Reed's Astronomy links

This is a compilation of links to Internet servers which provide useful information pertaining to astronomy, astrophysics, or space science. If you know of any servers which are not on this list, please let me know at rxm128@yahoo.com, as I'm trying to make this list as complete and up-to-date as possible! I welcome comments and suggestions.

Featured links Astronomical Journal Astrophysical Journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific NASA Hubble Space Telescope (STScI) The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) European Space Agency (ESA) John Yong's Linux for Astronomy and Physics page Yale University Astronomy Dept. Web pages which I've helped create for the Astro course I'm teaching . . . check 'em out! A far more complete list of astronomy links than what I've got

Popular astronomy links

• NASA
• Hubble Space Telescope (STScI)
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• Universe Today (Space exploration news, updated daily)
• Database of Messier objects, including pictures
• Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
• Internet Telescope Exchange (Equipment vendor)

Technical astronomy links

General

• SIMBAD (main site)
• SIMBAD (USA mirror site)
• How to refer to an astronomical source or designate a new one
• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
• Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
• Physics News Updates searchable index

• The Washington Double Star Catalog (most complete catalog of all double star observations)(at USNO)
• Binary star orbits computed by Wulff Heintz (Swarthmore)
• United States Naval Observatory (general link)

• Cambridge local preprints
• SISSA received astrophysical preprints (Excellent preprints source, in Italy)

• CDS Abstract Service
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), at CalTech

• An Astronomer's Guide to On-line Bibliographic Databases and Information Services (Postscript, 306_KB; also available in TeX, 118_KB)
• European Space Information System (ESIS)
• Library of Congress, LOCIS
• NRAO-Charlottesville Library (RAPcat, etc.)
• Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data (SIMBAD)
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Library Service
• World library catalogs (at Yale)

• The On-line Astronomical Journal
• The On-line Astrophysical Journal
• CDS Information Bulletin

• The Weather Channel
• Tucson (Kitt Peak) weather forecast

• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• American Nuclear Society (ANS)

• AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory)
• Apache Point Observatory
• Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (Florence, Italy)
• Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OAT) (Italy)
• Australian Telescope National Facility (ATNF, CSIRO Radiophysics)
• AXAF (Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) Science Center
• Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA - Hat Creek)
• Big Bear Solar Observatory
• Cagliari Astronomical Observatory (International Latitude Station)
• California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
• California Institute of Technology Pulsar Group (CalTech)
• Cambridge Institute of Astronomy (U.K.)
• Cambridge University Astronomy (U.K.)
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) (Univ. of Hawaii)
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telecope (DAO, Canada)
• Center for EUV Astrophysics (at Berkeley)
• Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO)
• Compton/GRO FTP Directories
• Compton/GRO News (GRONEWS)
• Cornell University, Department of Astronomy
• Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO)
• Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
• Einstein Observatory
• ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive
• ESO Bulletin Board
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• EUVE Guest Observer Center
• Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)
• Georgia State University Astronomy
• Glasgow University Astronomy Group (U.K.)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Theory Group
• Haystack Observatory
• High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
• Hubble Space Telescope (HST) (from DAO in Canada)
• Indiana University Astronomy Department
• Infrared Sky Survey Atlas (ISSA)
• Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (France)
• Institute of Astronomy and Royal Greenwich Observatory (U.K.)
• Isaac Newton Group (ING) (La Palma, Spain)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Public Information Office (JPL)
• Joint Astronomy Center (Hilo, Hawaii)
• Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) (anonymous FTP)
• Lick Observatory
• Lowell Observatory
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Millstone Hill Observatory (MHO, Haystack)
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO) (Australia)
• Mount Wilson Observatory
• Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR)
• Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO)
• Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)
• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) (Arecibo Observatory)
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
• National Solar Observatory (NSO)
• New Mexico State University Department of Astronomy
• NOAO - Gemini (FTP)
• Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)
• Observatoire du Mont Mégantic (Canada)
• Orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometry (OVLBI)
• Padua Observatory (Italy)
• Penn State University, Dept. of Astronomy (PSU)
• Princeton University Observatory
• Princeton University Pulsar Group
• Punjabi University, Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science (astro@pbi.ernet.in), Patiala 147002, India, has a 24'' Cassegrain telescope and offers two-year programs leading to postgraduate degrees in Astronomy and Space Physics.
• Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) (U.K.)
• Sacramento Peak Observatory (part of National Solar Observatory)
• Saint Mary's University, Dept. of Astronomy and Physics (Canada)
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) (Cambridge, MA)
• SkyView
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS at Fermilab)
• Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, ... Information (Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
• Space Astrophysics Laboratory (Canada)
• Space Index (at CERN)
• Hubble Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF)
• Space Telescope Electronic Information System (STScI)
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• Steward Observatory
• STScI Searchtools
• Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS)
• Univ. of Chicago physics resources
• Université de Montréal - Astrophysics Group
• Universite de Montreal, Groupe d'Astrophysique
• Universiteit Utrecht: Faculteit Natuur- & Sterrenkunde
• University of Alabama, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• University of Calgary, Radio Astronomy Laboratory (Canada)
• University of Colorado
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Astronomy
• University of Rochester's Near Infrared Group
• University of Southampton, Astronomy Group (U.K.)
• Utrecht University, Astronomical Institute (Netherlands)
• VLA Sky Survey
• Wilcox Solar Observatory (Stanford Univ.)
• Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO Observatory (WIYN)
• World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A)
• Yale University, Department of Astronomy

