These are a few links that you might find interesting:
Local Societies
Usk Astronomical Society
Heads of the Valleys Astronomical Society, Ebbw Vale
Monmouth Astronomical Research Society (MARS)
Cardiff Astronomical Society
Bridgend Astronomical Society
Swansea Astronomical Society
Herefordshire Astronomical Society
Spectroscopy
RSpec
: Easy to start software package with 30 day free trial
BASS – Basic Astronomical Spectroscopy Software
: BASS free software package
BASS Project User Guide
: User guide for BASS
Paton Hawksley Education Ltd.
: Examples of spectra – one of a number of equipment suppliers
RSpec sample projects
: Examples of spectra
Three Hills Observatory.
: Robin Leadbeater’s site – he developed the StarAnalyser diffraction grating
Cosmology
New Scientist Cosmology
Cosmology – Big Bang Theory – NASA
WMAP
COBE – Cosmic Microwave Background
Organisations & Societies
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Royal Astronomical Society
British Astronomical Society
Society for Popular Astronomy
Citizen Science
Zooniverse
Galaxy Zoo
Find Planets around stars
Freeware Software
All these have been checked for virus and have been downloaded and tested.
Telescope control and CTC Sky Map
Worldwide Telescope Project
Observation Manager for Telescope automation and planning
Really great guiding software PHD
The best freeware planitarium Stellarium
Aladin Sky Atlas – Access to multi data sources with overlay
Image stacking software
Graphics processing GIMP 2.8
Astronomy Imaging Control Software
One of the best low cost software packages to control all observing ASCOM or Hardware Drivers. Also contains all the stacking, calibration and filters for image processing
Star gazing at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
How about star gazing at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
Astroart 7.0 just been released after several weeks testing in the observatory.
Regards
John