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•  MinorPlanet.org
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THE ASTRO BOOKMARKS from ASTROSURF

WEATHER

Ulm University
MétéoSurf
La chaine météo
Météo-France
Wetterzentrale
Allmetsat
Satellite images
Météorage
Storms (G. Mueller)
Storms (G. Mueller - zoom)
Storms (G. Mueller - animation)

COMETS

ICQ Comet Information
Comet Observation home page (NASA)
I AU Ephemeris Generator
Seiichi Yoshida site
Comet Observations (Crni Vrh Observatory)
BAA Comet section
Comet section of Germany
Comets & Meteor Showers (Gary Kronk)
Meteor Shower Database
Sky and Telescope's comet page
Comet Observers' Forum
CCD photometry of comets


VARIABLE STARS

Infomation Variable Bulletin one Stars (IBVS)
GCVS (General Catalogue of Variable Stars)
GEOS
AAVSO
AFOEV
VSNET
MEDUZA
Center for Backyard Astrophysics
Cataclysmic stars
ASSA Variable Star Group (many resources)
Computer programs for variable stars analysis
The Astronomer Variable Group
Dan Kaiser's pages
Chris Jones's pages
Gary Poyner's pages
Gene Hanson's pages
Lasse Teist Jensen's pages
Angelo State University (cepheid + binary)
RR Lyr data base (GEOS)
Lenka Seranova pages (Ondrejov)

PHOTOMETRY

Landolt standards (1)
Landolt standards (2)
The General Catalogue of Photometric Data
Algorithms for Stellar CCD Photometry
Stellar photometry with CCD's
Photometry techniques
Optecs filters
Cousin's / Johnson system
Filter tutorial (1)
Filter tutorial (2)
Daophot
Polarimetry

ASTROMETRY

Astrometry - Electronic Data
Sky charts
USNO astrometry department
Positional astronomy
MPC guide to Minor Body astrometry

CCD

The Association of the Electronic Detector Users (AUDE)
Audine CCD camera
Astronomical CCD Devices
CCD Equipment & Software
HST Data Handbook
WFPC2 Instrument Handbook
Detection of signal
Statistics
Forums Astrosurf
Forums Astromart
AstroCam
AstroCam List
Digital Astro List
CCD-World mailing list
QuickCam ASTRO (P. Dubreuil)
UKCCD group
Acquiring and processing astronomical CCD images (Al kelly & all)
Don Ratledge page
CCD photometry
Astroarchive   (astronomy-related e-mail lists)
Kodak CCD
SITe CCD
Fairchild CCD
Marconi CCD
Texas instrument CCD
Sony CCD
Dalsa CCD

DIGITAL ASTRO-PHOTOGRAPHY

Panther Observatory (a reference - Canon D60)
Mark Hanson (very fine - Canon D/60/10D)
Rick Krejci (Canon 10D)
Gerard Therin (Beautiful)
Martial Fingenwald (Canon D60)
Antonio Fernandez (Canon 10D)
Naoyuki Kurita (Juji FinePix)
Gary Honis (Olympus camera + 10D)
Paul Hyndman
Digital Astrophotography List page
Gregory Pruden (CoolPix 950)
Dominique Beauchamp
Digital Photography Review (a must)
Imaging Resources
Megapixel.net
Pictchallenge
Canon
Nikon
Adapter (1)
Adapter (2)
Adapter (3)
Canon DSLR Focus


MISCELLANEOU
S & RESOURCES

UAI: Astronomical Headline (last news)
Recent circulars UAI
OHP links - Astronomy on the Web
HST
Last images of the HST
Kitt Peak Advan. Observing Program (images)
Astro links
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
FITS format
Mathematical tools
Deconvolution
Tybee Evans pages
Tom' s Astronomy Web (large collection of links)
RIC (Philippe Printant - numerous links)
Sky&Telescope
Astronomical Dated Sources on the Web (ADS)
AstroWeb (STScl - large ressources)
AstroWeb (CDS - large ressources)
Jeff MacQuarrie's Astronomy Resources Page
Robert Hilliard's Astronomy Page
StarGazer
SpaceDaily (spatial information)
Story of astronomy
Electronique
Pic micros
Pic compilers
Cocktails
Marmiton