• Astronomical Data Center Documents
• Astronomical Data Center (ADC) (at GSFC)
• Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) Science Center (ASC)
• Backgrounds Data Center (BDC)
• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
• CD-ROMs at NSSDC
• CDS Opacity Project (TOPbase)
• CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues (Astronomer's Bazaar)
• Center for EUV Astrophysics (EUVE Guest Observer Center)
• Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) (Strasbourg, France)
• Compton/GRO Observatory Science Support Center/Guest Observer Facility
• Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data Archive (DMSP)
• DIRA2 Database (Bologna, Italy)
• Einstein Data Archive (at SAO)
• Einstein On-Line Service - Einline
• ESA Data Dissemination Network (at ESRIN) (Italy)
• ESIS - Astronomy (Italy)
• ESIS - Space Physics (Italy)
• ESIS FTP Tree (Italy)
• ESIS User Guide (Italy)
• ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• European Space Information System (ESIS) (Italy)
• EXOSAT database (ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
• Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) (Maryland)
• High Energy Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) (at GSFC)
• HST Science Data Archive, ST-ECF (Garching, Germany)
• HST Science Data Archive (STScI) (Maryland)
• Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC)
• IPAC IRSKY Remote Access Tool
• IPAC XCATSCAN Catalog Scanning Tool
• IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (Colorado)
• IUE VILSPA archive (Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, Madrid, Spain)
• JCMT/UK_ESO_Schmidt/AAT Archive Queries
• Johnson Space Center
• La Palma Data Archive
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) (at NASA/JSC)
• Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase (LEDA)
• MediaTheque - Audio Tapes
• MediaTheque - CD-ROMs
• MediaTheque - Registration Form
• MediaTheque - Report 1
• MediaTheque - Video Tapes
• MediaTheque
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• NASA - Information by Subjects
• NASA ADC Online Information System
• NASA Affiliate Institutes (from GSFC)
• NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)
• NASA Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
• NASA astronomical databases & services (STELAR)
• NASA directory of servers
• NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility (DFRF)
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) (Maryland)
• NASA Headquarters
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)
• NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
• NASA Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics (LHEA, at GSFC)
• NASA Langley Research Center
• NASA Lewis Research Center
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
• NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
• NASA Online Data Information System (NODIS, at ADC/NSSDC)
• NASA Online Information
• NASA Parts Project Office (NPPO)
• NASA Planetary Data System (PDS)
• NASA Research Announcements
• NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI)
• NASA Space Physics Data System (SPDS)
• NASA Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO)
• NASA main page
• NASA mission payload information
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Database
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
• Planetary Data Systems (at JPL)
• Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) (at GSFC)
• Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data (SIMBAD) (at CDS, Strasbourg, France)
• SkyView (at GSFC)
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
• Space Telescope Electronic Information Service (STEIS)
• Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF)
• ST-ECF Archives
• SPACEWARN Bulletin
• Star*s Family
• Starcat (at ESO)
• StarGuides Registration Form
• StarWays - European Space Information System (ESIS)
• World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A)

Images

• Ames SPACE Archive
• Ames space GIFs (see also McCreary and Balke. A Contents file is available, with descriptive text.)
• Big Bear Solar Observatory
• Brittany Center of Informatical Resources (CRI-CICB)
• CCD Images of Galaxies (at Univ. of Oregon)
• Fotosearch: Stock Astronomy Photos & Images (commercial images)
• French National Conservatory of Arts & Works (CNAM) (Astronomy GIFs, English text; see also Roussel)
• ESIS on-line image (GIF) files
• HST archive retrieval instructions
• HST public-relations images
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Public Information Office (JPL)
• LPL-SEDS
• NASA astronomy images
• NASA space images and information
• Voyager Image search (STELAR, experimental)
• Press release images from the repaired HST (at GSFC)
• Rennes' University of France
• Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, etc. Information (Univ. Lethbridge) (Alberta, Canada)
• STScI-EPA HST Images

• AIPS++
• Analyz single-dish spectral analysis (at NAIC)
• Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX
• Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS)
• CADC Tools
• Data Reduction Expert Assistant (DRACO)
• DEC gatekeeper.dec.com Archive
• Extreme Ultra-Violet Explorer (EUVE)
• FIGARO Software
• FITS archive documents database
• FITS Archive (by IAU FITS WG) (at ESO)
• FITS Information Archive
• FITS Support Office (at NSSDC)
• Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) (archive at NRAO)
• Fortran-77 to Fortran-90 converter
• Groningen Image Processing SYstem (GIPSY)
• HEASARC FITS toolset
• Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF)
• IMDISP Software
• Interactive Data Language (IDL)
• Karma (at ATNF in Australia)
• KHOROS Software
• LISP-STAT code library
• Mathematical Morphology
• Mathematica Software (at Wolfram Research, Inc.)
• MediaTheque -- Software Packages
• Microcomputer Image Processing System (MiPS)
• Munich Image Data Analysis System (MIDAS) (at ESO)
• NASA COmputer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC)
• NASA Network Application and Information Center (NAIC)
• NCSA Software
• NETLIB Software
• Neural Network Papers
• NSI On-Line Network Aide (NONA)
• The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
• Numerical Recipes Software
• Parallel Tools Consortium (at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• PGPLOT Software
• PROS Software (X-ray data analysis)
• Remote Proposal Submission Software (RPSS) (at STScI)
• RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software
• Sci.image.processing Newsgroup Archive
• Search and Retrieve Graphics Software and Data
• Software Support Laboratory (SSL)
• Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS)
• ST-ECF Astronomical Software Library
• STARLINK
• Statistical Analysis System Software
• StatLib Archives
• StatLib Index
• sunsite.unc.edu Astronomy Archives
• TCL Archives
• Telescope Imaging Model (TIM) (PSF software for HST)
• UniPOPS (at NRAO)
• VISTA Software
• Wavelet Information
• Working Group on Astronomical Software (Archives of WGAS-L list server)

• ``Astropersons'' list of just about every astronomer's email address
• Astronomy-related institutions (site addresses)
• Astronomy-related Postal Addresses
• STScI phonebook

• AAS Job Register
• careerpath.com
• www.jobtrak.com

• An Astronomer's Guide to On-line Bibliographic Databases and Information Services (Postscript, 306 kB)
• Archie Hypertext Servers (ArchiePlex)
• Astronomical information on the Internet (at ESIS)
• Astronomical information on the Internet (at ST-ECF)
• Astronomical Internet Resources (at STScI)
• Astronomical Publication Resources (at STScI)
• Astronomical Software Resources (at STScI)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (from CERN)
• Astronomy Servers (at USGS)
• Astronomy (a resource list at GSFC-HEASARC)
• Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
• Clearinghouse for science-related Internet Resource Guides
• Network Resources for Astronomers
• ``On-line Data and Information in Astronomy'' (a paper by Heinz Andernach)
• The Whois protocol

Created: Jan. 30, 1995; Last modified: Aug. 9, 1999