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Forums and Mailing Lists

Manufacturers

Equipment Reviews

Magazines

Stores and Resellers

Amateur Astronomers

Forums and Mailing Lists

• ASCOM Talk Group
This e-group is of great interest to all ASCOM platform users or developers.
• Digital Astrophotography Group
THE group for all digicam / digital SLR users.
• Losmandy Yahoo Group
The Losmandy owners' community and an invaluable source of information to get the best from your mount.
• Astrotreff
The same applies as for Astronomie.de
• EQ-6 Yahoo Group
The EQ-6/Atlas owners' community and an invaluable source of information to get the best from your mount.
• Astronomie.de
Looks like a great, full-featured site where amateur astronomers can share their results and their views. Too bad I don't speak German! Babelfish can help, although you sometimes get very awkward results.
• Licha
A very good German site featuring a huge picture database. Fortunately, it's in English :-))
• Astro Photography Mailing List
This is the I am the longest-time member of. It provides a wealth of information and is targeted mainly at conventional film astrophotography. Many of the best pictures ever published have been taken by APML members.

Manufacturers

• Vixen
Japanese manufacturer of a de-facto standard in mounts and telescopes.
• Synta
Chinese maker of mounts and telescopes (among which, the EQ-6). While these may not be very high-end products, they are a very good value for the money.
• Miotti
Store with one of the widest selection of products available in Italy; a little expensive, though. They also sell other gear, such as GPS receivers and glasses.
• Losmandy
Chinese maker of mounts and telescopes (among which, the EQ-6). While these may not be very high-end products, they are a very good value for the money.
• Astromeccanica
Italian maker of very fine astro instruments and accessories.

Equipment Reviews

• Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
IMHO the best and most "professional-looking" reviews site available. You certainly don't want to miss this one.
• Ed Ting's Scope Reviews
This site is a little messy, but has quite a few equipment reviews (mainly scopes).

Magazines

• Coelum
A very good Italian astro magazine, probably the best as far as technical skills and printing quality are concerned.
• Le Stelle
This new a relatively entry in the Italian astro magazine arena. Founded by the editorial staff of another well-known Italian magazine, L'Astronomia. Cultural and theoretical subjects such as archeoastronomy are more often dealt with here than on any other Italian astro magazine.
• Sky and Telescope
Probably the oldest and best general-purpose astronomy magazine in the world.
• Astronomy
Another fine astronomy magazine.
• L'Astronomie Magazine
Nice French magazine, which IMHO is quite good technically.
• Ciel et Espace
A good, all-round French magazine.

Stores and Resellers

• Astrotech
Store with one of the widest selection of products available in Italy.

Amateur Astronomers

• Lorenzo Comolli
Another friend of mine: he's an all-round amateur astronomer. Great website with beautiful pictures and resources.
• Ulrich Beinert
A fellow APML member's website with a nice look and some good content.
• Jon Kolb
• Robert Reeves
if you are into Schmidt cameras, well this is the site for you. Also, IMHO his book Wide Field Astrophotography is a must-have for the serious imager!
• Matt BenDaniel
A first class astrophotographer and co-author of the Slooh website
• Renzo Del Rosso
Fellow Italian amateur astronomer and EQ-6 user. Features come nice pictures and articles (Italian ST-4 tips & tricks, Iris tutorial, etc.)
• Chuck Vaughn
APML member and one of the gurus of Tech Pan imaging
• Paolo Baldoni
A good friend of mine, and a long-time amateur planetary imager. He also runs, together with Walter Riva, the planetary astronomy department on the Italian astro magazine "L'Astronomia".
• Jerry Lodriguss
Jerry Lodriguss' website. Author of the book "Photoshop for Astrophotographers", he is a long-time astro-photographer: his site is a very good source of tricks and tips for the novice. Yet, it still can be useful to the experienced imager as well.
• Ivaldo Cervini
A website written completely in Italian, sporting quite a few nice pictures and articles.
• Fabio Acquarone
A fine planetary imager, with some nice.
• Paolo Lazzarotti
A good friend of mine, and definitely a world-class planetary amateur imager. He also runs his own astronomy business: Astromeccanica (see link).
• Tony Hallas
A long-time APML member and one of the best astrophotographers out there.
• Philip Perkins
Nice website featuring some very good pictures taken under French and English skies, and one of the best articles/guides on the Lumicon GEG out there.
• Dave Kodama
• Hap Griffin and others
Those guys have an astronomical station of ther own and an impressive rig, which is definitely every amateur's dream!
• Marco Lorenzi
Website with very nice pictures taken from Italy and southern Africa with a Vixen newtonian and other instruments.
• Robert Gendler
You'll find only CCD pictures here, but among the finest and richest in detail I've ever seen taken by an amateur astronomer.
• Plinio Camaiti
A good friend of mine, and a long-time expert amateur astronomer. This site is perhaps the richest in equipment evaluations and reviews ever written in Italian.