This page should give an list of useful links concerning astronomical topics. If you miss a link just contact me And it will get added …
| Category | Subcategory | Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturers | 10Micron - Baader site | Telescope mounts | https://10micron.de/en | |
| 10Micron - Company site | Telescope mounts | https://www.10micron.eu/en/homepage | ||
| Altair | Cameras, branded telescopes | https://www.altairastro.com | ||
| APM | Telescopes and mounts | https://www.apm-telescopes.de | ||
| ASA | Telescopes and mounts | https://www.astrosysteme.com | ||
| Askar | Telescopes (including camera lenses) | http://www.askarlens.com | ||
| Astrel Instruments | Cameras | https://www.astrel-instruments.com | ||
| Astro Physics | Telescopes and mounts | https://www.astro-physics.com | ||
| Atik | Cameras | https://www.atik-cameras.com | ||
| Avalon Instruments | Telescope mounts | https://www.avalon-instruments.com | ||
| Baader Planetarium | Sky domes, filters, complete observatories | https://www.baader-planetarium.com | ||
| Bresser | Telescopes | https://www.bresser.de/startseite | ||
| Celestron | Telescopes | https://www.celestron.com | ||
| Explorer Scientific | Telescopes, Eyepieces | https://explorescientificusa.com | ||
| Finger Lages / FLIR | Cameras, Filterwheels | https://www.flicamera.com | ||
| Fornax | Mounts | https://fornaxmounts.com | ||
| Geoptik | Cases, mount accesories, and more | https://www.geoptik.com | ||
| GSO | Taiwan manufacturer; labeled products for dealers | http://www.gs-telescope.com | ||
| iOptron | Mounts, solar telescopes | https://www.ioptron.com | ||
| Lacerta | Telescopes, MGEN3 guider | https://lacerta-optics.com/index.php | ||
| Losmandy | Mounts, Dovetails | http://www.losmandy.com | ||
| Meade | Telescopes, eyepieces | https://www.meade.com | ||
| Moravian Instuments | Cameras | https://www.gxccd.com/ | ||
| Officina Stellare | Telescopes | https://www.officinastellare.com | ||
| Omegon | Optics, sky domes | https://www.omegon.eu/de | ||
| Optec | Focuser, flat fields, … | https://www.optecinc.com/ | ||
| Pentax | Binoculars, Eyepieces | https://www.ricoh-imaging.eu/de_de/pentax/sport-optics/eyepieces | ||
| PlaneWave Instruments | Telescopes and mounts | https://www.planewave.eu | ||
| QHY | Cameras, Filterwheels | https://www.qhyccd.com | ||
| QSI | Cameras, Filterwheels | https://qsimaging.com | ||
| Rainbow Astro | Mounts | https://www.rainbowastro.com | ||
| SBIG (now Diffraction) | Cameras | https://diffractionlimited.com/astrophotography-cameras | ||
| Skywatcher | Telescopes and mounts | https://skywatcher.com | ||
| Starlight Xpress | Cameras, Filterwheels | https://www.sxccd.com | ||
| The Imaging Source | Cameras | https://www.theimagingsource.de | ||
| TeleVue | Telescopes, eyepieces, mounts | https://www.televue.com | ||
| Vaonis | Mount-telescope-camera-computer system | https://vaonis.com | ||
| Vixen | Telescopes | https://global.vixen.co.jp/en | ||
| William Optics | Telescopes | https://williamoptics.com | ||
| ZWO ASI | Cameras, Filterwheels, Guiding Solutions | https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com | ||
| Sun observation | Daystar Filters | Solar observation filters | https://www.daystarfilters.com | |
| Lunt | Solar telescopes | https://luntsolarsystems.com | ||
| Solar Spectrum Filters | Solar observation filters | https://solarspectrumopticalfilters.com | ||
| Dealers | Germany | Teleskop Express | Big german astro dealer near munich | https://www.teleskop-express.de |
| AstroShop | Big german astro dealer in bavaria | https://www.astroshop.de | ||
| Wega Telescopes | German dealer near munich | https://www.wega-telescopes.de | ||
| Baader Planetarium | Own products, 10Micron, PWI, and others | https://www.baader-planetarium.com | ||
| Bresser | Own products and other brands | https://www.bresser.de/startseite | ||
| Telekop-Spezialisten | German dealer (Karl Kloss) near munich | https://www.teleskop-spezialisten.de | ||
| Astrolumina | German dealer (Michael Breite) | https://www.astrolumina.de | ||
| APM | German dealer | https://www.apm-telescopes.de | ||
| Austria | Lacerta | Own products and other brands | https://lacerta-optics.com/index.php | |
| England | FirstLightOptics | English astro dealer | https://www.firstlightoptics.com | |
| Data sources | Sun | Solar Dynamics Observatory | Sat images of the sun in multiple wavelengths | https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| SOHO | Sat images of the SOHO satellite | https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov | ||
| GONG | National Solar Observatory - Global Oscillation Network Group | https://gong2.nso.edu/products/tableView/table.php?configFile=configs/hAlpha.cfg | ||
| Planets, moving objects | JPL Horizons | Get precise orbit parameters of planets, sats, … | https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi | |
