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Links to video imaging sites:

Steve Massey's Astronomy Page
To see what can really be done with 1/3 inch CCD video, visit Steve Massey's impressive web site.
Make sure you download a copy of his LunaView program.  Most excellent!!

Ron Dantowitz's Skyshow - Sharper Images Through Video
Discussion of techniques for obtaining high resolution images with video capture.  Fantastic gallery
of lunar & planetary images including images of the Space Shuttle and Mir.
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Large Scale Sunspot Imaging
The incredible photographic and video high resolution sunspot images by Art Whipple of Maryland.  The web site also contains information on his insturments and their evolution to their present state.  There are alsosome excellent solar links.
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Jean-Francois Mourron's QuickCam Lunar-Planetary Images
Mourron has an impressive collection of images made with a QuickCam CCD and an Intes-Micro
M603 150mm(!!) Maksutov Cassegrain.  The site is in French, but the photos say it all; definitely
worth checking out.

  Touring The Solar System With Your Video Camera
Rod Mallice has captured some great images using various video techniques including hand
holding a camcorder to the eyepiece of his Dobsonian(!).  Most excellent stuff.

Moon Imaging with a Color QuickCam VC
Some great lunar images by Akkana Peck using a color QuickCam system.  Also check out
Akkana's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon.

Images of Earth´s satellite by Philipp Salzgeber
An incredible collection of lunar images made with a 5" Newtonian and a tripod mounted
camcorder at the eyepiece.  A must see collection of images.

High Resolution Images of the Moon & Planets on Video Tape
An excellent collection of lunar images by Charles R. Genovese, Jr., M.D. using a 10" f/6 Newtonian.
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  HIGH RESOLUTION CCD IMAGING
Thiery Legault's web site does not directly deal with video image capture astrophotography,
however much of the extensive information on high resolution imaging is directly applicable to
video imaging.  An outstanding web site with incredible images made with relatively small
aperture telescopes.   A must see site!!

  VIDEO IMAGING WITH A CELESTRON 14
Stephen LaFlamme is just starting out in video imaging, but is already producing some excellent lunar, planetary and stellar images with a 14" telescope in an impressive home observatory.

  AFOCAL IMAGING WITH CAMCORDER & DIGITAL CAMERA
Ginger Mayfield only recently started doing digital imaging with a sony Mavica Digital camera using her Bizarro and 10" Newtonian telescopes.
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BILL'S VIDEO ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PAGE
Bill Ronald has a collection of excellent lunar and planetary images made with the PC23C camera and a variety of lenses including an 8" f/10 SCT.  He also has an amazing image of the February 1998 total solar eclipse shot with a Hi-8 camcorder that clearly shows Jupiter and Mercury during totality.
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  DALE IRELAND'S ASTRONOMY PAGE
Along with lunar occultation video with a camcorder for I.O.T.A., Dale does live feed video of occultations and similar events which can be viewed at his web site.

  JACK SCHMIDLING PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Jack has number of video captured lunar & planetary images amongst the 300 photos on his web site.  He has also posted a page entitled 'Video Imaging' that gives an overview of his video imaging technique.

  DAVID MOORE'S PLANETARY VIDEO ASTROPHOTOS
Adirondack Video Astronomy has a number of David's fine high resolution planetary images made with his 14" Cassegrain and Astrovid 2000 camera posted on their gallery page.
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  GORDON GARCIA'S H-ALPHA SOLAR VIDEO ASTROPHOTOS
Gordon has a number of his Astrovid 2000 H-alpha solar images posted on the Adirondack Video Astronomy gallery page.

  PAUL GOELZ'S ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PAGE
Paul has a number of excellent lunar and solar images made with a PC23C and a 4" refractor or an 8" SCT.  He has also made some improvements to the PC23C and has a page with text and diagram to explain how to do the modification.

  ELSBURY OBSERVATORY
A collection of excellent lunar and planetary images made with a Celestron 14 and an Astrovid 2000 video system.  Be sure to see the images of the observatory building -- a wonderful example of a first class amateur observatory.

  ASTROCAM -- Astronomical Webcam's Site
An excellent web site to learn about QuickCam imaging with loads of information and an incredible collection of images.

  VIDEO-CAPTURE ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Lunar, Solar, Planetary and Deep Sky images by Jim Ferreira of Livermore CA made with Astrovid 2000, PC33C & PC164C B&W video cameras, plus the ITE DeepSky-Pro integrating video camera.  15cm Maksutov-Cassegrain  or 25cm Newtonian.

  DAVID DENCH'S ASTRO-VIDEO PAGES
Lunar, solar and planetary images made with a Samsung B&W video camera and a variety of telescopes by David Dench and Peter Drew in the United Kingdom.

  LUNAR VIDEO ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Lunar images by Francois du Toit of South Africa using B&W and color video cameras afocally and at prime focus with a 4.5 inch Newtonian and a 10" LX200.

  INVITATION TO THE MOON
Morio Higashida's incredible high resolution lunar images are not made with video, he uses an integrating CCD camera with an 8" Newtonian, however, the 'Sights of Interest' section of his web site is a must see for those doing lunar imaging.  The high resolution images of 15 interesting regions of the moon have prominent features clearly labeled making the images an excellent addition to the lunar charts you are already using.

