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St. Louis Astronomical Society Astrophotography
Resources
SLAS member pages
Gregg Rupple’s Astrophotography page http://www.ruppel.darkhorizons.org/
Excellent photographs, works constantly, pages for techniques and getting
started.
Jim Melka’s Image web site, http://sites.google.com/site/trailtopastronomy/. Jim is also a member of the Boeing Employees' Amateur Astronomy Club - St. Louis. He specializes in planetary images
Getting Started
Photography with a tripod by Keith Cooley http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/asthwto/TriAst.htm
Photography with a video camera
Article from Sky and Telescope - http://skytonight.com/howto/astrophotography/3437996.html
Photography with a Web Cam
Article with techniques - http://www.ricksastro.com/Techniques.htm
http://imac-252a.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Main/WebHome/webcam_c1.pdf
http://sctscopes.net/Photo_Basics/Webcams_for_Planets/webcams_for_planets.html
Photography with a Barn Door Tracker
Jeff DeTray: Astronomy Boy - http://www.astronomyboy.com/barndoor/
article on how to build a barn door.
Image processing
Processing flow from Russell Croman’s page - http://www.rc-astro.com/resources/index.html
Collections of articles
Jerry Lodriguss - http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TOC_AP.HTMGreat set of articles.
Sky and Telescopes Astrophotography guides - http://skytonight.com/howto/astrophotography/
Oliver Thizy - http://www.galaxyphoto.com/thizy.html
Books
Astrophotography for the Amateur – Michael Covington - http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/astro/
The following are available at skymaps.com - http://www.skymaps.com/store/cat15.html
A Guide to Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras
CCD Astrophotography – High Quality Imaging from the Suburbs
Video Astronomy: Sky & Telescope Observer's Guides
Digital Astrophotography – Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy
Series
Astronomy Hacks – Robert Thompson and Barbara Thompson
Introduction to Digital Astrophotography: Imaging the Universe with
a Digital Camera – Robert Reeves - http://www.willbell.com/DigitaAstrophoto/Default.htm
Introduction to Webcam Astrophotography - http://www.willbell.com/WebcamAstrophoto/webcam.htm
Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing – Richard Berry and
James Burnell - http://www.willbell.com/aip/Index.htm
Individual Pages for Astrophotography
Jerry Lodriguss - http://www.astropix.com/
Russell Croman Astrophotography - http://www.rc-astro.com/
Keith Cooley - http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/Astro2.htm
Al Kelly’s CCD Astrophotography page - http://www.ghg.net/akelly/
Phillip Perkings – Astrocruise.com - http://www.astrocruise.com/
CCD Imaging Webring - http://k.webring.com/hub?ring=ccd_astro
Software
Registax - http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
Registax Tutorials -
http://www.davesastro.co.uk/techniques/registax_tutorial/index.html
K3 Astro - http://www.pk3.org/Astro/
Astrosnap - http://www.astrosnap.com/
Iris - http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm
Starry Night Software - http://starrynight.com/
Software Bisque – The Sky software - http://www.bisque.com/
Equipment articles
Digital SLR’s – Michael Covington - http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/dslr/
Canon EOS digital astrophotography - http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/dslr/EOS300Dastro.html
Laptop video, camera and telescope control - http://velatron.com/dca/personal/setup/laptop.htm
Vendors
Web Cam adapters - http://webcaddy.com.au/astro/adapter.asp
Scopetronix.com – one of the best vendors for digital camera adaptors
- http://scopetronix.com/
Starizona.com – http://starizona.com/acb/
Telescopes.com - http://www.telescopes.com/site_search/index.php?cat=&keywords=astrophotography&t=1
Oceanside Photo and Telescope - http://www.optcorp.com/
Anacortes.com - http://www.buytelescopes.com/
Astromart - http://www.astromart.com/
Classified ads for telescopes and other equipment
Astronomics.com - http://www.astronomics.com/main/Telescopes_and_Telescope_Accessories.asp/catalog_name/Astronomics/category_name/Home
Books: Willmann-Bell Publishers - http://www.willbell.com/
Skymaps.com - http://skymaps.com/
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