Astronomy Links

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Celestron Sites

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• Celestron - Corporate web-site with product information

Meade LX-50 Sites

• Meade Instruments Corp - Corporate web-site with product information
• Meade Advanced Products User's Group (MPAUG) - Good source for LX-50/LX-200 information
• Toby's Meade LX and Spaceflight Web Complex - Good site for resources fro LX-50's and discussion group

General Astronomy Pages

• Seattle Astronomical Society
• Sky Publishing Corp. - A very informative site from Sky & Telescope and CCD Astronomy magazines
• Astronomy Magazine - Another magazine site, this time from Astronomy mag
• Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers - Good sight for solar system observers
• SEDS Messier Database - THE site for Messier Objects
• The Caldwell Catalog - Good site for Caldwell Objects
• NGC/IC Project - All deep sky objects
• The Nine Planets - A good intro to the solar system
• The WWW Virtual Library on Astronomy and Astrophysics
• MegaStar Sky Atlas - A WWW Star Atlas
• Mars Pathfinder Home Page - the Pathfinder mission.

Astrophotography and CCD Imaging

• CCD Camera Cookbook Page - How to build your own CCD Camera from Richard Berry
• Amateur Astronomy - Good page with CCD Images
• Santa Barbara Instruments Group - A good place to download CCD software and images to play with, makers of many CCD cameras
• Van Slyke Engineering - Makers of really cool modular flip-mirror systems
• PixCel 255 Images - This is a German site, can't read it but the images are really good
• Astrophotography by Jason Ware - Great photographs and astrophotography tips, the M31 on my title is from Jason.
• Software Bisque - Makers of The Sky, CCD Soft and distributers of Real Sky. These are great applications that work together very well, I use all three regularily.
• R.J. Stekelenburg's Homepage - This is a video astronomy site but AstroStack is worth a visit.  

Retailers

• Orion Telescope and Binocular Center - Where I bought my scope, makers of Orion scopes and accessories
• Oceanside Photo and Telescope - A shop that has very helpful staff
• Anacortes Telescope and Wild Bird - A great shop that isn't too far from my house.  They make a great insulated dew shield too.