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Software

Cartes du Ciel– exceptional freeware sky chart program

Virtual moon atlas this will help you see much more of the moon

Registax image stacking and manipulation software now at v3+

Imerge excellent mosaic program

Irfanview quick viewing of most image formats

Gimp a comprehensive open source rival to Photoshop

WcCtrl Streamlined and functional webcam control

Qcfocus webcam control and image collection


Reference

Weasner's Mighty ETX Site, if you own an ETX scope this may be the only website you will ever need

APOD inspiring images

Heavens above

Skyhound

Astronomy now

Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA)

Alan Chu's moon book, it pains me to recommending anything in the dire PDF format but even at **mb this is a great resource.

NASA solar system simulator.

Messier catalogue.

Caldwell list by the great British astronomer Patrick Caldwell Moore.

 

Groups

QUCAIG excellent yahoo group

Meade uncovered yahoo group

Cartes du Ciel yahoo support group

uk.sci.astronomy newsgroup, via google

sci.astro.amateur newsgroup, via google

 

Non astronomy links.

BBC

North Norfolk coast. and here.


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