Useful Links

[Grant]

You may have noticed already - a new button at the top of the page 'Useful Links' - these are a list of links which amateur astronomers may find useful:

http://stargazerslounge.com/page/useful_links.html

There are quite a few links already, across a whole range of categories. We will continue building up this list into a really useful set of bookmarks for us all to use.

If you can think of any other links to add, please let me know by replying to this thread. I will wait until there are a few and add them all at once (probably over the weekend) so please don't be offended if your link doesn't appear straight away!

We want to keep this list strictly to resources only, so please don't be offended if we don't add your personal website links or any commercial links....

Cheers,

Grant

[JamesF]

*Sulk*

I don't have permission for that.

James

[Ant]

Opps Sorry - we'll look at the permissions...

Ant

p.s. and when I say WE, of course I mean Grant! Last time I played with the permissions we nearly lost SGL lol

[Grant]

D'oh - that was me not ticking a box...

Should be OK now

[JamesF]

I don't know. Modern society seems to value box-ticking over anything else. How could you forget that?

Works for me now.

James

[Mattscar]

I have a spreadsheet of useful links back at home that may be of use. Would it be worth having a beginners link section on there with thinks like links to collimation guides, stellarium and the like?

Or even a FAQ section of the site with links to the topics on here about things like eyepieces for example? I may just be rambling of course though

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just remembered this one:

http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/ (Comet Chasing)

and this one

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html

(Latest Supernovae)

[KevUU]

How about http://www.deepskype...yPedia?��Useful resource for info and sketches of most DSOs.

edit: http://www.deepskypedia.com/wiki/DeepSkyPedia

[swag72]

When it comes to listing other forums, I think PAIG http://www.progressiveastroimaging.com/index.php?sid=61bdb43915d0e6857157ca0e85ba5a78 would be a useful addition. There's some excellent help and advice going on there.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I also do not see

Solar Chat: http://solarchat.natca.net/

either under solar or communities

under classifieds, the Dutch site

http://www.te-les-koop.nl

could be added (with due warning it is Dutch )

[Grant]

I thought we had added PAIG but I will double check and add it.

I will also add all of these other links once I get a chance

Thanks,

Grant

[KevUU]

Weather:

You seem to have the Met Office listed twice.

Metcheck have an astronomy forecast, which within a day or two seems much more accurate than any of the usual suspects for cloud predictions: http://www.metcheck.com/HOBBIES/astronomy.asp

[Kai]

Weather:

You seem to have the Met Office listed twice.

Metcheck have an astronomy forecast, which within a day or two seems much more accurate than any of the usual suspects for cloud predictions: http://www.metcheck....S/astronomy.asp

You might want to google the owner of Metcheck.

[KevUU]

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You might want to google the owner of Metcheck.

... noted ...

edit: this one seems a good alternative, seems to do similar things with similar data: http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

[Uranium235]

A few of my faves:

Minimum Aperture catalogue

http://www.elisanet.fi/jere.kahanpaa/astro/MACindex.html

SIMBAD astronomical database

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

Hubble mapping

http://bf-astro.com/hubblep.htm

[foundaplanet]

I have found this to be quite useful http://www.stargazing.net/naa/scopemath.htm

[gazza63]

I am sure this "links" page will grow and grow. SGL is a very informative site for beginners and experienced users, due to the input of the community and the hard work of the admin sharing their knowledge. I think it's a great idea to put up links to websites that we can instantly click, rather than going through a search engine.

Keep up the good work everybody

Gary

[gazza63]

Here is a useful link for those starting out.......http://gardenastronomy.moonfruit.com/