RESOURCES
Here’s a list of useful spaces you should visit if you’re looking for advice, gear or inspiration.
I try to keep this up to date – if you think anything is missing: let me know!
INSPIRATION
- Astrobackyard / Trevor Jones: Website / YouTube
- SWAG ASTRO – Sara Wager
- Star Stuff / Dylan O’Donnell: Website / YouTube
- Chuck’s Astronomy
- AstroStace / Stacey D: YouTube
- Astrofarsography: Website / YouTube
- Nasa APOD
- Focal Pointe Observatory / Bob Franke
- astrophotocologne / Frank Sackenheim: YouTube (German)
- Peter Zelinka: YouTube
- Lonely Speck / Ian Norman & Diana Southern
- What Da Math / Anton Petrov Astronomy: YouTube
- Astronomers Do It In The Dark / Scott Rosen
- Astrobiscuit – Photograph Space On A Budget: Website / YouTube
- JW Astronomy / Julian Weßel: Website / YouTube
- Astro Addict / Tim Richter: YouTube
- Amy Astro: Website / YouTube
- DeepSky Videos: YouTube
- VisibleDark Astro / Shawn Nielsen: YouTube
- AstroForum / Wiedo Oerlemans: Website / YouTube
- Cory Schmitz: YouTube
- All About Neal Armstrong (Thank you, Izzy!)
ONLINE CALCULATORS & TOOLS
- Photons to Photos: Camera data and comparison
- AstroVis: Image train calculator
- Astronomy.Tools Calculators
- Telescopius Astronomy Planning
TOP TUTORIALS
- Cloud Break Optics: Astrophotography, Pixel-by-Pixel (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7)
- Light Vortex Astronomy Tutorials
- Trevor Jones’ Astrobackyard Tutorials
- Charles Wade NightSkyPics Beginner’s Guide
- How To Stack Images Of The Moon on NightSkyPix
SOFTWARE & APPS
IMAGING
- Incanus Astro Photography Tool (Win / Mac)
- Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro (Win)
- O’Telescope Backyard EOS/NIKON (Win)
- Stark Labs Nebulosity (Win / Mac)
- Plane Wave PWI 3 Plate Solve (Win)
- All Sky Plate Solver (Win)
- SharpCap Pro (Win)
STACKING & PROCESSING
- DeepSkyStacker (Win)
- Pleiades PixInsight (Win / Mac / Linux)
- Affinity Photo (Win / Mac / iPad)
- Adobe Photoshop (Win / Mac)
- GIMP (Win / Mac / Linux / Android)
- RegiStax (Win)
- AutoStakkert (Win)
- SiliconFields Star Tools (Win / Mac)
VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES
- Open Collective Stellarium (Win / Mac / Android / iOS)
- KDEdu KSTARS
- Wofgang Zima Mobile Observatory 2 (Android / iOS)
- Sky Map (Android / iOS)
GUIDING
- Open PHD Guiding PHD 2 (Win / Mac)
- Frank Freestar MetaGuide (Win)
- SharpCap Pro (Win)
OTHER
- EQMOD – Hardware control platform (Win)
- APT Darkness Clock (Android / iOS)
- First Light Optics Clear Outside (Android / iOS)
- AstroPlanner (Win / Mac)
FORUMS & CHATS
- OUTGETTINGSUBS Discord 😉
- Cloudynights Forums
- Astrobin Forums
- Stargazers Lounge Forums
- Astronomie.de Forums (German)
ONLINE SHOPS
EUROPE
- Astroshop.eu (EU)
- WEGA Telescopes (DE)
- Teleskop-Service (DE)
- APM Telescopes (DE)
- First Light Optics (UK)
US & CANADA
- High Point Scientific (US)
- OPTcorp (US)
- Cloudbreak Optics (CA)