Usefull Links


Links I use which could be usefull (updated September 2024)

Associations:
Vereniging voor sterrenkunde - VVS - VVS.be
Deepskylog VVS - Deepskylog
Helios Averbode -  Via VVS-site Helios
Volkssterrenwacht Urania - Urania
Volksterrenwacht Beisbroek - Cozmix Brugge

Weather Forecast:
Koninklijk Meteorologisch instituut - KMI - Meteo Belgie
Astronomical Weather & Seeing - Meteoblue
Clear Outside Weather Forecast - Clear Outside
Wind on 10km height - Windy

Light Pollution & Dark Sky:
Live Lightning Maps - Blitzortung.org
Light Pollution Map - Light Pollution Info
International Dark-Sky Association - Darksky.org

Solar Astronomy : 
Overview for latest Solar Images and Maps - Blog 
Solar Influences Data Analysis Center - SIDC
Solar Terrestrial Centre of Excellence - STCE
NOAA/NWS Space Weather Prediction Center - SWPC.NOAA.GOV
Peter Meadows Solar Page - Peter Meadows
Atmospheric Topics and Tilting Sun - Atopics.co.uk\tiltsun.htm
Solar Rotation Applet - Solar Rotation JGiesen.de
Michael Richmond's Classes - see Physics440 - Spiff.rit.edu
Solar Physics - Orca.Phys.Uvic.Ca
Solar Physics Journal - Solar Physics Springer
Max Planck Institute for Solar Research - Max Planck Solar Institute - Lesson Download
Astronomy Larry Bogan Sunspot calculator : Larry Bogan's Web
Spherical Astronomy / Positional Astronomy - Henk Otten
National Solar Observation - GlobalOscillation Network Group  GONG - GONG Sun in H-Alfa
Radiative Transfer by Robert Rutten (Utrecht) - Rob Rutten's webstek
Sun Spots Live - SolarMonitor
European Solar Telescope - EST
NASA SpaceMath - Space Math @ NASA
PHD: The diagnostic potential of the He I D3 spectral line in the solar atmosphere by Tine Libbrecht
Solardatabase to compare amateur images of Sun - Solardatabase.free.fr
Bass2000 - Bass2000


Sol'Ex
Sol'ex Webpage - Astrosurf
Oberving the Sun with a spectroheliograph - Astrosurf.com/spectrohelio
Christian Buil's Youtube Sol'Ex Channel - Astro-Spectro
Christian Buil's Webpage - Spectrography, Detectors and  Astronomy
Sol'ex setting instructions - English Settings for Sol'ex 
Shelyak Sol'Ex material - Shelyak
Shelyak Youtube channel - Shelyak Instruments TV
Inti Software - Valerie Desnoux
SHG-Main Software - TheLondonSmiths
JSolex Software - Astro4j Cedric Champeau
Sol'Ex visulatisation and Typical errors by Jerome Bastardie - Espace-Infini
Rencontres des observateurs solaires - ROS
Journée de l'astronomie de solaraire - Mars60
The Physics of Diffraction Gratings - Formulas Richardson Grating Laboratories
Diffraction Gratings - An Introduction
Holographic Blazed Reflective Diffraction Grating - Horiba Manufacturing
Part 1 Spectral Line Height in the Solar Atmosphere - LiveJournal Solarnutcase
Part 2 Understanding the bandwidth of your Hydrogen alpha filter - LiveJournal Solarnutcase
Solar Spectrum - AstroSurf

Solargraphy
Solargraphy - Solargraphy
Stichting Volksterrenwacht Philippis Lansbergen - Lansbergen
Publishments on Solargraphy  volume 24 / nr 4 sept/okt 2012 Urania Article en Heelal Oktober 2012 VVS Article
Calculating Sun's Path Across the Sky - Sun's Path

Astronews:
The Lonely Photon - Personel blog of Adriano
Astronomisch nieuws - Astronieuws
Astronomical news via Sky And Telescope - Sky&Telescope
The Quantum Universe - redactie door Marcel Vonk en Nederlands - The Quantum Universe

The Sky & Satellites 
Spaceweather - Spaceweather
Comets - Bright Comets
Real-time satellite, ISS, maps, and star charts - Heavens-Above
ISS Live - Spot The Station NASA
Life real time satellite tracking - N2YO
The Sky real time - The Sky Live
The Moon Phase and Libration - NASA SVS

