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 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 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). --DavidCary 22:55, 20 September 2007 (PDT)

astronomy wiki

• University of Washington Astronomy Department wiki
• the Unofficial BOINC Wiki: you can participate in scientific research
• Green Bank national radio astronomy observatory wiki
• RadioNet wiki: advanced radio astronomy
• ASTR 535: Radio Astronomy Instrumentation wiki
• Wikibooks:Astronomy
• GNU Radio wiki: discusses software-defined radio (SDR). One application is radio astronomy
• "Indoor Astronomy Wiki" http://indoorastronomy.com/
• the Stellar Visions wiki
• Slackerpedia Galactica, the free astronomy encyclopedia -- now with a sense of humor!

further reading

• "Primeval Structure Telescope"
• http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• "massive amateur telescope array"
• "Focal plane arrays: radio astronomy enters the CCD area" by J.G. Bij de Vaate, M.V. Ivashina
• "Computer Operated Telescopes" has some open source (GPL) software.