1. Amateur astronomy organizations promoting serious lunar research:

GLR Group:  http://www.glrgroup.eu/old/home.htm   and    http://digilander.libero.it/glrgroup/

British Astronomical Association:  http://www.britastro.org/baa/

Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers:  http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/

2. Shape from Shading Links

Here are some other links that you should find useful in exploring the shape from shading technique:

Fully automated EXCEL spreadsheet template developed by Kurt Fisher based on the Carlotto algorithm. The spreadsheet template is accompanied by tutorials and other useful files:

http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/Photometry/sfs/SFS.html

GIMP freeware and free shape from shading plug-in for GIMP:

http://GIMP.org

http://www.geocities.com/alreaud/GIMP_plug-in/shapefs.html

CGSD shape from shading plug-in for Photoshop:

http://www.cgsd.com/bumptexture/

Rhino 3.0 computer aided design program download:

http://download.mcneel.com/rhino/3.0/eval/default.asp

ISIS (USGS public domain astroimage processor with shape from shading algorithms):

http://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/Isis2/isis-bin/isis.cgi

Old DOS version of Jamieson's Lunar Observer's Toolkit:

http://luna.uai.it/Duomi/html/body_download.htm

Calculating the height of lunar features from shadow measurements:

http://stupendous.rit.edu/classes/phys236/moon_mount/moon_mount.html

JUST BASIC simple editor, debugger, and compiler for BASIC:

http://www.justbasic.com/download.html

ImageMagick freeware command line image editor, convertor, etc. Will convert an image to a

text file its x, y and z coordinates (where z is the pixel value at x,y) for import into a spreadsheet:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

MapRender Lite is a free software package that will convert a txt file of z pixel greyscale values 

arranged in a width (x) by length (y) data block into a false color contour shaded relief map. The

data block can be easkily created in Microsoft EXCEL.

http://www.maprender3d.com/download.htm

ImageJ  is freeware that is a very powerful image editor:

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

This program will interconvert between txt images and many other formats and allows the production of image stacks useful for looking at greyscale values of a user defined pixel group across a large number of wavelengths (by using the image stack and histogram options). It is one of my favorite programs. ImageJ will perform image arithmetic using constants entered by the user (see Process menu, Math submenu). It will also perform arithmetic functions between images (i.e. such as dividing one image by another image of the same size etc.).  This function is found under the Process menu, Image Calculator sub-menu.

C++ Preprocessor/Compiler/Linker (freeware) for Windows:

http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html

KNOPPIX (version of LINUX which can be run from a CD ROM disk):

http://www.knoppix.org/

Lambertian Shape from Shading Algorithm by Mark Carlotto:

http://www.sculptor.org/3D/Scanning/ShapeFromShading.htm

3. Spectroscopy Supplies:

Fixed Width Slits:

http://www.nationalaperture.com/slits.htm

http://www.edmundoptics.com/US/

Gratings:

http://vreh.com/optics/cont.htm

http://www.patonhawksley.co.uk/

http://www.starspectroscope.com/

1.25" clear glass filters:

http://www.trutek-uk.com/

Lumicon Filter Holder:

http://www.lumicon.com/

Detectors (Imagers):

http://www.watec.net/english/

http://www.lumenera.com/

Eyepiece Projection Couplers:

http://www.meade.com/

Turn-Key Spectroscopes:

http://www.shelyak.com/

http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/spectrometer2.htm  (deep sky and stars only)

http://www.baader-planetarium.de/dados/dados.htm  (in German)

5. Broadband Spectral Filters for Lunar Imaging:

25mm filters with 19mm useful aperture:

http://www.knightoptical.co.uk/

1.25" clear glass (non-IR blocking) mounting cells:

http://www.trutek-uk.com/

6. Other Useful Free Software:

Image Arithmetic (ImgArt):  www.t3i.nl

Adds, subtracts, multiplies or divides one 8 bit image by another 8 bit image.

Blink Comparator:  www.crysania.co.uk/trefach/trefach.pl

Aligns 8 bit images and blinks them on the screen to confirm alignment.

