ASTRO links

• NED Search for Objects by Object Name
• SkyView Advanced Form
• LEDA Single Object request
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
• Almost everywhere with galaxies.com !NEW
• Look at ASTRONOMY with AstroBrowse !NEW
• A lot of astronomical software - for DOS, Windows, Linux !NEW

Preprints

• astro-ph preprint server (german mirror)
• astro-ph preprint server (LANL)

Abstracts, Full text search (NASA/ADS)

• Authors/Abstracts by NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Journal query by NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Authors/Abstracts Mirror at the CDS
• ARIBIB ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References
• CDS (Strasbourg)Abstract service
• CDS bibliographic service

Journals

• A&A - Astronomy & Astrophysics new (incl. Letters)  (Online Issues)
• A&A - Astronomy & Astrophysics old (incl. Letters)  (Online Issues)
• A&AR - Astronomy & Astrophysics Review (Online Issues)
• A&AS - Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplements (Online Issues)
• AJ - Papers Submitted to the Astronomical Journal
• AJ - Astronomical Journal (Online Issues)
• ApJ - Astrophysical Journal (incl. Letters and Supplements) (Online Issues)
• MNRAS - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Online Issues)
• Annual Review Astronomy  & Astrophysics (Online Issues)
• Nature
• New Astronomy
• PASA - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (Online Issues)
• PASP - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Online Issues)
• PASP -  mirror at CDS
• The ESO Messenger
• AAS CD-ROM series (include AJ, ApJ, ApJS, and PASP)

Conference Series

• ASP Conference Series

Sky surveys

• POSS II ESO/ST-ECF Online Digitized Sky Survey
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS - ! NEW
• Digitized Sky Survey WWW interface Canada
• ESO Lauberts-Valentijn Archive
• ESO Imaging Survey (EIS)
• The Nearby Field Galaxy Survey homepage
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey - 2dFGRS ! NEW
• IRSA/2MASS
• DENIS (DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky)
• APS Image Database (Automted Plate Scanner, University of Minnesota)
• Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe Deep !NEW

Databases

• NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database:
• • Search for Objects by Object Name
  • Search for Objects Near Object Name
• Simbad
• Home page LEDA
• HYPERCAT Extragalactic database (CRAL)
• HYPERCAT Extragalactic database (.it)
• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
• CDS - Centre de Donnйes Astronomiques de Strasbourg
• HEASARC/GSFC Home Page
• Astronomical Data Center Japan
• ADDSIA - Access to Distributed Databases for Statistical Information and Analysis

Archives

• ESO/ST-ECF Archive
• • ESO Science Archive Databases
  • ESO NTT Archive
• HST Archive
• • search for HST Proposals and Abstracts
  • Hubble Space Telescope Science Catalogues (mirror: CADC)
• CFHT Archive
• • EXPOSURE / CFHT archive
• JCMT Archive
• La Palma Archive
• UKRIT Archive
• AAT Archive + links to other databases

Catalogues

• NASA's Goddard Space Flight  Center  Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
• • ADC Astronomical Data Center NASA/GSFC (search form)
  • All catalogs in ADC Archives
• Astrocat Catalogues (CADC)
• CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
• • Catalogues availables at CDS search

Galaxy images

• The Galaxy Catalog (mirror)
• • A collection of digital images of 113 nearby galaxies (Frei Z. & Gunn J.E.)
• A Photometric Atlas of Galaxy Bulges
• • NIR surface photometry of bulges and disks of spiral galaxies (Peletier R.F. & Balcells M.)
• Preliminarily Catalog of CCD Images of Our Group
• • Edge-on galaxies at optical wavelenghts (Bleul H., Dettmar R.-J., Lьtticke R., Pohlen M.)
•  CCD Images of Messier Objects
• Galaxies - Astronomy  Photography Search  !NEW
  
