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:
An online edition of Astronomy
Now a lot of FTP sites and WWW pages of interest to astronomers.
- World Wide Web sites.
- 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.