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CCD Project - Links to good CCD info

CCD University - a great place to learn, from Apogee Instruments

Santa Barbara Instruments Group - join the user's e-mail list for an education

Recommended - the freeware AVIS FITS viewer . Opens SBIG image files directly, has a nice/flexible log scale function in the histogram window, slider bars for contrast and brightness, saves to .jpg, .tif, .bmp, and other formats. Very simple and intuitive, almost no learning curve. 830kb, the most useful freeware I've found for the non-perfectionistic occasional imager like me.

Christian Buil's page , including his powerful freeware image processing program IRIS , which is unfortunately pretty complex. I've crashed it repeatedly by entering invalid parameters. But I suppose it'll do great things if you spend time with it.

Adirondack Video Astronomy , home of the Astrovid video imagers and US source for Starlight Express cameras

Richard Berry's Cookbook Camera page - make your own camera

If you REALLY want to go cheap, try a webcam - the QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group