| IOTA/ES | International Occultation Timing Association / European Section | https://www.iota-es.de | ||
| Interstellar objects | VizierR | Most complete library of published astronomical catalogues | https://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR | |
| Aladin | Interactive sky atlas | https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml | ||
| SIMBAD | Astronomical Database of CDS (Strasbourg) | http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad | ||
| Astronomical Catalogs | Catalog list | List of all astronomical catalogs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_catalogues | |
| Messier | Messier catalog - 110 objects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object | ||
| NGC | New General Catalogue - 7840 objects | http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.html | ||
| Sharpless | Emission nebulae catalog | http://www.sharplesscatalog.com/sharpless.aspx | ||
| Observation planing | GRAZPREP | Occultation planing | http://www.grazprep.com | |
| General databases | Montidatenbank | (German) site with data for a lot of mounts | https://www.montidatenbank.de | |
| Weather | Clear Outside | Astro Weather forecast | https://clearoutside.com | |
| Software | Imaging | SharpCap | Astro imaging software | https://www.sharpcap.co.uk |
| PHD2 | Free guiding software for astro mounts | https://openphdguiding.org | ||
| APT | Software to guide, image, focus, … | http://phobal.de/photo/blog/technical/software/APT | ||
| NINA | Software to guide, image, focus, … | https://nighttime-imaging.eu | ||
| BackyardEOS | Make your Canon EOS camera an astro camera | https://www.otelescope.com/store/category/2-backyardeos | ||
| BackyardNikon | Make your Nikon camera an astro camera | https://www.otelescope.com/store/category/4-backyardnikon | ||
| EQMOD | Free software to control your EQ mount | http://eq-mod.sourceforge.net | ||
| PixInsight | Astro image processing software | https://pixinsight.com | ||
| Image Processing | Maxim DL | Astro image processing software | https://diffractionlimited.com/product/maxim-dl | |
| AstroPixelProcessor (APP) | Astro image processing software | https://www.astropixelprocessor.com | ||
| DeepSkyStacker | Free astro image processing software | http://deepskystacker.free.fr/german | ||
| FITSWork | Free software to work with FITS format astro image files | https://www.fitswork.de/software | ||
| IRIS | Free astro image processing software | http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/iris-software.html | ||
| Star and distortion removal | GradientXTerminator | Adobe Photoshop Plug-in | https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/GradientXTerminator | |
| StarXTerminator | Adobe Photoshop Plug-in | https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/StarXTerminator | ||
| Starnet++ | https://sourceforge.net/projects/starnet | |||
| Straton | Stand-alone star removal software | https://zipproth.de/Straton | ||
| Standards | ASCOM | Universal Standard for Astronomy | https://ascom-standards.org | |
| Star maps, planing | Stellarium | Free open source planetarium | https://stellarium.org/de | |
| PIPP | Free Planetary Imaging PreProcessor | https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp | ||
| Gaia Sky | 3D display and simulation of the GAIA data | https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky | ||
| SkySafari | iOS planetarium software | https://skysafariastronomy.com | ||
| More to read | Magazines | Sky & Telescope | Biggest US magazine | https://skyandtelescope.org |
| Sterne und Weltraum | Part of the Spektrum publishing group | https://www.spektrum.de/magazin/sterne-und-weltraum | ||
| astronomie DAS MAGAZIN | German magazine | https://www.astronomie-magazin.com | ||
| Organisations | Vereinigung der Sternfreunde e.V. | VdS - Größte deutschsprachiger Verein Amateur-Astronomen | https://sternfreunde.de | |
| Volkssternwarte München | Planetarium and public observatory in Munich | https://sternwarte-muenchen.de | ||
| Initiative gegen Lichtverschmutzung | Working group of the VdS for a dark night sky | http://www.lichtverschmutzung.de | ||
| Private homepages | Russell Croman | https://www.rc-astro.com/index.php | ||
| Klaus Hohmann | German page | https://astrofotografie.hohmann-edv.de | ||
| German forums | Astrotreff | Forum for discussion, images and used stuff market | https://www.astrotreff.de | |
| Astronomie.de | Forum for discussion, images and used stuff market | https://forum.astronomie.de | ||
| French forums | Astrosurf | http://www.astrosurf.com | ||
| International forums | AstroBin | Image forum, Great Amateur Images | https://www.astrobin.com | |
| Stargazers Lounge | Discussion forum | https://stargazerslounge.com | ||
| Observatories | Sternwarte Bärenstein | Observatory of Marcel Drechsler | https://www.sternwarte-baerenstein.de |