Astrophysics Links
- Airmass Calculator
- Provides the airmass for a star (or other object) for each hour in a given night.
- Daily Almanac
- Lots of useful information, like sun rise and set, moon phase and position, etc. for a specific date.
- Object Seasonal Observability
- Lists the rise,set, and transit times for an object on the full and new moons (i.e. bimonthly) over a period of time.
- Astronomical Sky Calendar
- The page generates a calendar for the given range of months which contains, for each day, the Julian Date, Sun rise & set times, Moon rise & set times and percent illumination, etc.
- USNO Moon Phase Calendar
- This database shows the exact dates and times for moon phases through 2010.
- ADS: The Astronomy Abstract Service
- The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- VisieR Databse
- USNO Finding Chart Program
- Landolt Standards (CFHT Page)
- Standard Stars (APO Page)
- Astronomical Constants
- Thinking about Graduate School in Astronomy? Another View.
- Here's a less than enthusiastic endorsement of graduate school
in astronomy. It may be slightly too pessimistic, but it contains
information that prospective grad students won't hear about anywhere
else.
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Photography Links
- The Luminous Landscape (Michael Reichmann)
- A great site with lots of helpful articles, tutorials, and equipment reviews.
- Bob Atkins
- Another good resource for articles, reviews, and Canon news.
- Norman Koren
- Excellent tutorials on digital printing and optics.
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Amateur Astronomy Links
- The Boulder Astronomy and Space Society (BASS)
- The local astronomy club in Boulder.
- The Longmont Astronomical Society
- An astronomy club from a neighboring city.
- The Denver Astronomical Society
- Denver's astronomy club. They have a nice dark sky site which I occasionally use.
- International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
- Astromart Classifieds
- Cloudy Nights
- www.scopereviews.com
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Astrophotography Links
- Jon Talbot
- Jon's site is really worth a look, he does some amazing wide field and narrow band (H-alpha, [SII], and [OIII]) work
- Stephen Pitt
- Stephen has some beautiful wide field shots using both film and digital capture.
- Matt Thomas
- Loke Tan
- Johannes Schedler
- Carl Sandfort
- Robert Gendler
- Tony & Daphne Hallas
- Jeff Ball
- Eddie Trimarchi
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