Frome Valley Observatory Links Page

Other amateur astronomers & their observatories

Software & Equipment

Steve Walter's Olympus Mons Observatory - UK
Pierre de Ponthiere's observatory - Belgium
Hilltop Observatory - US
Ravenshead Observatory - UK
Mark Hellweg's site - Germany
Bill Arnett's Nine Planets site, which includes a list of amateur observatories - US
The Astronomy Directory - UK

AstroArt CCD control and image processing
Cartes du Ciel planetarium
PHD Guiding autoguiding software
ASCOM plug-and-play astronomical software
FCUSB focuser controller from Shoestring Astronomy
K3CCDTools webcam imaging software
Noel Carboni's Photoshop Actions
Don Waid's Photoshop Tutorials
Russ Croman's GradientXTerminator plugin for Photoshop

Reference sites

Other sites of interest

Astronomy Picture of the Day
SEDS Online NGC/IC/Messier catalogue
SIMBAD
CalSky
Heavens Above - locate satellites, ISS, Hubble, etc
Comet Chasing
Visible comets in the Northern Hemisphere
Latest Supernovae
Moon rise and set times in UK
Space Weather
JPL Small-body browser - NEOs, etc
NEODyS - NEOs
Earth's Busy Neighbourhood - NEOs

The Jodcast - a fantastic UK podcast from Jodrell Bank
Astromart
UK Astro Buy & Sell
Telescope House
Sky & Telescope
Astronomy Now - popular UK monthly magazine
BBC Sky at Night Magazine - perhaps better for beginners?
Practical Astronomer - great UK magazine for astro-imagers - Recommended
Astrophoto Insight - online magazine