General

• CCD World {this is a great site. check out all their links.}
  • see Links
  • see Bibliography
• Sky & Telescope - CCD Imaging

Commercial Products: CCD Systems

• Apogee Instruments
• Fairchild Imaging
  • Fairchild - CCD Imagers
  • Fairchild - Scientific Cameras
• Finger Lakes Instrumentation
• Roper Scientific
  • Photometrics & Princeton Instruments CCD systems
• Santa Barbara Instrumentation Group (SBIG)
• Spectral Instruments

Commercial Products: CCD Chip Manufacturers

• Marconi Applied Technologies (formerly EEV - English Electric Valve Company)
  • Cameras
• SITe - Scientific Imaging Technologies

Background Information on CCDs

• AAVSO - CCD Views
• CCD University (Apogee Instruments)
• A primer on CCDs (Simon Tulloch, La Palma) {includes downloadable powerpoint presentations}
• Tutorial - Introduction to Scientific Imaging CCDs (SITe)
  • An Introduction to Scientific Imaging Charge-Coupled Devices (pdf file)
• Digital Imaging with CCDs (Christy Tremonti, Johns Hopkins)

More Technical Material, Diagnostics

• Observational Mishaps (Kaspar von Braun, Kristin Chiboucas, Denise Hurley-Keller, University of Michigan)
• Baton Rouge Observatory Technical Report (T. Gregory Guzik, LSU)
• In situ CCD testing (T.M.C. Abbott, CFTH, Hawaii)
  • more information
• CCDs for Material Scientists (University of Oregon)
• Rick Berry's Cookbook CCD (build your own)
• High Resolution CCD Imaging (Thierry Legault) {great images, useful "about high resolution" section, and links to others' images}

Instructional Materials

• Exercises to accompany Steve Howell's text "Handbook of CCD Astronmomy"

Books, Review Articles, Conference Proceedings

• CCD World's great Bibliography
• Steve Howell's text "Handbook of CCD Astronomy" (see link to Exercises to accompany text)
• Image Processing in Astronomy Education (Kolena, Duke) meeting paper

Course Webpages

• CCD laboratory class (Robert Mutel, University of Iowa)
• Modern Astronomical Techniques (John Salzer, Wesleyan University)
• Research Techniques in Observational Astronomy (Eric Jensen, Swarthmore College)
• University of Texas 16-inch telescope Exercises

CCD Image Processing Programs

• IRAF (of course)
• MIRA (by Axiom Research)
• NIH Image
  • ImageJ
• Astroart - CCD Image Processing Software

Some Amateurs and Their Images

(note, this is not a complete list -- use a search engine to find more)
• Al Kelly
• Ed Grafton
• CCD Images of Messier Objects (the Electronic Universe Project)
• Shoji Suzuki
• Jeff MacQuarrie
• Rob West
• Jan Wisniewski (see Image Processing Tutorials)
• Amateur Astrophotography and CCD Image Links
• Richard Jacobs
• Dale Mais (CCD Spectroscopy)

Please contact: tbalonek-AT-mail.colgate.edu for questions, comments, ...

Last modified: August 18, 2006