Amateur Astronomy Links

• Astronomy Resources
• AstronomyLinks
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• Meade Instruments — Make portable telescopes.
• Celestron — Make portable telescopes.
• Jim's Mobile — Make portable large-aperture telescopes, such as the NGT-18.
• Astro Works — Make the Centurion 18 telescope, good for asteroid/comet hunting.
• Asteroid Detection with the Centurion 18 from Aguila, Arizona April 6, 2000
• Santa Barbara Instrument — Make CCD imagers for telescopes.
• Minor Planet Observer — Offer software to plan observation, control telescopes and cameras, analyze images, identify asteroids, calculate their trajectories, and issue reports of new objects.
• Cyanogen Productions — Make MaxIm DL digital imaging software for use with CCDs.
• Software Bisque — Make TheSky™ telescope control software.
• Integral Systems, Inc. — Offer Epoch 2000™ sky software, especially the OASYS (Orbit Analysis System) module for calculating orbits.
• Clear Sky Institute, Inc. — Offer XEphem free star-charting, sky-simulating, ephemeris-generating celestial software for Unix/Linux platforms.
• OrbFit — Software to fit a tentative orbit to a set of observations. May become integrated with XEphem.
• Austin Astronomical Society — Have observing field at Canyon of the Eagles.
• Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas — Serve Dallas-Fort Worth area.
• Houston Astronomical Society — Serve the Houston area.
• San Antonio Astronomical Association — Serve the Alamo City area.
• Austin Astronomy and Science — Telescope dealer.
• McDonald Observatory — Main professional observatory of Texas.
• The Spacewatch Project — Effort of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, at Kitt Peak.
• Spaceguard Foundation — For protection of the Earth from impacts of large celestial objects (comets and asteroids).
• Earth Impact Possibilities — From NEODys.
• Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) — NASA/MIT project to find NEOs, but could use help from amateurs.
• Guide to Minor Body Astrometry — For those observers interested in undertaking an astrometric CCD-observing program of minor planet and/or comets.
• Willmann-Bell, Inc. — Offer the Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing.
• Data Base of Terrestrial Impact Structures — Where impactors have hit in the past.
• Tunguska event of 1908 is thought to have been caused by an impactor that exploded in the atmosphere.
• Pestigo fire of 1871 in Wisconsin, thought to have been caused by an impactor airburst which also caused Chicago Fire.
• Space Solar Power — An alternative solution to need for energy.
•  Asteroid Bonanza, by Michael Khan, 01. April 2010 — SciLogs.
• Gold rush in space?, by BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse — Analysis of how it could be done.

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