 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|||||||
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|||||||
 |
|
|||||||
 |
|
|||||||
FaintFuzzies.com
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Links (many are being added at this time)
Truss Telescopes (16" or larger)
Starmaster Telescopes - Optically excellent telescopes. Very fast telescopes (f/3.6 and f/3.3) Zambuto and Lockwood are the primary mirror makers for these telescopes. I own a 30" Starmaster.
Obsession Telescopes - Very well made telescopes. If you want one quick, this is the way to go. Take a look at the UC model, very nice and an 18" UC will fit in the smallest trunk. They just released the 22" f/4.2 UC and it is very stiff. They use primarily OMI mirrors
OMI (Optical Mechanics) EVO-30 - All metal 30" telescope built by OMI. I played with it at TSP '09. Very stiff scope.
StarStructure Telescopes - incredible all aluminum telescopes. Mainly Zambuto and Kennedy mirrors
AstroTech 16" 3-truss Dobsonian - A great budget 16" scope. Very well made for the price.
Meade truss scopes - Another budget truss scope
Recommended Eyepieces
Widefield eyepieces
Narrow field eyepieces
Large Primary Mirrors
Deep Sky Resources
Adventures of Deep Space by Steve Gottlieb, Mark Wagner, et al
Arp Peculiar Galaxies by Dennis Webb
Albert Highe's site containing good stuff on Abell Galaxy Clusters
Blackskies - Doug Snyder's awesome planetary observers site
Visual Deep Sky Observing - Faith Jordan (UK)
Astro-Visuall - German Deep Sky website
Cosmic Voyage - Bill Ferris Deep Sky page
Deep Sky-Visuall - run by German observer, Uwe Glahn
Paul Alsing's collection of good stuff
Visual Sky Assist - DSO search tool. Pretty neat.
NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
DSS - Digital Sky Survey
Deep Sky sketches
Bertrand Laville Deep Sky Drawings
Uwe Glahn - Deepsky-visuell
Jeremy Perez - Belt of Venus
Astronomy Vendors
Astronomics - sponsor of CloudyNights.com
Oceanside Telescopes - Located in Southern California
Aurora Astro - Located in Washington State
Scope City - six stores covering California and Nevada
Camera Concepts and Telescope Solutions - Traveling store, appears in many star parties
Starizona - Located in Arizona
Dark Skies Apparel - Astronomy themed apparel
Astronomy Forums and Associations
CloudyNights - excellent astronomy forum
Starstuff - Another astronomy forum
TAC - The Bay Area premier observers group
TAC-Sac - Sacramento division of TAC
Dark Star Parties
Texas Star Party - May 9 to 16, 2010 (I'll be present)
Golden State Star Party - July 10 to 14, 2010
Oregon Star Party - August 11 to 15, 2010 (Tentative)
Nebraska Star Party - August 8 to 13, 2010
Okie-Tex Star Party - October 2 to 10, 2010 (Tentative)