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Protostar at; http://www.fpi-protostar.com/ makers of high quality spiders and secondary holders with optional anti dew heaters. |
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Tech 2000 at; http://www.accnorwalk.com/~tddi/tech2000/ makers of the Dob Driver II--an easy to use, computer controlled altitude and azimuth drive for dobsonian type telescopes. |
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Swayze Optical at; http://www.europa.com/~swayze/ makers of high quality newtonian optics. |
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Astrosystems at; http://www.astrosystems.biz makers of excellent focusers and assorted telescope parts for the home and professional telescope builder and a line of telescope kits. |
Astronomical Product Sources
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Aurora Astro Products at; http://www.auroraastro.com An excellent source for all your astronomical needs!
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D.G.M. Optics. Makers of fine F10 off axis reflectors on dobsonian mounts in 3" to 7" sizes. Phone (978) 874-2985. Address P.O.Box120 Westminster, MA 01473 New Website at: http://www.erols.com/dgmoptics |
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University Optics, longtime maker of parts and optics for the amateur telescope maker is now on the web at; http://www.universityoptics.com/ |
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Astronomy Publications |
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Astronomy Magazine at; http://www.astronomy.com |
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Phil Harrington's Starware at; http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pharrington/ |
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Amateur Astronomy Magazine at; http://www.amateurastronomy.com |
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Sky and Telescope Magazine at; http://www.skyandtelescope.com |
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The Astronomer (UK) at; http://www.theastronomer.org |
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Seattle Astronomical Society at; http://www.scn.org/ip/sastro |
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Whatcom Association of Celestial Observers at; http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~trekka/ |
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Olympic Astronomical Society at; http://www.silverlink.net/oas |
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Tri-City Astronomy Club at; http://www.stargazing.net/TCAC
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Rose City Astronomers at; http://www.rca-omsi.org/ |
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Battle Point Astronomical Association at; http://bicomnet.com/ritchieobs/ This website has great information for beginning amateur astronomers everywhere. |
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Table Mountain Star Party at; http://www.tmspa.com/ |
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Optics Workshop at: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~skywise/optics.html |
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Texas Star Party at: http://www.metronet.com/~tsp/index1.html |
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Universe 98 at: http://aspsky.org/u98/u98.html |
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Stellafane at: http://www.stellafane.com/ |
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Enchanted Skies Star Party: http://www.nmt.edu/~astro/essp.html |
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Mason-Dixon Star Party at: http://home1.gte.net/dmdewey/mdsp.html |
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Nebraska Star Party at; http://www.4w.com/nsp/ |
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The Oregon Star Party at; http://www.oregonstarparty.org |
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For information on attending the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference go to; http://rtmc-inc.org/ |
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To stay up to date on the latest space news CNN has an amazing site at; http://cnn.com/TECH/space/index.html |
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For up to date news on space missions and astronomy go to; http://www.universetoday.com |
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For Space News Online, an online magazine with email news bulletins go to; http://www.spacenews.com/ |
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Mel Bartels Home Page at; http://www.efn.org/~mbartels/ |
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Windows To The Universe at: http://www.windows.umich.edu/ |
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The Planetary Society at; http://www.planetary.org/ |
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The NASA Homepage at; http://www.nasa.gov/ |
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Astronomy at the Mining Company at; http://space.miningco.com/ |
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SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at: http://www.seds.org/ |
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J-Track Real-time Spacecraft Tracking at; http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html |
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Links to space images at; http://desktoppublishing.com/spacen.html |
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The Astronomy Mall at; http://www.astronomy-mall.com |
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The Astronomy Net at; http://www.astronomy.net/ |
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Explore Space at; http://www.explorespace.com |
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Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page at; http://www.atm.dal.ca/~andromed/ |
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Bob Lombardi's ATM's Resource List page has links to all sorts of suppliers at;http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~blombard/ |
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The Astronomical League at; http://www.astroleague.org/ |
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For lots of solar system info and pics; http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/ |
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For a neat program for newtonian telescope designing for PC download Newt20 (dos version) from the SEDS ftp site at; ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/software/pc/optic/ . It's also available at http://www.shareware.com . It's a handy $10 shareware program. |
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For a search engine to NASA Online and related space information go to; http://www.nasa.gov/search |
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HEDS, Human Exploration and Development of Space Enterprise at; http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/heds/hedsplan.html |
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The National Space Society at; http://www.nss.org/ |
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The Starry Night astronomy related search engine, links, and articles can be found at; http://www.livesky.com |
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Alpha Centauri's Universe, an ineresting astronomy site with articles and links to many astronomical resources can be found at; http://www.to-scorpio.com/me.htm |
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Home Planet 3, a neat freeware astronomy program that can be had for the downloading at; http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/ |
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Excellence in Education, downloadable astronomical freeware and slide shows from the Space Telescope Science Institute at; http://www.stsci.edu/exined/exined-home.html |
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A new links page that is growing quite fast can be found at; http://home.att.net/~astrolinks/ |
Watch for new additions, this site is updated every
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