HTML Version of AstroWeb Database

FIGARO Software ( AAO )
National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN - Astronomical Data Analysis Center ( NAOJ-ADAC )
Astronomical Data Center FTP Archive
CATALOGS: astrometric, positional, spectroscopic, photometric data. Cross-identifications, combined and derived data, non-stellar and extended objects, galactic, extra-galactic data, and miscellaneous data. FITS Table Browser software. E-mail directory. American node of Astronomical Data Centers.
NASA space images and information
Neural Network Papers
Steward Observatory (FTP)
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS AnonFTP site)
Documents & Files related to Astronomical Catalogues and Publications; Astrometric catalogues; Photometric catalogues; Spectroscopic catalogues; Cross-Identifications; Combined catalogues; Miscellaneous Catalogues; Non-stellar Objects; Radio catalogues. Tables published in Astron. Astrophys; Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.; Astron. J.; Astrophys. J.; Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser.; IAU Symposium; Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. - Observations of Variable Stars by the " Association Francaise d'Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables" ; How to access and use The Opacity Project dataBASE, providing extensive atomic data. A WWW version of the same services is available.
Starbase
An ASCII file based database management system with features for manipulation of astronomical data.
Whipple Observatory / Multiple Mirror Telescope - Schedules ( Whipple / MMT )
University of Alabama - Department of Physics and Astronomy: Preprints
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory - Schedules ( CTIO )
Meteosat-3 animations (4x/day)
Meteosat-3 images (4x/day)
ST-ECF Astronomical Software Library
HST PR-images
Astronomical literature publicly accessible on-line: a short ( status report, )
by Fionn Murtagh and Hans-Martin Adorf, ST-ECF, ESO Messenger No. 72, June 1993, pp. 45-47
UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
Experimental home page of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs focusing on United Nations activities in outer space matters, particularly on planetary exploration and astronomy (=basic space science).
Ames SPACE Archive
Ames space GIFs ( file is available, with descriptive text.. )
Weathermaps
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory - Schedules ( FCRAO )
FITS Information Archive
This is an archive for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.
HST archive retrieval instructions
Network Resources for Astronomers
A report prepared by Bob Hanisch (STScI) for the AAS in October 1992.
pgperl
pgperl is a version of the Perl language which has available the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data.
Karma ( ATNF@CSIRO-RP )
The Karma package is a library and applications for Signal and Image Processing written by Richard Gooch.
TCL Archives
Tcl is a very high level interpreted scripting language which along with Tk greatly simplifies the creation of graphical user interface. It has been ported to a wide variety of platforms and has numerous extensions for database access, client-server systems, and object oriented programming. The syntax is simple and easy to use.
Canada France Hawaii Telescope (ftp) ( CFHT )
CNAM (National Conservatory of Arts & Works)
An astronomical database of NASA pictures
Mathematical Morphology
NASA Astrophysics FTP File Server ( NASA Astrophysics )
Contains: General Information; NRAs, Committee Reports, Newsletters (Inside Astrophysics0
NASA Research Announcements
e.g. Astrophysics Data Program in nra_93-oss-05
James Clark Maxwell Telescope - Schedules ( JCMT )
KHOROS Software
Khoros is an integrated software development environment for information processing and visualization. Khoros components include a visual programming language, code generators for extending the visual language and adding new application packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, interactive image display programs, surface visualization, an extensive library of image processing, numerical analysis and signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages. X applications built using the Khoros User Interface Libraries have built in journal/playback and groupware capabilities. Khoros is a Registered Trademark of Khoral Research, Inc.
Also see newsgroup comp.soft-sys.khoros .
There are additional Khoros anonFTP sites in CANADA popeye.genie.uottawa.ca/pub/khoros, GERMANY ftp.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE/graph/khoros, ITALY ipifidpt.difi.unipi.it/pub/khoros, JAPAN ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/khoros and UK unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/uunet/window-sys/khoros.
VISTA Software
NCSA Software
an Internet Tools Summary
LISP-STAT code library
Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, ... Information ( Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada )
Solar Imagery (mirrored from SELSIS/BBSO)-updated once every three hours; Daily Reports of Ionospheric Data containing M(3000), foF2, MUF(3000), and TEC; East-West Solar Interferometer Scan Images from the Algonquin Radio Observatory 32-Element Interferometer; Weekly Solar Terrestrial Forecast and Review Reports; Daily GOES-6 and 7 X-ray Plots as well as special high-resolution xray plots of major flares; Daily NSO solar coronal line emission plots; Daily Pseudo-Full-Disk solar coronal maps of the coronal Fe XIV and Ca XV ion lines from the NSO; and more... - README
Rennes' University of France
Astronomical pictures & animations with graphical indexes; - README-english , README-french
FITS Archive ( IAU FITS WG, maintained by P. Grosbøl (ESO )
Munich Image Data Analysis System (FTP) ( ESO-MIDAS )
This directory contains: README = This file; 92NOV = Subdirectory containing the 92NOV release of MIDAS (only packages, patches and documentation); courier = Directory containing the compressed postscript files of the newsletter: MIDAS Courier.; calib = Directory with the ESO calibration files for MIDAS.; linux = Directory containing binary versions of MIDAS for PC/Linux.
WIYN - KPNO (FTP)
Compton/GRO FTP Directories
High Altitude Observatory ( HAO )
NRAO 12m
Infrared Space Observatory - Schedules ( ISO )
University of Hawaii IfA: 2.2m Telescope - Schedule
IMDISP Software
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) ( NOAO )
IRAF ftp archive directories. README = This file; ORDERFORM = IRAF order form, for mailed IRAF distributions and printed and bound versions of the manuals; REGISTER = IRAF mailing list and site registration; conf = November 1991 IRAF Conference information; contrib = Contributed software; docs = IRAF user and technical documentation; extra = IRAF add-on layered packges, fixes, etc.; v28 = The IRAF V2.8 distribution (partial); v29 = The IRAF V2.9 distribution; v210 = The IRAF V2.10 distribution; web = World Wide Web (WWW) home directory.; (there is an IRAF home page (preliminary) \}
Infra-Red Telescope Facility - Schedules ( IRTF )
MICHEL, Francis
Space News Archive ( SPACENEWS )
Announcements of space-related news items. Moderated.
Space Policy Archive ( SPACEPOL )
Space Policy digest (sci.space.policy newsgroup) Discussions about political, economic, and policy aspects of spaceflight.
Space Science Archive ( SPACESCI )
Space Science digest (sci.space.science newsgroup) Planetary science, space-based astronomy, and other space science. Moderated.
Space Shuttle Archive ( SPACE-SH )
Space Shuttle digest (sci.space.shuttle newsgroup) The space shuttle and the STS program.
Space Tech Archive ( SPACE )
Space Tech digest (sci.space.tech newsgroup) Technology and general issues related to space flight. (Moderated) **note** This digest is completely different from the space-tech-digest run by Marc Ringuette.
Jodrell Bank
Fortran-77 to Fortran-90 converter
Groningen IP SYstem ( GIPSY )
README Release 3.5: This document describes how to install GIPSY Release 3.5 on one or more of the machines mentioned below. Only on these systems GIPSY is fully supported. They are: Alliant FX80, Decstations, HP 300 series, HP 700 series, IBM/RS6000, Silicon Graphics/IRIX, Sun 4 systems (<5.0), Sun 4 systems (>=5.0), Convex C2 and C3, OSF1/alpha.
Meteosat images of Europe, Africa, Atlantic and World (3x/day)
International Earth Rotation Service ( IERS, USNO )
TAI-UTC (leap second table) is available.
MathSource -- Mathematica Software ( Wolfram Research, Inc. )
This site contains all material available through MathSource. The General directory contains items of general interest to the Mathematica community, such as administrative info, MathGroup archives, Mathematica tutorials, MathSource information, utility programs, and Mathematica tips. The Enhancements directory contains items that enhance the functionality of Mathematica beyond the capabilities of the basic kernel. Items in the Applications directory deal with the application of Mathematica to specific problems or subject areas. The subcategories group related items together into manageable sizes. Subcategories under Applications include: Audio, Chemistry, Complexity, Computer Science, Data-Tables, Economics-Finance, Education, Engineering, Geography, Graphics, Life Science, Material Science, Math, and Physics. Books supplements, periodicals, journals, press-announcements, bibliographical information, Mathematica documentation, and the like are all stored in the Publications directory.
EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) Newsletter (ESA)
ESIS FTP Tree
European Space Information System (FTP Access)
ESIS User Guide
European Space Information System
ESIS (European Space Information System) Newsletter (ESA)
Analyz ( single-dish spectral analysis (NAIC )
ST-ECF Archives
Kitt Peak National Observatory (FTP) ( KPNO )
Kitt Peak National Observatory - Schedules ( KPNO )
NOAO preprints
VLBI Antenna at Fortaleza, Brazil
NETLIB Software
PROS Software
SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) ( FTP )
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
Astrophysics Data System; AXAF Science Center; Data analysis for the Einstein Observatory; Jonathan McDowell's quasar energy distribution database and software library; PROS 2.2 software - README
Einstein Observatory
ASSIST
ASSIST implements a uniform graphical interface to analysis systems, documentation, and other community memory.
NASA Shuttle flights - pictures
Pretty pictures from many NASA Shuttle flights, including STS-61 in December 1993 to service the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The images in this directory are mirrored from the sites at: ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/SHUTTLE, and ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/
Wilcox Solar Observatory (Stanford Univ.) ( WSO )
Contains a solar physics database, currently only holds information from Wilcox observatory, but will soon become site of a National Solar Database and will hold much more data from many different sites. - README
sci.astro.research FTP Archive ( SAR FTP Archive )
Information about the sci.astro.research Usenet newsgroup
Jiggle
Jiggle, a program for noninteractive mosaic assembly
MURPHY, Brian W. ( Butler Univ. )
US National Weather Service Forecasts for the ( United States and Canada )
SISSA received astrophysical preprints
This is the " astro-ph" astrophysics preprints server at SISSA (Trieste). Use the Los Alamos Archive from North America !
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Theory Group
Numerical Recipes Software
Gemini/Pachon/ArCon
Astronomy_and_Astrophysics ( USC )
Astronomy and Astrophysics (NCSU)
Global Change Data and Information System ( GCDIS )
The Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), as prescribed by the Global Change Research Act of 1990, established a program whereby the United States Global Research Program (USGCRP) members committed to work together with each other, academia, and the international community to make it as easy as possible for researchers and others to access and use global change data and information. Toward this end, agencies participating in the USGCRP organized the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) to take full advantage of the mission resources and responsibilities of each agency and to link the services of these data and information resources to each other.
Gemini 8m Telescopes Project (GOPHER) ( Gemini )
Sky and Telescope Weekly News Bulletin
University of Colorado ( Gopher )
Archie gateway (FTP searches) ( Gopher )
Gopher protocol from Univ. Minnesota (home of the " Golden Gophers" )
the FAQ
lists of Gophers servers
Astronomisches Recheninstitut
The Institute for Astronomical Computations Heidelberg is a research institute run by the German Land Baden-Wuerttemberg. It closely collaborates with the University of Heidelberg. Main areas of activity: astrometry, stellar dynamics, and astronomical yearbooks and bibliographies including Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts.
Astronomy Resources ( A Chilean resource list in Spanish. )
Select Gopher item 7 " Servicios Miscelaneos" ,
then select item 4 " Informacion sobre Astronomia/Astronautica y Espacio" .
La Palma - Isaac Newton Group (gopher) ( ING )
Telnet
World library catalogs via Telnet ( Yale list )
Library of Congress ( LOCIS )
Search and Retrieve Graphics Software and Data
Wavelet Information
Astronomy and Astrophysics (Rice)
Astronomy Listing at UCSC ( gopher )
sunsite.unc.edu Archives
NASA astronomy images
University of California, Berkeley (Gopher) ( UCB )
Space Telescope Electronic Information System (STScI)
KNEE, Lewis B.G. ( SEST )
FLORES, Roberto
Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Space Sciences ( AMSEE )
The "Association Mediterranenne des Sciences de l'Environnement et de l'Espace" or Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Space Sciences is a non profit organisation established late 1990. Since then the Association has installed two telescopes, one designed for the observation of planets and double stars under the Mosser Dome and another for deep sky observing under the Messier Dome. CCDs observing for amateur size telescope has been the major interest of the members since the beginning. The AMSEE observing facilities have been installed on the French Riviera at 1220 meters above the sea level on a 7,8 ha piece of land. Synergies have been developed with the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA) and many other bodies.

The projects undertaken by AMSEE are described in the server, which includes the finest images made with the observatory facilities.

MUDERS, Dirk ( MPIfR )
ASCA Data Facility
The ASCA Data Facility, part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Astrophysics Data Facility , is responsible for processing low level ASCA data into standard formatted products, distributing ASCA data to American and European Primary (PI) and Guest (GI) investigators, and populating the final ASCA public data archive.
WITTMAN, David ( Steward )
Astronomical Data Analysis Center ( NAOJ/ADAC )
Astronomical Data Analysis Center (ADAC) of National Astronomical Observatory, Japan (NAOJ) provides all the catalogues in its collection on-line, including the mirror copy of the CDS on-line catalogues and journal tables. Both anonymous ftp and WWW interfaces are available.
Space Mechanics Group Home Page ( Space Mechanics Group - Pisa )
Space Mechanics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, ITALY. This home page gives access to: People (personal home pages) Resarch projects (subject home pages) Publications lists Data bases: asteroid proper elements (ftp server) Announcements of meetings We belong to European Asteroid Research Node Related information - pointers to other groups A preprint facility is in preparation A practical information facility (how to reach us, etc.) is in preparation
MILANI, Andrea ( Univ. Pisa )
Astronomical Data Center ( ADC )
The Astronomical Data Center (ADC), at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, is a cooperative effort between the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/ World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S) and its parent organization, the Space Science Data Operations Office . Currently, the ADC archives hold more than 670 catalogs of astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, radio, and other miscellaneous data for stellar and nonstellar objects. The data were acquired through exchanges with the Centre de Donn'ees Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) , other astronomical data centers throughout the world, and by direct contributions from the international astronomical community.
NASA ADC Electronic News
NASA ADC Online Information System
Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service ( ADS Abstracts )
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service provides access to two sets of abstracts: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract Service provides access to currently over 200,000 abstracts. The Instrumentation Abstract Service provides access to currently over 270,000 abstracts. Both datasets are searchable with a sophisticated searching system. The Astronomy dataset also includes object name searches through a connection to the SIMBAD database in France. More information about this service is available in the Abstract Service Help Pages .
Astrophysics Data System Archive Service ( ADS Archive )
This service provides access and search capability to Einstein Observatory Data, including the 29 CDROMs released by the Einstein Observatory project at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. These data include image files and photon event list files from the Image Proportional Counter (IPC) and the High Resolution Imager (HRI) instruments. Files are in standard astronomical FITS format which may be viewed through a standard FITS display tool such as SAOimage.
Astrophysics Data System Catalog Service ( ADS Catalog )
WWW Forms interface to ADS Catalogs
Astrophysics Data System ( ADS )
The ADS is a free software aimed at the Astrophysics community. It is a distributed environment that provides access to a variety of astronomical data for the scientific user community. At present the main emphasis is on making data collected by NASA space missions available to astronomers. This is being expanded to include access to data from ground based observations. The ADS provides access to over 190 astronomical catalogs and approximately 125,000 astronomical abstracts. It also provides direct access to the HEASARC Browse tool, NSSDC's Online Data and Information Service (NODIS), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), and access to SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data). The user is able to access all of this information via a simple-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI). Simply " point and click" to retrieve the information you need for proposals, research projects, or classroom assignments.
Astrophysics Data System ASIAS Article Service ( ADS Article )
This service provides access to scanned images of journal articles since 1975. So far, we have created images of ApJ Letter journal articles and linked them into the Abstract Service. We will add ApJ articles next, followed by other journals for which we can obtain publisher permission.
ADS Einstein Archive Service ( Einstein )
This service provides query and retrieval capability for the Einstein X-ray Observatory's processed data archive. The archive includes about 5000 X-ray observations (in astronomical standard FITS format) taken between 1978 and 1981.
WARNOCK, Archibald ( HSTX )
Bonn University Astronomical Institutes ( AIUB )
The Astronomical Institutes of the University of Bonn consists of three departments: 1. Radioastronomisches Institut - Radio Astronomy Department (RAIUB) 2. Sternwarte Bonn - Optical Astronomy Department (Sternwarte) 3. Institut fr Astrophysik und extraterrestrische Physik - Department for Astrophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IAEF)
CHIN, Yi-nan ( Bonn )
OSTERBERG, Jürgen ( Uni. Bonn )
Working Group for the History of Astronomy: Electronic newsletters ( EMA/ENHA )
The newsletters contain announcements of conferences, exhibitions, new books, and other related material. They are available in the German original as well as in English translation.
Working Group for the History of Astronomy ( in the Astronomische Gesellschaft )
The working group is open for all who are interested, it's membership is independent from that in the AG.
History of Astronomy
The first general History of Astronomy pages on the Web. These pages are maintained by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft
DICK, Wolfgang R. ( IfAG, Potsdam )
AMES, Susan ( Bonn )
Observatorium Hoher List
Sternwarte der Universitaet Bonn
Observations mainly in the optical spectral range are used for galactic and extragalactic research. The Sternwarte operates the Observatorium Hoher List about 100 km from Bonn.
Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( KAO )
Noto VLBI Station
SERENDIP
The UC Berkeley SETI Program, SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) is an ongoing scientific research effort aimed at detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. The project is the world's only " piggyback" SETI system, operating alongside simultaneously conducted conventional radio astronomy observations. SERENDIP is currently piggybacking on the 1,000-foot dish at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope in the world.
ALEPH Experiment ( CERN )
The Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine ( AMASE )
AMASE is an online astrophysics catalog developed using object-oriented database (OODB) technology to help researchers locate multi-mission data in the NASA archives.
Ada in (Astro)physics
This page provides a set of programs of astrophysical interest written in the ADA programming language. These programs cover topics from LTE line syntehsis in rotating and pulsating stars, Continuous opacities for Kurucz and other atmospheres, Feautrier formal solver package, Zeeman-Feautrier and DELO polarised radiation formal solvers package, Zeeman pattern determination from spectroscopic terms, partition function package and other packages for graphical plotting and interpolation.
