a project of Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut

Over 5000 astrophotos

Use the CCD-Guide Browser to view, filter and analyze in detail over 5000 astrophotos of more than 1400 objects taken by 60 renowned astrophotographers.

The ideal observation window

Use ObjectTracker to find the ideal observation window for an object at a selected location, taking into account object altitude, twilight, moon and horizon.

Astrophotography planning made easy

Optimize your personal astrophoto planning with the CCD-Guide Planner by maintaining a clearly arranged database with all interesting objects including your preferred field of view.

The CCD Guide

Since 1997, the Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut has published a new version of the CCD-Guide every year. In addition to more than 5000 high-resolution reference images from 60 astrophotographers, the CCD-Guide also contains software that makes it easy to search for and display astrophotos, including extensive image data. Astrophotographers benefit from the wide range of functions for object planning. We thus encourage all those interested in astronomy to select suitable objects and to find and photograph them in the sky themselves and to compare their images with the reference images of our association’s CCD team.

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CCD-Guide Browser

The CCD-Guide Browser allows access to all astrophotos of the image database and to all object data of the object database. In the ImageBrowser mode, a preview image as well as the object and exposure data are displayed for each image. A double click on the preview image opens the image viewing software ObjectViewer, with which the images can not only be viewed but also analyzed in detail, because almost all deepsky astrophotos are solved astrometrically. The very large number of image datasets and object datasets can be easily reduced to a manageable number by using filters. The images can be restricted by object-related criteria such as coordinates, object type or object size as well as by image-related criteria such as photographer, camera, telescope or date. Thus very complex search queries are possible and the result of the filtering can be viewed in a slideshow in full screen mode.

More infos

The Browser is a feature of CCD-Guide that does not only appeal to astrophotographers, but can also be useful for anyone doing research on objects and looking for image material, or for anyone who simply enjoys viewing and browsing good astrophotos.

News

News about CCD Guide at our blog.

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The new CCD-Guide 2025

You can order the new CCD-Guide 2025 as download in our webshop for the price...

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Dec
Online presentation CCD-Guide 2024

The new CCD-Guide 2024 is available! If you would like to learn more about the...

03
Jan
The new CCD-Guide 2024

You can order the new CCD-Guide 2024 as download in our webshop for the price...

27
Dec
Online presentation CCD-Guide 2023 on Sat, 14 Jan

The new CCD-Guide 2023 is available! If you would like to learn more...

30
Dec
The new CCD-Guide 2023

ou can order the new CCD-Guide 2023 as download in our Shop for the price...

06
Dec
New CCD Guide Download Server

Since the download server of CCD-Guide will be moved in the next weeks for technical...

13
Apr
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21
Mar
CCD-Guide Shop

You can order our new CCD-Guide 2022 for the price of 29 € as download....

18
Mar

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