Some Useful Astronomy Sites

Abstracts/On-line Journals, etc...

• ADS Abstract Service Useful literature search tool; ApJ, A&A, AJ, etc...
• The CDS Abstract Service Up-to-date listing of abstracts from Astronomy & Astrophysics
• American Astronomical Society Home Page Electronic Astrophysical Journal, the "Yellow Pages" and more...
• SISSA Astrophysics
• ESA Astrophysics Home Page
• The Astrophysical Journal Electronic Edition
• Springer Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal

• Simbad Now on the Web!
• Welcome to SkyView A "Virtual Observatory on the Net". SkyView generates images of any part of the sky at any wavelength ("Bloody Marvellous" - News of the World)
• The Digitized Sky Survey Digitised Palomar and UK Schmidt plates
• ESO/ST-ECF Online HST Guide Star Catalogue For finding bright stars near your source for offsetting, perhaps...?
• The IRAS Database via IPAC; coordinates, fluxes, IR images...
  • IRAS Catalogues Using XCATSCAN to retrieve IRAS data
• Herbig-Haro Object Catalogue

• MPIA - Heidelberg The Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (including links to Calar Alto and ISO)
• Royal Observatory, Edinburgh From Blackford Hill, where the Haggis roams free...
  • News
• Royal Greenwich Observatory With links to La Palma and the Gemini 8-m telescope project
• Cambridge MRAO, Inst. of Astronomy...
• UKIRT - Home Page The UK's Infrared telescope home page
  • Service Observing
  • Instrumentation
• JCMT - Home Page Homepage for the James Clerk Maxwell Submillimeter telescope
  • Service Observing
  • Instrumentation
• ESO On-Line Information System European Southern Observatory homepage
• AAO Homepage Anglo-Australian Observatory
  • IRIS User Guide
• Nautical Almanac Office Astronomical facts and stats

• The Star*s Family Search tool for astronomers, astronomy sites and all things astronomical
• AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources More pointers to astronomy resources
• Astronomy Links Observatories, Institutes and University departments, plus links to papers, journals, newsletters, catalogues, commercial publications, databases and more...
• International Astronomy Meetings. A frequently updated listing of where to be and when
  • Protostars and Planets IV
• Astronomers E-mail addresses. Compiled in Cambridge, U.K. Great (unless your name begins with `Z').

• IRAF WWW mirror site at RAL
• MIDAS ESO data reduction package
• Starlink Includes latest news, software developments and documentation.
  • PGPLOT notes

• HST A good starting point for those who need information on the HST
  • NICMOS Home page
  • What's new at STScI The latest news and images from HST
  • STScI/HST Pictures The Public HST Picture Gallery
• ISO Homepage Includes call for proposals for the latter half of the mission.

• The Star Formation Newsletter Abstracts from recently-accepted papers
• GCNews, Galactic Center Newsletter
• AGB newsletter
• ESO Star Formation Newsletter

• The AAS Job Register Astronomy jobs worldwide...
• U.K. Jobsnews From Starlink
• ESO Jobs The Chilean connection...
• Times Higher Ed. Supplement Click on Interview for Jobs in Education
• Nature Including international science jobs
• IoP Current job vacancies

• Views Of The Solar System A nice guide to our neighbourhood
• The Bradford Robotic Telescope Step aside, R2D2!

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