MAUERSBERGER, R.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Each day we feature a new picture of our spectacular universe. Browse through our extensive annotated archive. Intended for all educational levels.
75th Anniversary Astronomical Debate Home Page
In April 1920, Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis debated " The Scale of the Universe" in Washington, DC. 75 years later, in April 1995, in commemoration of the `Great Debate', Donald Q. Lamb and Bohdan Paczynski will debate " The Distance Scale to Gamma-Ray Bursts" in the same auditorium. Martin Rees will moderate. Introductory lectures will be given by Virginia Trimble and Gerald Fishman. Tickets are free: availability information is listed through the home page. The home page also makes available a great deal of background information about the 1920 Curtis - Shapley debate suitable for undergraduate lectures wishing to mention the 75th anniversary of this historic astronomical event.
Universität Tübingen - Theoretische Astrophysik ünd Computational Physics
American Physical Society ( APS )
on-line information includes the APS E-Print Archive Forum
APS - What's New?
Physics newsflashes by Bob Park, American Physical Society. If you wish to subscribe to What's New by e-mail, send a message to listserv@aps.org and in the body of the message say `sub whatsnew'.
Saint Mary's University - Department of Astronomy and Physics ( SMU )
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ( RASC )
The beginnings of "The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada" (RASC) go back to the middle of the nineteenth century. The Society was incorporated within the province of Ontario in 1890, received its Royal Charter from King Edward VII in 1903, and was federally incorporated in 1968. The National Office of the Society is located at 136 Dupont Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 1V2, telephone (416) 924-7973, e-mail rasc@vela.astro.utoronto.edu. The business office and library are housed there.
BARKHOUSE, Wayne ( St. Marys )
WEST, Michael ( St Marys )
Universität Münster - Astronomisches Institut [English] ( [German] )
There is also a Activities at the AIM include: MRSP (MuensterRedshiftProject) with nearly a million redshifts of galaxies from low resolution objective prism plates, ERSS (ESO RedSkySurvey) with 20 million stars and 7 million galaxies on 5000 square degrees at the southern hemisphere from 218 digitized ESO Schmidt plates NATO ASI (AdvancedStudyInstitute) Abstracts from the Conference on Cosmological Aspects of X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies held in June 1993 in Velen, Westphalia, Germany. MIBIG (MuensterInteractingBinariesGroup) with work on cataclysmic variables, flare stars, flickering and long term photometry of variable stars.
Astronomie im Internet ( a resource list in German )
Münster Redshift Project
Münster ESO Red Sky Survey
LICHTENBERG, Günther ( Univ. Münster )
WINTERBERG, Jürgen ( Univ. Münster )
ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive
European Southern Observatory / Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
RASMUSSEN, Bo Frese ( ST-ECF )
ESO Preprints Database ( Bibliographic catalogue )
The catalogue of preprints available from the ESO Library includes entries from institutes world-wide.
La Silla - ESO Schedules
RASMUSSEN, Bo Frese (alternate 1) ( ST-ECF )
ALBRECHT, Miguel A. ( ESO )
HILL, Susan (alternate) ( ESO )
Starcat ( ESO )
Science Archive Facility
You can search the following ESO Databases: NTT EMMI/SUSI Science Archive Observation Programme Schedule Seeing monitor data for La Silla Extinction coefficients for La Silla Spectral Plates Preprints Publications of the ESO User's Community You can search the following Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Databases: HST Science Exposures HST Abstracts & Proposals HST Abstracts - full text search. HST Publications FOS/GHRS observations by target class Other Services at the ESO/ST-ECF Archive: Astronomical Catalogues The Digitized Sky Survey The HST Guide Star Catalogue The ESO Sky Calendar tool. A review of today's data archive technology.
BERTSCHINGER, Edmund ( MIT )
National Solar Observatory ( NSO )
Synoptic Solar Magnetograms
University of Pittsburgh - Relativity Group: Preprints
University of Arizona -- Steward Observatory ( UA and SO )
Astronomical Software Directory Service ( ASDS )
Our goal is to help you find the astronomical software you need to solve your problem.We have several ways to help you look:A collection of user guides, programmer guides, on-line help files, etc: Package overviews, giving a general description, along with requirements, availability, and pointers to other sources of information:
Leeds University - Astrophysics Group
Within the Department of Physics at Leeds University are three research groups that work in Astronomy related areas. The Optical Astronomy group is mainly interested in globular clusters and CCD photometry.

The Haverah Park group studies high energy cosmic rays by various techniques.

The Whipple group is attempting to detect gamma rays with energies > 1TeV using air-Cherenkov detectors.

Leeds University - Astrophysics Group: Preprints
Darwin ( Space IR Interferometry Mission )
Darwin is a proposal for a European infrared interferometer in space. Its first aim is to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars, and then to search for a signature of life, ozone in an atmosphere.

It would also be capable of being used as a general-purpose infrared observatory.

Darwin was proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) for a Cornerstone Mission in its Horizon 2000 Plus plan. In October 1995, ESA decided to study such an infrared interferometer as an option for its Interferometer Cornerstone. The Darwin and Edison teams have combined to promote the selection by ESA of this option. The Darwin advocacy team members are also members of the International Working Group on Space Interferometry , a pressure group for this type of mission.

PENNY, Alan ( RAL )
Starman - Crowded-field stellar photometry
Starman is a software package for:- Crowded-field stellar photometry Stellar photometry Image handling Table handling.
University of Minnesota - Astronomy Department ( U Minn )
The University of Minnesota Astronomy Department WWW page provides access not only to information on departmental activities, but also provides links to astronomical and meteorological resources on the InterNet which astronomers may find useful.
KORALESKY, Barron T. ( U. Minnesota )
KOBULNICKY, Henry A. ( U. Minnesota )
DICKEY, John ( U. Minn )
RUDNICK, Lawrence ( U. Minnesota )
Innsbruck - Galactic Planetary Nebulae Database
University of Innsbruck - Institute for Astronomy
This server offers information on:
GRATL, Helmut ( AI Innsbruck )
KIMESWENGER, Stefan ( AI Innsbruck )
DENT, William A. ( UMass )
University of California, Berkeley - Astronomy Department ( UCB-Astronomy )
The UCB Astronomy Home Page contains general information about the department. We maintain links for faculty, staff, post docs and students so that they may make papers, images, and other information available. Also included are an e-mail directory for the department, and links to related institutions.
HUDSON, Jerry ( UC Berkeley )
HILLENBRAND, Lynne ( UC Berkeley )
POUND, Marc W. ( UC Berkeley )
TRUELOVE, J. Kelly ( UC Berkeley )
LONGCOPE, Dana W. ( UC Berkeley )
VAN DYK, Schuyler ( UC Berkeley )
CalTech Astronomy
Keck Observatory ( CalTech )
Palomar Observatory ( CalTech )
BLANDFORD, Roger D. ( CalTech )
VAN KERKWIJK, Marten ( CalTech )
DANNER, Rudolf ( CalTech / MPE )
KULKARNI, Shri ( CalTech )
PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library
The PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library is a Fortran-callable, device-independent graphics package for making simple scientific graphs. It is intended for making graphical images of publication quality with minimum effort on the part of the user. For most applications, the program can be device-independent, and the output can be directed to the appropriate device at run time.
KASPI, Vicky ( Caltech / JPL )
University of Lisbon - Astronomy and Astrophysics Group
European Space Agency Astrophysics Division
SAX. Low-energy gas-scintillation detector (LEGSPC) for the SAX X-ray observatory. P.I. Brian Taylor, Co-I Arvind Parmar ISM. Interstellar Medium Astronomy PCD. The ESA Photon Counting Detector on the Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma. P.I. Malcolm Fridlund STJ. The STJ program for optical and X-ray photon detectors. COMPTEL. The COMPTEL telescope on-board GRO.
European X-ray Observatory Satellite Data Center ( EXOSAT at ESTEC. ESA )
Payload description
COBRAS/SAMBA
COBRAS/SAMBA is an ESA project designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. COBRAS/SAMBA will provide a major source of information relevant to several cosmological and astrophysical issues, such as testing theories of the early universe and the origin of cosmic structure.
Gloabal Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics ( GAIA )
GAIA is a preliminary concept for a second space astrometry mission (after HIPPARCOS), recently recommended within the context of ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus long-term scientific programme. It is aimed at the broadest possible astrophysical exploitation of optical interferometry using a modest baseline length.
Hipparcos
Hipparcos is a space experiment dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions, parallaxes and proper motions of the stars. The intended goal was to measure the five astrometric parameters of some 120 000 primary programme stars to a precision of some 2 to 4 milli-arcsec, over a planned mission lifetime of 2.5 years, and the astrometric and two-colour photometric properties of some 400 000 additional stars (the Tycho experiment) to a somewhat lower astrometric precision. The project was accepted within the ESA scientific programme in 1980. The satellite was launched by Ariane, in August 1989, and after collecting more than three years of extremely high-quality scientific data, communications were terminated with the satellite in August 1993. All of the mission goals have been achieved, and in most cases significantly exceeded. The first results are expected to be available to Principal Investigators during 1996, and widely distributed early in 1997.
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory ( INTEGRAL. ESTEC. ESA )
Technical status of Integral. The mission utilises the service module (bus) under development for the ESA XMM project. Integral will be launched in 2001. The mission is conceived as an observatory led by ESA with contributions from Russia and NASA
X-Ray Astronomy Satellite ( SAX. ESTEC. ESA )
SAX is devoted to systematic, integrated and comprehensive studies of galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources in the energy band 0.1 - 200 keV; the observational goal to be addressed is to continue and expand upon previous spectral and timing observations of celestial sources in those areas for which the existing information is missing or inadequate and will remain uncovered in the foreseable future. Sax will be launched by an Atlas G-Centaur directly into a 600 km orbit at 3 degrees inclination at the end of 1995
ESA/ESTEC Astrophysics Division
An overview of the activities of the Astrophysics Division, information of the projects, location, etc.: local information - staff, general news, job vacancies, meetings and symposia, astrophysics research activities at ESTEC, ESA astronomy project activities, astronomical data archives. Links to several sites likely to be useful to astronomers are also provided.
High-Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission ( XMM. ESTEC. ESA )
XMM is an X-ray astrophysics observatory under development by the European Space Agency for operation around the turn of the century. This facility-class observatory, with an anticipated lifetime of over ten years, will enable astronomers to conduct sensitive X-ray spectroscopic observations of a wide variety of cosmic sources
Astronomy and Space Science Group at George Mason University ( GMU )
The Space Sciences group at George Mason University is research and teaching in Astronomy and Space Sciences.
NMSU Numerical Cosmology Group
University of Melbourne - School of Physics: Astrophysics Group
Gravitational Lensing Conference ( July 1995, Melbourne )
Gravitational Lensing; University of Melbourne, Australia; July 9-14 1995. ; PRELIMINARY LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS: Chris Kochanek, Ramesh Narayan, Joachim Wambsganss, Jerry Ostriker, Ken Freeman, Bohdan Paczynski, Genevieve Soucail, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Alok Patanaik, T. Padmanabhan, Peter Schneider, Richard Ellis, Bill Press, James Binney, Simon White ; TOPICS: Quasar structure and microlensing, quasar variability, luminosity functions, quasar/galaxy associations, gamma-ray bursts, solar system studies, Lyman- alpha clouds, radio rings, lensing deconvolution, lensing by galaxies, MACHO searches, structure of our galaxy, limits on H0, Lambda, and Omega, clusters of galaxies, HST observations, weak lensing, large-scale structure and velocity fields, numerical simulations.
HOLMAN, Brett ( Melbourne )
BARNES, David ( Melbourne )
Princeton University Observatory
Princeton University - Astrophysics Library
Princeton University Astrophysics Graduate Program
Princeton Observatory: Preprints
STANEK, Krzysztof Z. ( Princeton )
COLLEY, Wesley N ( Princeton )
Queen's University - Astronomy Group
Dark Matter Tutorial
This is a tutorial about Dark Matter and cosmology, written by a researcher in the field, with optional Java experiments.
Stanford University Astrophysics
Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg ( Strasbourg astronomical Observatory )
The Strasbourg astronomical Observatory is an institute of the Université Louis Pasteur. It hosts the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS). Research activities are in the following fields: Stellar Populations and Galactic Evolution; High-Energy astrophysics; Cosmology; Information handling. The Observatory hosts a Planetarium.
The Cosmic Background Radiation, Strasbourg 96
A NATO Advanced Study Institute Strasbourg 1996 Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
University of Chicago - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Our server has information about our graduate program, brief descriptions of our research, listings of the members of our department (and their personal home pages, if applicable). Several research groups also have pages; this web server is home to the web pages for Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and Yerkes Observatory.

We at the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics note with great sorrow the recent passing of our distinguished teacher and friend S. Chandrasekhar. A web page memorial has been set up so that everyone can share their memories of Chandra.

REBULL, Luisa ( UnivChicago )
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Department Astronomy ( Tuebingen )
University of Waterloo - Astronomy Group
University of Waterloo Astronomy Resource Group ( AAARG )
Astronomical Institute, Wroclaw University
Astronomical Institute of Wroclaw University, Poland Main fields of interest: Solar and Space Physics, Pulsating stars, Celestial Mechanics
Department of Astronomy ( Sao Paulo )
An overview of the Department of Astronomy of the University of São Paulo, placed in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Groupe de recherche en Astrophysique de l'Universite Laval
Groupe de Recherche en Astrophysique de l'Université Laval. Bilingual (French/English). Description of research projects. Science with HST. Picture galery. Individual members. Recent publications (with postcript files available on-line). Links with other astronomical resources.
Optical Correctors for Fixed Telescopes
One of the often cited limitations of liquid mirror telescopes pertains to the small region of sky which they can observe. Because the aberrations of a parabola increase rapidly with field angle, classical corrector designs cannot yield subarcsecond images for angles significantly greater than one degree. To access larger fields, innovative corrector designs must be explored.
In these pages we discuss the Optical Design and Testing of a family of two-mirror correctors to compensate the aberrations of a fixed parabolic mirror observing at a large angle from the zenith.
Liquid Mirrors at Université Laval ( LM )
Liquid Mirror (LM) technology is being developed at Université Laval. A f/1.2, 2.5 meter diameter, mercury mirror is being extensively tested in our testing tower. We are also exploring the use of gallium eutectics as reflecting liquids. The design of novel optical correctors to increase the accessible field of view of liquid mirrors up to 45 degrees is also addressed.
Cornell University - Department of Astronomy
Icarus ( the International Journal of Solar System Studies )
ICARUS is the official publication of Division of Planetary Sciences and is dedicated to reporting the results of new research-- observational, experimental, or theoretical-- concerning the astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and other scientific aspects of our solar system or extrasolar systems. It is published monthly by Academic Press, Inc. Of primary interest to researchers is the list of papers submitted to Icarus, similar to the Astrophysical Journal's " yellow pages." We plan on updating this list every 4-6 weeks. This server also contains information for authors planning to submit papers to Icarus and subscription information.
WASSERMAN, Ira M. ( Cornell Univ. )
BANFIELD, Don ( Cornell )
HAYWARD, Thomas L. ( Cornell )
LOREDO, Tom J. ( Cornell )
LAZIO, Joseph ( Cornell )
MARGOT, Jean-Luc ( Cornell )
MUSSER, George ( ASP )
NORDGREN, Tyler ( Cornell )
RATHBUN, Julie ( Cornell )
WILSON, Peter ( Cornell )
AstroVR
AstroVR serves primarily as a collaborative tool for researchers in astronomy and astrophysics. The goal is to provide a virtual environment in which researchers can collaborate almost as though they were in the same room. AstroVR features links to various software programs, such as ISSA-PS, SIMBAD, NED, MONGO, SKYVIEW, etc., and allows researchers to use these programs together in a shared environment, together with video, audio, and text. For additional information, please read the introduction.
Indiana University - Astronomy Department
News, Academics, Folks, Facilities, Annual Reports, Miscellaneous, Animations, Images.
ROBERTSON, Jeff W. ( Indiana Univ. )
BURKHEAD, Martin S. ( Indiana Univ. )
COHN, Haldan N. ( Indiana Univ. )
DURISEN, Richard H. ( Indiana Univ. )
HEINZ, Richard M. ( Indiana Univ. )
HONEYCUTT, R. Kent ( Indiana Univ. )
JOHNSON, Hollis R. ( Indiana Univ. )
ENSMAN, Lisa ( Indiana Univ. )
LUGGER, Phyllis M. ( Indiana Univ. )
MUFSON, Stuart L. ( Indiana Univ. )
MUSSER, James A. ( Indiana Univ. )
University of Victoria Astronomy
This is the Home Page of the Astronomy Group at the University of Victoria. It contains information on faculty, graduate students and research associates. Research activities and facilities are described. In addition, a selection of electronic preprints written by members of the Group is also available.
Climenhaga Observatory
GREIMEL, Robert ( UVic )
SIMARD, Luc ( UVic )
HUDSON, Mike ( Victoria )
University of Pisa - Astronomy and Astrophysics Section
Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics ( CAAO )
The Center's mission is to develop state-of-the-art adaptive optics systems for the many large telescope projects currently under development by Steward Observatory in collaboration with a number of partners worldwide.
University of Manchester - Astronomy Group
Available are contact details, research interests of the group members, preprints and publications, course details, a frequently updated collection of links to items of interest to astronomers and of course, a few pretty pictures.
University of Manchester - Astronomy Group: Preprints
HOLLOWAY, Anthony ( Manchester )
Salford Astronomy Society ( Manchester, UK )
An amateur group which holds weekly lectures/meetings and is developing this resource with the primary aim of improving communications between amateur and professional astronomers.
STEFFEN, Wolfgang ( Manchester )
SEYFERT GALAXIES - narrow line region (NLR) - non-adiabatic jet/ISM-interaction - radiation cones - jet bending
QUASAR JETS - helical structures - relativisitic kinematics
GALACTIC JETS - helical structures - interaction with ambient medi um - triggering of star formation

SISSA
Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. ( MSSS )
MSSS Viking Image Archive
Provides access to a large fraction of the set of images taken by the Viking orbiters from 1976 to 1980
University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory
Academia Sinica's Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( ASIAA )
ASIAA is a research institute founded in 1993 at Taipei, Taiwan, Public of CHINA to study the universe and its constituents observationally and theoretically. ASIAA's initial emphasis is on radio astronomy. ASIAA has joined the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland millimeter Array (BIMA) as a 10% partner sinice 1994. ASIAA is adding two elements to Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Sub-Mn-Array (SMA) (the SMART project) to become a 15% partner of this frontier facility which is to be completed before the year 2000.
