LINKS - Information of CCDs
General
CCD World
{this is a great site. check out all their links.}
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Links
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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)
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