasoned enthusiast
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This site contains an overview of my amateur CCD astrophotography made in
my dome observatory located in my light polluted garden in Bonnert near Arlon in Belgium.
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Few things are free in this world, but the software I've written for amateur
astronomers is available "no strings attached."
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A community web site for blogging, personal galleries and part of your
toolkit for viewing the night sky.
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RegiStax is an image processing tool that is used to stack (digital) astronomical image captures, in order
to improve detail, color and overall quality.
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Commercial flights to the moon are coming, but until that time you can study the
moon from the comfort of your home. Virtual Moon Atlas is more than a program with cool pictures of the moon. It's a fairly
robust library of visuals, plus tools to let you see moon cycles, the lunar surface, orbit and position for a specific date
and more. The interface is designed for easy use in the field as well as at home. The moon: It's not just for NASA anymore.
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A manual is nevertheless necessary to discover
all the software possibilities because they are always more numerous. We would like you to read the documentation while
you try to use the indicated functions. The functions available in each version are clearly indicated.
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DarkAdapted is a gamma control application program. It modifies your screen gamma settings so that you may,
for example, preserve your dark adaptation while using your computer.
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IMerge is a program which allows multiple images to be placed onto a large
virtual 'canvas', and arranged to produce a single large composite image, or mosaic.
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Free program to draw sky charts. For use with Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.
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Guidedog allows you to use your webcam to autoguide any ASCOM supported telescope mount. In addition, mounts
with a CCD Guide Port can be guided through a parallel port based relay box.
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AstroPlanner is a software application for Macintosh and Windows computers
that facilitates astronomical visual observation planning and logging as well as control of Meade telescopes that use the
LX200, LX200GPS or Autostar controllers, Celestron NexStar scopes, Astro-Physics GTO mounts, the Vixen SkySensor 2000 system
, and several others.
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K3CCDTools is a Windows application dedicated for astro-imaging.
It includes
video-capturing, frame aligning and stacking / summing.
It also provides simple image post-processing.
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| A newtonian telescope design program
that ray traces the telescope checking for vignetting, optimizes diagonal size, calculates baffle size and position, and a
lot more |
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Developed by Space.com, Starry Night is a realistic astronomy software for
personal computers.
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NightCal is a simple, practical tool for basic observation
session planning. It is designed to produce a monthly calendar telling you when it gets dark, when the Moon rises and
sets and what the Moon should look like when it does make an appearance.
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Iris offers numerous and powerful functions of image processing in the field
of the digital astronomical images; and is particularly optimized to exploit the images that come from CCD cameras.
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The Ultimate Messier Object Log (TUMOL) is a FileMaker Pro 4.0
database
that contains relevant information for all 110 Messier
objects. It contains various layouts to assist amateur
astronomers
in documenting their search for deep sky objects.
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MaxIm DL is the fastest and easiest way to image the night sky. Whether
you want to produce stunning portraits, collect science data, or hunt for new objects, MaxIm DL has the tools you need.
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MaxDSLR is a program designed for capturing images of celestial
objects with Digital SLR cameras such as the Canon EOS and Nikon models, and for processing the results. You can stack multiple
images together to reduce noise and increase sensitivity, apply sharpening filters, remove hot pixels and perform many other
operations designed for astronomical image processing.
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