LVTV (Lunar Terminator Visualization Tool): http://inet.uni2.dk/~d120588/henrik/jim_downloads.html

Don't let the name fool you, this powerful free program can be used to co-register images of the same lunar feature taken on the same night by two different cameras even if there is a difference in magnification and some field rotation is present. It can also do cylindrical projections.

Registax registax.astronomy.net

This very useful program imports an avi file and co-registers the individual frames.  Output is a single image representing an image stack of the best frames from the avi file. Some image processing can also be done.

TNTmips (TNTlite): http://www.microimages.com/tntlite/

This powerful and admittedly complex program will create image hypercubes from your interference filter images across a wavelength range and will automatically calculate reflectance spectra for user defined pixel groups. It will also do a variety of spectral searches as well as principal component analyses of the data. The tutorials are a blessing and are easy to follow. The program is free.

7. National Space Science Data Center:

The National Space Science Data Center sells experimental data CD-ROMS from many of the NASA missions including Clementine and Galileo. The website to their online store is:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/shop/web_store.cgi

8. Principal Component Analysis

Software: www.reindeergraphics.com this links to FoveaPro 4.0 software for creation of principal component images.  The program is commercial and is not freeware or shareware.

Tutorial on application to geology: http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect5/Sect5_3.html (and other sections within this fantastic tutorial on hyperspectral imaging).

9. Imaging spectrometer suppliers:

www.brimrose.com

10. Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Analysis Software (with Principal Component Analysis):

http://www.microimages.com/tntlite/

This is a free lite version of TNT mips, which is fully functional but has some file size restrictions. It is extremely comprehensive software with innumerable features for image analysis.

11. Software for curve fitting and creating derivative spectra plots:

TableCurve2D is an excellent program for this purpose. More information is available at www.systat.com

12. Software for mineral mixture peak deconvolution:

PeakFit is a good program with numerous deconvolution algorithms (both linear and non-linear) and is very easy to use. More information is available at www.systat.com. In addition, a Brown University website (http://www.planetary.brown.edu/mgm/) allows the free download of a program plug-in for MATLAB or as a FORTRAN program which performs modified Gaussian deconvolution on RELAB specimen data which can be downloaded by the public. This algorithm is designed for use in intimate (i.e. microscopic) mineral mixtures typical of lunar rocks and minerals.

13. KIWI OSD time encoder (GPS) to superimpose exact time onto a videocam output signal: www.pfdsystems.com/kiwiosd.html

14. Lunarscan and VirtualDub:

Lunarscan searches user avi files for lunar meteorite impact flashes on the dark side of the lunar terminator. Avi files are segmented into 1 Gb sequences using VirtualDub prior to import into Lunarscan. Create two folders within the lunarscan folder naming them AVIs and Data, respectively. Put your segmented avi files (or non-segmented files that are under 1 Gb in length) into the AVIs folder for use in Lunarscan (otherwise the program will not find them).

http://www.gvarros.com/lunarscan.zip

http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

15. Image Enlargement with Maximum Resolution Preservation:

Genuine Fractals 6 plug-in for Photoshop:  http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2

16.  Astronomical actions for Photoshop by Noel Carboni :  

http://actions.home.att.net/Astronomy_Tools.html

http://actions.home.att.net/dSLR_Fractal_Sharpen.html  (requires Genuine Fractals 6 plug-in for Photoshop)

17. Ninox

I find this free program which is found here:  www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ninox   useful for making sure that processed and stacked images for L, R, G and B avi clips of a planetary imaging session will overlap perfectly when assembled into a single LRGB color image in Photoshop.  The avi for each avi clip (i.e. L, R, G & B) is first broken down into individual bmp frames using the free program avi2bmp.  The planetary image is perfectly centered using ninox which is a DOS command line program that works in Windows or Linux. The centered bmp frames are then imported into Registax 5.0 and used to re-assemble the avi clips, each of which will now have the planetary image perfectly centered.  Each clip is then processed and stacked as usual.  The resulting L, R, G and B images will overlay each other perfectly when assembled into a single color image in Photoshop.  This is a nice program.  The process is a little bit time consuming, but works very well.

18. Photoshop Tutorials

These tutorials are mainly of interest to those doing deep sky image processing, particularly of objects with overexposed cores like M31 and M42:

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/LAYMASK.HTM

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/PS_HDR.HTM