ASTRONOMICAL RESOURCES

ON THIS PAGE:

• DIGITISED SKY IMAGES
• DATABASES AND CATALOGUES
• LITERATURE
• SOFTWARE
• MEETINGS & CONTACTS
• OBSERVATORIES & OTHER INSTITUTES
• PROPOSAL AIDS
• PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Astronomical Headlines from the IAU telegrams and minor planet circulars etc, together with a related Index
• PhysicsNet contains search engine for Physics World and Journals of Physics, product information, and further links
• ESA Astrophysics missions, past present and future, and further links
• On-line Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Space Plasma Physics contains links to databases in atomic, molecular and plasma physics, relevant space missions etc.
• Webstars - a list of astronomical resource sites arranged by topic

• Digitised sky survey -- nice link at CADC in Candada returning FITS files calibrated in RA and Dec
• SkyView -- overplot any survey with any catalogue!
• Sloan digital sky survey
• Other digitised image resources are at STScI, and NASA
• Pictures of all spiral galaxies larger than 3 minutes of arc contributed by Alwyn Botha

Note: where available, links to observatory archives (e.g. La Palma) are located under the corresponding observatories entry

• AAO Sky Surveys and Catalogues
• Astronomical Data Center (ADC) Extragalactic Database
• APM Catalogue -- data from Palomar Schmidt and UK Schmidt plates
• Minnesota APS -- star and galaxy magnitudes from mag 2 to mag 20 from POSS plates. Quick link to Box Query Form
• CADC Astronomical Standards Page
• CDS Strasbourg - Links to many Databases and Catalogues
• ESO/ST-ECF Archive List of Astronomical Catalogues
  (An almost exhaustive list of catalogues)
• Schlegel's Galactic Absorption
• Guide Star Catalogue at STScI
  (Recommended link -- on-line access via forms, you can select all stars within a given box)
• Hipparcos -- online access via forms
• Hypercat extragalactic database
• IRAS Database
• NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Libary: images at any frequency (please let us know if you can get this to work!)
• NED Extragalactic Database
• Planetary Nebula Emission Line Catalog (ELCAT)
• CADC Canada - including POSS-I plates in batch mode
• SIMBAD on the Web, CDS Strasbourgh
• Spectrophotometric Standards
  Stone(1977). Some tabulated data can be found in IRAF,
  look in directory onedstds$.
• ESO listings of Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standards (Oke (1990), Hamuy (1992,1995) and other sources):
  RA Ordered List of Spectrophotometric Standards
  Sky map of spectrophotometric standards
• Solar Spectrum in graphical form or ascii data, with forms interface
• Spectral lines: UV-Optical-IR (van Hoof). This replaces the old UV-Optical and IR lists. Features: runs from 0.5Å to 1000 micron; new elements added; transition probabilities added for nearly 14% of the lines; new search and output options
• Spectral lines: submillimetre - microwave (JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Team)
• Spectral lines: molecular and atomic IR (MPE Garching)
• Spectral line atlas: Thorium-Argon (NOAO)
• Standard Star Fluxes
  Hamuy et al (1992). Some tabulated data can be found in IRAF,
  look in directory onedstds$.
• A metalist of Stellar Spectra (including solar).
• Digital Stellar Spectra of various spectral types
• USNO-A Astronomical Reference Network (on-line astrometric reference objects)
• USNO-B USNO Integrated Image and Catalogue Archive Service
  -- USNO-B is larger than USNO-A and includes proper motions
• UV spectra taken with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
• VLAArchive
• VizieR is a front end which allows access to a large list of catalogues, though it is a little flaky in operation
• VLBA and VLBI maps in the Radio Reference Frame Image Database
• WISARD Interface at Goddard
  (superset including HST and HEASARC searchable archives)
• WENSS The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey
• WHISP Westerbork HI survey of nearby galaxies catalog of galaxies documentation

• E-mail addresses
  • astropersons (is now being updated!)
  • starheads (current but less complete)
• AAS Membership Directory
• List of astronomy Meetings.
• The Newsgroup sci.astro.hubble
  up-to-date information about the Hubble Space Telescope

• OBSERVATORIES
• Leiden's list of institutes both professional and amateur IN THE NETHERLANDS
• NOVA Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie
• NWO