Pijpers, Frank P. ( Aarhus )
ROSENTHAL, Colin ( Århus )
Metsähovi Radio Research Station
The Metsähovi Radio Research Station, a separate research institute of the Helsinki University of Technology since May 1988, operates a 14 m diameter radome enclosed radio telescope at Mets=E4hovi, 40 km west of Helsinki, Finland. The Cassegrain telescope system can be used at frequencies 10 - 230 GHz (wavelengths 3 cm - 1.8 mm).
Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association ( BIMA - Hat Creek )
BIMA is a consortium consisting of the The University of California at Berkeley, The University of Illinois at Urbana and The University of Maryland at College Park which operates and maintains a millimeter-wave radio interferometer at Hat Creek, California.
Hat Creek Radio Observatory ( UMD )
NEMO Stellar Dynamics Toolbox ( NEMO )
NEMO is a Stellar Dynamics Toolbox with many programs to create, integrate, analyze and visualize N-body (and related) systems. In addition there are various tools to operate images, tables and orbits, including FITS files to import/export data to/from other data reduction packages.
Astronomical software on top of Linux
A list of astronomical software available on top of the Linux/Unix operating system.
WIP
WIP is a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. It is linked with the PGPLOT subroutine package providing easy interaction with those subroutines.
Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network ( BiSON )
The current status of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network - a global network for helioseismology. Additionally some recent results and publications are available.
Università di Bologna. Dipartimento di Astronomia ( Italy )
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TUNGUSKA96
The main purpose of this workshop is to allow scientists from both Western countries and Russia to meet in order to 1) assess our current understanding of the Tunguska event as resulting from field research; 2) review models of the presumed extraterrestrial impact event and inferences about the nature of the projectile body; and 3) discuss the implications of Tunguska on the broader issue of the impact hazard for human civilization.
Northern Arizona University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( NAU )
LUTZ, Barry L. ( NAU )
DEGIOIA-EASTWOOD, Kathleen ( NAU )
Backgrounds Data Center ( BDC )
The Backgrounds Data Center (BDC) is part of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The BDC was established to assist the ballistic and theater missile defense community with its requirements for information to evaluate the Strategic Defense System feasibility, development, and implementation. The BDC is located at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., and is part of the Space Science Division. Specifically, the BDC archives, catalogs, and distributes BMDO experiment program data relating to Earth, atmospheric, and celestial background scenes. Emphasis is placed on the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the spectrum.
DORLAND, Bryan ( NRL )
Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division ( NRL SSD )
Division scientists are involved in major research thrusts that include ultraviolet remote sensing of the upper atmosphere, studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and studies of atronomical radiation ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays. This includes the mission operations and data analysis facilities for NRL's OSSE experiment on NASA's Compton Observatory. Contains links to Backgrounds Data Center, X-ray Astronomy Branch, Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch, Solar Physics Branch, Coronal Physics Section, Far-Ultraviolet Cameras Experiment, and more.
Peoria Astronomical Society
Peoria astronomical Society is an Amateur Astronomy Society Dedicated: To promote the science of astronomy By fostering astronomical education; by providing incentives for astronomical observation and research; by assisting communication among amateur astronomers.
Infrared Sky Survey Atlas ( ISSA )
Boston University Astronomy Department ( BU )
ADASS III ('93) *Electronic* Proceedings
The electronic version of the Proceedings for the ADASS III Conference, held in Victoria, October 13-15, 1993, is available on-line. A printed volume, A.S.P. Conference Series Volume 61 (Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette Barnes, Editors), is also available, which can be ordered from the A.S.P. office in San Francisco through the WWW pages or by sending a FAX inquiry to them directly at 415-337-5205. Comments about the electronic proceedings can be sent to the editors at adass-eds@dao.nrc.ca. Electronic Editors: Daniel Durand, Jeannette Barnes, Dennis R. Crabtree.
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre ( CADC )
The CADC was established in 1986 as one of three world-wide distribution centres for data from the Hubble Space Telescope and is part of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C. The CADC mandate has recently expanded and we are now archiving data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located on the Big Island of Hawaii. CADC has hosted ADASS'93 (Oct 13-15, 1993).
CADC Services
The CADC tools package includes: starcat - STARCAT is a tool for accessing the HST Archive, CFHT and ESO archives. xhot - X tool which displays the planned activities of the Hubble Space Telescope. It allows you to find out what the telescope is currently observing simbad - The new SIMBAD tool now runs on your workstation. xmgr - This very nice interactive plotting package is now used for the Preview system whitin STARCAT. You will be amazed by its capabilities. Data display could be FFT'd, fitted, zoomed, printed, etc...
Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Archive & Schedules (at DAO) ( CFHT )
(archive, CCDs, proposal template, manuals) - All the CFHT data are now being archived since September 18, 1992 and the proprietary period is 2 years. After that time, they become public and are available world wide.
Hubble Space Telescope ( HST - from CADC )
Also, there is a page from ST-ECF .
International Astronomy Conferences and Meetings
This list of astronomy meetings is compiled by Liz Bryson of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This version of the meeting list has been updated to provide links to those meetings which are providing information electronically. If you find this list useful please send e-mail to bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu (Bryson's plain text version of the file is available via FTP; the HTML is easier to read, and includes links).
CRABTREE, Dennis (alternate) ( CADC )
DURAND, Daniel (alternate) ( CADC )
FISHER, Wes ( CADC )
GAUDET, Séverin (alternate) ( CADC )
HILL, Norman (alternate) ( CADC )
JUSTICE, Gerald (alternate) ( CADC )
Cagliari Astronomical Observatory ( International Latitude Station )
The Cagliari Astronomical Observatory was established as International Latitude Astronomical Station of Carloforte in 1899, a small town of the sardinian island of S. Pietro. It has been, for about 80 years, one of the five international stations devoted to study the Earth rotation and polar motion. Observations with the zenital telescope were carried out, except in the period of the second world's war. Starting from 1978, the headquarters were moved to Punta Sa Menta, a site 15 km far from Cagliari which has the same latitude of the Carloforte station. (Satellite Laser Ranging, Astrophysics, Planetary Dynamics, Time Laboratory, Data Processing)
Center for Advanced Space Studies ( CASS )
The Center for Advanced Space Studies is a major research and conference facility built by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in 1991 in Houston, Texas. Since the completion of the CASS facility in December 1991, it has housed the four Houston activities of USRA: Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), Exploration Science Institute (ESI), Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), Division of Educational Programs (DEP).
Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletins ( LPIB )
Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Lunar and Planetary Institute / Universities Space Research Association
University of California, San Diego - Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( UCSD - CASS )
The Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego is the birthplace of the multi-channel Digicon photon detectors. Four of these are used on two instruments, the UCSD Faint Object Spectrometer (FOS), and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer (GHRS), on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Available at this site is information relating to the activities, facilities, and personnel at CASS. The Faint Object Spectrograph group, its history, and related areas of research are described in detail.
SMITH, Harding E. (Gene) ( CASS/UCSD )
BEAVER, Ed ( UCSD )
HAMANN, Fred ( UCSD / CASS )
PUETTER, Richard C. ( UCSD / CASS )
Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment ( AGAPE )
AGAPE (Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment) is a French collaboration between CNRS (IN2P3 and INSU) and CEA (DSM/DAPNIA) laboratories.
The project is a search for microlensing on unresolved stars of the Andromeda M31 galaxy by MACHOs (baryonic dark matter candidates) of the halo of the Milky Way as well as of the halo of M31.
Astronomy and Astrophysics: Abstract Service at CDS
Following an agreement with the Editors of Astronomy & Astrophysics, the CDS provides electronic access to the abstracts from the Astronomy and Astrophysics main Journal, and Supplement Series, approximately four weeks before publication.
CDS Information Bulletin
Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg [English] ( CDS )
The CDS is a data center dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data. It is located at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France. The CDS hosts the SIMBAD astronomical database, the world reference database for the identification of astronomical objects. This service gives access to documents and files related to the SIMBAD astronomical database (see Hypertext version of the SIMBAD User's Guide ), an Abstract service (recent papers from A&A, PASP, etc.), the AstroWeb pages and the Star*s Family of directories, the TOPBase of the Opacity project, etc. It also includes the famous Astronomer's Bazaar , a unique feature allowing to select astronomical catalogues by keyword or author's name, among the library of more than 850 catalogues currently available (for a total of about 5 Gigabytes of observational data), and to actually retrieve the corresponding files.
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues ( Astronomer's Bazaar )
This on-line service, provided by the CDS, Strasbourg, gives access to more than 1500 astronomical data catalogues and tables. The VizieR catalog browser provides additional search functionalities for a large fraction of these catalogues.
PASP Abstract Service at CDS
Following an agreement with the Editors of the PASP, the CDS provides electronic access to the abstracts from the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. These abstracts are made available a few weeks before publication of the corresponding issue.
Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data ( SIMBAD at CDS )
The SIMBAD astronomical database, created and maintained by the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies. SIMBAD contains information for about 1 million objects, for which 3 million identifiers, more than 1,5 million observational measurements and 1 million bibliographical references are available. If you have already a userid you can open a telnet SIMBAD window. If you don't have a userid yet you first need to register. The following documents can be browsed or retrieved through the network: Hypertext version of the SIMBAD User's Guide and Reference Manual, Simbad News reprinted from Bull. Inform. CDS, Documentation of the SIMBAD astronomical database (ftp service).
AstroWeb at CDS: yellow-page Services
Information and On-line Data in Astronomy
This is the on-line complement of the book "Information & On-line Data in Astronomy", Daniel Egret & Miguel A. Albrecht (Editors), published by Kluwer Acad. Publ. (Sept. 1995). It includes summary descriptions of the databases, archives, and information systems presented in the printed version, together with the complete access pointers (kept up-to-date) and, when available, ready-to-use hyperlinks to the original data systems.
MediaTheque
The Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre (CDS) is collecting modern media offering material related to astronomy and space sciences.
BRUNEAU, Chantal ( CDS )
EGRET, Daniel ( CDS )
DUBOIS, Pascal ( CDS )
BONNAREL, François ( CDS )
GENOVA, Françoise ( CDS )
OCHSENBEIN, François ( CDS )
JASNIEWICZ, Gérard ( CDS )
BARTLETT, Jim ( CDS )
FLORSCH, Joseph ( CDS )
HALBWACHS, Jean-Louis ( CDS )
MARCOUT, James ( Strasbourg Astron. Obs. )
CRÉZÉ Michel ( Strasbourg Astron. Obs./CDS )
WAGNER, Marie-José ( CDS )
WENGER, Marc ( CDS )
BAUER, Patricia ( CDS )
LESTEVEN, Soizick ( CDS )
The Opacity Project: TOPbase at CDS ( TOPbase )
TOPbase is a read-only database system specially designed for general use of the atomic data dervived by the Opacity Project. It contains energy levels, f-values and photoionization cross sections for astrophysically abundant elements.
Weaving the Astronomy Web ( WAW )
A Conference organized at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, Strasbourg, France (6-7 April 1995). This Conference is intended to be a forum for astronomical data providers, webmasters, astronomers and space scientists interested in the current and future developments of the World-Wide Web, and more generally of electronic on-line information handling in an astronomy and space sciences context. Proceedings are available on-line.
HECK, André ( Strasbourg Astron. Obs. )
Star*s Family
The Star*s Family is a growing collection of directories, dictionaries, databases and related products on astronomy, space sciences, as well as related fields, organizations and people. StarWorlds, StarBits, and StarHeads: are available on-line.
Magellan Mission to Venus - Online Resources ( PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA )
The Magellan spacecraft was launched on May 4, 1989, arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990 and was inserted into a near-polar elliptical orbit with a periapsis altitude of 294 km at 9.5 deg. N. Radio contact with the spacecraft was lost on October 12, 1994. The service provides a comprehensive description of the mission, including images and catalogue
Viking Mission to Mars - Online Resources ( PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA )
NASA's Viking Mission to Mars was composed of two spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander. The primary mission objectives were to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface, characterize the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface, and search for evidence of life. Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976. Viking 2 was launched September 9, 1975 and entered Mars orbit on August 7, 1976. The service includes description of the missions and images of the planet
ELLEC, Christophe ( JPL )
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies ( CEPS / RPIF )
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) located at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution are pleased to announce the availability of its WWW server. The purpose of this NASA supported RPIF is to act as a reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to the extensive collection of image data from planetary missions. Currently we are in the process of placing some of the 300,000 photographs and images of the planets and their satellites in our collection online.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( CFA )
The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe. The CfA operates the Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona, and the Theory Group ).
SMITH, Peter L. ( CfA )
Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (1) ( MMTO )
Oak Ridge Observatory
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT )
The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Commission 6 of the International Astronomical Union and under the direction of Dr. Brian G. Marsden. The CBAT is responsible for the dissemination of information on transient astronomical events, via the IAU Circulars (IAUCs), a series of postcard-sized announcements issued at irregular intervals. The IAUCs are also available in electronic form.
Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center is a service of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union and operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under the direction of Dr. Brian Marsden. The Minor Planet Center is responible for the collection and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and comets.
John G. Wolbach Library ( Harvard/CFA )
The online catalog contains information about approximately 95 percent of the holdings of the CfA Library (i.e. the merged collections of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory Libraries)
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1) ( SAO )
BOURKE, Tyler ( CfA )
New England Light Pollution Advisory Group ( NELPAG )
Information concerning improved outdoor lighting to reduce glare and obtrusive light.
KURTZ, Michael J. ( ADS )
ASHBY, Matthew ( Harvard )
SAO Telescope Data Center
The SAO Telescope Data Center creates and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts and the Whipple Observatory and Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona
SHANKAR, Anurag
New Mexico State University - Department of Astronomy ( NMSU )
Contains information on faculty, staff, and students and their research and educational activities, as well as descriptions of department astronomical facilities.
New Mexico State Univ Astronomy Preprints ( NMSU )
KRAVTSOV, Andrey ( NMSU )
MCNAMARA, Bernie ( NMSU )
LOKEN, Chris ( NMSU )
WALTER, Charles ( NMSU )
BURNS, Jack ( NMSU )
LEDLOW, Mike ( NMSU )
MARLEY, Mark ( NMSU )
HARRISON, Tom ( NMSU )
Guillermo Haro Observatory ( Cananea, Mexico )
CHORUS
Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team
See how astrometry, one of the oldest branches of astronomy, uses the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the newest tools of astronomy. Interrogate our home page to find out what we do, who we are, and what we've done. Look over our shoulder as we search for planets around a nearby star. We use the Fine Guidance Sensors aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure star positions, study binary stars and study stellar motions. Primarily, stellar positions yield parallaxes which provide information on distance. The distances to nearby stars calibrate the entire astronomical distance scale. Monitoring star position may reveal previously unseen companions. We search for planets near Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star. We also work to tie the HIPPARCOS reference frame to an extragalactic (non-rotating) reference frame. We study binary stars unresolvable using ground-based techniques. We inspect stars to determine whether or not they are binary. We use the Planetary Camera to obtain images of stars in globular clusters. The precision with which we can measure positions is so high, that after 3-5 years a second image will show motions of stars in clusters 6 kpc distant.
BENEDICT, Fritz ( McDonald )
FULLTON, Jim ( CNIDR )
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval ( CNIDR )
Promote and Support the implementation and use of networked information discovery and retrieval software applications such as the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet Gopher, freeWAIS, and archie. Coordinate to Create Consensus among NIDR applications developers to ensure compatibility and interoperability. Disseminate Information about NIDR applications to the network community as well as those active with NIDR applications development.
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory ( CGRO. GSFC. NASA )
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is the second of NASA's Great Observatories. Compton, at 17 tons, the heaviest astrophysical payload ever flown, was launched on April 5, 1991 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Compton has four instruments that cover an unprecedented six decades of the electromagnetic spectrum, from 30 keV to 30 GeV
Compton Observatory Science Support Center ( COSSC. GSFC. NASA )
The COSSC data archive contains information and data related to the following experiments
NEMIROFF, Robert ( GMU )
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
This page contains MPEG movies and GIFs highlighting the visual distortion effects an observer would see in the high gravity environment of a neutron star or black hole (Schwarzschild metric). It is based on a refereed paper by Robert J. Nemiroff that appeared in the American Journal of Physics and is intended for educational use. The hypertext reviews several relevant aspects of gravitational lensing.
Durham/RAL HEP Databases
BARTH, Clarissa S.
COZIOL, Roger
ELIZALDE, Flavio ( INPE/DAS )
MONTES, Marcos J. ( NRL )
Scientific interests: Radiative transfer in SNII ; expanding photosphere method; radio supernovae ; methods of determining cosmological distances; supernovae
A List Supernova Pages on the WWW
Links to a growing list of WWW pages concerning all aspects of research on supernova and supernova remnants. Observations and theory; all types of supernovae; research groups and individual researchers.
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory ( CTIO )
Waveform Def. Language; Arcon images of 30 Dor; Argus documentation; PhotRed; Curtis Schmidt data; Schmidt + thin prism data - README
Southern Columbia Millimeter Telescope ( 1.2 Meter )
HüTTEMEISTER, Susanne ( SCMT )
DAHMEN, Gereon ( SCMT )
MAC-AULIFFE PIETRO Felipe Eduardo ( SCMT )
MAY, Jorge ( SCMT )
BRONFMAN, Leonardo ( SCMT )
WILSON, Tom L. ( SCMT )
Life on Mars ?
Information about the results published by a NASA research team pointing to the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars.
Astronomy Resources on WWW ( from CUI )
A Report of the June 1983 Total Solar Eclipse
Report of the June 1983 Total Solar Eclipse, as viewed from Java, Indonesia.
Includes 5k JPEG image of the sun in totality.
SWESTY, F. Douglas ( NCSA / LCA )
WHITE, Ken
CERN Preprint Server
It started in January 1994 so that you will not find here preprints produced before this date.