• The Messier catalog
• Images of the Messier Objects from the Digitized Sky Survey
• 2MASS Atlas Image Gallery
• ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) Science Gallery
• Latest HST Pictures
• UA Astronomy's Collection of Galaxy Pair/Interacting Galaxies Images
• UA Astronomy Normal Galaxy Collection
• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery
• Galaxies pictures from AAT
• Multiwavelength Milky Way (ADC)
• ASTROCRUISE: Images - Beyond the Milky Way
• NSSDC Photo Gallery
• CCD Images of Galaxies + other interesting stuff
• Cobe's Infrared View Of The Universe
• Hercules cluster (gif)
• HST: NGC 4414
• The Hubble Heritage Project
• Astronomy Digital Image Library
• Astronomical Image Library

Tools for observing or proposal writting

• Skycalc: Daily almanac
• Skycalc: Object Seasonal Observability
• Skycalc: Hourly Airmass Table
• ESO Landolt Equatorial Standards online
• Precise Positions for Landolt Standard Stars by Brian Skiff
• Tools for Computing Observing Information (KPNO)
• XEphem
• Polaris: Starchart Map Server
• MountWilson  Services - StarMap
• Chris Dolan's Astrophysical Calculator (cgs - SI)
• The Photometric Systems by The General Catalogue of Photometric Data
• • JOHNSON UBVRI FILTER
  • JOHNSON UBV FILTER
  • COUSINS R & I FILTER
• Information for Visiting Astronomers CAHA
• Applying for time at 2m RCC telescope of NAO "Rozhen

Institutes

• ESO Garching homepage
• University of Sofia, Bulgaria
• Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
• MPI Astronomie Heidelberg
• MPA Astrophysik Garching
• MPE Extraterrestrische Physik Garching
• MPIfR Radioastronomie Bonn
• Astronomisches Institut Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum
• Astronomical Institutes - Uni Bonn home page
• Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg
• Institut fьr Theoretische Astrophysik, Uni Heidelberg
• Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik Kiel
• Astronomy and Astrophysics in Jena
• Astronomische Gesellschaft
• Astronomy Departments
• Amateur Astronomie im WWW links
• The International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Europen Astronomical Society
• University of Helsinki,
• Observatory - Finland
• Department of Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland
• Department of Astronomy (Leiden Observatory)
• The Kapteyn Institute Groningen
• Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
• Space Telescope Science Institute STScI/HST
• STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute
• Princeton Dep. Astronomy
• Uni. Arizona Department of Astronomy
• Steward Observatory Home Page
• Carnegie Observatories' Home Page
• Princeton University Observatory
• Astronomy Uni. Tennessee some links
• Department of Astronomy, Cornell University
• Cornell University ExtraGalactic Group (EGG)
• University of Cambridge European Network: Formation & Evolution of Galaxies
• Cardiff Astrophysics Research
• Uni. Cambridge UK Institute of Astronomy
• Parkes Observatory and Parkes Radiotelescope Home Page
• Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon
• Theo. Astro. TAC Copenhagen Homepage
• Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. Home page
• Instituto Astrofisica Canarias (IAC)
• Astrophysics at the University of Granada
• Astrophysics University of Crete
• NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• NASA

Observatories

• List of telescopes (astroweb)
• Largest telescopes at the end of 2005 !NEW
• List of Observatories (WWW Virtual Library: Astronomy)
• Special.Astrophysical Observatory Russia
• Bjurakan Astrophysical Observatory
• Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
• Moscow Station (SAI) in Crimean Observatory, Russia, Ukraina
• Turku Astrophysical Observatory - Finland
• National Astronomical Observatory "ROZHEN" - Bulgaria
• Belogradchik Astronomical Observatory - Bulgaria
• Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China
• Kun Min Observatory, China
• Sanchi Observatory, Shanhaj, China
• Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanging, China
• Hoher List Observatory, Germany
• Calar Alto Observatory
• • spanish EOCA 1.52m
• ESO La Silla observatory
• • Danish 1.54m
  • NTT
• ESO Paranal observatory (VLT)
• Lowell observatory
• 1.5m TIRGO telescope
• UKIRT United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope
• CFHT Canada-France-HawaiiTelescope
• NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
• CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
• KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory
• ING The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes La Palma
• ATNF Australia National Telescope Facility
• Lucile Miller Observatory