Learning:
Free Learning from The Open University - Open Learning & Telescope.org
Youtube video's Physics and Astronomy Univ of Los Angelos, including spectroscopy- ilectureonline

Eclipse Pages:
Xavier Jubier Eclipse Page - Xjubier.free.fr
Eclipse 2017 USA - Nasa Eclipse and Greatamericaneclipse
Eclipse 2017 USA - Location to watch Rexburg Idaho
Eclipse Resource Guide 

Astrotools/Software:
Hemelkalender - Hemelkalender.space
Jaarboek Sterrenwacht België (PDF) : Jaarboek Astro.oma.be
Astronomical pictures you don't know and want to find out - Astrometry.net 
Skymaps - Evening Skymaps
Stellarium - Planetarium software - Stellarium
Sky Safari - Sky Safari 
Astronomical Data Base - Simbad Star Catalog
Astronomy Tools - Astronomy.tools
Astronomy Planning Tool- Telescopius.com
Great Red Spot Jupiter - Galilean Moons of Jupiter or WinJUPOS
Mars Mapper - Astronomy Now

Astrophotography:
Calculation of Factor P lightpollution for Subframes - Sharpcap tools
Camera Capture tool - Sharpcap
Camera Control Software - DigiCamControl
ADP DNG Converter - DNG Converter
Image Post-Processor - IMPPG
AstroSurface Stacking, editing, Dconvolution, ... - AstroSurface
Nikon - Nikon
ZWO ASI - Astronomy Camera's
Star Trail Software - Startrails.de
Stacking pictures - DeepSkyStacker
Stacking movies - RegiStax
Stacking movies - AutoStakkert!
FITS Image viewer software page from NASA- FITS
Noise reduction Software from Topaz Labs - DeNoise AI - TopazLabs
APP AstroPixelProcessing - APP
Planetary Imaging PreProcessing - PIPP
Virtual Network Computing - RealVCN
Platesolver Astronomical pictures you don't know and want to find out - Astrometry.net 
Platesolver The Astrometric Stacking Program - ASTAP


Varia
Quasar : 12 Quasars for Spring Evening and My first Quasar observation
Interesting Webpage from Pedro Ré : Astrosurf
Prof Dr. Marcel Merk Teaching Relativity & Quantum Mechanics - Marcel Merk Teaching
Atmospheric Optics - atopics
Atmospheric Halo's - Meteoris.de
If This Then That - IFTTT

Radio-astronomy, ARISS, ATP
SSTV ISS blog - ARISS SSTV blog
Russian R4UAB - R4UAB
MMSSTV - MM Ham Soft
Dwingeloo Meteor Ieper49990, Dourbes49970 & Graves143051 - CAMRAS 
WebSDR Located in Heppen (B) - Heppen 
WebSDR Nurnberg (D) - Nurnberg
University of Twente, Enschede - Wideband SDR eg. DCF77 Mainflingen Time or SAQ17.2kHz
Farnham Websdr ISS - Farnham
WXtoIMG tool for NOAA satellites - WMtoIMG Restored
ESA ESTEC Websdr - Websdr ESA
NOAA Tracking - Real Live satellite tracking N2yo
NOAA latest pictures - Europe from Space
Software Spectrum Lab - DL4YHF's Audio Spectrum Analyzer

Awards/Certificates ARISS SSTV, MAI-75
ARISS Indonesian Space Explorer - Inspace
B’SATTRAC – Bitung Satellite Tracking Community - B'Sattrac
ASTRAC – Air Haji Satellite Tracking Community - ASTRAC
Russian R4UAB - R4UAB
Grupo Satelites HC
Turkish Radio Amateur Club - TRAC
LU4DLL - Radio Club 9 de Julio - LU4DLL
Klubová stanice OK1 KKY - Facebook OK1KKY
ISS Fanclub Poland - Blogspot ISS Fanclub Poland
ECRA - Escola en Casa de Radioamadores de Campina Grande - QTC da ECRA
ARISS SSTV Gallery - ARISS and ARISS SSTV Award

Noctilicent Clouds:
Noctilucent Clouds Radar : OSWIN VHF Radar Germany
Noctilucent Clouds Radar : NERC MST Radar (Wales)

Weather Station Software:
Oregon Scientific - Weather stations
WMR Software -  Virtual Weather Station
WMR Software - Sandysoft Cumulus
Wunderground - My Personal Weather Station