Galactic Cepheid Database ( DDO )
The Galactic Cepheid Database is a project of J. Donald Fernie that lists all known Population I cepheids. It consists of four tables listing data on 505 cepheids in the Galaxy. Information includes positional data, color excess determinations, periods, amplitudes and means of V, B and B-V derived by Fourier fits to magnitude and intensity light curves, radial velocities, distances, Z values, etc. Simple string searches of the database are possible using WWW client software such as NCSA Mosaic. The tables can be viewed in PostScript format or retrieved in either ascii or dBase IV versions.
Five College Astronomy Dept. - Full texts of Ph.D. Theses ( Full text Ph. D. Theses )
The Five College Astronomy Dept. has begun placing the full text of Ph.D. theses from the department on a departmental WWW server. They will become available shortly after the final acceptance of the thesis. Besides the HTML version, Postscript files will be available on a chapter by chapter basis.
Canadian Space Geodesy Forum ( CANSPACE )
The Canadian Space Geodesy Forum (CANSPACE) is a computer-communications-based information dissemination and discussion group that was established several years ago as an aid to improving communication among scientists and engineers working with the techniques of space geodesy. Among topics discussed are the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS), Glonass, Transit, very long baseline interferometry, satellite laser ranging, satellite altimetry, etc. Daily postings of information bulletins include GPS satellite constellation status reports (Department of Defense Notice Advisories to Navstar Users) and reports of solar and geomagnetic field activity. Information concerning satellite launches and orbital elements is posted regularly. Although initially intended to link Canadian geodesists and geophysicists together, CANSPACE now has a wide international subscriber list and is open to all. Questions are particularly encouraged.
Magellan Image Browser
MOREIRA, Miguel Centeno ( University of Lisbon )
YUN, Joo Lin ( University of Lisbon )
University of Granada - Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos. ( ASTROHEPUGR )
This is the server of the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Granada (Spain). The server contains information about the work developed here (including some preprints ) and about the people working here. There are also some interesting links related with Astrophysics.
DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky ( DENIS - Meudon )
This research group is part of the Paris Meudon Observatory.
COPET, Eric ( Obs. Paris-Meudon - DESPA )
FOUQUE, Pascal ( Obs. Paris-Meudon - DESPA )
GUGLIELMO, François ( Obs. Paris-Meudon - DESPA )
University of Pennsylvania - Physics Department ( High-Energy Astrophysics )
BLITZSTEIN, William ( U. Penn. )
MYERS, Steven T. ( U. Penn. )
Departamento de Física Teorica de la Universidad de Zaragoza ( DFTUZ )
Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array ( AMANDA )
Astro Space Center ( ASC )
The Astro Space Center as a branch of Lebedev Institute of Physics has a number of commitments for space experiments in the areas of upper atmospheric, solar, and astronomical research aboard Radioastron , Kvant and other space projects. Division scientists are involved in major research thrusts that include interferometric observations, studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and studies of astronomical ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays. The division maintains facilities to design, construct, assemble, and calibrate space experiments.
PROMISLOV,Vitaly ( ASC )
SYKES, Mark V. ( Steward Obs. )
Design Research Institute ( DRI )
Centre d'Analyse des Images ( CAI )
The CAI, a laboratory of INSU/CNRS, in Paris, France. It hosts the MAMA (Machine a Mesurer pour l'Astronomie) measuring machine, a photographic plate digitising facility. Among other scientific projects, the CAI contributes to the EROS and DUO searches for microlensing events. (Server in French).
Delta Scuti Star Network and Whole Earth Telescope
The Delta Scuti Star Network and Whole Earth Telescope are both collaborations of astronomers all around the world, who observe short period variable stars
Delta Scuti Star Newsletter ( DSSN )
Contains current information on the subject of Delta Scuti and other variable Stars.
KUIPER, Thomas B. H. ( JPL )
HERMES Experiment
American Mathematical Society ( AMS )
American Mathematical Society top level WWW page
American Geophysical Union ( AGU )
American Geophysical Union is an international scientific society with more than 32,000 members in over 115 countries. For over 75 years, AGU researchers, teachers, and science administrators have dedicated themselves to advancing the understanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public
PATTEN, Brian M. ( Smith/FCAD )
The evolution of angular momentum and coronal/chromospheric emission in young solar-type stars.
Institut für Theoretische Physik/Astrophysik der Universität Frankfurt
The Institute for Theoretical Physics/Astrophysics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
European Space Agency (ESA) (3) ( - from ST-ECF at ESO )
ESIS on-line image (GIF) files
Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility ( ST-ECF )
The ST-ECF was established in 1984 jointly by the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory and is located at the ESO headquarters at Garching near Munich. The ST-ECF supports the European astromical community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The ST-ECF provides detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, supports European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals, coordinates the development of computer software tuned to the specific data analysis needs of HST users, operates and maintains an archive of all the scientific data collected by HST, and acts as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops. In all of these duties the ST-ECF staff maintains close contacts with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, which is charged with the scientific operation of the HST observatory.
Astronomical information on the Internet ( at ST-ECF )
CAULET, Adeline ( ST-ECF )
RASMUSSEN, Bo Frese (alternate 2) ( ST-ECF )
PIRENNE, Benoît (alternate) ( ST-ECF )
SJÖBERG, Britt ( ST-ECF )
MURTAGH, Fionn ( ST-ECF )
ADORF, Hans-Martin ( ST-ECF )
WALSH, Jeremy ( ST-ECF )
LUCY, Leon ( ST-ECF )
ROSA, Michael ( ST-ECF )
BENVENUTI, Piero ( ST-ECF )
ALBRECHT, Rudi ( ST-ECF )
FOSBURY, Bob ( ST-ECF )
HOOK, Richard ( ST-ECF )
HILL, Susan ( ST-ECF )
FREUDLING, Wolfram ( ST-ECF )
European Planetarium Network ( EuroPlaNet )
EuroPlaNet is a Network of European Planetariums.
Fred Lawrence Whipple Gamma-Ray Telescopes ( Tucson, Ariz )
Australian National University - Relativity Group
SMITH, Scott C.
HOUSER, Janet L.
Comet Observation Home Page
Provides information on current (bright) comets including recent observations and ephemeridies. Images and light curves of current and past comets are also available.
Eötvös University, Department of Astronomy
This Department, founded in 1753, is the only site of university-level astronomy education in Hungary, as well as a small research center in theoretical astrophysics, stellar astronomy and celestial mechanics.
RASIO, Fred
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics ( LLNL )
The focus of the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the development of integrated adaptive optics (AO) and sodium-layer laser guide star (LGS) systems for use on large astronomical telescopes.
HALL, Patrick ( University of Arizona )
Contains the Astronomy Job Rumor Page as well as info on my personal research &etc.
Imperial College, University of London - Theory Group: Preprints
LISP-STAT
Completed, ongoing, or contemplated projects in Lisp-Stat, an advanced statistical computing environment based on public domain XLisp.
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik
The Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Technology Berlin is the only institute of that kind in Berlin. Whereas the research is concentrated at the University of Technology, the institute offers a broad teaching of astronomy and astrophysics at all universities in Berlin (Freie Universität (FU), Humboldt Universität (HU), Technische Universität (TU)). Students may study Astronomy and Astrophysics as a subsidiary or a optional compulsory subject. They can also work at their diploma or doctoral theses.
astro!nfo ( Information Service )
astro!nfo is a Information Service made by amateur astronomers. There will published many informations about the amateur scene. Most of the text is written in German language.
Shaukat on Moon Sighting ( Earliest Crescent Moon Sighting )
Earliest visibility of moon across the globe, calculated by the latest criterion developed by Shaukat
University of Wyoming Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Optics Atmosphere Science Physics Education Astronomy and Astrophysics Theoretical Physics Current publications - Some pre-prints and Poster Papers
Wyoming Infrared Observatory ( WIRO )
Flexible Image Transport System ( FITS archive at NRAO )
Astronomy resources on the Internet ( NRAO )
Microcomputer Image Processing System ( MiPS )
(this document is the announcement of a demo for MS-DOS computers)
An Astronomer's Guide to On-line Bibliographic Databases and Information Services
This is Starlink User Note 174.1 (29 November 1993).
See also " A Guide to Astronomical Catalogues, Databases and Archives available through Starlink" , Starlink User Note 162.1 (18. March 1993), also by A.C. Davenhall, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Leicester.
WELLS Donald C. ( NRAO )
Fermilab Library
NASA/Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group
The Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, consists of approximately 15 theoretical astrophysicists who perform research at the confluence of astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics. The group is partially funded by a NASA Astrophysics Theory grant.
Fermilab
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope ( UIT. GSFC. NASA )
The UIT is a 38-cm Ritchey-Chretien telescope equipped for ultraviolet filter and grating imagery over a 40 arcminute field of view. It contains two detector systems: one in the far UV and one in the near UV. The UIT flew onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as part of the Astro 1 payload. The UIT's second flight will take place in 1995 onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor as part of the Astro 2 payload.
Astronomical Images Archive
This page is an archive of astronomical images collected from the Internet and various other sources. Most pictures also include some information compiled from a variety of sources. For now, there is access to nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, the solar system, and miscellaneous categories. Feedback is appreciated.
VASSILIADIS, Emanuel
Observatoire de Grenoble - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique
The AGB newsletter
Radio télescope millimetrique POM2 [French]
FORESTINI, Manuel ( Obs. Grenoble )
MALBET, Fabien ( Observatoire de Grenoble )
EINET Astronomy Listing ( EINET )
HIBBARD, John ( IfA )
DEC gatekeeper.dec.com Archive
KROLIK, Julian ( JHU )
Grove Creek Observatory, Australia ( GCO )
Grove Creek Observatory in NSW Australia, specializes in CCD imaging and research. Accomodation available for visiting amateur astronomers. Has Mirror Site in USA.
Solar Neutrino and Nucleon Decay Detector ( SuperKamiokande )
Large underground water cerenkov detector under construction in the Kamioka Mozumi mine (Japan), a.k.a., SuperKamiokande
Département d'Astrophysique Extragalactique et de Cosmologie ( DAEC )
The DAEC is the the Département d'Astrophysique Extragalactique et de Cosmologie. It's in the Paris Meudon observatory, and is situated in Meudon near Paris, France.
Observatory Paris-Meudon. Departement d'Astrophysique Extragalactique et de Cosmologie ( DAEC )
CAPPI, Alberto ( Bologna Astronomical Observatory )
LE FEVRE, Olivier ( Obs. Paris - DAEC )
MORISSET, Christophe ( DAEC )
WACRENIER, Laurent ( DAEC )
NovaWeb: The Nova Server
The Nova Server is a resource for professional and amateur astronomers interested in the fields of novae, supernovae, other cataclysmic variables, stellar evolution, gaseous nebulae, and/or Astrophysics in general. It includes a mailing list archive, related software, data and preprints. Please drop by!
MURPHY, Pat ( Ohio State )
San Diego Supercomputer Center ( SDSC )
VISHNIAC, Ethan ( U. Texas )
Observatory, University of Helsinki
HAKALA, Pasi
Degenhardt Amateur User Facility
The Degenhardt Amateur User Facility (DAUF) is located in Murfreesboro, TN. It is a joint effort from local amateurs to provide a location for any amateur (or professional) to observe either for research or for fun anytime. The page is constantly updated with images and results of its activities. It also provides links with other web sites of interest.
Submillimeter Telescope Observatory ( SMTO )
Korea Astronomy Observatory
Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory ( TRAO )
Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) is part of the Korea Astronomy Observatory, which is operated under a cooperative agreement with the Ministry of Science and Technology.
LEE, Youngung ( KAO/TRAO )
High Altitude Observatory ( HAO )
Today's Observatory program includes numerical simulation of convection, radiation transport, and large-scale dynamics in both the solar and terrestrial atmospheres, plus observational programs to measure the Sun's output of magnetized plasma and radiation over the 11 year sunspot cycle of the Sun.
High Energy Astrophysics Division ( SAO )
The Division's main focus is on X-ray astronomy via observations of high-energy sources with instruments aboard satellites, rockets, and the Space Shuttle; and development of new instrumentation for future space missions to address the processes involved in generating x-rays, the amount of matter in the universe, and the origin, evolution, and the ultimate fate of the universe. The AXAF Science Center The AXAF HRC project The AXAF Mission Support Team The ROSAT Science Data Center The PROS/XRAY Data Analysis Software The Einstein Data Center The Spectrum-X Gamma Coordination Facility The Solar and Stellar X-ray Group The Astrophysics Data System Project The Einline Database Service The SIMBAD Database Service The Quasar Energy Distribution Team The Supernova Remnant Group The Energetic X-Ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) The Large Area X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission (LAXSM) Galaxy Clusters at the Center for Astrophysics Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies The Everyday Classroom Tools Project The SAO Summer Intern Program Science Education and Outreach HEAD Lunch Talks Preprints of HEAD papers
Cygnus A Workshop ( NRAO-Greenbank )
NRAO WORKSHOP - CYGNUS A, 1-4 MAY 1995, Greenbank, West Virgina. This workshop will consider all aspects of Cygnus A; the galaxy, the various radio features, and the cluster gas. Topics include:
o The optical galaxy and the nucleus - the hidden quasar hypothesis; evidence for large extinction; origin of the radio jet; the effects of the radio jet on the optical emission.
o The radio jet - composition; stability; and magnetic field strength.
o The radio hotspots - shock acceleration to ultra high energies; processes for the X-ray emission; evidence for bow shocks.
o The cluster gas - reasons for the two gas distributions; cooling flows; comparison with other clusters; accuracy of thermal pressure estimates.
o The radio lobes - inflation, composition, pressure balance, exclusion of ambient gas
o Assimilation of different facets for self-consistency - interrelated problems.
Spectrum-X-Gamma Coordination facility ( SXG. University of Harvard )
Spectrum-X-Gamma (SXG) is an international high-energy astrophysics observatory which is being built under the leadership of the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI). The US SXG CF supports the US astronomical community in obtaining information about SXG, proposing for and making SXG observations, and performing archival research using the SXG archive
Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ( AXAF. Harvard University )
AXAF, the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, is the U.S. follow-on to the Einstein Observatory. Originally three instruments and a high-resolution mirror carried in one spacecraft, the project was reworked in 1992 and 1993. The AXAF spacecraft will carry a high resolution mirror, two imaging detectors, and two sets of transmission gratings
AXAF [Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility] Science Center ( ASC )
The ASC is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The purpose of the ASC is to provide the support required by the science community to realize fully the potential of the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF).
Einstein Data Archive ( SAO, Cambridge, MA )
The Einstein Observatory was a satellite based imaging X-ray telescope in operation from November 1978 to April 1981. The focal plane detectors included two Imaging Proportional Counters (IPC), three High Resolution Imagers, an Objective Grating Spectrometer (OGS), a Focal Plane Crystal Spectrometer (FPCS) and a Solid State Spectrometer (SSS). The most commonly used instrument was the IPC, which made nearly 4000 observations of astronomical sources. This page gives information about the Einstein data archive, and about access to Einstein Data.
MURRAY, Stephen S. ( ADS )
EICHHORN, Guenther ( ADS )
Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies
A Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies is presented as an educational tool for high school students. Optical, X-ray, Far-Infrared and Radio images are shown for a variety of nearby galaxies. Text describing the physical mechanisms of the different types of radiation, and their astronomical sources is supplied.
MACKIE, Glen ( CfA )
GREEN, Paul J. ( CfA )
SLANE, Patrick ( CfA )
GRANT Carolyn Stern ( ADS )
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center ( HEASARC )
The purpose of the HEASARC is to support a multi-mission archive facility in high energy astrophysics for scientists all over the world. Data from space-borne instruments on spacecraft, such as ROSAT, ASCA (formerly Astro-D), GRO (Compton), BBXRT, HEAO 1, HEAO 2 (Einstein), EXOSAT, and XTE are provided, along with a knowledgeable science-user support staff and tools to analyze mutliple datasets. The HEASARC activity is a joint effort between the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA)and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). (there is also a Gopher )
DAY, Charles ( GSFC )
EBISAWA, Ken ( GSFC )
MULAI, Koji ( GSFC )
PETRE, Robert ( GSFC )
WHITE, Nick ( HEASARC )
NASA Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA, at GSFC )
StarTrax: an Astrophysics Information System ( WWW AIS )
StarTrax 2.0 is a forms interface to the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) database management system at NASA's GSFC, which allows browsing of various astronomical catalogs and archival datafiles, providing a vast selection of data from X-ray and Gamma-ray astronomy missions including ROSAT, ASCA, Compton GRO, Einstein and EXOSAT. The Browse facility incorporates a name resolver to convert object names to coordinates; it will also provide multiple downloading of data products. Best results can be obtained by following the configuration instructions.
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics ( ASCA ASTRO-D )
ASCA (formerly named Astro-D) is Japan's fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission, and the second for which the United States is providing part of the scientific payload. The satellite was successfully launched February 20, 1993.
Broad Band X-ray Telescope ( BBXRT. GSFC. NASA )
The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-35) on 1990 December 2-December 11, as part of the ASTRO-1 payload. The flight of BBXRT marked the first opportunity for performing X-ray observations over a broad energy range (0.3-12 keV) with a moderate energy resolution (typically 90 eV and 150 eV at 1 and 6 keV, respectively).
CORCORAN, Michael ( USRA/LHEA )
Satellites with High Energy Astrophysics Instrumentation ( HEASARC. GSFC. NASA )
Comprehensive list of satellites with high energy astrophysics instrumentation. Includes images from these missions
European X-ray Observatory ( EXOSAT at GSFC. NASA )
The European Space Agency's X-ray Observatory, EXOSAT, was operational from May 1983 to April 1986. During that time, EXOSAT made 1780 observations of a wide variety of objects, including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.
1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory ( HEAO 1. GSFC. NASA )
The first of NASA's three High Energy Astronomy Observatories, HEAO 1 was launched aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket on 12 August 1977 and operated until 9 January 1979. During that time, it scanned the X-ray sky almost three times over 0.2 keV - 10 MeV, provided nearly constant monitoring of X-ray sources near the ecliptic poles, as well as more detailed studies of a number of objects through pointed observations.
2nd High Energy Astrophysics Observatory ( HEAO 2, renamed Einstein. GSFC. NASA )
The second High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-B) was launched into an approximate 100-min low Earth orbit on 13 November 1978. Renamed the Einstein Observatory, it operated (with one significant interruption) until April 1981 and made over 5,000 targeted observations.
