Amateur astronomy

• Atmosphere
• Solar system
• Stars and deepsky
• Telescopes, observatories
• Astrophotography, CCD
• Clubs
• Computers and network

These pages are maintained by:
Veikko Mäkelä, Veikko.Makela@ursa.fi
Mika Pirttivaara, Mika.Pirttivaara@ursa.fi

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Solar system

• PC programs: Solar system (ftp.funet.fi)
• Databases: Solar system (ftp.funet.fi)

Comets

• Sirius Hale-Bopp page
• Pauli Huuhka's comet page
• Johannes Lehtinen's Hale-Bopp photos
• Aki Pursiainen's astrophotos, alos Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp images
• Rami Rekola's Hale-Bopp photos
• Jari Suomela's astrophoto page, also Hale-Bopp images
• Jan-Erik Tervo's Hale-Bopp photos
• Jere Kahanpää's sketches of Hale-Bopp

 

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Stars and deepsky

• Finnish Deep Sky Section (Deep sky section of Ursa)
• Deep-sky observing page, (Jere Kahanpää)
• Minimum Aperture Catalogue, (Jere Kahanpää)
• Finnish deep sky observation archive (ftp.funet.fi)
• CCD image archive, mainly deep sky objects
• Sirius Supernova pages
• Finnish Deepsky Amateurs, (Jaakko Saloranta)
• Iiro Sairanen's deep sky drawings
• PC programs: Stars and deepsky (ftp.funet.fi)
• Databases: Stars and deepsky (ftp.funet.fi)

 

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Telescopes, observatories

• Juhani Kyyrö's telescope making page
• Yrjö Pullinen's telescope making page
• Jorma Koski's telescope and CCD information
• PC programs: optics and telescope making (ftp.funet.fi)
• Texts ja documents: Telescopes and observing instruments (ftp.funet.fi)

Observatories

• Vega, Hämeenlinna
• Juhani Kyyrö, Big Bear Observatory, Nummela
• Juhani Salmi, Asikkala

 

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Astrophotography, CCD

• Sirius CCD project
• Hämeenlinnan Vega CCD gallery
• CCD image archive
• Astrophotography with Nikon Coolpix 950 (Jaakko Oksa)