Welcome to the Observatorio de la Ballona Wiki

Dedicated to amateur astronomy from light polluted locations

This is a replacement wiki, using Tiki Wiki instead of PHP Wiki. Look and feel will be in flux for a while.

The other wiki was hacked. Some moron dropped in a bunch of links with the claim that he needed the money. How dropping links into a wiki would get you money, I don't know.

Registration is now required and if you register, I will validate your account as soon as I can.

Astronomy Tips

• How to connect a Televue NP-101, Optec TCF-S, SBIG CFW 8A and ST-10.
• Light Pollution & Binning — theory and advice from the experts at the Yahoo CCD New Astro group
• Putting a tandem bar on a CGE — How to adjust the settings on a CGE mount when using a Losmandy side-by-side tandem bar.
• Iceman's great explanation of his technique for processing planetary images taken with a ToUCam Pro web camera.
• Noise reduction discussion from CGE Uncensored Yahoo! group.
• Adam Block on calculating field of view
• My Maxim DL settings for the SBIG AO-7
• PixInsight Processing Tips
• Polar Align Software
• Directions for SCT Telescope Collimation

Miscellaneous Items

• There are 43,560 square feet in an acre
• The Chinese character for "crisis" does not consist of "danger" and "opportunity"
• Very intersting writing by Dan Simmons
• Restore instructions for Coppermine, WordPress, and TikiWiki
• A 1984 blog topic
• PST information / astro web site
• MesoNet WeatherData
• Photoshop CS3 Auto Align, similar to freeware Autostitch

Personal Wiki Pages

• Project list for the house in Aguanga
• Information on Osage Court
• Wish List of Astro Stuff