Uhuru Satellite ( GSFC. NASA )
Uhuru was the first earth-orbiting mission dedicated entirely to celestial X-ray astronomy. It was launched on 12 December 1970 into an orbit of about 560 km apogee, 520 km perigee, 3 degrees inclination, with a period of 96 minutes. The mission ended in March 1973.
The High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center
The High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center is a middle school to college level resource on X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. We provide information on celestial objects that generate high-energy radiation, X-ray and gamma-ray detector technology, and analysis of high-energy astrophysics data. We also provide multidisciplinary resources for teachers, including lesson plans, study guides, Adopt an Astronomer, and Ask a High-Energy Astronomer.
ROentgen SATellite ( ROSAT at GSFC. NASA )
ROSAT, the ROentgen SATellite, is an X-ray observatory developed through a cooperative program between the Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The satellite was designed and is operated by Germany, and was launched by the United States on June 1, 1990.
HEASARC FITS toolset ( FTOOLS )
FITSIO This directory contains files related to version 3.410 of the FITSIO subroutine package for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format. Also: FTOOLS (FITS Tools) This directory contains the FTOOLS distribution file for Suns, DECstations, Alpha and VAX computers. Distribution for both the Public and Develop releases of FTOOLS are located here. This is also the distribution point for XSELECT as of the version 2.4c Develop release.
X-Ray Timing Explorer ( XTE. GSFC.NASA )
The X-ray Timing Explorer, a Goddard mission scheduled for launch in August 1995, is designed to facilitate the study of time variability in the emission of X-ray sources with moderate spectral resolution. Time scales from microseconds to months are covered in an instantaneous spectral range from 2 to 250 keV. It is designed for a required life time of two years, a goal of five years.
Global Oscillation Network Group ( GONG )
Chicago Air Shower Array
The Chicago Air Shower Array (CASA) is a very large array of scintillation counters located in Utah, fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City. CASA has been operating since 1992 in coincidence with a second array, the Michigan Anti (MIA), is made of 2500 square meters of buried muon detectors. CASA is the most sensitive experiment built to date in the study of gamma-ray and cosmic ray interactions at energies above 100 TeV (10^14 electron-Volts). Research topics on data from this experiment cover a wide variety of physics issues, including the search for gamma-rays from extragalactic sources (quasars and gamma-ray bursts), the study of diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane, and a measurement of the cosmic ray composition in the poorly understood region from 100 to 100,000 TeV.
Texas A&M University. High Energy Physics Group ( MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso )
Information server operated by the High Energy Physics Group at Texas A&M University
UK Dark Matter Collaboration ( PPARC, UK )
The UK Dark Matter Collaboration is a consortium of astrophysicists and particle physicists, conducting experiments with the ultimate goal of detecting rare scattering events which would occur if the Galactic dark matter consists largely of a new heavy neutral particle.
NGC 1068 Workshop
This web site serves as a call for submissions to the NGC 1068 Workshop to be held at Schloß Ringberg (Ringberg Castle), Germany, 30 Oct. - 2 Nov. 1996. Included on this page is an electronic application form for the Workshop, as well as a link to a Posters Page , with instructions for Poster submissions.
Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL
Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL, Ibaraki, Japan. Serving space environment information inculding forecasts and alerts of solar flares and geomagnetic storms. Relating observed data are also available.
Astronomische Arbeitsgruppe Laufen e.V. ( Oberbayern, Germany )
Linux for Astronomy CDROM project ( LfA )
The Lfa CDROM contains Linux versions of the following Astronomical data reduction and analysis packages : AIPS (radio astronomy and image processing) ASSIST (gui for IRAF +) glish (distributed processing) IRAF + contributed packages (general purpose) Karma (image processing) NEMO (stellar dynamics) MIDAS (general purpose) PGPERL (graphics) SAOIMAGE (imaging/graphics) SAOtng (imaging/graphics) StarBase (astronomy database)
Hands-On UniverseT ( HOU )
Hands-On Universe is an educational program that enables students to investigate the Universe while applying tools and concepts from science, math, and technology. Hands-On Universe (HOU) has developed and piloted an educational program that enables high school students to request their own observations from professional observatories. HOU students download CCD images to their classroom computers and use HOU's powerful image processing software to visualize and analyze their data. HOU also provides comprehensive curriculum that integrates many of the topics and skills outlined in the national goals for science and math education into open- ended astronomical investigations. Over the next several years HOU will develop activities and tools for middle school students and informal education centers as well as implementing HOU in regional high school networks across the world, including Department of Defense Dependent Schools.
Italian Space Agency ( ASI )
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Fakultät für Physik ( Univ. Freiburg-im-Breisgau )
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Astrofisica ( INFN, Napoli )
ADaptive Optics Near Infra-red System ( ADONIS )
This research group is part of the Paris Meudon Observatory. Experimental server.
DEMAILLY Laurent
The American Physical Society
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation Definition Team ( GHRS-IDT )
The GHRS is one of four axial instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and is designed to obtain UV spectra over a wide range of resolutions. This page was set up as a reference source for team members and other users of the instrument.
Very Large Telescope Project ( VLT )
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is curently constructing the 16-metre equivalent Very Large Telescope (VLT). This major scientific and technological project aims at installing the world's largest optical telescope in the form of four interconnected telescopes with 8.2-metre mirrors on the Paranal mountain in the Chilean Atacama desert. It continues to be on schedule as it heads towards its completion, just after the year 2000.
SMITH, Eric ( GSFC )
Massively Parallel Richardson-Lucy ( MPRL )
MPRL is a software package for performing spatially-variant point spread function (SV-PSF) deconvolution of astronomical images. Its development is motivated by, but its utility is hopefully not limited to, Hubble Space Telescope image data.
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT )
NEAT is an autonomous celestial observatory located at the USAF/Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) site on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. It is designed to complete a comprehensive search of the sky for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
Nation River Observatory
Sterrewacht Leiden: Preprints
Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data ( WISARD/NSSDC )
WISARD is a new interface to the extensive collection of astrophysics data archived on the NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service (NDADS) and other archives.
FOSTER, John C. ( MHO )
Millstone Hill Observatory ( MHO, Haystack )
The Millstone Hill Observatory, located in Westford Massachusetts, is a broad-based atmospheric sciences research facility owned and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Atmospheric Sciences Group, which staffs and manages the observatory, is a part of M.I.T's Haystack Observatory, a basic research organization whose focus is radio wave and radar science, instrumentation and techniques. The following resources may be of interest. EISCAT is a particularly good source of data and useful information. See, for example, incoherent scatter radar and magnetosphere Millstone Hill Observatory: Information, data, etc., including real-time radar status and data when the radar is operating. EISCAT: European Incoherent Scatter Association. NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research. NSF: National Science Foundation Gopher server. NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT )
Mars Atlas ( -- online USGS maps and VO image finder )
A WWW-browsable, zoomable and scrollable atlas of USGS images of Mars, showing the locations (footprints) of thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images.
NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library ( NCSA ADIL )
The purpose of the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library is to collect fully processed astronomical images in FITS format format and make them available to the research community and the general public via the World Wide Web. The collection will contain images from research observatories all over the world and taken at all wavebands.
NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
Proc. Workshop " Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope"
The proceedings from the HST Calibration Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute November 15-17, 1993. These proceedings include discussions on the calibration of each instrument, including the Fine Guidance Sensors. There is also a general section that includes papers on the Optical Telescope Assembly, the HST Calibration Database and information on the calibration of other space observatories namely, the IUE and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope. Check the table of contents for a full listing. For the user's convenience this book is available both by individual paper and by hefty chunks of postscript for each section: WFPC, FOC, FOS, GHRS and General. The latter method is most useful for those of you who want to collect the whole book. The main text of the book is 442 pages.
University of Iowa - Automated Telescope Facility
MOLNAR, Larry ( UIowa )
MUTEL, Robert L. ( Univ. Iowa )
HAMILTON, Calvin J. ( LANL )
Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM )
Many ACM information services are available on the Internet and may be accessed through this document. Included in these services is current information on the following activities: Awards, Conferences, Education, Local Activities, Network Services, Publications, and Special Interest Groups. Other ACM Information services are: Announcements from around the association, and New Product Announcements. In addition, information is available from the following affiliate organizations: Federation on Computing in the United States and IFIP, and Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals.
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron ( DESY )
United States Geological Survey ( USGS )
Astronomy servers at U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS )
U.S. Geological Survey list of astronomy servers (this has a graphical icon for each resource, so takes a while to load).
Green Bank
Orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( OVLBI )
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules ( IN2P3 )
Isaac Newton Group La Palma Information
The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) consists of the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope and the 1-m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. They are situated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.
La Palma - Isaac Newton Group - Schedules ( ING )
PETROVAY Kristóf ( IAC )
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility ( IRAF - from NOAO )
Xephem: An Interactive Ephemeris for X Windows/Motif ( XEPHEM )
Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X Windows systems. It computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for celestial objects. Xephem has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Earth and Mars' central meridian longitude. Xephem supports objects in heliocentric or Earth orbit given the appropriate elements. Sample databases of over 16000 objects are included in the release kit. Xephem generates data in configurable tabular forms and in several detailed graphical formats. Xephem can plot and list all data fields and can be programmed to search for arbitrary circumstances. Xephem can serve as the control point for automated telescopes and can connect to auxiliary database servers in real-time via named streams pipes (UNIX fifos).
SEAMAN, Rob ( NOAO )
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility ( IRAF )
IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical and IR astronomy data (the "noao" packages). Other external or layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or ROSAT and AXAF (X-ray). These external packages are distributed separately from the main IRAF distribution but can be easily installed. The IRAF system also includes a complete programming environment for scientific applications, which includes a programmable Command Language scripting facility, the IMFORT Fortran/C programming interface, and the full SPP/VOS programming environment in which the portable IRAF system and all applications are written.
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique ( IRAM )
IRAM is an international institute for research in millimeter astronomy, cofunded by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), the MPG (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany), and since September 1990 the IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional, Spain). The three IRAM sites are:
Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software ( GILDAS )
GILDAS, the " Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software" , is a collection of software developped by the Observatoire de Grenoble and IRAM, oriented towards radioastronomy applications.
Proc. Workshop " The Restoration of HST Images and Spectra"
Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 18-19 November 1993. Edited by Robert J. Hanisch (hanisch@stsci.edu) and Richard L. White (rlw@stsci.edu). Advanced Systems Group, Science Computing and Research Support Division, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
Infra-Red Telescope Facility ( IRTF )
The IRTF is a 3.0 meter telescope optimized for use in the infrared. It was first built to support the Voyager missions to Jupiter. It is now the National facility for infrared astronomy providing continued support to planetary and deep space applications. Also contains a FTP site.
Anonymous ftp (Manuals, Forms, Instrument information, Software tools)
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale ( IAS )
Space Astrophysics Institute, Orsay, French center for ESA's Infrared Observatory (ISO) [text in French]
APS Image Database
A searchable database of images scanned from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates. This resource is tied into the APS Object Catalog, providing both pixels and calibrated positions, magnitudes, and other information.
APS Catalog of POSS I ( Univ. Minnesota )
The APS Catalog of the POSS I contains millions of entries for stars and galaxies, and the corresponding Image Database contains their pixels and more. The data behind the Object Catalog and Image Database are generated from digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates. Object Catalog entries include calibrated magnitudes in two colors, positions to 0.2 arcseconds, confidence measures on neural network image classifications, colors, and various other useful parameters.
Infrared Space Observatory - 1 ( ISO )
Coordinated information on ISO is available at:
Università di Roma " Tor Vergata" Astrophysics
University of Rome " Tor Vergata" Physics Department, Astrophysics Group. Includes research activities and a guide to internet resources.
Università di Roma " Tor Vergata" Astrophysics: Preprints
PADOVANI, Paolo ( II University of Rome, Rome, Italy )
Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics ( IUCAA )
This Centre is an institution set up by the University Grants Commission to promote nucleation and growth of active groups in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Indian Universities.
PADMANABHAN, T. ( IUCAA )
Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics: Preprints ( IUCAA )
WADADEKAR, Yogesh ( IUCAA )
International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite ( IUE )
Catalog of Infrared Observations ( CIO )
The Catalog of Infrared Observations is a database of over 200,000 published infrared observations of more than 10,000 individual astronomical sources over the wavelength range from 1 to 1000 microns. The catalog is available for downloading via ftp.
OAO-3 (Copernicus) Archive
The third Orbiting Astronomical Observatory was launched by NASA from Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Centaur Rocket on August 21, 1972. The satellite, named Copernicus, was designed to seek answers to some of the fundamental questions concerning stars and interstellar matter. The principal viewing device was a 32-inch (0.8m) diameter reflecting telescope and ultraviolet spectrometer system. The instrument was designed, built, and operated by the Princeton University Observatory, with Professor Lyman Spitzer, Jr. as Principal investigator. Copernicus was operated until February 1981
IUE Data Analysis Center ( IUEDAC )
The International Ultraviolet Explorer Regional Data Analysis Facilities (RDAF) were established in 1982 to assist users in the interpretation and analysis of IUE data. Programs written using the Interactive Data Language (IDL) have allowed users to reduce and analyze IUE spectral data, display images, perform various database searches and convert IUE data sets into various formats such as FITS, ASCII text, etc. In 1993, the Colorado RDAF was closed, and the RDAF at GSFC was renamed the IUE Data Analysis Center (IUEDAC).
SIMKIN, Susan ( Michigan State University )
AGNs, Radio Galaxies, Kinematics of Galaxies
Michigan State's Telescope Initative
Outreach efforts to merge astronomy research and non-science education
Physics Department New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
General Relativity around the world
Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS )
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) will be installed in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during a Space Shuttle mission in 1999. ACS will increase the discovery efficiency of the HST by a factor of ten. ACS will consist of three electronic cameras and a complement of filters and dispersers that detect light from the ultraviolet at 1200 angstroms to the near infrared at 10,000 angstroms.
GOLIMOWSKI, David A. ( JHU )
TSVETANOV, Zlatan I. ( JHU )
Joint Organization for Solar Observations ( JOSO )
Polar Observatory Stratospheric Telescope ( POST )
POST is an ultralight 4m diameter telescope suspended at an altitude of 12km (40,000ft) from a 90m aerostat above a base near Fairbanks, Alaska. The large mirror (the Hubble Space Telescope mirror is only 2.5m in diameter) when operated in the cold, thin, dry polar stratosphere will provide images whose resolution rivals that of HST, and exceeds that of any ground-based telescope including Keck. The intensity of the images is ten times stronger than HST. In the infrared, POST will detect galaxies in the early universe which are 10 times fainter than those that can be detected with any present or planned space or ground telescope. POST will take images and data in the infrared beyond 2 microns where HST is ineffective and in spectral windows which are closed to ground-based telescopes.
PELETIER, Reynier ( Kapteyn )
RHEE, Myung-Hyun ( Kapteyn Inst. )
Ph.D. Thesis On-Line: A physical basis of the Tully-Fisher relation
Myung-Hyun Rhee's PhD Thesis ( rhee-PhD-thesis )
Myung-Hyun Rhee's Ph.D. Thesis On-Line (Kapteyn Institute)
Kestrel Institute
Ancient Astronomy Resource Center ( A Central Resource for Educators and Student )
A Central Resource for Educators and Students of Ancient Asronomy and Cosmology. Contains a complete survey of ancient cultures, including Asian, North American, and Meso-American Societies. Several links to other astronomy related web sites are also included. An on-line tour of the Dresden Codex, and other Mayan and Aztec texts are provided. Includes several essays from Pomona College students on many aspects of ancient cultures.
BIRD, Christina
ANTHONY-TWAROG, Barbara J. ( U. Kansas )
SHAWL, Stephen J. ( U. Kansas )
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut ( KVI )
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics ( LASP )
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics is an institute of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Members of LASP conduct basic experimental and theoretical research into fundamental questions in the areas of planetary science, atmospheric composition and processes, and solar physics. Members of LASP also explore the potential uses and development of space operations and information systems as well as develop scientific instrumentation.
Cassini Mission to Saturn
Saturn and Titan will be the destination for the Cassini mission, a project under joint development by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The U.S. portion of the mission is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Sidewalk Astronomers
A non-profit organization dedicated to public service in Astronomy. In order to help make it possible for the people who live on this planet to see and understand the Universe in which we live, we set up our telescopes in the shopping malls or on the sidewalks of the cities so that people may see the planets and moons of our own solar system.
Large Binocular Telescope ( LBT )
Leicester Database and Archive Service ( LEDAS )
LEDAS provides an on-line astronomical database service, access to archive data from high-energy astrophysics satellite missions, such as EXOSAT, Ginga and ROSAT, and scientific support for guest observers.
COSB
Overview of the COS-B mission. The COS-B event files are available for world wide access within the EXOSAT Database
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center ( HEASARC )
The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, HEASARC, was created by NASA in 1990 as a site for X-ray and Gamma-ray archive research. The motivation for the HEASARC is to provide a multi-mission archive for the high energy data from ROSAT, GRO,BBXRT, ASCA, and XTE missions, that coexists with the archivial data from past missions such as Einstein, HEAO 1, HEAO 3, OSO 8, SAS 2 and 3, Uhuru, and Vela5B. Data from non-US missions, eg, EXOSAT and Ginga, also is provided as international agreements allow. The total data volume will be of the order of 1 Terabyte by 1995. These data are available on-line for immediate access. For on-line access, telnet to xray@legacy.gsfc.nasa.govand log in as XRAY. The HEASARC is located at the Goddard Space Flight Center and is a collaboration between Goddard's Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, LHEA, and the NSSDC. The LHEA is responsible for the science content of the archive, the NSSDC is responsible for the data archive managment. The HEASARC data holding will consist of data from past, current, and future missions.
University of Arizona - Theoretical Astrophysics Program
The Theoretical Astrophysics Program at the University of Arizona is proud to announce its new WWW server and home page. This server contains information about faculty reserach and graduate student studies, and provides links to other web servers useful to the Astronomy/ Astrophysics community. Computer graphics and simulations generated by members of the group will also be featured as this server continues to develop.
HAN, Byron (2) ( IfA )
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA )
The Laboratory was reorganized in October 1995 into two science and two technical support branches. The science branches are the "X-ray Astrophysics Branch" and the "Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch". The latter contains several subgroups including low and high energy cosmic rays, low and high energy gamma-rays, and a theoretical group. In addition to the four branches there is an "Office for Guest Investigator Programs" with overall responsibility for the utilization by the astrophysics community of several high energy astrophysics observatories that the laboratory administers ( ROSAT, ASCA, CGRO and XTE).
