Credits & Acknowledgements
I am pleased to acknowledge the following for their generous contributions to this field for the benefit of fellow amateur astronomers. I would not have been able to achieve my modest but satisfying webcam results without their help or encouragement and I thank them for facilitating the additional enjoyment to an already enjoyable hobby that webcam imaging has provided. Please click on their names to visit their web sites and see their outstanding work for yourself.
Steve Chambers Pioneer of the modification of webcams to enable them to take much longer exposures than they were designed for.
Stephen Wainwright Founder of the QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group, a collaboration of amateur astronomers to develop the use of webcams and other digital cameras for astro-imaging.
Cor Berrevoets Author of Registax, excellent software for alignment, stacking and processing of images captured using webcams.
Peter Katreniak Author of K3CCDTools, excellent software for capturing webcam astro-images and also for alignment & stacking.
Jon Groves Author of iMerge, excellent software for creating mosaics of images.
Jan Timmermans An enthusiastic webcam astro-imager who is particularly generous in his encouragement and advice for newcomers. Jan's site includes useful hints and tips for anybody who is interested in the use of webcams for astro-imaging.
QCUIAG Discussion Group Members of this international group of astronomers producing astronomical images with unconventional electronic imaging devices provide invaluable help to each other and provide inspiration by producing great images and forever pushing the boundaries further.
Perseu European source of pre-modified long exposure webcams.
Mogg Adapters Webcam / telescope adapters from Steven Mogg.