Apogee Instruments - Manufacturers of the AP7b CCD camera (our primary instrument).
http://www.ccd.com
AstronomyOnline.org - Nice website with great details on several areas of astrophysics. Great for getting a feel for the science.
Bob Denny's innovative telescope control software
http://acp.dc3.com
Christian Buil - A very detailed site with LOTS of information from stars to spectrograph construction.
http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/
Cyanogen Productions, Inc. - Makers of MaximDL (see Software)
http://www.cyanogen.com
Download sample spectra from this amateur's SBIG spectrograph.
http://www.starphysics.com/index.htm
Extrasolar Planets Searches - List of current planet search projects.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/
Fachgruppe Spektroskopie - This site is in German with a translation coming soon.
http://www.pollmann.Ernst.org/
Forum for Amateur AstroSpectroscopy
http://www.erols.com/njastro/faas/
Geoffrey Marcy Home Page
http://exoplanets.org
Interactive solar spectrum database that you can query.
http://mesola.obspm.fr/form_spectre.html
Our friend Dale Mais does pro level work with the SBIG spectrograph
http://mais-ccd-spectroscopy.com
Masses and orbital characteristics of extrasolar planets
http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/planetsearch/doppler_table.html
Maurice Gavin has sucessfully obtained spectra of quasars.
http://www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm
NIH Image Home Page
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/
NOAO home page for IRAF
http://iraf.noao.edu/
Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy (Book)
http://www.iop.org/Books/Catalogue/160/__31/075030345X
Quantum Image - Great astronomical image processing software (free downloads).
http://www.quantimage.com
Rhea Corporation - SPECTRA SOFTWARE
http://www.rheacorp.com
Santa Barbara Instruments Group, makers of the ST7 CCD.
http://www.sbig.com
Scion Image Software - Nice shareware package. Does not handle astronomical files directly.
http://www.scioncorp.com
Starphysics.com - nice site with details on the SBIG Spectrograph.
http://www.starphysics.com/
Stellar Spectroscopy - nice listing of spectra articles from all the popular amateur astronomy magazines.
http://www.geocities.com/rlaude2000/index.htm
Universe Today - General astronomy info and newsletter.
http://www.universetoday.com
VizieR Database - Where we go to find info on stars.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
Volume Phase Holographic Gratings - Our friend Sam Barden at NOAO is working on developing these gratings. They promise to be 90% efficient, compared to 70% for today's best ruled gratings.
http://www.noao.edu/ets/vpgratings
Winer Mobile Observatory - Our destination observatory in Arizona. They rent piers for robotic telescope systems.
http://www.winer.org
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