TELESCOPES & SURVEYS

TAROT    (CESR)
The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS)
ROTSE
OGLE
SLOAN (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)
ETC (The Explosive Transient Camera)
KAIT
Automatic telescopes (Michael Richmond)
TASS (1)
TASS (2)
Survey projects resources
Automated and Remote Telescopes
Highland Road Park Observatory
Hanna City Robotic Observatory
Ouranos (Patrick Dufour)
Dave Ek's Digital Setting Circles
Motorization of the telescope (Mel Bartels)
Robert Soubie site
Jone page: tutorial about stepping motors
Christophe Hamman (stepper motors circuits)
Olivier Lobet page
Simple general Stepper Motor Controler
Michael Koch (FS2)
Working with stepper motors  (J.Johnson's page)
Kari Sami's (simple stepper motor controller)
Peter Lynch's (PIC controlling of stepper motors)
Douglas Jones (control of stepper motors)
PIC and servo-motors
SAA1027 circuit
David Rowe's page
Midi-Ingenierie
Bookmarks for Telescope Makers
LX200 command set (doctor G)
LX200 electrical systems
Serge Bertorello home page
ATM journal
TPoint
Adaptative optics (Benoit Schillings)
Adaptative optics (Brad Wallis)
Low cost solar adaptative optics
GP-DX mount
Field rotation
Webcam & autoguiding (F. Guinepain page)
Digital Settings Circles (Dave Ek)
Roddier test

DIGITAL SKY ATLAS

The BT-ATLAS
MEGASTAR
GUIDE
Deep Sky Survey (STScI)
Deep Sky Survey (Eso)
USNO Finder Chard Service
2MASS (all sky at the wavelength of 2 microns)
SkyView (GSFC/NASA)
The whole NGC catalog (Benoit Schilling)
NGC Catalog OnLine
Messier Catalog


SEARCH ENGINES

Google
Teoma
AltaVista
Mamma
About
Northern Light
All The Web
Voila
HotBot
Nomade

ASTEROIDS

CBAT/MPC/ICQ
Minor Planet Center
AUDE astreroids home page
Minor Planet Mailing List
Minor Planet Checker (confirm asteroid)
Object Ephemeris Generator (+ comets)
The NEO Confirmation Page
NEO dynamic site
Unusual Minor Planets
MPC format
Lowell Observatory
ASTEPH - Asteroid Ephemeris (Lowell)
ASTFINDER - Finder Chard for Asteroids (Lowell)
Sky Coverage of NEO Searches (Lowell)
Orbits selection (SLOP - Lowell)
CFA Astronomical Observatory
Observer guide of Alain Klotz
Bookmarks of Alain Klotz
Occultation technique (A. Klotz)
European Astero: Research Node
Asteroids and Comets (NASA)
SMASS
Kuiper Belt Home Page
Klet Observatory
Spaceguard
Ondrejov NEO program (photometric curves)
Color and Lightcurves
Rotational curve (Raoul Behrend)
Asteroidal occultations
FindOrb (orbit determination)
Dimension 4 (time synchronization - a must)
Time Memo (time synchro by P. Chevalley)

SUPERNOVAE

List of recent supernovae (Harvard)
International Supernovae Network
Latest SN (ISN mirror)
Supernovae AUDE home page
Astronomical Headlines (last IAU circular)
List of supernovae (IUA)
VSNET supernovae page
Minor Planet Checker
Supernova links
Images and spectrum of recent supernovae (Cfa)
French Observing Group of Supernovae
Introduction aux supernovae (Collège de France)
Photometry Reference Stars around galaxies
Type I vs Type II
What is a supernova?
Type Ia supernovae (David Branch)
Tenagra Observatories (Michael Schwartz)
Robin Chassagne page
Tom Boles page
Michael Richmond page
KAI Telescope
High-z supernovae from Wise Observatory
The High-z Sn Search
Supernova Cosmology Project
SNAP (Supernova Acceleration Probe)
Omega Group
Guillaume Blanc page


GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (GRB)

GRB Coordinates Network
AAVSO GRB


DOUBLE STARS

Jean Montanné home page
Florent Losse page
Double Star Library


PLANETS

ALPO
Lunar and Planetary (Antonio Cidadao)
Thierry Legault home page
International Jupiter Watch
JUPOS
The Nine Planets
Atlas of the Moon (Kuiper & all)
Atlas of the Moon (Lunar Orbiter)
Solar System Simulator - NASA/JPL
Physical informations (PhysLink)
The Small Bodies Node (NASA PDS)


SUN


BAS2000
Current solar images
Sacramento Peak
Stanford Solar Center
San Fernando Solar Observatory
Dutch Open Telescope
Big Bear Solar Observatory
HACO (Pic du Midi Observatory)
Sunspot Index
Academy of Science of the Czech Republic
SOHO images
TRACE images
GFOES
Space Environment Center
L. Whipple page's
Groenez Gunther page


OBSERVATORY

All the observatories (CDS)
Links to professionnal observatory (french)
World's Largest Optical Telescopes
Links of Anglo-Australian Observatory
Anglo-Australian Observatory
Calar Alto Observatory
Las Campanas Observatory
CTIO
European Southern Observatory
VLT - French pages
OHP
Keck Observatory
Kitt Peak Observatory
McDonald Observatory
Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories
NOAO
OCA
Steward Observatory
Lyon Observatory


PIC DU MIDI OBSERVATORY

Association T60
David Romeuf home page
Station of Planetology of the Pyrénées
Observatoire du Pic du Midi
A very beautiful book about Pic du Midi
The excellent Sylvain Rondy home page
Webcam


ASTRONOMICAL JOURNALS & PREPRINTS

Astrophysics Dated System Article Service (professionnal articles on-line)
Astrophysics Dated System Article Service (CDS)
Preprint archives
Conferences and Meetings
Meetings and Colloquia list
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy and Astrophysics (2)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements
The Astronomical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
PASP on line
MNRAS
ST-ECF Newsletter
Annual Reviews
URANIA (American Astronomical Society)
Astroarchive   (archive of many astronomy-related e-mail lists)

DATA BASES & CATALOGUES

ADC (Astronomical Data Center - find information for all objects)
SIMBAD (CDS - query informations about an object)
Center astronomical Data of Starsbourg (CDS)
The CDS Service for astronomical Catalogues
CDS VizieR Catalogue Service (very useful - all catalogues and fields view)
SkyView (GSFC - A Virtual Observatory)
ESO and ST-ECF
Calibration Data Base and Operations
UBVRI query catalog
StarLink (1)
StarLink (2)
NASA Extragalactic Database NED
Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
National Space Science Data Center (NASA)
Common catalog names
Stellar catalogs
HST Guide Star Catalog
USNO Astrometric Catalog
Hipparcos catalog
APAS catalog
General Catalog of Photometric Data (Geneva)
Bright Star positions (US Naval Observatory)
UCM index
Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)


ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS

Bdl server (Bureau des longitudes) - Ephemeris
Bdl  - Data base
Astronomical Almanac (US Naval Observatory)
MICA (US Naval Observatory)
Heavens Above (satellites)


SOFTWARES

Astronomical software (1)
Astronomical software (2)
MODAS (optical design)
Aberrator (star testing)
Optical design software : ZEMAX
Optical design software : CODE V
Optical design software : OSLO
Optical design software : SYNOPSYS
Visual Basic (a key URL for VB programmers)
SourceShop (for VB programmers)
VB.com (for VB programmers)
Code Project (ultimate MFC C++ resources)
MFC Code
CodeGuru (a very large code samples data base)
01net
Jumbo
Shareware (CNET)
FileMine
Tremplate Numerical Toolkit
Tucows


MANUFACTURER & SHOPPING

Celestron
Meade
Takahashi story
Optique Unterlinden
Lichtenknecker
Astronomical dealers on the Web


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