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Astro Software |
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| Astro Art Image Processing Software | This is a very good image processing software, but you have to work in tri-color. Be sure to down load the plug-in. They allow you to control your CCD Camera and perform many other useful task. |
| Megastar | Megastar is the star charting software I use to control my LX 200. |
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Astro Hardware |
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| Starlight XPress CCD Cameras | This is the home page for the Starlight XPress CCD Cameras and equipment. |
| Adirondack Video Astronomy (AVA) | AVA is a retail source for the Starlight XPress CCD equipment in the USA. They also sell many different adapters for connecting the CCD cameras. |
| Meade Telescopes | This is the home page for LX 200 manufacturer. |
| Orion Telescopes | Orion offers many different model telescopes and accessories. I have several of their products and they work fine for me. |
| Kendrick Dew Removal System | The Kendrick Dew Removal System is an essential piece of equipment unless you live in a very dry climate. The system has worked perfectly for me, except once. I forgot to turn it on. |
| MAPUG | If you have a Meade Telescope, bookmark this page. |
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Other Reference Information |
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| Photoshop Techniques | Jerry Lodriguss has an excellent web site on using Adobe Photoshop in astro imagining. |
| Astrophotography for the Amateur | A great reference by Michael Covington if you want to get started in astrophotography. |
| Orbits | A little history reference about how we learned about planetary orbits. |
| Comet Orbit Info | Get orbital elements of observable comets in formats suitable for loading into a number of popular planetarium-type software packages. |
| Mike McCants' Satellite Tracking | Get orbital elements for Earth Orbiting Satellites |
| Ron Wodaski's Stuff | Ron does excellent work and has an excellent web page on how to do it. |
| Digitized Sky Survey | Download a digitized image of just about any spot in the sky. |
| Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog-Object List | A list of over 3,000 observations of more than 1,700 objects. Want to know what an object looks like through a telescope? Then visit this page. |
| Multiwavelength Messier Museum! | See images of the Meissier Objects taken at various wavelengths. |
| Links to Larry's Deep Sky Sketches | Want to see how Deep Sky Objects appear visually through a telescope? Then visit Larry's Deep Sky Sketches Page. Larry also has a page showing sketches of Messier Objects. |
| Viewing Information for Mars | This site displays useful telescope viewing data for the planet Mars. |
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