Coded Aperture Imaging in High-Energy Astronomy
Information about coded aperture imaging as applied in X- and gamma-ray astronomy: - introduction to the principle - specific details about instruments of the past, present and proposed future - bibliography.
IN'T ZAND, Jean ( NASA-GSFC )
KEOHANE, Jonathan ( Minnesota/GSFC )
ARNAUD, Keith ( NASA/GSFC )
PTAK, Andrew ( GSFC/UMCP )
StatLib Index
StatLib, a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP, gopher, and WWW. StatLib started out as an e-mail service and some of the organisation still reflects that heritage.
Astro-2 ( Astro-2. MSFC. NASA )
Astro-2 is a high-tech observatory flying for 16 days in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the STS-67 mission. The Astro-2 instruments allow astronomers to view stars, galaxies, planets and quasars in ultraviolet light, which is invisible to our eye
Warner and Swasey Observatory - Library
ARO, Simo ( Nordic Optical Telescope )
National Earth Orientation Service ( NEOS )
NEOS was organized to coordinate, collect, analyze, and distribute data from the various operational U. S. programs that monitor variations in the orientation of the Earth. These programs include the International Radio Interferometric Surveying (IRIS) very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) program coordinated by the GL, the Navy Network (NAVNET) program coordinated by the USNO, the VLBI program coordinated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the satellite laser ranging (SLR) program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of Texas, the lunar laser ranging (LLR) program, with data analyzed at the University of Texas, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) data coordinated by the International GPS Service (IGS).
High Energy Astrophysics at CASS
High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment
The HEXTE is one of 3 instruments on board the X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE), which is scheduled for launch in 1995 October. It is sensitive to X-rays from 15 to 250 keV and can provide timing information down to 8 microseconds.
GRUBER, Duane ( UCSD / CASS )
BLANCO, Philip ( CASS/UCSD )
The Las Campanas Redshift Survey ( LCRS )
Las Campanas Redshift Survey data and publications
Southern Cross Astronomical Society ( SCAS )
The Southern Cross Astronomical Observatory, founded in 1922 in Miami, Florida, is one of the oldest amateur astronomical societies in the Western hemisphere. The renowned astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, visited the first observatory at the Royal Palm Hotel & Park near the Miami River. He marveled at our view of the constellation Crux, "The Southern Cross," and suggested this name for the newly formed Observatory.
Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( MAP )
NASA has selected MAP has one of the next MIDEX missions. It will map the microwave background fluctuations over the whole sky and provide insights into the formation of galaxies and the basic parameters of cosmology.
MAP Introduction to Cosmology Page
This page aims to introduce a general audience to the basic concepts of cosmology. It also describes the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) and its scientific goals
Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille ( CPPM )
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science ( LNS )
San Francisco State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( SFSU )
Astronomical Society of the Pacific ( ASP )
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific is the largest general astronomy society in the world, including professional astronomers, amateur astronomers, educators, and interested laypeople. The ASP's web pages include text of the teachers' newsletter, The Universe in the Classroom.
MARCY, Geoffrey W. ( SFSU )
University of Hawaii, Hilo - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UH, Hilo )
Comets and Meteor Showers
This site gives the complete text to the 1988 book Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, as well as recent meteor shower observations. The site also posts a wealth of comet information from news of recent discoveries, finder charts, and ephemerides, to extensive historical information on individual comets.

LBT Telescope
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a collaboration between the University of Arizona, the Italian astronomical community, which is represented by the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in Florence, and the Research Corporation in Tucson. The goal of the LBT project is to construct a binocular telescope consisting of two 8.4-meter mirrors on a common mount. This telescope will be equivalent in light-gathering power to a single 11.8-meter instrument. Because of its binocular arrangement, the telescope will have a resolving power (ultimate image sharpness) corresponding to a 23-meter telescope.
North American Skies ( Sky Happenings for the layman )
North American Skies is the online web version of a monthly astronomy newsletter started in the late 1980s for television weather reporters in Denver. It provides information on easy-to-observe objects and events visible throughout North America (and most of the world). Each month's issue contains a star chart, calendar, inforamtion on the planets, plus an article of topical or temporal interest. Material on North American Skies is available for reprint if proper credit, including URL, is given.
Pusan National University - Astrophysics Group ( PAG )
7th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the IAU ( Pusan, KOREA. Aug.19-23, 1996 )
The meeting will be held at Pusan National University (Pusan, Korea), from Aug 19 to 23, 1996. The meeting will cover almost all areas in Astronomy including Sun and Solar System, Stellar Astronomy, Interstellar Medium & Galactic Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy & Active Galactic Nuclei, Large Scale Structure & Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysics, Instruments, and Astronomical History & Education.
LEE, Hyung Mok ( Pusan National Univ. )
KANG, Hyesung ( Pusan National Univ. )
KANG, YongWoo ( Pusan National Univ. )
NASA Astrophysics Division
Includes What's New, Communicating with the Division, About Programs and Missions, Advisory Committees and Management Operations Working Groups, and List of Meetings.
NUNES, Ana Sofia ( University of Lisbon )
AGOSTINHO, Rui Jorge ( University of Lisbon )
ETH Institute of Astronomy ( ETH Zurich )
Welcome to the Institute of Astronomy at ETH Zurich. There are three groups, working on different topics, namely: The Optical Solar Astrophysics Group The Stellar Astrophysics Group The Radio Astronomy Group
Zurich Solar Radio Spectrometer
The Radio Astronomy Group (RAG) of ETH in Zurich, Switzerland recorded solar radio spectrograms with an analog spectrometer called Daedalus(1974-1993) in the range of 100-1000 MHz. Its observation list can be accessed directly. Two digital spectrometers, IKARUS (1978--1985) and PHOENIX (1988 to the present), cover a range from 100--1000 MHz and 0.1--3 GHz, respectively. Their observation list contains references to frequency programs indicating what frequency was observed. More information can be obtained from a RAG member.
CSILLAGHY, André ( ETH/Zurich )
Mount Laguna Observatory
Observa-DOME
Observatory Domes
NCSA AipsView Visualization System ( AipsView )
AipsView is a tool for visual data analysis built at NCSA with support from the NSF/ARPA Grand Challenge project in Radio Astronomy Imaging, and in cooperation with the AIPS++ programming project. AipsView is a tool for two-dimensional visualization and relies on Motif and Xlib for its user interface and drawing capabilities. A companion tool for three-dimensional visualization, AipsView3, requires OpenInventor. AipsView3 is at an early stage of development, and is not yet described on these pages.
NASA Online Information
University of Manchester. Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UK )
University of Manchester. Radioastronomy Group ( UK )
Australian National University - Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories ( MSSSO )
Includes another Astronomy Listing. Also, and Anonymous ftp server.
Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet ( at MSSSO )
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories - Schedules ( MSSSO )
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories Library
The Astronomy Thesaurus
A multilingual web interface to "The Astronomy Thesaurus", compiled by R.M. Shobbrook & R.R. Shobbrook.
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories: Preprints ( MSSSO )
GRAHAM, Alister ( MSSSO )
ROBERTS, Bill ( MSSSO )
COLLESS, Matthew ( MSSSO )
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey ( 2dF )
FULLAGAR, David ( MSSSO )
PFITZNER, David ( MSSSO )
Heron Island Workshop 1995: Peculiar Velocities in the Universe
These pages contain information and links related to a workshop held at Heron Island, Australia, on 17-21 July 1995. The proceedings of the workshop are also available.
HOLA, Ron ( MSSSO )
SEBO, Kim ( MSSSO )
BUREAU, Martin ( MSSSO )
ALLEN, Mark ( MSSSO )
PETERSON, Bruce A. ( MSSSO )
QUINN, Peter ( MSSSO )
MEATHERINGHAM, Stephen ( MSSSO )
University College. Mullard Space Science Laboratory ( MSSL, UK )
Department of Space and Climate Physics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, part of University College, London. This page contains links to information about the laboratory, groups and projects based at MSSL
Yohkoh Satellite. ISAS, Japan ( description at UCL, UK )
Yohkoh (" Sunbeam" in Japanese) is a satellite of the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) dedicated to high-energy observations of the Sun, specifically of flares and other coronal disturbances
Midcourse Space Experiment ( MSX )
BMDO's Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)- The MSX observatory is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization project which offers major benefits for both the defense and civilian sectors. With a solid heritage in the successful Delta series, MSX represents the first system demonstration of technology in space to identify and track ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase. The spacecraft features an advanced multispectral image capability to gather data on test targets and space background phenomena. MSX will aid future spacecraft design by monitoring on-orbit contamination of optical instruments. In addition, its investigation of the composition and dynamics of Earth's atmosphere promises increased understanding of the environment. The MSX homepage describes the mission, the spacecraft and instruments, and the associated science teams. News and points-of-contact information is also available.
Kyoto University - Department of Physics: Theoretical Astrophysics Group
NASA Network Application and Information Center ( NAIC )
The Network Applications And Information Center (NAIC), located at Ames Research Center, was established in March 1993 to coordinate network information center (NIC) services for NASA. The NAIC mission is: (1) To facilitate a distributed system of NASA Center NICs. (2) To distribute and assist NASA users with advanced applications programs developed or supported by the ANA group. (3) To act as liaison between NASA and other government network information activities. (4) To foster the use of information protocols, standards, and procedures among NASA NICs that are conducive to quick and easy network access to online information resources. (5) To serve as a NIC of first and last resort for users at Centers without NICs and for scientists and educators coming from other networks. (6) To act as a high-level referral center for NASA information resources.
Norwich Astronomical Society ( NAS )
The Norwich Astronomical Society is based at the Seething Astronomical Observatory, Norwich, Norfolk, UK. The observatory houses a 30-inch Newtonian reflector which is the second largest amateur-built telescope in the UK. It is also the base of the Federation of East Anglian Astronomical Societies Radio Astronomy Section, and TeCComS.
KIRKMAN, David ( UCSD / CASS )
FAN, Xiao-Ming ( UCSD )
STORRIE-LOMBARDI, Lisa J. ( UCSD / CASS )
BURLES, Scott ( UCSD )
PROCHASKA, Jason X. ( UCSD )
Global Network Navigator ( GNN )

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(GNN) (alternate - from Ireland)
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Welcome New Navigators! ( at GNN (Global Network Navigator )
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Astronomy Resources on the Internet (at GNN)
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Space Calendar ( NASA )
The Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Note that anniversary dates are listed in 5 year increments only, and launch dates are subject to change.
Magellan Mission to Venus
NASA's Magellan spacecraft made a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission at Venus when it is commanded to plunge into the planet's dense atmosphere Tuesday, October 11, 1994. During its four years in orbit around Earth's sister planet, the spacecraft has radar-mapped 98 percent of the surface and collected high-resolution gravity data of Venus. The purpose of the crash landing is to gain data on the planet's atmosphere and on the performance of the spacecraft as it descends. Up-to-date status reports will be available from this WWW page, which also offers Venus images and other highlights from the mission.
Saturn Ring Plane Crossings of 1995-1996 ( JPL )
During 1995 and 1996, the rings of Saturn will be seen edge-on from the Earth's perspective on three ocassions, and from the Sun's perspective once. This is a rare event that only occurs every 15 years. The triple ring plane crossings are particularly favorable in providing astronomers a unique opportunity to observe Saturn's rings and moons.
Deep Space Network - Goldstone Deep Space Station
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-JPL)
NICMOS UofA ( NICMOS )
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is a second-generation instrument to be installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the February 13, 1997 on-orbit servicing mission. NICMOS will provide infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets between 0.8-2.5 microns.
AstroBrowse
AstroBrowe is a service to allow scientists to determine the existence, location, and access to astronomical data being held at various data centers, institutions, and other sites. It is intended to help answer the question: Tell me about...
CHRISTIAN, Carol ( NIIT )
MURRAY, Stephen S. (alternate) ( NIIT )
Astrophysics at Bristol University
NIKHEF
Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group
The interests in astrophysics of the Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group (NIS-2) focus on gamma-ray bursts, x-ray binaries, accretion- and rotation-powered pulsars, neutron star dynamics, atomic processes in astrophysical sources, soft x-ray and EUV backgrounds, and EUV and soft x-ray transients such as flare stars. An important mission of the group is to develop new types of optical, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma-ray detectors for ground and space applications. The group has flown high-energy instruments on Pioneer Venus Orbiter, the ISEE-3 (ICE), P78-1, Vela satellites, and the Japanese satellite Ginga. The group is currently developing experiments for several scientific missions including the X-ray Multimirror Mission (XMM), High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE), MARS-96, and the MOXE all sky x-ray monitor on the Russian Spectrum X-Gamma satellite project, and is the lead institution operating the Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS) satellite and its wide field-of-view ultrasoft x-ray telescope array. The group is actively participating in Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) research through several guest investigator projects, and is also involved in establishing the growing-up Fenton Hill Observatory in the Jemez mountains, which includes an ultra-high-energy gamma-ray telescope, Milagro.
CHANG, Hsiang-Kuang ( LANL )
MORGAN, Siobahn ( University of Northern Iowa )
Vassar College - Department of Physics and Astronomy
CHROMEY, Fred ( Vassar College )
Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector ( NOMAD )
Nomad (Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector) is CERN experiment WA96. The experiment searches for the oscillation nu_mu -> nu_tau in the CERN wide-band neutrino beam. It aims at detecting tau-neutrino charged-current interactions by observing the production of the tau lepton through its various decay modes by means of kinematical criteria.
Daily Martian Weather Report
The Daily Martian Weather Report is produced by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team (MGS RST). When the MGS mapping sequence begins, the page will contain a daily weather report for the planet Mars based on radio occultation measurements of the temperature and pressure profiles of the Martian atmosphere. Currently, the site contains information about the MGS mission and the Radio Science Team, the radio occultation technique for study of planetary atmospheres, profiles of the atmosphere of Venus acquired during occultations of the Magellan spacecraft, and information for K-12 educators interested in e-mail communications between their classes and members of the MGS RST.
LAGUNA, Pablo ( Penn State Univ. )
NASA National Space Science Data Center ( NSSDC )
The primary responsibility of the NSSDC is to further the use of NASA spaceflight mission data. The NSSDC also provides data from some ground-based and non-NASA sources which are considered to be important adjuncts to the NASA space-based data. The Data Center maintains and distributes documentation, indexes and catalogs about the data in its archives, and similar information about important space mission datasets maintained by other institutions.
World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites ( WDC-A )
NSSDC Astronomy and Astrophysics Home Page
NSSDC's Astronomy and Astrophysics Home Page offers information about online data and services, including access to a WAIS-searchable index of more than 700 astronomical catalogs; high-level project descriptions for such projects as ASCA, ROSAT, EUVE, HST, and COBE; and links to many other popular astronomy and astrophysics resources.
NSSDC Photo Gallery
The images presented in the Photo Gallery have a number of different sources, primarily NASA missions, however. They are generally organized by object and/or phenomenon on separate pages. The source of the image as well as the processing involved in producing the image have been included whereever possible. Photo captions for some images are also available.
SPACEWARN Bulletin
NASA Data Archive Distribution Service ( NDADS )
The GSFC Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO), though its various branches (the Astrophysics Data Facility, the Space Physics Data Facility, and the National Space Science Data Center) offers access to a wide selection of Space Science Data which are contained in the NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service (NDADS). Currently, the NDADS near-line archive contains about 1.5 Terrabytes of Astrophysics, Space Physics and Solar Physics Data from 32 individual 'projects'.
National Undergraduate Research Observatory ( NURO )
The National Undergraduate Research Observatory (NURO) at Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University is a 0.8m telescope located on Anderson Mesa south of Flagstaff, Arizona. NURO is a consortium of Universities and small colleges to provide a research grade telescope for undergraduate research and education.
UC Riverside - Astrophysics Group ( UCR )
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma ( OAR )
PIOTTO, Giampaolo
ZAGGIA, Simone ( Univ. of Padua, Dept. of Astronomy, Italy )
Sejong Observatory
KIM, Jungho
Observatório Nacional, Brazil ( Rio de Janeiro )
Observatório Nacional, Brazil: Preprints
Observatoire de Genève
This server presents the activities of the Observatoire de Geneve (Geneva Observatory) and of the Institut d'Astronomie, Universite de Lausanne (Astronomical Institute, Lausanne).
Bibliotheque, Observatoire de Geneve
The Lausanne General Catalogue of Photometric Data ( GCPD )
The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD) build at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Lausanne contains photometric data for about 200000 stars from some 75 different systems, taken from about 3300 papers. The WWW server allows to query the database ad retrieve any data from any photometric system. Searching the references by authors' names and keywords from the titles offers a possibility to retrieve the data from each of the 3300 papers directly.
INTEGRAL SCIENCE DATA CENTRE
The INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is a medium size mission of the European Space Agency dedicated to gamma-ray astronomy. The INTEGRAL Science Data Center (ISDC) located in Geneva is the link between the astronomical community at large and the INTEGRAL spacecraft.
A Peculiar Newsletter
Newsletter of the IAU Working Group on Ap and related Stars (IAU Commissions 25, 27, 29 and 45). Issued every 6 months.
HOLL, Andras ( Konkoly )
JURCSIK, Johanna ( Konkoly Obs. )
KOLLATH, Zoltan ( Konkoly Obs. )
KOVACS, Geza ( Konkoly Obs. )
OLAH, Katalin ( Konkoly Obs. )
Whipple Observatory
University of California, Riverside - High Energy Astrophysics ( UCR )
Information on current research in High Energy Astrophysics being conducted at the University of California, Riverside.
PATTERSON, Brooke ( Univ.Washington )
Solar Extreme-ultraviolet Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph ( SERTS )
The Solar Extreme-ultraviolet Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph (SERTS) instrument obtains spatially resolved spectra and spectroheliograms over a wide range of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths characteristic of temperatures between 5x10^4-3x10^7K, providing information about the Sun's corona and upper transition region. Wavelength coverage is 170-450A with spectral resolution near 10000, spatial resolution as good as 5arcsec, and relative photometric accuracy within +/- 20% over most of its range. This page contains links to information about the instrument, a solar EUV line list between 170 and 450 A from the SERTS-89 flight, and a list of SERTS-related publications. Soon to be added is information about upcoming launches. Also included are links to other WWW servers relevant to solar astronomers.
