TRYING TO CREATE A USEFUL STICKY - PASTE YOUR USEFUL LINKS HERE!

[Wurzil]

Hi all,

As a beginner with only a few months experience I am starting to build up a load of useful bookmarks in my browser. I think a useful addition to the sticky threads in this beginners section would be a "top 20 useful links" thread.

Im talking about useful applications, documents, articles, tables, videos, diagrams etc etc. I think we should avoid online shops as we dont want to give them free advertising, do we?

Hopefully the moderators will join in and help make the end product all nice and shiny (and sticky!).

What we need is: the title of the useful link, a brief description and of course the link itself.

Ill get us started then:

Stellarium - an amazing virtual night sky, that allows you to see what the sky is like at your own location, right now! You can fast forward, rewind, pause, zoom-in etc etc. Its good for locating things and for planning a session

Stellarium

Happy Pasting

Warren

[Wurzil]

Thanks to david o for these:

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]

another two here:

FOV calculator from skyatnight website which shows how big a celestial body will look in your eyepiece/scope:

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/in...ve/fov/fov.asp

Sirius Stargazing channel on youtube - nice interesting and educational little videos about astronomy and stargazing:

YouTube - SiriusStargazing's Channel

[John]

You might be interested in the links section of SGL's own Astropedia:

Links - AstroPedia

[Wurzil]

thanks john (how did i miss it!?) - do you think its still worth trying to do this?

Warren