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Forums, News, Reviews, etc.

• Astromart forums
• the Astronomer
• Astronomy picture of the day
• Bad astronomy
• Canada-wide astronomy buy/sell
• Cloudy nights
• Ed Ting's scope reviews
• Eyepiece reviews
• NightSkyLive -- observatory webcams
• Sky & Telescope
• Space calendar
• Spaceweather

Observing

• Observing events and databases

  • Asteroid occultations
  • Comets
  • Digitized Sky Survey (DSS)
  • Extrasolar planet search
  • Finest NGC (RASC list)
  • Herschel 400
  • Messier catalogue
  • NGC/IC project
  • Nine planets
  • NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)
  • Variable stars

• Observation planning

  • Deep Sky Object (DSO) planning
  • DSO observing lists
  • Saguaro AS resources

• Free software

  • Cartes du Ciel
  • Stellarium
  • XEphem

• Techniques

  • CCD imaging (the fundamentals)
  • CCD imaging (theory of going deep)
  • Collimating a Newtonian
  • Controlling dew
  • Estimating limiting magnitude
  • Estimating seeing
  • Sketching DSOs

Amateur Telescope Making (ATM)

• Canadian vendors

• Telescope makers

  • Mel Bartels
  • Bob Bunge
  • Al Highe
  • Kurt Maurer

• ATM information

  • ATM archive
  • ATM list
  • ATM site
  • Newtonian designer
  • Secondary mirror sizing

Societies

• Canada

  • Mississauga Astronomy Mailing List (MAML)
  • RASC
  • RASC Toronto

• UK

  • Cleveland & Darlington AS
  • Federation of Astronomical Societies
  • Hull & East Riding AS
  • Scarborough & District AS
  • Society for Popular Astronomy
  • York AS

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