CCD Camera Resource Center

Datasheets for Amateur Camera's

• Cookbook Camera Component Datasheets
• Southwest Cryostatics Cryocam Component Datasheets

How To's and FAQ's

• CCD Information and tech forum - Electronics Information Online
• CCD U from Apogee
• Cookbook CCD On-line text database - Richard Berry
• Documentation Procedure of CCD Characterisation - European Southern Observatory
• In situ CCD testing - Tim Abbott
• sci.astro.ccd-imaging
• Tech Notes from Axion Research

Shutter's for the Cookbook Camera

• The Chesser Shutter for the Cookbook Camera
• The DACO Shutter for the Cookbook Camera

Software for CCD Camera's

• AIPS Homepage - Astronomical Image Processing System
• Astrometrica Homepage - Astrometry Software - Herbert Raab
• Axiom Research - Mira Image Processing Software
• Bruce Johnston Computing - the SuperFix Package
• C++ TCamera Class Library
• Computer Aided Astronomy - Astrometry Software - John Rogers
• Cyanogen Productions Inc. MaxIm DL Image Processing software
• D&M Electronics - DeepSky Image Processing software - Mike Gutzwiller
• Intricate Micro Systems - Image Acquisition Software Supplier
• IRAF Homepage - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
• JASC, Inc. - Paint Shop Pro
• NIH Image Processing and Analysis software
• Quantum Image - Image Processing Software for Windows
• Santa Barbara Instrument Group - CCD, CCDOPS and CCDOPSW
• Software Bisque's Home Page - Software Supplier
• SSC Astronomy Software Products - Dos Pictor View

Stellar Spectroscopy and Image Stabilization Techniques

• Stellar Spectroscopy Home Page - Dr. Donald W. Davies Description of a Home Brew Tilt Tip Mirror System and great information related to stellar spectroscopy with a CB245

Telescope considerations for Imaging

• Accurate Polar Alignment using Star Drift Method - Alan MacRobert - Sky and Telescope
• Special thank to Frank Shaffer for providing:
  ACL Astronomy Control Language reference documentation from Merlin Controls Corporation (220K)
• Guiding a Telescope for Sky Photography - Mark J. Coco - Sky and Telescope

Temperature Regulator Circuits for the Cookbook Camera

• Jerry Mulchin's Temperature Regulator design
• My Adaptation of Roy Tucker's Temperature Regulator Circuit for the Cookbook Camera
• Scott Kroeger's Temperature Regulator design

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