  LIVE ASTROCAM IMAGES
Chuck Faranda's CCD astrophotography web site features live web broadcasts of lunar and planetary video images captured with a PC23C camera and a 90mm Maksutov, 20cm and 25cm Schmitt-Cassegrain telescopes.  Be sure to check out some of his most excellent NON-video CCD images as well.

  EYES ON THE SKIES -- ROBOTIC SOLAR TELESCOPE
Live video images of the Sun in H-alpha light from Livermore, CA.  The telescope system built and operated by Mike Rushford can be controlled by your web browser.  Also a great resource site for solar astronomy and automated telescopes on the Internet.
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  VIDEO ASTRONOMY BY CRAIG ZERBE
Some really fine lunar and planetary images made with a 11 SCT and Astrovid 2000 video camera.
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  STARFIELD OBSERVATORY
Some spectacular solar prominence video imaging by Steven Rismiller of Milford, Ohio using a small aperture refractor.  Must see stuff!
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  VIDEO ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY BY R.J. STEKELENBURG
An excellent collection of lunar and planetary images made with moderate aperture instrument and camcorder.  Rob also has a downloadable program available on his web site for stacking video capture images.
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  NIGHTSKY JOURNEYS
A collection of excellent tri-color video astrophotos by Pat Stoker made with an Astrovid 2000 and Celestron 8 & TeleVue Ranger.
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  THE LUNAVISION AMATEUR ASTRONOMY PAGE
An excellent collection of solar, lunar and planetary images by Jim Browder.  Jim also maintains a web cam page with periodic live imaging of the moon and planets.  There is a page devoted to weather pertaining to atmospheric seeing conditions with many useful links to realtime weather satellite images.
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  CHRIS'S ASTRONOMY PAGE
An excellent collection of lunar and planetary images by Christopher Boylen of Australia made with a 0.05 lux video surveillance camera on either a 11.4cm or 25cm Newtonian.
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  FIRST LIGHT AMATEUR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Some excellent work by Joe Campbell using a PC23C and 5 inch refractor.  Check out his recent double star work.
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  ASTRONOMY IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH!
Think you got it tough on those cold winter nights?  Check out the dedication (or the lack of sanity, as the case may be) of amateur astronomer Juan Herrero of Hull, Quebec.  He is doing some impressive video imaging and has developed some interesting solutions for doing tri-color work.

  LUANR AND PLANETARY VIDEO IMAGES WITH SBI-STV
A collection of  lunar and planetary images by Pete Kubacko using a Santa Barbara Instruments STV CCD system on a Meade 10" LX200 SCT.  Also some fine deep sky images utilizing the STVs integrating imaging capability.
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  LUNAR AND PLANETARY VIDEO IMAGES WITH SBI-STV
Monochrome lunar and planetary images made with the Santa Barbara Instrument STV CCD system on a 10" LX200 SCT by Rod Humble.  Also check out the excellent stellar spectroscopy he is doing with video and integrating CCD.
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SOLAR, LUNAR, PLANETARY AND DEEP SKY VIDEO
Outstanding video images by Larry McHenry using an AVA StellaCam EX and various other video cameras with a 8 inch SCT.  Lots of great information, plus, views and information of his most excellent observatory. 
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  LUNAR & PLANETARY IMAGING USING A VIDEO CAMERA
Amazing images of the moon and planets by Bob Pilz with a 6 inch Newtonian and Astrovid 2000.  Check out the wonderful observatory that will soon house a C-11 SCT.
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Links to video imaging equipment suppliers:

Adirondack Video Astronomy
Producers of a complete line of CCD video systems and accessory hardware, including the venerable Astrovid 2000, the industry standard for solar, lunar & planetary video imaging.  Their exciting new line of StellaCams is revolutionizing video astronomy by allowing the real time viewing and recording of nebulae and galaxies.
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Internet Telescope Exchange
ITE offers a color and two monchrome astronomical video cameras.  Of particular note is the fantastic DeepSky-Pro camera that is sensitive enough to display in real time, and record, nebulae and galaxies, along with solar, lunar and planetary video.
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True Technology Ltd., CCD Imaging Flip Mirrors and Filters
Offering in-line flip mirror systems with a sliding filter drawer and a selection of dichroic
"interference" filters for tri-color imaging.

Murnaghan Instruments
Murnaghan Instruments offers an interesting range of low light, high resolution CCD video camera
systems along with filter wheels, flip mirrors and video hardware.
 

Great Links:

A network of Active Bay Area Observers
An excellent web site for active San Francisco bay area observers with information on local and
regional star parties, society gatherings, equipment and contains numerous observing reports.
TAC also has a very active E-mail list that all amateurs are welcome to join.
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MakScopes Web Site & E-mail Discussion Group
Web site devoted to Maksutov telescopes and their use with a growing number of Mak telescope reviews and list of links to Mak related web sites.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
An outstanding web site on the Moon put together by Akkana Peck with contributions by a
number of talented amateur lunar observers.  Lots of lunar photos, charts and observation reports.

The Shallow Sky
A mailing list for lunar/planetary observers.

The Nine Planets
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System by Bill Arnett.  An impressive site with an overview of the
history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar
system.

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