Sirius stargazing channel on youtube

[Wurzil]

Hi all,

I just found a really good channel on youtube which has nice videos showing how to find various objects in the night sky. The videos also have interesting bits of info about the each object.

Perfect for beginners like me - so I thought id share it with you all

YouTube - SiriusStargazing's Channel

Warren

[Wurzil]

hmmmm Why dont we all paste all of our favourite links for useful videos, documents, tables, websites, applications etc and make a sticky for the beginners section???

Like this one which I use a lot - Field of View calculator

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/interactive/fov/fov.asp

Warren

[david o]

Here's a few for you:

On the Cloudy Nights forum, simply the best explanation of astronomical seeing I have come across - The Atmosphere and Observing - A guide to Astronomical seeing.

A weather site that can generate a localized astronomical forecast - 7Timer's APanel (Astroweather Panel).

Planetarium freeware (Windows) that doesn't hog your system's resources, can control scopes and has plugins to extend basic functionality and access various star/comet catalogues - StarCalc.

A simple FoV calculator - Telescope Field Of View And Power Calculator.

Something a bit more complete - Ken's Telescope Calculator.

[Wurzil]

thanks david.

I think Ill start a new thread to entice people in (Ill paste your bits in there)

Warren

[david o]

OK, thanks Warren .

I'll trawl through my bookmarks to see if there is anything else of interest.