An astronomical observatory, dedicated to astro-imaging, in Bellingham Washington.
Owned and operated by yours truly, Steve Sandelin.
Latitude: 48 Degrees, 49 Minutes and 57.53 Seconds North.
Longitude: 122 Degrees, 17 Minutes and 23.03 Seconds West.
Links to places I've found useful:
Very low cost or free imaging and guiding software:
Registax is a free, high quality, AVI stacking and processing program for planetary imaging:
http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
A concise list of amateur astronomical observatories:
http://obs.nineplanets.org/obs/obslist.html
ASCOM - Open Standards for Astronomy:
EQMOD - Open Source applications to automate control of supported GEM mounts:
ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator plug in for Photoshop:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/
NASA Human Space Flight Tracker:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/
BackYard Chickens is a great forum for asking questions. The Coop Designs page gave me some good ideas for my coop as well.
This is the reference book for rasing chickens. If you buy one book about raising and keeping chickens, this should be it.
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
One of the most intimidating things about rasing chickens is when it comes time to butcher them. If you're going to do it yourself, this is an excellent tutorial.
Henderson's Handy Dandy Chicken Chart can help with selecting breeds