A few "professional" astronomical links:
Weather Links:
- ZAMG - Current infrared
satellite
image, weather forecast for
all
of Austria and for Lower
Austria, cloud prognosis and the
INCA wind analysis (in German)
- ORF Wetter: Current weather
data for Lower
Austria,
6-day
forecast,
Alpine Weather
forecast.
- SAT24: Visual and Infrared satellite
image sequences of the alpine region, often updated, good resolution.
- Wetterzentrale.de: Current Meteosat
IR
image.
- The high-res
satellite
image of Central Europe, provided by
DLR, updated approx. two times a
day.
-
www.wetter.at - they
have a
cloud
prognosis ranging about 2 days in advance.
- meteoblue
numerical weather predicition - they provide local weather predictions
and also an astronomical seeing forecast!
- CRWS Jet Stream
Analysis - of interest for Europe is the North Atlantic
analysis and forecasts.
- Alpine weather
report by Alpenverein.
- Wettervorhersage
für Amateurastronomen by space-agents.de
featuring detailed forecast charts which include low-level clouds, cirrus clouds and the jet stream.
- European weather forecast charts, by Met-Office UK:
Current analysis 0/6/12/18 UT and
24h,
36h,
48h,
60h,
72h,
84h,
96h,
108h,
120h and
132h
in advance. Another set of charts provided by HIRLAM:
6h,
12h,
24h,
36h and
60h
in advance.
- Numerical Weather Predication WRF (ARW) 4 km
- ECMWF and
MRF medium-range
forecasts for Europe, up to 6 days in advance.
- The weather pages of
wetterklima.de
and
wetterzentrale.de,
Germany, whom I owe most of these links to.
Amateur Astronomy and Astrophotography Ressources:
- An astonishing amount of information can be found at CalSKY, an online astronomical
calendar. Excellent!
- GSOC Satellite
Predictions provided by
DLR in Germany - if you want to know
when and where which satellite will be crossing the sky above your
observing site, this is the place you look for. They have a large
database where even the location of every small village anywhere in the
world is included. They do even have exact sky charts for the
satellite crossings!
- JPL - the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory at Pasadena/USA: Current space mission updates, lots of
pretty pictures etc.
- The IAU Minor
Planet Center: List and emphemerides of currently visible comets. Additional
information concering comets can be found at Cometography.com and at the A.L.P.O. Comet Section.
- Interactive sky atlases: wikisky.org and
Google Sky.
- So, you want to buy a telescope or a piece of equipment? Or you
are just interested in good telescope reviews? Visit the
Telescope Reviews page by Ed
Ting, Cloudy Nights Telescope
Reviews!
- Some US and worldwide telescope & accessoires dealers:
Meade,
Celestron,
Vixen,
Orion,
Astro-Physics,
Tele Vue,
Losmandy,
SBIG,
Takahashi Telescopes Europe and
Starlight Xpress.
- Telescope dealers in Germany and Switzerland:
Baader Planetarium;
Intercon-Spacetec;
AOKswiss who
produces superb mounts and sells some unusual telescopes;
Phillip Keller who produces
Schmidt Cameras, Hypergraphs/Deltagraphs, Ritchey-Chretiens and other
outstanding telescopes;
APM
Telescopes Markus Ludes, a telescope dealer with some very
interesting offers, including Russian telescopes;
Teleskop-Service Wolfgang
Ransburg in Munich with some interesting low-price offers.
- Telescope dealers in Austria:
Astroshop.at (owned by Howdii),
Teleskop Austria,
Astro Systeme Austria (ASA) and
j.müller optik & fotografie
- Deep Sky Corner - descriptions
of all stellar constellations, their history, and objects therein.
Provided by
astro!nfo in Germany.
- Periodic error
measurements of many mounts by Christophe Demeautis (in French)
- CCD Images of the Sharpless Catalog
- Color vs. Mono Camera
Match by Michael A. Siniscalchi
- Fast
Astrograph Considerations by Dave Erickson
Amateur astronomy links:
- astronomieforum.at, an
active forum for amateur astronomy in Austria.
- astronomie.de is a
good place to start if you want to know something about amateur
astronomy in Germany. They also have an
Astro Market there.
- Wiener
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Astronomie (WAA) - an active
astronomy
club in Vienna, they always have the most recent astronomical news
there.
- Sky&Telescope - the
most popular amateur astronomy magazine worldwide
- Astronomy - the second
great astronomy magazine in USA
- Sterne und Weltraum and interstellarum -
two great astronomy magazines in German
- A selection of Austrian astrophotographers:
Gerhard Bachmayer (Nö),
Dieter Beer (Nö),
Roman Feldhaas (Nö),
Alexander Grasel (Nö),
Daniel Gütl (St),
Dietmar Hager (Oö),
Martin Helm (Nö),
Rochus Hess (Sb),
Bernhard Hubl (Oö),
Michael Karrer (St),
Bruno Kowatschik (B),
Werner Pribil (Nö),
Werner Probst (K),
Wolfgang Promper (Nö),
Gerald Rhemann (W),
Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory) (St),
Manfred Schwarz,
J�rgen St�ger (Nö),
Herbert Walter (Oö),
Manfred Wasshuber (Nö),
Pretty Pictures:
- HST (Hubble Space Telescope) pictures - check them out at
STScI in
Baltimore, USA. The most beautiful HST-pictures can be
found in The Hubble Heritage
Archive
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal
- spacecraft images of all solar system bodies. More information can be found at
The Nine Planets.
- AAO - Superb pictures
taken with the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope by David Malin at Siding
Spring/Australia.
- The NOAO image
gallery.
- Astronomy Picture of
the Day provided by NASA.
- Skyfactory - The Factory of Night-Sky
Wonders by Davide De Martin, who uses photographic plates taken at Palomar
Observatory for producing really stunning color images.
- Ok, now for some of the very best astroimagers & astro-imaging groups worldwide,
expect some really breathtaking astro-images and lots of info:
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (blog),
Adam Block,
Steve Cannistra,
Russell Croman,
Thomas V. Davis,
Iván Êder,
Neil Fleming,
Bob Franke,
Jordi Gallego,
Rolf Geissinger,
Robert Gendler,
Stéphane Guisard,
Tony & Daphne Hallas,
Dave Jurasevich,
Thierry Legault (high-res imaging),
Stephen Leshin,
Jerry Lodriguss,
Marco Lorenzi,
J-P Metsavainio (blog),
Osservatorio MTM,
Philip Perkins,
Robert Reeves,
Dean Rowe,
Antonio F. Sánchez,
Stefan Seip,
Spiegelteam,
Star Shadows Remote Observatory,
Loke Kun Tan,
Chuck Vaughn,
Wei-Hao Wang.
Photography Links:
