Editing Astronomy

A variety of "open" tools for optical and radio astronomy.

People in astronomy have been sharing electronics information for a long time.

Some people use a [[motor driver]] to point the telescope in the right location.

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Someone over at [http://www.bautforum.com/about-baut/64543-what-do-about-jerry-posts.html#post1069123 the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today forum] are considering using a wiki for FAQs and "a small library of the "Greatest Hits"".

Should I jump in and recommend one of the below astronomy wiki? I've been using wiki so long that I am a little disconcerted when [http://www.bautforum.com/about-baut/32864-rules-posting-board.html a discussion forum has rules heavily discouraging editing] even one's own posts, disparaging such edits as "revisionism".
(But perhaps those people don't know about the "history" feature of most wiki).
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 22:55, 20 September 2007 (PDT)



== astronomy wiki ==

* [http://librarian.phys.washington.edu/astro/ University of Washington Astronomy Department wiki]
* [http://boinc-wiki.info/ the Unofficial BOINC Wiki]: you can participate in scientific research
* [http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/ Green Bank national radio astronomy observatory wiki]
* [http://www.radionet-eu.org/rnwiki/ RadioNet wiki: advanced radio astronomy]
* [http://www.cv.nrao.edu/course/astr535/ ASTR 535: Radio Astronomy Instrumentation wiki]
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Astronomy Wikibooks:Astronomy]
* [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki GNU Radio wiki: discusses software defined radio (SDR)]. One application is [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CompGrRadioAstrononmy radio astronomy]
* [http://asymptomatic.net/2004/06/18/2018/indoor-astronomy-wiki "Indoor Astronomy Wiki"] http://indoorastronomy.com/
* [http://wiki.stellar-visions.org/ the Stellar Visions wiki]
* [http://slackerastronomy.org/slackerpedia/ Slackerpedia Galactica, the free astronomy encyclopedia] -- now with a sense of humor!

== further reading ==

* "Primeval Structure Telescope"
* http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
* [http://halfbakery.com/idea/Massive_20amateur_20telecope_20array "massive amateur telescope array"]
* [http://www.ursi.org/Proceedings/ProcGA05/pdf/J04.7(0632).pdf "Focal plane arrays: radio astronomy enters the CCD area"] by J.G. Bij de Vaate, M.V. Ivashina
* [http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/BBAstroDesigns.html#Computer_Operated_Telescopes "Computer Operated Telescopes"] has some open source (GPL) software.
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-== cooling ==
-: ''main: [[cooling]]''
-Both radio and optical astronomy seems to work better when the receiver is cold.
-* A Temperature Controlled Head Amplifier for 408MHz Radio Astronomy[http://www.dmradas.co.uk/408_Head_Amp.html]
-* Peltier Cooler for DSLR. A temperature reduction of 12 'C apparently reduces the CCD dark current by a factor of 4.[http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=4660.0]
-* [http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbarchive/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/100337/page/11/view/expanded/sb/1/o/all]
-* This Web Cam Autoguiding thread also mentions Peltier cooling[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbarchive/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/100337/page/11/view/expanded/sb/1/o/all]
-* "Noise Experiment #5: Peltier Cooler" describes more or les directly bolting a Peltier to the bottom of a DSLR camera.[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbarchive/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1324547/Main/1320639]
-* "DSLR Peltier Coolbox"[http://www.swashastro.co.uk/peltier_cooler_box.html]
-* "Is it more efficient to stack two Peltier modules or to set them side by side?"[http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/116271/is-it-more-efficient-to-stack-two-peltier-modules-or-to-set-them-side-by-side]
-* "Thermistor control of peltier voltage with Arduino (for DSLR chill box project)"[http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/118536/thermistor-control-of-peltier-voltage-with-arduino-for-dslr-chill-box-project]
-== astronomy wiki ==
 Someone over at [http://www.bautforum.com/about-baut/64543-what-do-about-jerry-posts.html#post1069123 the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today forum] are considering using a wiki for FAQs and "a small library of the "Greatest Hits"".
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 * [http://www.cv.nrao.edu/course/astr535/ ASTR 535: Radio Astronomy Instrumentation wiki]
 * [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Astronomy Wikibooks:Astronomy]
-* [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki GNU Radio wiki]: discusses [[software-defined radio]] (SDR). One application is [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CompGrRadioAstrononmy radio astronomy]
+* [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki GNU Radio wiki: discusses software defined radio (SDR)]. One application is [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CompGrRadioAstrononmy radio astronomy]
 * [http://asymptomatic.net/2004/06/18/2018/indoor-astronomy-wiki "Indoor Astronomy Wiki"] http://indoorastronomy.com/
 * [http://wiki.stellar-visions.org/ the Stellar Visions wiki]