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino ( OATo )
Fremont Peak Observatory Association ( FPOA )
The Fremont Peak Observatory Association is a non-profit corporation associated with the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation. FPOA is one of many state parks cooperative associations. It is unique in the it is the only cooperative association devoted to interpreting astronomy to the public. The FPOA constructed an observatory in the Fremont Peak State Park in San Benito County. It is eleven miles from San Juan Bautista. The main objective of the FPOA is to promote astronomy through public educational and interpretive programs at Fremont Peak State Park.
Space Physics Resources on the Internet
ZOONEMATKERMANI, Saeid ( Stony Brook Radio Astronomy )
Pacific Space Centre
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC, Greenbelt, MD )
(GSFC also has a Gopher server for GSFC, NASA, networking, US government)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Physics
LEPP, Stephen ( UNLV )
University of Maryland - Planetary Data System ( PDSSBN )
This node is currently located in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park. It supports the publicly accessible files for the Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board (PDSSBN, U.Maryland)
Universite de Nice, Astrophysics Department
Speckle Imaging and Inverse Problems.
Novae amateur astronomy association ( NOVAE )
NOVAE amateur association is located in the south of France, on the French Riviera. This server contains information on the association, its members and their activities, and its available observational ressources.
Two Micron All-Sky Survey ( 2MASS )
Infrared detector technology has made such huge advances in the past decade that the only existing near-infrared sky survey, which was carried out at Caltech nearly 25 years ago, no longer serves as a useful context within which to interpret observations or select sources for study. The University of Massachusetts is therefore leading a new project, called the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), which will canvas the entire sky for stars and galaxies as much as 50,000 times fainter than the stars seen in the last survey.
Solar Information Center
The Solar Information Center provides access to the following services: SolarData: a community-based catalogue and online data service for Solar Physics research archives; SolarMail: an electronic mail service and personal information database for Solar Physics; Meetings: conferences, symposia, etc. on Solar Physics and related fields of interest; Positions: available in Solar Physics and closely related fields; SolarNews archive: an electronic newsletter for the solar community; Bulletin Board: a community bulletin board for temporary postings of timely information
University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario - Faculty, staff and students
Faculty, staff, and graduate students as well as members of Meteor and Space Physics
GRAY, David F. ( UWO )
TITTLEY, Eric ( University of Western Ontario )
WADE, Gregg
Stellar physics; magnetism and chemistry in atmospheres of A and B stars; surface mapping.
CAYON, Laura ( UC Berkeley )
University of California, Berkeley - Center for Particle Astrophysics ( UCB - CfPA )
The CfPA located at the University of California, Berkeley was established in 1989 to conduct research in the new interdisciplinary field of particle astrophysics. We provide information on the Center's research, education and outreach efforts, workshops, seminars, publications, and a directory of members and visitors.
Radio Array Neutrino Detector ( RAND )
Detection of coherent radio emission from electromagnetic showers produced by ultra-high energy neutrino-nucleon interactions
GERBER, Richard A. ( NASA Ames )
Anti-matter Research Through the Earth Moon Ion Spectrometer ( ARTEMIS )
The search for anti-matter in the TeV cosmic rays may be addressed by the means of the Atmospheric Cerenkov Techniques. The shadow of the Moon on the cosmic rays must be split by the Earth magnetic field between an eastward shadow for matter and a westward one for anti-matter. ARTEMIS is a project to observe this effect, carried-on with the 10 m telescope of the Whipple Observatory.
Cherenkov Array at Themis ( CAT )
Homepage of the CAT (Cherenkov Array at Themis) imager. This is an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope for detection of high-energy gamma rays (>200 GeV), sited in the French Pyrenees.
Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope ( HUT )
Astronomers at the Johns Hopkins University designed the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) to explore the far- and extreme-ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. HUT has a 36-inch primary mirror which collects ultraviolet light for a prime-focus spectrograph. The spectrograph disperses light in the 825 to 1850 Angstrom wavelength range with a resolution of 3 Angstroms
DAVIDSEN, Arthur F. ( JHU )
ESPEY, Brian R. ( JHU )
Moore's Universal Astronomy Index
This is a fairly complete index of astronomy topics organized like an astronomy textbook. Links are obtained from searching the WWW for the highest scoring pages based on the index topics listed.
CERN Preprint Server
JOHNSON, Tim ( JHU )
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( FUSE )
Information on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a satellite astronomy project based at The Johns Hopkins University
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center ( PSC )
Florida Tech Physics and Space Sciences
The Astronomy Group at Florida Tech is concerned primarily with observational and theoretical studies of white dwarf stars, both as single stars and as members of binary or multiple systems. The Space Physics Group at Florida Tech studies the interaction of the Sun on the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere
Archie Hypertext Servers ( ArchiePlex )
This is an elegant use of Mosaic forms to drive the Archie service for discovering which anonFTP servers contain particular files.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC )
Princeton University - Pulsar Group
The home page of the pulsar research group in the department of physics of Princeton University, this site includes pointers to the home pages of group members, a collection of pulsar related resources and pointers to our supported data analysis software (including TEMPO), and links to radio astronomy observatories and related sites.
Radio Pulsar Resources
A unified collection of information and pointers of interest to radio pulsar researchers. Resources include pointers to group and individual home pages, radio telescope home pages and telescope schedules, and pulsar related preprints and reprints.
THORSETT, Stephen
KNEE, Lewis ( SEST )
NASA - Pioneer Project Home Page ( NASA/Ames )
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Theoretical Astrophysics
MSSSO Heron Island Workshop 1995
The MSSSO Heron Island Workshop on Peculiar Velocities in the Universe
JEFFERYS, William H. ( U. Texas )
Numerical Astrophysics Using Supercomputers
This workshop ``Numerical Astrophysics Using Supercomputers'' was held from 1996 January 23 to January 25 at the National Astronomical Observatory Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo and more than 70 astronomers/astrophysicists attended the meeting. Covered fields are hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, radiationhydrodynamics, N-body simulation, numerical relativity an so on. Objects taken up are from the proto-planetary disks to the large-scale structure of the universe. More than 40 papers (oral and poster presentations) were presented. This was supported by a two-year grant. In December 1996, the next workshop on the same topics will be held in Tokyo area.
Theoretical Nuclear/Particle Physics and Astrophysics Group ( tNPA Uni Basel )
This is Quasar, the server of the theoretical Nuclear/Particle Physics and Astrophysics groups at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Basel, Switzerland. The server offers information on people, research topics, publications, and teaching as well as personal home pages and preprints. Research topics in astrophysics include nucleosynthesis, type I and II supernovae, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear physics far from stability, neutrino physics; other research interests are atomic physics and chaos. (For a full list, take a look at the server)!
Colloquium in the framework of IAU Commission N 5
Colloquium "International Cooperation in Dissemination of the Astronomical Data" was held in Pulkovo (St.-Petersburg, Russia) from 2 till 8 July 1996.
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ( ADASS'94 )
(Baltimore, September 25-28, 1994)
This conference will provide a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the production and use of software and systems. We also hope to expose developers and users to developments in other areas of computer science which may have applications in an astronomical context. Contributions to the program are invited in the areas of algorithms, software, systems, and related topics, with emphasis on practical solutions to the problems of treating real data. Key Topics: Astronomical Data Modelling and Analysis, Design and Development of Graphical User Interfaces, Network Information Systems, Parallel and Distributed Processing.
STSDAS help system
The World Wide Web version of the help information for STSDAS, the Space Telescope Science Data Anlaysis System, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD.
Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System ( STSDAS )
This is a preliminary Mosaic document for the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System. STSDAS is software primarily designed for reducing and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This includes the same instrument calibration code included in the routine data processing pipeline. STSDAS also includes general-purpose tools and enhancements to IRAF.
CHERNIN, Lawrence ( UCBerkeley )
Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas ( T.A.S. )
With over 300 members, the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas is a group of individuals sharing and promoting their common interest in astronomy. T.A.S. is a member of the Astronomical League and is home to the nationally known " Constellation of the Month" series.
Cecil and Ida Green Piñon Flat Observatory ( PFO )
Ground-based Solar and Astrophysical Observatory Guide ( by Gordon Johnston )
NASA Space Sensors and Instrument Technology ( NASA OSAT Space Instrument Technology )
The intention of the Sensors and Instrument Technology home page is to provide convenient access to program information for those involved or interested in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Sensors and Instruments Technology Program. This is an experimental service provided by the Spacecraft Systems Division staff of the Office of Space Access and Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide ( Mission Acronyms and Links )
Jicamarca Radio Observatory ( Peru )
Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems ( RICIS )
EICHMANN, Dave ( RBSE )
Repository Based Software Engineering ( RBSE )
Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory ( Tasmania )
GAFFNEY, Niall ( U. Texas )
FREEMAN, John W. Jr. ( Rice Univ. )
PDS Planetary Rings Node
The Planetary Rings Node is responsible for restoring, archiving and publishing datasets describing planetary ring systems. This includes all the relevant datasets aquired from previous and future spacecraft, as well as from Earth-based observatories. In order to support research with these datasets, the node also provides expert assistance, catalog information to help scientists pinpoint the most relevant data, and a suite of software tools to simplify data manipulation.
WEILER, Kurt ( NRL )
BURKE, Bernard F. ( MIT )
COPPI, Bruno ( MIT )
ROSAT Public Data Archive
Data archive of the X-ray satellite ROSAT
Archie Gateway to WWW ( ArchiePlexForm )
South African Astronomical Societies
Leiden University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( The Netherlands )
University of Central Lancashire Centre for Astrophysics
Home Page of the University of Central Lancashire Centre for Astrophysics, Preston, Lancashire, UK.
MCELROY, Doug ( CSC/STScI )
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2) ( SAO )
Includes: AXAF Science Center (ASC) . Anonymous ftp
UMIST Astrophysics Group ( UMIST )
The page contains general information about the group, and has pointers to pages with local preprints, information about the UMIST rate file of astrophysical chemical reactions, information about the 'Shocks in Astrophysics' meeting, as well as pointers useful pages in other places.
Next Generation Space Telescope ( NGST )
The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) is a critical component of NASA's Origins Program. It will be a telescope of aperture greater than 4m, radiatively cooled to 30 - 60 deg.K, permitting extremely deep exposures at near infrared wavelengths with a 10 year life. A key requirement is to break the HST cost paradigm through the use of new technology and management methods. This site is designed to serve as the starting point for finding online NGST Study documentation.
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
Astrophysics (Theory) Astrophysical Plasmas Barbara Abraham-Shrauner Dense Matter Astrophysics John W. Clark Gamma-Ray Bursts Jonathan I. Katz Extraterrestrial Materials Microanalysis of Stellar Condensates and Studies of Noble Gases Thomas J. Bernatowicz Cosmochemistry Ghislaine Crozaz Origin and Evolution of the Solar System Charles M. Hohenberg Isotope Geochemistry Frank A. Podosek Pre-history and Subsequent Evolution of the Solar System Robert M. Walker Nucleosynthesis in Stars and the Formation of the Solar System Ernst K. Zinner Gravitation and Cosmology Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Leonid P. Grishchuk Gravity and Cosmology Wai-Mo Suen Relativistic Gravitation Clifford M. Will High Energy Astrophysics (Experimental) Cosmic Ray Heavy Elements and X-Ray Astronomy Walter Robert Binns Martin H. Israel Joseph Klarmann Paul L. Hink Cosmic Rays, Infrared and Gamma-Ray Astronomy Michael W. Friedlander Observational Astronomy and Instrumentation Spectropolarmetric Hyperspectra and Multispectral Imagery William Hayden Smith Planetary Imagery Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory Raymond E. Arvidson Planetary Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Chemistry and the Evolution of the Solar System M. Bruce Fegley, Jr. Fluid Reactions in Planetary Materials Everett Shock Trace-Element Geochemistry Larry A. Haskin Randy L. Korotev Planetary Geophysics Icy Satellites and Cratering Phenomenon William B. McKinnon Interiors of the Terrestrial Planets Roger J. Phillips Visiting Professors Non-accelerator Particle Physics Ramanath Cowsik
BARRETT, James W. ( Stony Brook Radio Astronomy )
LANNING, Howard H. ( CSC/STSCI )
Two Color (U,B) Survey of Galactic Plane ( Lanning UV Survey )
In 1969, a two-color survey of the galactic plane was begun using the Palomar 48-in Oschin Schmidt telescope under the direction of Allan Sandage. The intent of the survey was to support the Uhuru X-ray satellite (launched in 1972) in an effort to identify the optical counterparts of newly detected x-ray sources. Each plate was exposed through the Blue (GG13) and UV (UG1) filters with images offset by 12 arcsec. The exposure times were selected such that the U-B color was balanced at U-B=0 for equal sized images. The hotter the star, the bluer (larger) the UV image.
SKRUTSKIE, Mike ( UMASS )
Whately Telescope
FOLTZ, Craig ( Univ. Arizona )
Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (2) ( MMTO )
Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers ( AMPTE )
NASA/HPCC Earth and Space Sciences Project ( ESS )
The Earth, its relationship to the Sun and Solar System, and the universe in its totality are the domain of the ESS Project. Part of the agency's High Performance Computing and Communications Program, this effort unites supercomputing, high-speed networking, scientific visualization, and virtual reality to better understand these phenomena.
Sociedad Española de Astronomía ( SEA )
The Spanish Astronomical Society is open to all researchers and students in the field of Astronomy, as well as to any other person or institution interested in contributing to the development of this discipline in Spain. The aim of the SEA is to provide a forum for the discussion on subjects of common interest, to offer the means for dealing with those affairs in which a joint action is appropriate, and to maintain institutional relations with similar societies.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space ( SEDS )
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space was founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton and consists of an international group of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from a diverse range of educational backgrounds who are working to promote space as a whole. SEDS is a chapter based organization with chapters throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Latin America, and the Middle East. The permanent National Headquarters for SEDS-USA resides at MIT. Each chapter is fairly independent and coordinates activities and projects in its own area.
There is also a Gopher server which contains a Rennes archive mirror plus software.
The Nine Planets
An essay about our solar system with text, pictures, sounds and an occasional movie. Each of the planets and major moons in our solar system is briefly described and illustrated with pictures from NASA spacecraft.
The Web Nebulae
The emphasis here is on aesthetics, not science. While there is a little information to help you appreciate the images this is not a tutorial on the astronomy of nebulae. If these images inspire you to study stellar evolution that's great, but my intent is primarily to showcase a part of Nature's beauty that is accessable to us only via the telescope.
SEDS - Internet Space Archive ( LPL/Arizona )
A large internet resource of Space related images, information and software.
SEDS - Astronomical Anonymous FTP Sites ( SEDS: Astro-FTP list )
This is a concise description of anonymous-ftp file servers containing astronomy and space research related material. It includes only those servers where there are special subdirectories for astro stuff or much material included into a general directories. For sites with multiple directories of interest, the list points towards a common top-level directory. (NOTE: until August 1994, this list of servers was maintained in Finland.)
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (SEDS-LPL, Ariz.)
European Incoherent Scatter ( EISCAT )
European Incoherent SCATtter
Space Telescope Science Institute Library Service
STEPsheet, IAU circulars
SETI League
The SETI League believes that receipt of electromagnetic signals of intelligent origin from beyond our planet will change forever our view of humanity's place in the cosmos. Our mission it to organize and coordinate people interested in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in the hope of receiving such signals.
JPL Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry Project ( VSOP )
This project supports the VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme) mission led by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan, and the RadioAstron mission led by the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute in Russia. VSOP is scheduled for launch in September 1996, while RadioAstron is scheduled for launch in 1997. Each mission involves an orbiting 8-10 meter radio telescope dedicated to astronomical radio interferometry experiments using baselines formed between the spacecraft and a number of ground radio telescopes. A variety of information is now on line, describing the JPL Project, each of the space missions, and the science goals of the missions.
Pomona College - Astronomy Program
Includes a complete description of the Pomona College and Claremont College astronomy programs, including a tour of the Frank Brackett Observatory, and the 40" telescope at Table Mountain
Ionia 1 km AVHRR Global Land Data Set Net-Browser ( AVHRR )
The 1 km AVHRR Global Land Data set project is an international effort to acquire, archive, process and distribute the data of the entire global land surface observed by the NOAA/AVHRR satellite mission at 1 km resolution, in order to meet the needs of the international science community.
PIRAN, Tsvi ( Hebrew )
Jacob Shaham - Memorial Conference
Memorial conference to Jacob Shaham to be held in Jerusalem April 27 - May 1, 1996. The lectures will reflect Jacob's broad interest in different aspects of Physics and Astrophysics.
University of Rochester - Near Infrared Group
HOWARD, Eric ( Univ.Rochester )
University of Cape Town - Department of Applied Mathematics: Cosmology Group ( UCT )
Space Infrared Telescope Facility - 2 ( SIRTF )
1-meter class cryogenically-cooled, 2+ year lifetime observatory for infrared astronomy from space. Builds on scientific and technical foundation of JPL's successful Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) mission. Provides thousand to million fold increase in capability over other infrared facilities through use of U.S. developed IR detector arrays in imaging and spectroscopic instrumentation. Launched on Delta rocket into solar orbit.
Space Infrared Telescope Facility - 1 ( SIRTF. JPL. NASA )
The Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF), currently under design by NASA, is planned to be a cryogenically cooled observatory to conduct infrared astronomy from space following its launch early next decade. SIRTF will consist of a 0.85-meter diameter telescope and three scientific instruments capable of performing imaging and spectroscopy in the 3-180 micron wavelength regime. Incorporating the latest in large-format infrared detector array technology, SIRTF will offer orders-of-magnitude improvements in sensitivity over previous IR missions. SIRTF is presently baselined for launch in late 2001, and is expected to have a 2.5-year lifetime
SkyView
SkyView is a facility available over the net which allows users to retrieve data from public all-sky surveys conveniently. The user enters the position and size of the region desired, and the surveys wanted and the data is extracted and formatted for the user. Documentation available here .
