Astronomy & Astrophysics Links

• SIMBAD;
• The einline link at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for Einstein and ROSAT data products;
• VizieR Catalogue Browser courtesy of CDS/ESRIN; search by catalog, wavelength, mission, keyword, and/or object type;
• Optical Identification Database (OPTID) for optical photographic star and galaxy identifications to the IRAS Faint Source Survey; to access, use their remote access online catalog service, XCATSCAN;
• STScI Digitized Sky Survey;
• ESO/ST-ECF Digitized Sky Survey, for access to the CD-ROM site produced by STScI through its Guide Star Survey group;
• ESO/ST-ECF HST Guide Star Catalogue search form;

• HST Data Archive
• FUSE Data Archive
• IUE Data Archive
• EUVE Data Archive
• Copernicus Data Archive
• ASTRO Data Archive
• ROSAT Data Archive
• Multimission Archive at STScI
• SkyView virtual observatory for generating images at all wavelength regimes and projections (and allowing the user to do overplots)
• NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center, NODIS interface
• IRSA (NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive)
• NRAO VLA Sky Survey
• NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalctic Database)
• SAO ROSAT Science Data Center
• ESO Science Archive Facility

• ADC (Astronomical Data Center) at Goddard for all missions;
• Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data (WISARD) for astrophysics data archived on the NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service (NDADS); includes ASCA, ROSAT, Astro-1, EUVE, and IRAS;
• AXAF;
• HEASARC:
  • ASCA Guest Observer Facility;
  • Compton Observatory Science Support Center for GRO;
  • ROSAT Guest Observer Facility;
  • XTE Science Operations Center;
• HST Data Archive, ST-ECF (European STScI)
• IPAC (IRAS);
• IUE Data Analysis Center (now with Image Retrieval);

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Other Online References:

• The ADS Digital Library for online astronomy books:
  • Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2e by Martin V. Zombeck.

• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• AAS (American Astronomical Society)
• AGU (American Geophysical Union)
• AIP (American Institute of Physics)
• APS (Americal Physical Society)
• ASP (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• CDS (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg)
• ESA (European Space Agency)
• IAU (International Astronomical Union)
• NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
• STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute)

• AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory)
• ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
• APO (Apache Point Observatory)
• ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility)
• BIMA (Berkeley, Illinois, Maryland Association), operator of Hat Creek Radio Observatory)
• Calar Alto Observatory
• CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory)
• COAST (Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope)
• CFHT (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)
• CTIO (Cerro-Tololo Interamerican Observatory)
• ESO (European Southern Observatory)
• ESO La Silla Home Page
• FCRAO (Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory)
• Gemini
• GONG (Global Oscillation Network Group)
• GBT (Greenbank Telescope)
• Haystack Observatory
• IRTF (Infrared Telescope Facility)
• JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope)
• Keck Observatory
• KPNO (Kitt-Peak National Observatory)
• KAO (Kuiper Airborne Observatory)
• LBT (Large Binocular Telescope)
• Lick Observatory
• LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
• Mauna Kea Observatories
• McDonald Observatory
• MDM (Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory)
• MMT (Multiple Mirror Telescope)
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
• Mount Wilson Observatory
• NAIC and Arecibo Observatory (National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center)
• NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories)
• NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatories)
• NSO (National Solar Observatory)
• NRO (Nobeyama Radio Observatory)
• NTT (New Technology Telescope)
• OLVBI (Orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
• OVRO (Owens Valley Radio Observatory)
• Palomar Observatory
• SEST (Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope)
• SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility)
• SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy)
• UKIRT (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope)
• VLA (Very Large Array)
• VLT Observatory (Very Large Telescope)
• VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array)
• Whipple Observatory
• WIYN Observatory (Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO)
• WIRO (Wyoming Infrared Observatory)
• Yerkes Observatory

