NSEAA Links List

We offer this list of links, Clubs, Organizations for information only. We don't provide endorsement of any particular group and may know very little about them. It is up to you to decide their suitability.

Neat Astronomy Things

You will find the following astronomical sites informative and entertaining. Do explore them and find the astronomical richness the internet has to offer.

• What is vignetting in Binoculars: by Anton Jopko
  
• Astrophotography
  
• How to use Filters: by Harry Pulley
  
• The Audine CCD Camera Project
  
• Predicting the Transparency and Seeing: by Alan Whitman
  
• Drift Method of Polar Alignment: by Chuck Vaughn
  
• Auroras and Magnetometry
  
• Polar Aligning during the Day: by Mark Kaye
  
• Space Calendar; what's going on
  
• Build your own Telescope, ATM Amateur Telescope Makers
  
• The Norman Lockyer Observatory & Planetarium
  
• SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
  
• NASA
  
• NASA (SpaceScience)
  
• NASA's Space Science News
  
• The Sky, from the MS.net
  

Other Local Astronomy Clubs

There are many excellent amateur astronomer clubs in this area. They all welcome guests and visitors, so do join them for a meeting and see what they are up to. Their websites are below, which will give date, time, location and perhaps even the speaker or topic for the meeting.

• The North York Astronomical Association
  
• HAA: Hamilton Amateur Astronomers
  
  
• ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
  

What's the Moon Doing?  

Here is a link worth exploring.

Inconstant Moon

What's the Sun Doing?

Here is a link worth exploring.

SOHO 

Where Is?

• Where is the ISS and Space Shuttle?
  
• Where is the MIR Space Station?
  

Software Downloads

There is a lot of really excellent software available for downloading. It is often free, or may request a modest fee should you like to keep using it after a trial period.

• Locutus Software

  has a number of really neat utilities that are very useful for astronomers. These utilities add icons to your information bar on the bottom of the screen. You just click on them for the information. The utility automatically searches the internet for the required information. Wetsocks automatically checks the web and gets the latest weather report for your area. Socketwatch gets the correct time and updates the clock in your computer. Moonphase's icon shows the correct phase of the moon. Daytoday's icon shows the day and date.

• Satellite Locating Software
  
• WIN245 Image Acquisition Software for Cookbook CCD (Also great cookbook links)
  
• Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software (free)
  
• AstroPIX (AIP245) Image Processing Software
  
• Astroart (Image Processing Software)
  
• Digital Light and Color, (Astro Image Processing Software)
  
• Thumbs: Digital image organize, print and edit software
  
• Distant Suns, Planetarium Software
  
• Film Scanner List
  
• The Earth Centered Universe, Planetarium Software

Astronomy Websites

The Center for Backyard Astrophysics is run by Dr Joe Patterson. This is the most exciting program available today for amateur astronomers that would like to do real astronomical science with their home telescopes.

The Nine Planets is a collection of information about our Solar System intended for a general audience with little technical background. No special expertise or knowledge is needed; all technical and astronomical terms and proper names are defined in the glossary. This document consists of about 90 WWW "pages", one page for each major body in the Solar System. Each page has:

• a large picture of its object and usually several smaller thumbnail images (all linked to their full-size originals) some scientific and historical facts about it,
• if the object has satellites then its page has a table of data on them and links to their pages,
• links to more images and information about the object elsewhere on the Web,
• and a list of open issues for which we as yet have no answers.

The IMO (International Meteor Organization) was founded in 1988 and has more than 250 members now. IMO was created in response to an ever growing need for international cooperation of meteor amateur work. The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust.