Links

Here is a list of interesting sites regarding astronomy. If you want to tell me about more great sites, dead links or anything else please write to webmaster@ascotti.org.

General

http://www.badastronomy.com/ - Phil Plait's site on bad astronomy, very interesting

http://www.seds.org/messier/ - The SEDS Messier database

http://www.mclink.it/mclink/astro/messier/Messier.html - Il catalogo di Messier (lo stesso del SEDS, in italiano)

http://www.castfvg.it/cast.htm - I testi del Circolo Astrofili Talmassons, interessantissimi

http://www.esa.int/ - European Space Agency

http://www.nasa.gov/ - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

http://astroemagazine.astrofili.org/ - Astroemagazine, un'ottima rivista di astronomia on-line che non ha niente da invidiare alle riviste commerciali

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/images/index.html - Anglo-Australian Observatory, with the breath-taking images of David Malin

http://www.astrosurf.com/cosmoweb/ - Appunti di astronomia

http://www.spaceweather.com/ - SpaceWeather, news and info about Sun and Earth

http://heritage.stsci.edu/ - Hubble heritage project (great images from the Hubble telescope!)

Astrophotography

http://djoye.chez.tiscali.fr/index_eng.html - Astrophotographies by Denis JOYE

http://www.rileyv.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ - Vern's Astronomy Site (MX5C, MX7C, SBIG)

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys559/lectures/darkflat/darkflat.html - Dark Subtraction and Flatfielding

http://www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/index.htm - António Cidadão's Lunar and Planetary Observation and CCD Imaging

http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/index.htm - Spectroscopy, CCD and Astronomy

http://www.astrofoto.org/ - Astrophotographies

http://m13.astrofili.org/tecnica_astrofotografica.htm - Tecnica di fotografia astronomica

http://digilander.libero.it/MAZZLU/pag2.htm - Homepage dedicata alla fotografia astronomica

http://home.clara.net/smunch/wintro.htm - Long exposure modified webcams

http://web.tiscali.it/mcfazzo/ - Il sito astronomico di McFazzo

http://www.astrodavid.com/ - Davide Romanini's homepage

http://astrofabio.altervista.org/ - AstroFabio, a site of digital astronomical images and amateur astronomy experiences

http://www.lazzarotti.lunigiana.it/ - Paolo Lazzarotti's homepage: sky, landscapes, sunsets, weather (some spectacular pictures!)

Software (non-commercial only)

http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm - Hallo Northern Sky, one of the most powerful and complete planetarium programs (Windows)

http://winstars.free.fr/english/index2.html - Winstars, a freeware planetarium (Windows)

http://www.astrosurf.com/astropc/cartes/index.html - Cartes du Ciel, a great free astronomy program (Windows)

http://astrosurf.com/avl/ - Virtual Atlas of the Moon (Windows)

http://www.fis.unipr.it/~albino/software.html - A page with links to astronomy software (note: links not checked)

http://edu.kde.org/kstars/ - KStars, a planetarium (Linux KDE)

http://www.astroarts.com/products/xplns/index.html - Xplns, astronomy simulation for PC (Linux or FreeBSD, XFree86)

http://stellarium.free.fr/ - Stellarium, photo-realistic sky simulator (Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X)

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ - Celestia, a 3D Space Simulator

Programming

http://home.in.tum.de/~roalter/libAstronomy/ - libAstronomy is a C library of astronomical functions (hasn't been updated from 2000 though)

http://libnova.sourceforge.net/ - libnova, a celestial mechanics and astronomical calculation library for C/C++

http://pp3.sourceforge.net - PP3, celestial chart generation (generates resolution independent sky charts)

Do it yourself

http://www.stellafane.com/atm/atm_main.htm - Stellafane Amateur Telescope Making (a great resource for do-it-yourself lovers)

http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Poulson/faq/ - Amateur Telescope Makers email list FAQ

http://members.aol.com/sfsidewalk/intro.htm - Plans for building a Dobsonian telescope

http://www.users.bigpond.com/PJIFL/ - Peter Smith's ATM lenses and eyepieces

Still more links...

http://digilander.libero.it/photallica/ - Roberto's astronomy homepage

http://www.fis.unipr.it/~albino/ - Il sito astronomico di Albino Carbognani, contiene materiale interessantissimo

http://www.astrofili.org/ - Il portale per l'astronomia in Italia

http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/ - "Bellatrix" astronomical observatory

http://pws.prserv.net/hanagan/resources.html - A huge page with links to astronomical resources on the web

http://www.efn.org/~mbartels/ - Mel Bartel's homepage (has an asteroid named after him!)

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