• ASCA (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics)
• Chandra
• Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO)
• Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) description
• COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer)
• EXOSAT (European X-ray Observatory)
• FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer)
• HEAO 1 (1st High Energy Astrophysical Observatory)
• HEAO 2 (Einstein Observatory/2nd High Energy Astrophysical Observatory)
• Hipparcos
• HST (Hubble Space Telescope)
• HUT Astro-1 and Astro-2
• INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory)
• ISO (Infrared Space Observatory)
• IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer)
• ROSAT (Roentgen Satellite), GSFC overview
• ROSAT at MPE
• ROSAT Guest Observer Facility
• SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
• SIRTF (Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility)
• Space VLBI Project (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
• Uhuru
• Ulysses
• VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme)
• XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror)
• XTE (X-ray Timing Explorer)
• Yohkoh

• Webstars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace resource list at HEASARC
• WWW Astronomy Services courtesy of CfA;
• Astronomical Internet Resources;
• Astronomer's Bazaar--the CDS astronomical catalogue service, tables from Astronomy & Astrophysics and other journals, and a Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celetial Objects.
• Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources for over 100,000 entries for organizations, companies, abbreviations, acronyms, individuals, etc.
• International Astronomy Meetings home page compiled by Liz Bryson of CFHT;
• ESO Sky Calendar Tool for producing a nighttime calendar for a single site; listings include Sun rise and set times, astronomical twilights in civil time and LST, Moon rise and set times, Moon phases, and more.
• IAU Specifications concerning designations for astronomical radiation sources outside the solar system.

• AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System)
  • AIPS Documentation
• AIPS++
• FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Archive at NRAO
• HEASARC FTP site including FITSIO, and FTOOLS
• IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
  • IRAF Home Page
  • IRAF FAQ
  • IRAF Online Help
  • IRAF Programming Documentation
  • Recommended IRAF Documentation for every site;
• IDL (Interactive Data Language) Home Page at RSI
  • IDL Astronomy User's Library with descriptions and man pages of procedures; includes astro, DAOPHOT, database, disk I/O, FITS astrometry and calibration, STSDAS FITS maniupulation, FITS ASCII table I/O, FITS binary table extensions, FITS I/O, image manipulation, math and statistics, plotting, IDL structures, STSDAS binary table I/O, tape IO, TV display, and miscellaneous non-astronomy procedures
  • IDL Keyword Search for the HI-SCALE, IDL User routines, astronomy, and APL libraries
  • IDL Home Page at the Los Alamos
  • Eric Deutsch's IDL Libraries Browser
  • Marc Buie's IDL Library from Lowell Observatory
  • Markwardt IDL Programs courtesy of Craig Markwardt
  • Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming
  • Struan Gray's Extending IDL's Surface Plotting Routines
  • comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a Usenet group for IDL and PVWAVE languages

• Numerical Recipes:
  • Numerical Recipes in Fortran, 2nd Edition by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery, is now on-line, as well as . . .
  • Numerical Recipe in C, 2nd Edition;
• PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library
• TCL FAQ
• TeX and LateX:
  • AASTeX Author Package
  • TeX Frequently Asked Questions courtesy of the UK TeX Users Group;
  • TeX FAQ with Answers [Monthly] from comp.text.tex;
  • LaTeX FAQ from comp.text.tex;
  • TeX-related Documentation
  • LaTeX/TeX Help Page courtesy of Vispi Homi Bulsara;
  • LaTeX Home Page courtesy of the LaTeX3 project;
  • CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network)
  • CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) Mirror Archive ftp site at Duke University;
  • CTAN Search
  • TeX Users Group (TUG);
  • TeX2HTML;
  • Don Knuth's Home Page
  • Leslie Lamport's Home Page
• UniPOPS

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Rennes Astronomical Pictures and Animations home page for over a gigabyte's worth of images, sounds, charts, animations, solar eclipses, comets, and more;
• NASA Johnson Space Center Imagery Services for over 250,000 digitized images;
• Catalog of Planetary GIF Images maintained at the MIT PDS Microwave subnode, but pointing to files at NASA Ames;
• Planetary Picture List courtesy of SEDS;
• Malin Space Science Systems Home Page, including a great Face on Mars explanation; ftp site;
• Garbo ftp archives