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 

SpaceWeatherLive.com | Real-time data and plots auroral activity | SpaceWeatherLive.com 

Mt. Wilson 150-Foot Solar Tower (ucla.edu) 

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)