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January 30, 2007
Commercial Links:
Meade telescopes, telescope eyepieces, & ccd cameras Astronomy Telescopes from Meade, Celestron, TeleVue, Takahashi, accessories and eyepieces, CCD imaging cameras from SBIG and more.
Oceanside Photo and Telescope. I have bought two telescopes, binoculars, various eyepieces and accessories from these guys. They are knowledgeable and very pleasant to do business with.
Astronomy Friends:
- Greg Beeke - Images and ICX414CCD Tips and info
- Etienne Bonduelle - Many top notch images - practice your French too
- Dietmar Hager - Super Equipment and Super Images from Austria
- Christian Haugerud - "Astrocorner" TS127 f/9.5 user
- Peter Katreniak - home of K3CCDTools and many images
- Robin Leadbeater - Lots of Images and 1004x user
- Ashley Roeckelein - Lots of Images and a fabulous Links page
- TG Tan - Sarawak Skies, great images with a SAC7b, many tips as well
- Jan Timmermans - Images and many tips and techniques.
- Keith Wiley - Astronomy, Astrophotography and other interests
- Roger Zellmer - LX200 User
My Dark site locations:
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Click the Google Maps icon to see all locations on an Interactive map
- Blair Valley - Best location for calm air and darkest skies in the desert (790 meters)
- Culp Valley - Higher elevation than Blair (1025 meters)
- Dos Picos Park - Closer to home (517 meters)
- Mount Laguna - Summertime only (1800 meters) - I don't really observe here but about 500 meters away
- Palomar Mountain - I never really observe here, but it is so famous I had to include it
- Tierra Del Sol - San Diego Astronomy Association Club site
- My House - not really a dark site, but its where I observe when I can't make it to a dark site
Astronomy/Equipment Reference:
- Peter K3's Lens Geometry - Simple math on Barlows and Focal Reducers
- Thiery Legault's Focal Length Adjustment - Alternate site for focal length calculations
- QCUIAG (current posts) - Posts on the QCUIAG list for the last two weeks
- DSS Images - Get image from any RA/DEC - from STScI
- Haleakala Observatory (Maui, Hawaii) - Image1 Image2
And here am I.... email me at webmaster@jthommes.com
