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SYNCHROTRONS

ALS Home Page (ALS)
Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
Daresbury Synchrotron Light Source, U.K.
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Elettra in Trieste (Sincrotrone Trieste)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
Photon Factory (PF)
MAX-lab, Lund University, Sweden
National Sychrotron Light Source (NSLS)
SPring8 Synchrotron Accelerator Center (SPring8) Harima, Japan
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)
Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC), University of Wisconsin

 

COMMON MR-CAT VENDORS

Casmir Enterprises

  • Large Scale Construction and Instrumentation.
  • Boojum Scientific
  • Scientific Instrument Design, X-ray Sample Holders (Solution, Radioactive, Solid), Used and Unusual Scientific Instruments.
  • Boyd Technologies
  • Custom Scientific Machining, Radioactive Sample Holders, Ion Chambers


  • DATA ANALYSIS

    X-ray Absorption calculations with FEFF

  • FEFF is an excellent package for calculating both XANES and XAFS.
  • X-ray Absorption reduction and fitting with IFEFFIT
  • IFEFFIT is an excellent package for reduction and fitting of XAS data.
  • Photoelectron diffraction calculations with MSCD
  • MSCD is the best package that I have used for Photoelectron Diffraction Analysis.
  • Local Atomic Structure from diffraction
  • It is also possible to determine local atomic structure from diffraction.
  • IGOR PRO
  • Igor Pro is the best package that I have used for spectral decomposition and for producing publication quality graphics.


  • SPORTING CLAYS

    National Sporting Clays Association
  • The NSCA is the sport's governing body.
  • Sporting Clays Magazine
  • Golf with a shotgun and much more fun.
  • Green Acres Sportsman's Club
    Back Forty Sporting Clays
    Deer Creek Hunt Club
  • My favorite local sporting clay courses.
  • Hopkins Game Farm
  • Site of my best finish. I finished E1 at the 2003 U. S. Open Prelim and E6 at the 2003 U. S. Open.
  • Ben Avery Shooting Facility
  • Don't miss the Kachina Open.
  • NRA Whittington Center
  • My favorite place to shoot in NM.
  • John Woolley Shooting Clinics
  • John Woolley is one of the best shooting instructors out there. Keep your head still.
  • Remington Premier STS
  • Only shoot the green.

  • ASTRONOMY

    Amateur Astronomy Magazine
    Astronomy Magazine
    Sky and Telescope Magazine
  • Three of the best astronomy magazines around.
  • JMI Telescopes
  • Jim's Mobile makes some of the largest equatorial newtonians. The split-ring is an excellent design.
  • OBSESSION Telescopes
    STARMASTER Telescopes
  • ONLY LOOK THROUGH A BIG DOB
  • Astronomy-Mall
  • Look here for your telescope needs.
  • Argo Navis Digital Telescope Computer
    ArgoLoad Software for Mac OS X (FREE)
  • The Argo Navis is the most modern digital setting circle. As they describe the AN, it is a telescope computer. The company greatly supported my efforts to create open source control software for Mac OS X.
  • Starlight XPress
    Santa Barbara Instrument Group
  • Starlight Express has been working to help me produce Mac OS X based image collection software.
  • iCCD Software Page
  • iCCD is the program that will control most of the Starlight Express line of cameras under Mac OS X, successfully tested with the mx7c, mx7, sxv-h9, and sxv-h9c cameras.
  • The Macintosh Astronomy Workshop
  • The Macintosh Astronomy Workshop I took place in conjunction with Astrofest put on by the Chicago Astronomical Society on September 8, 2005, .
  • MacAstroImaging
  • Go to this site for information on astroimaging with a Mac OS X computer.

  • MacAstroImager
  • Astronomical images from this macastroimager. These are most of my astrophotos. The majority of these images have been collected and processed on a mac.

  • David Schmenk's CCD Page


    AUTO RACING

    INDY RACING LEAGUE
  • The best show on wheels.

  • John Andretti Fan Page


    College Football

    Go Maroons
    University of Chicago Fight Song

  • The Grand Old Man is Amos Alonzo Stagg with Seven Big Ten Championships