Image processing resources

• IRAF Homepage
• • IRAF Whereis!
  • Kapteyn Institute IRAF page
  • Durham IRAF Home Page
• SAOimage Image Display Utility
• • SAOimage Image Display Utility
• ESO-MIDAS
• • ESO-MIDAS Documentation
  • • Volume A (online)
    • Volume B (online)
• FITS Support Office Home Page
• The Karma Homepage
• • Karma User Manual
• GIPSY, the Groningen Image Processing System
• St. Andrews Starlink Node
• • Starlink's RGASP - Reduced GAlaxy Surface Photometry package
  • Starlink's Image Processing & Photometry
• Super Mongo homepage
• • SM manual

CCDs

• CCD/IR School (School of Physics, University of Melbourne)
• • Near-IR Observing
• Direct Imaging Manual for Kitt Peak
• Beobachtungen mit der CCD-Kamera Astrophysikalisches Praktikum (Universitдt Mьnchen)
• The CCD Photometric Calibration Cookbook (Starlink)
• The 2-D CCD Data Reduction Cookbook (Starlink)
• Observational Mishaps CCD artifacts
• CCD-world electronic forum
• CCDs for Material Scientist

Astronomy Resources on the Internet

• Astro Web (CDS)
• Astro Web (NRAO
• Astro Web (ESA Vilspa)
• Astronomy Resources on the WWW (HEASARC)
• Starhead server at the CDS

Astronomy meetings

• Astronomy meetings CADC.ca
• Environments of Galaxies. Birmingham
• Granada Euroconference.Galaxy-Annmt.html
• star2000 - Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way
• Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies Rome
• Galaxiy Morphology Conference - Johannesburg
• The Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters

Astronomical Information

People connected with astronomy:

• Astrosearch - a search engine for astronomy related persons, institutes, or addresses.

A comprehensive list of resources is:

• Archives - Astronomical archives.
• AstroWeb - Astronomy resources on the Internet (NRAO flavour).
• Star*s - The Star*s family of Astronomy resources (University of Strasbourg)
• StarWorlds - Organisations, institutions, associations, companies, etc.
• StarBits - Abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, etc.
• StarHeads - Personal WWW pages of individuals.

Other sources on the Web are:

• AAO - Anglo-Australian Telescope.
• ADC - Astronomical Data Center, GSFC, USA
• Armagh Planetarium - A friendly introduction to astronomy (and Armagh).
• ASDS - Astronomical Software Directory Service (helps you find software to solve your problem).
• Expanding Universe - A classified search tool for amateur astronomy.
• GEMINI - UK GEMINI Support Group Homepage.
• HST - UK Support Facility.
• Irish Astronomical Journal.
• La Palma - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes.
• NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
• NASA Headquarters
• NASA Information Systems
• NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
• NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center.
• PATT - Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time
• PPARC Astronomy Programme
• Starlink - Computing for UK Astronomers.

An online edition of Astronomy Now a lot of FTP sites and WWW pages of interest to astronomers.

• World Wide Web sites.
• • Clementine images are available from the Naval Research Laboratory.
  • NASA has a superb home page which points to other NASA centres.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a major source of information on space probes.
  • Space Environment Laboratory has an index of sites providing solar images.
  • SDAC is the Solar Data Analysis Center at GSFC. It provides the latest ground- and space-based solar images.
  • Astronomy servers on the Internet.
• FTP sites.
• • nic.funet.fi, directory /pub/astro, is possibly the biggest collection of freely available astronomical software on the net.
  • ftp.stsci.edu, directory /scsci/epa, is supported by the Space Telescope Science Institute. It has a big collection of Shoemaker-Levy Jupiter impact images.
  • pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov, directory /public/jpinfo, is supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. All sorts of images and information are available, including space probes like Galileo and Magellan.
  • kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov, file /pub/space/elements/satelem/new_elem.z, contains current satellite elements.
  • seds.lpl.arizona.edu, directory /pub/images, has thousands of images from space missions.
  • xi.uleth.ca, directory /pub, has solar images at various wavelengths.

Updated: April, 03, 2006; 16:28