• AAOThe Anglo-Australian Observatory
• ATNFThe Australia Telescope National Facility
• AURAAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy
• BIMABerkeley Illinois Maryland Association
• Cambridge Astronomy
• Durham
• ESA European Space Agency and best Science starting point
• ESO European Southern Observatory
• EVN The European VLBI Network and/or joint EVN/MERLIN proposals
• The Expertise Centrum Astronomische Beeldverwerking
• Department of Mathematical Physics and Astronomy of the University of Ghent in Belgium
• Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii
• IAC
• ISO The Infrared Space Observatory
• Jodrell Bank Observatory
• Joint Astronomy Center, Hawai'i.
• Keck Observatory
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
• La Palma The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
• Las Campanas
• Lick Observatory
• Los Alamos Theoretical Astrophysics Group
• MERLIN
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories: see RSAA
• NASA
• NFRA/ASTRON Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy
• NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories
• NOT Nordic Optical Telescope
• NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• RSAA Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Space Telescope
• Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF)
• Palomar Observatory
• SRON Space Research Organization Netherlands
• STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
• VLA NRAO Very Large Array

• AAS Job Register
• NRAO Jobs Listing
• Starlink
• 1999 Astronomy Job Rumours

• Starpos - form entry, select observatory and date, provides a plot of object visibility (test version)
• Hourly Airmass Table - form entry, select observatory
• Object Observability Calculator - form entry, select observatory
• ASTRON/GBE PC Home Page - includes Proposal Forms and recent information (WSRT, JCMT, La Palma)

• ADS, the NASA Astrophysics Data System includes ADS Abstract search - search on Author or Title
  with forms input and enter bibcode of a known article e.g. 1999A&AS..136..509H)
  ADS Article service provides access to journals, proceedings, bulletins and observatory publications that have been scanned by the ADS.
• AIP (American Institute of Physics)Online Journal Service
• RuG FWN Library Catalogues and databases incl. electronic journals.
  Check the Catalogue of the RuG for (electronic) journals.
  Password for browsing should not be required if you access these sites from within the rug domain
• Astronomical Journal
• Astronomy and Astrophysics -- the official links are via Springer:
  • 1969-2000
    (later issues are accessible via EDP Sciences:)
  • from 2001
• A&A and A&ASupplement Abstracts
• Astronomy & Geophysics
• Astrophysical Journal (including Letters and Supplement).
• Institute of Physics and E-journals list Incl. Journal of Physics etc.
• Monthly notices Royal Astronomical Society
  Check availability. Full text available via Astrophysics Data System, EBSCOhost and Synergy
• Nature
• New Astronomy
• New Scientist
• Publications of the ASP
• Space Telescope Science Institute Library
  Electronic Journal Collection - this enables browsing of Applied Optics, BAAS, Journal of the Optical Society of America etc!
• Scientific American <
• SISSA e-Print archive
• Sky & Telescope

LITERATURE: on-line books

• Listing of astronomical books which can be accessed for free on-line. (Last update of this page was: 10/11/2001).
• Google Print Search the full text of books.

• ADS, the NASA Astrophysics Data System includes ADS Abstract search - search on Author or Title
  with forms input and enter bibcode of a known article e.g. 1999A&AS..136..509H)
  ADS Article service provides access to journals, proceedings, bulletins and observatory publications that have been scanned by the ADS.
• AIP (American Institute of Physics)Online Journal Service
• RuG FWN Library Catalogues and databases incl. electronic journals.
  Check the Catalogue of the RuG for (electronic) journals.
  Password for browsing should not be required if you access these sites from within the rug domain
• Astronomical Journal
• Astronomy and Astrophysics -- the official links are via Springer:
  • 1969-2000
    (later issues are accessible via EDP Sciences:)
  • from 2001
• A&A and A&ASupplement Abstracts
• Astronomy & Geophysics
• Astrophysical Journal (including Letters and Supplement).
• Institute of Physics and E-journals list Incl. Journal of Physics etc.
• Monthly notices Royal Astronomical Society
  Check availability. Full text available via Astrophysics Data System, EBSCOhost and Synergy
• Nature
• New Astronomy
• New Scientist
• Publications of the ASP
• Space Telescope Science Institute Library
  Electronic Journal Collection - this enables browsing of Applied Optics, BAAS, Journal of the Optical Society of America etc!
• Scientific American <
• SISSA e-Print archive
• Sky & Telescope

LITERATURE: on-line books

• Listing of astronomical books which can be accessed for free on-line. (Last update of this page was: 10/11/2001).
• Google Print Search the full text of books.