Resources
Just a list of interesting things and bookmarks I have stumbled across while searching around the web for amateur astronomy and amateur astrophotography information.
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Tutorials and DIY Articles
Finder Scope Guide Scope
Great article on how to turn a inexpensive 50mm finderscope into a guide scope for astrophotography.
Flintstone Stargazing Deep Sky Stacker Tutorial
A great tutorial on using Deep Sky Stacker to stack and process images.
Registax Tutorials: http://www.russsscope.net/staxtutorial.htm or http://www.backyardvoyager.com/registax1.html or http://www.astronomie.be/registax/ericspage.html and even http://www.astrotarp.com/Registax_basic_tutorial.html
DIY Telescope Field Battery
Creating a portable power station with a Deep Cycle Marine battery and a few items you can pick up at Walmart and your local auto parts store.
Astronomical Sketching Resources
Software
Deep Sky Stacker Freeware software used to stack and pre-process deep sky photographs.
PHD Guiding Simple “Push Here Dummy” auto-guiding software.
Registax Free image processing software. Great for stacking planetary images.
Stellarium Free open-source planetarium software.
AMCap – Webcam video capture software.
Shopping
Astronomics
Astromart Classifieds
This is probably one of the best astronomy classified sites on the ‘net.
