Cookbook Home Page

Organizational and Weather Links
Orange County Astronomers homepage
DarkSky - A Web Tool to find Dark Skys in the USA
Estimating Limiting Magnitude
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Universe Today - Space news from around the Internet, updated every weekday
ANZA Weather site for OCA
National Weather Service - LA/Oxnard
Real-Time Weather Data (Satellite Page)
National Weather Service Western Region Forecast Map
300 mb Jetstream Map
The National Weather Service's (NWS) Internet data source
National Weather Service Homepages

Imaging Processing Info
AstroArt - Astronomical Image Processing Software
Astronomical Image Library
LRGB Technique using Photoshop V4
Display Monitor Calibration Site
Removing Gradients from an image
Creating Mosaics using Photoshop

Surveys - Telescope Making Info - Specialized Fields
Digital Sky Survey
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS)
Astromart (Buy and Sell)
Dale Mais webpage dedicated to Amateur Spectroscopy
Collimation of a Telescope
Amateur Astronomer Planet Hunting Web Page
California and Carnegie Planet Search Web Page

Supernova Info
Bright Supernova

Manufactures Info
SBIG Camera Page
The Software Bisque webpage
The Tpoint Software home page

Astronomical Catalogs and Data Tools
Galaxies at SEDS
Hawaiian Astronomical Society Storybook and Deepsky Atlas
The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
NASA resource for astronomical catalogs and journal data tables
**** Astrometric Catalogs ****
Astronomical Reference Network REFNET
Astronomy related Libraries
The Interactive NGC Catalog Online
Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
NGC/IC Project Home Page
Object Seasonal Observability Engine
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
Arizona Search for Planets
Catalog of Extra-solar Planets Discovered
XEphem Astronomy Homepage
Sky and Telescope Resources Webpage
The Astronomy Thesaurus

Linux Links / Astronomy Software Resources
Red Hat Linux
Scientific Applications on Linux
Linux Scientific Software Guide
Logo Generator Webpage
Linux Tip & Tricks
Linux RPM Repository
Freshmeat (Latest Source Files)
YoLinux Information Portal
The Linux Portal (lots of links)
Tsakfs Linux Links (Lots of good stuff)
Slashdot, News for Nerds, Stuff that matters
TrinityOS LINUX Security Info
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) Webpage
WCSTools Programs/Catalogs/Subroutines/Publications
ASCOM: Astronomy Common Object Model webpage

Amateur Radio Links of Interest
ARRL Webpage (American Radio Relay League)
ARRL Orange Section Webpage
FCC Homepage
San Bernardino Microwave Society
QEX Download Files sorted by Date
Radio Line of Sight Plot Server
DX News, Propagation for all bands
California Mountain Peaks
More California Mountain Tops
Universary of Texas at Austin online Maps
TerraFly Virtually "FLY" over the United States
USGS National Mapping Information
U.S. Gazetteer (Location finder)

General Search/Topic links
RefDesk.COM (The single best source for facts on the Net)
Google Search Engine
Internet US Yellow Pages

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