Links

Astronomy Now – The UK's biggest & best stargazing magazine

BBC Sky at Night Magazine - skyatnightmagazine

BBC Four - The Sky at Night

Galaxy Zoo — Zooniverse

Weather forecast

CW Weather (chorleyweather.com)

Clear Outside

BBC Weather

Weather and climate change - Met Office

Aurora alerts

Aurorawatch UK

BGS

spaceweather

Light pollution (dark sky site finder)

Worldwide Light Pollution Map

Planetarium/sky map/what's in the sky

Stellarium

Universe Sandbox

Heavens Above

Capture and Control software

APT - Astro Photography Tool

SharpCap – Lunar, Planetary, Solar and Deep Sky Imaging. EAA and Live Stacking.

ASCOM - Standards for Astronomy (ascom-standards.org)

EQMOD (sourceforge.net)

PHD2 Guiding (openphdguiding.org)

Image processing / stacking

RegiStax- Free image processing software (astronomie.be)

Deep Sky Stacker

StarTools tutorial

IRIS software (astrosurf.com)

Siril - An astronomical image processing tool

StarMax - Easy StarTrails Creator (free.fr)

AstroImageJ (AIJ) - ImageJ for Astronomy (louisville.edu)

General Photo Editing

GIMP

Microsoft ICE - Image Composite Editor (64 bit)

Society for the History of Astronomy | shedding light on the history of astronomy

History of Astronomy (mikeoates.org)

Telescope Making and Binocular Telescopes (deep-sky.co.uk)