{"id":233,"date":"2012-09-25T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2017-09-05T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:30:58","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?page_id=233","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are a few links that you might find interesting:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Local Societies<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

Usk Astronomical Society<\/a>  
\nHeads of the Valleys Astronomical Society, Ebbw Vale<\/a>  
\nMonmouth Astronomical Research Society (MARS)<\/a>  
\nCardiff Astronomical Society<\/a>  
\nBridgend Astronomical Society<\/a>  
\nSwansea Astronomical Society<\/a>  
\nHerefordshire Astronomical Society<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Spectroscopy<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

RSpec<\/a>
\n          : Easy to start software package with 30 day free trial<\/a>
\nBASS – Basic Astronomical Spectroscopy Software<\/a>
\n          : BASS free software package<\/a>
\nBASS Project User Guide<\/a>
\n          : User guide for BASS<\/a>
\nPaton Hawksley Education Ltd. <\/a>
\n          : Examples of spectra – one of a number of equipment suppliers<\/a>
\nRSpec sample projects <\/a>
\n          : Examples of spectra<\/a>
\nThree Hills Observatory. <\/a>
\n          : Robin Leadbeater’s site – he developed the StarAnalyser diffraction grating<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Cosmology<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

New Scientist Cosmology<\/a>
\nCosmology – Big Bang Theory – NASA<\/a>
\nWMAP<\/a>
\nCOBE – Cosmic Microwave Background<\/a><\/p>\n

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Organisations & Societies<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

American Association of Variable Star Observers<\/a>
\nRoyal Astronomical Society<\/a>
\nBritish Astronomical Society<\/a>
\nSociety for Popular Astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

 Citizen Science<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Zooniverse<\/a>
\nGalaxy Zoo<\/a>
\nFind Planets around stars<\/a><\/p>\n

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Freeware Software<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

All these have been checked for virus and have been downloaded and tested.<\/span><\/p>\n

Telescope control and  CTC Sky Map<\/a>
\nWorldwide Telescope Project<\/a>
\nObservation Manager for Telescope automation and planning <\/a>
\nReally great guiding software PHD<\/a>
\nThe best freeware planitarium Stellarium<\/a>
\nAladin Sky Atlas – Access to multi data sources with overlay<\/a>
\nImage stacking software <\/a>
\nGraphics processing GIMP 2.8 <\/a><\/p>\n

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Astronomy Imaging Control Software<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

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<\/span><\/p>\n

MSB AstroArt 5.0<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Star gazing at the National Botanic Garden of Wales<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

How about star gazing at the National Botanic Garden of Wales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}