Submillimeter Array ( SMA )
PATEL, Nimesh A. ( CfA )
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ( SNO at Queen's University )
SNO is an astronomical neutrino observatory that is being built below ground in the deepest section of INCO Limited's Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario. SNO is an international collaboration of scientists from Canada, USA and UK. Information services are available at
Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will be a 2.5 meter, optical/infrared/sub-millimeter telescope mounted in a Boeing 747, to be used for many basic astronomical observations performed at stratospheric altitudes. The Facility will accommodate installation of different focal plane instruments, with in-flight accessibility, provided by investigators selected from the international science community. The Facility objective is to have an operational lifetime in excess of 20 years.
Signal Processing Information Base ( SPIB )
a project sponsored by the Signal Processing Society and the National Science Foundation. SPIB contains information repositories of data, papers, software, newsgroups, bibliographies, links to other repositories, and addresses, all of which are relevant to signal processing research and development. For general information, send e-mail to spib@spib.rice.edu containing the message: send help
LEWYCKY, George R.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO )
SOHO will be launched on 1995 October 31. The SOHO spacecraft is being built in Europe by an industry team led by Matra, and instruments are being provided by European and American scientists. Large radio dishes around the world which form NASA's DSN will be used to track the spacecraft beyond the Earth's orbit. Mission control will be based at GSFC in Maryland.
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch ( STD )
The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch (STD) provides information regarding the state of the Sun and its effect on the Earth and the space environment near the Earth. The numerous services provided here are made possible through cooperation with the University of Lethbridge , who we gratefully acknowledge. STD's primary responsibility is to provide support and time-critical solar and geophysical information to institutions and individuals who require this information. For this purpose, we monitor solar and geophysical conditions in real-time and provide e-mail distribution of numerous services. We also supply many available solar and geophysical services through Anonymous FTP. and several finger servers: finger solar@solar.uleth.ca.
University of Southampton - Astronomy Group
Observatories and Astronomical Institutions on WWW ( Southampton )
University of Southampton - Astronomy Group: Preprints ( online abstracts and copies of recent papers )
COE, Malcolm ( Southampton )
MIT Center for Space Research ( CSR )
The Center supports a broad range of space-related research by scientists in many departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Areas of current activity range from theoretical cosmology and astrophysics to laboratory and flight experiments and ground-based observations. Laboratory facilities include X-ray generators, particle accelerators, vacuum chambers, and conventional electronic test and machine shop equipment. Extensive computational facilities are available for the analysis and reduction of data.
REIFF, Patricia ( Rice Univ. )
NASA Spacelink
NASA Spacelink offers a wide range of materials (computer text files, software, and graphics) related to the space program. Its target audience is teachers, faculty and students, and the system is intended to help them reach the national education goals as outlined by the President and the NASA Strategic Plan for Education. Documents on the system include science, math, engineering and technology education lesson plans, historical information related to the space program, current status reports on NASA projects, news releases, information on NASA educational programs, NASA educational publications, and other materials chosen for their educational value and relevance to the space program. The system may be accessed by computer through direct-dial modem or the Internet. Materials on the system are organized and kept current by professional educators with experience in computer software applications and communications.
Rice University - Department of Space Physics and Astronomy
The Department of Space Physics & Astronomy at Rice University is currently involved in many different aspects of space physics and astrophysics research with plasma physics linking the two disciplines as an underlying theme. Theoretical Solar System Physics; Experimental Solar System Physics; Theoretical Astrophysics; Observational Astronomy; Atomic and Atmospheric Physics
MICHEL, F. Curtis ( Rice Univ. )
LEDLEY, Tamara S. ( Rice Univ. )
HARTIGAN, Patrick ( Rice )
NASA Space Physics Data System ( SPDS )
JPL Molecular Spectroscopy ( JPL Line Catalog )
The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Home Page is the starting point for accessing the JPL Submillimeter, Millimeter, and Microwave Spectral Line Catalog, which is a collection of predicted line positions and intensities for use in Astrophysics, Planetary Science, and studies of the Earth Atmosphere. There is also a collection of programs used to calculate the spectra.
Estación de Observación Solar / Solar Observational Station ( EOS )
The Astronomy Area of CIF-US (Center for Research on Physics/Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico), operates EOS (Estacion de Observacion Solar/Solar Observational Station), one of the two solar observatories in the country with an observational program of active regions at the continuum, and H-Alpha and Calcium lines, through a two-heliostat system and a 15 cm refractor telescope.
McCAUGHREAN, Mark ( MPIA )
NASA Space Science Data Operations Office ( SSDOO )
(alternate)
Space Sciences Laboratory ( Berkeley )
HEAD The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. SPRG The Space Physics Research Group. SERENDIP The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations. HOU The Hands-On Universe Program. COBE The Cosmic Background Explorer. EAG The Experimental Astrophysics Group. ISI The Infrared Spatial Interferometer Group. CEA The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics. ORFEUS The Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers and The Berkeley Spectrometer.
Software Support Laboratory ( SSL )
The Software Support Laboratory (SSL) archives and distributes software -- and information about software -- for space and Earth scientists.
Nonproliferation and International Security ( NIS/LANL )
NIS division projects ALEXIS Array of Low Energy X-ray Sensors BLACKBEARD A Broadband spaceborne RF detector experiment. FORTE Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events LAPP Los Alamos Portable Pulser MOXE MOnitoring X-ray Experiment for Astronomy HETE High Energy Transient Experiment for Astronomy DAHW Deployable Adaptive Processing Hardware X-ray data from P78-1 Energetic Particle data set for the CPA and SOPA detectors Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer (MPA data) Multi-angle Imaging SpectoRadiometer (MISR) Oblique High Frequency Sounder NIS-7 projects Ulysses Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun (SWOOPS) experiment General interest subjects Coded aperture imaging in high-energy astronomy (intro, instruments, bibliography) Research on celestial gamma-ray bursts in NIS-2 (preprints, links) The interests in astrophysics of the Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group (NIS-2) focus on gamma-ray bursts, x-ray binaries, accretion- and rotation-powered pulsars, neutron star dynamics, atomic processes in astrophysical sources, soft x-ray and EUV backgrounds, and EUV and soft x-ray transients such as flare stars. An important mission of the group is to develop new types of optical, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma-ray detectors for ground and space applications. The group has flown high-energy instruments on Pioneer Venus Orbiter, the ISEE-3 (ICE), P78-1, Vela satellites, and the Japanese satellite Ginga. The group is currently developing experiments for several scientific missions including the X-ray Multimirror Mission (XMM), High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE), MARS-96, and the MOXE all sky x-ray monitor on the Russian Spectrum X-Gamma satellite project, and is the lead institution operating the Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS) satellite and its wide field-of-view ultrasoft x-ray telescope array. The group is actively participating in Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) research through several guest investigator projects, and is also involved in establishing the growing-up Fenton Hill Observatory in the Jemez mountains, which includes an ultra-high-energy gamma-ray telescope, Milagro.
Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors ( ALEXIS )
ALEXIS' X-ray telescopes feature curved mirrors whose multilayer coatings reflect and focus low-energy X-rays or extreme ultraviolet light the way optical telescopes focus visible light. The satellite and payloads were funded by the Department of Energy and built by Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratory and the University of California-Space Sciences Lab. The Launch was provided by the Air Force Space Test Program on a Pegasus Booster on April 25, 1993. The mission is entirely controlled from a small groundstation at LANL.
MOnitoring X-ray Experiment ( MOXE )
The MOnitoring X-ray Experiment (MOXE) is an X-ray all-sky monitor to be launched on the Russian Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite in 1996. It will monitor several hundred X-ray sources on a daily basis, and will be the first instrument to monitor the complete X-ray sky simultaneously. MOXE is built by Los Alamos Nat Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center and Space Research Institute (Moscow).
MCCRACKEN, Henry ( UVIC )
University of Sussex Astronomy Department
Contains information on the department: people, research groups, courses. Also has available to download copies of recent (last 12 months) publications and preprints.
GRIBBIN, John ( Sussex )
STARLINK
The Starlink Software Collection is an anthology of astronomy applications packages and supporting subroutine libraries and utilities. It is provided by the UK Starlink Project and contributing institutions, and distributed to non-profit making organizations for use in astronomical research. At present, the collection comprises some 140 different items covering most wavebands and branches of astronomy. Most run on popular versions of UNIX. Starlink sites in the UK automatically receive regular updates, while other sites may obtain copies of the collection (and updates) on request to ussc@star.rl.ac.uk.
University of St. Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy ( UK )
The server of School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews. provides information on teaching and research activities in this modern school within an ancient University
Armagh Observatory ( Ireland )
Information on research programme and staff. Access to some Armagh Preprints and historical documentation.
Armagh Planetarium Homepage
An astronomical resource for educators and Planetarium workers which contains images obtained through our telescopes and a variety of other material.
Armagh Observatory Preprint Series
TEL AVIV University, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research activities: The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute, The Florence and George Wise Observatory, the TAUVEX UV experiment.
Stardust
A space mission that will fly close to a comet and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back to Earth
NASA Planetary Data System ( PDS )
The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications to ensure the long-term usability of data, to stimulate research, to facilitate data access, and to support correlative analysis. Subnodes include: MIT Microwave Subnode , Infrared Subnode , among others. There is a telnet_pds_guest_account at JPL.
Digital Sky Survey ( DSS )
The Digital Sky Survey, consisting of the 1950/55 Palomar Observatory Sky Survey red plates for the northern sky and the SERC Southern Sky Survey (including the SERC J Equatorial Extension and some short V-band plates at low galactic latitude) is available on line. A name resolver is available to find the coordinates of the object of interest. This service is intended to occasional, non-time critical users and for small fields. Depending on the load and the size of the field, the access and response time could be very large.
Universiteit Utrecht - Sterrenkundig Instituut
Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX
Universiteit Utrecht - Sterrenkundig Instituut: Preprints
HOGEVEEN, Sake J. ( Utrecht )
UUNA Astronomy Listings
The Usenet University - New Network Academy Meta-Library listing of on-line astronomy resources.
Keele University. Department of Physics ( UK )
The Astrophysics group is part of the UK-wide Starlink Project. For further information on Keele University look in the Campus Wide Information Service
Van Vleck Observatory ( VVO )
Wesleyan University - Astronomy Program
The Department of Astronomy at Wesleyan University offers both BA and MA degrees in astronomy. We include, here, information on coursework, current faculty research, recent faculty and student preprints and on-going observing programs at Van Vleck Observatory including an extensive Catalog of Photometry of T Tauri Stars
HERBST, Bill ( Wesleyan/VVO )
CERN Preprint Server
Big Bear Solar Observatory ( BBSO )
This site contains daily images from our solar optical telescope at Big Bear, California. Fulldisk images for the current month. H-alpha, white light, and Ca-II K-line images are generally available for every observing day; Ca-II K-line fulldisk archive; H-alpha fulldisk archive; White light fulldisk archive; Current high-resolution region images; Programs to read FITS images on IBM PCs and Macintoshes.
Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters ( VLA FIRST )
FIRST -- Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm -- is a project designed to produce the radio equivalent of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey over 10,000 square degrees of the North Galactic Cap. Using the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA) and an automated mapping pipeline, we produce images with 1.8" pixels, a typical rms of 150 Jy, and a resolution of 5" . At the 0.75 mJy source detection threshold, there are ~110 sources per square degree, ~35% of which have resolved structure on scales from 2-30" .
WHITE, Richard L. ( STScI )
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas. Departamento de Astronomía ( Universidad de Chile )
Greek Astronomy ( The Revival of an Ancient Science )
The Greek Astronomy subsection in the Mathematics section at the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit
Greek Astronomy (extra) ( Object Omitted from Exhibit )
The Greek Astronomy subsection in the Mathematics section at the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit
Brookhaven National Laboratory ( BNL )
UCO/Lick: Mount Hamilton
UCO/Lick: Keck Telescope
UCO/Lick: Mt. Hamilton 3m - Schedules ( UCO )
SDSS Science Archive ( JHU/SDSS )
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a project to survey a 10000 square degree area on the Northern sky over a 5 year period. A dedicated 2.5m telescope is specially designed to take wide field (3x3 degree) images using a 5x6 mosaic of 2048x2048 CCD's, in five wavelength bands, operating in scanning mode. The total raw data will exceed 40 TB. A processed subset, of about 1 TB in size, will consist of 1 million spectra, positions and image parameters for over 100 million objects, plus a mini-image centered on each object in every color. The data will be made available to the public after the completion of the survey.
SZALAY, Alex ( JHU )
SAO Telescope Data Center ( RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software )
Includes software packages: RVSAO, an IRAF package for finding radial velocities from spectra; RGSC a program for searching the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog; SKYMAP a program for mapping star catalogs onto the sky; STAR a program for searching star catalogs
MINK, Doug ( SAO )
SAOimage Image Display Utility ( SAOimage )
SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images which runs under the X11 window environment. It was written by Mike Van Hilst at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1990 and is now maintained by Doug Mink. Image files can be read directly, or image data may be passed through a named pipe (Unix) or a mailbox (VMS) from IRAF display tasks. SAOimage provides a large selection of options for zooming, panning, scaling, coloring, pixel readback, display blinking, and region specification. User interactions are generally performed with the mouse.
Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems ( ExNPS )
NASA's plan for the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS) consists of a long term program of continuous scientific discovery and technological development leading ultimately to the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets around nearby stars.
NASA Technical Report Server ( NTRS )
Single interface to databases maintained at: Ames Research Center - Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Division (NAS); Dryden Flight Research Center; ICASE - Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering; Langley Research Center; RECON database - abstracts only (NASA STI); SCAN -Selected Current Aerospace Notices - abstracts only (NASA STI); STELAR Project - abstracts only (Goddard Space Flight Center)
MCKEAN, Michael ( UCSD )
QUEST, Kevin B. ( UCSD )
Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania di Teramo ( OACT )
STONEKING, Troy
High-Energy Antimatter Telescope ( HEAT )
A description of the HEAT (High-Energy, Antimatter Telescope) instrument, a high-altitude-balloon-borne detector of antimatter, flown by NASA's NSBF (National Scientific Balloon Facility) branch.
GIOMMI, Paolo ( ESIS )
Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna - C.N.R.
2111 Foundation for Exploration
The 2111 Foundation for Exploratas founded to offer grants to expeditions or fieldwork using space technology or work with space related applications. This includes astronomical field excursions or fieldtrips or expeditions undertaking astronomical observations. The Foundation Home Page provides a complete list of eligible expedition categories.
KHOKHLOV, Alexei M. ( U. Texas )
WHEELER, J. Craig ( U. Texas )
International Space Science Institute
ISSI is an Institute in Switzerland at which scientists from different countries can work together. Its main task is to contribute to the achievement of a deeper understanding of the results from space-research missions, adding value to those results through multi-disciplinary research in an atmosphere of international cooperation.
SHETRONE,Matthew ( UCO/Lick )
GRONWALL, Caryl ( Lick/UCSC )
ZARITSKY, Dennis
FISCHER, Debra ( UCSC )
KORYCANSKY, Don ( Lick )
TURNER, Neal ( UCSC/Lick )
WIRTH, Gregory ( Lick/UCSC )
University of Pittsburgh - Astronomy Group
Air Force Maui Optical Station ( AMOS )
Information about the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS), located on Maui, Hawaii. This is a dual-use facility, supporting both US government agencies as well as the civilian community. Assets include visible and IR sensors, and a 3.67 meter telescope under construction.
Ulysses Mission ( JPL )
The Ulysses Mission is the first spacecraft to explore interplanetary space at high solar latitudes. Ulysses is a joint endeavor of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the USA. Instruments include: Magnetometer (VHM/FGM), Solar Wind Plasma Experiment (SWOOPS), Solar Wind Ion Composition Instrument (SWICS), Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument (URAP), Energetic Particle Instrument (EPAC), Low-Energy Ion and Electron Experiment (HISCALE), Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Instrument (COSPIN), Solar X-ray and Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Instrument (GRB)
Solar Data Analysis Center ( SDAC )
The SDAC at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center serves current solar ground- and spaced-based imagery, text, figures, maps, and tables of NASA eclipse bulletins, solar flare data from the Compton GRO BATSE experiment and the Yohkoh spacecraft, and science operations planning information for the SOHO Science Working Team.... and more to come.
Solar UV Atlas from HRTS ( HRTS data )
Through the generosity of Dr. Pål Brekke of the University of Oslo, the High Resolution Spectrograph and Telescope (HRTS) ultraviolet solar atlas is now available on the Web. Click here for more information.
BRIGGS, Daniel ( NRL/USNO )
BLAES, Omer ( UCSB )
CNIDR Isite
CNIDR Isite is an integrated software package including a text indexer, search engine and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases. Isite includes the CNIDR ZDist, Isearch and Search API distributions.
Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics ( CEA /EUVE )
The EUVE Guest Observer Center provides information, software, and data to EUVE Guest Observers. The EUVE Public Archive is creating a set of CD-ROMs of EUVE observations. There is also an AnonFTP server which contains the publicly available documents from the EUVE GO Center, the IRAF/EUV software, and the publicly available archive data from EUVE. - README
Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory
Planetry Society
In 1980, Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray founded The Planetary Society to promote the exploration of our solar system (and others) and the search for extraterrestrial life. In its first year, the Society became the fastest growing nonprofit membership organization of the decade. We now number over 100,000 members around the world--the largest nongovernmental space organization on Earth.
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
(DCW: " a pretty icon page!" )
(French text)
BELCHER, John W. ( MIT )
The Net Advance of Physics ( NetAdvPhys )
Online encyclopaedia of physics/astrophysics; includes most review papers in the Los Alamos preprint base catalogued by subject. Will someday hopefully be a complete subject-index to online physics and astrophysics literature.
University of Washington - Physics Department
Deep Undersea Muon and Neutrino Detection ( DUMAND )
Directory tree of information about the DUMAND project, designed to serve the needs of the experimenters, as well as to make information about DUMAND progress available to the broader scientific public.
French WWW Servers ( France )
PAOLI, Sergio ( La Plata Observatory )
WOODWARD, Carey ( Wisconsin-Madison )
Io plasma torus
Western Kentucky University - Physics and Astronomy Department
Home page for the astronomy group at Western Kentucky University and the Hardin Planetarium, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The department is a collaborator in CASS: NASA University Research Center for Automated Space Science, along with Tennessee State University and South Carolina State University. Further links are provided for the Kentucky NASA EPSCoR program and the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium.
Astrophysics at North Carolina State University ( NCSU )
Astrophysics research at NCSU centers on the theoretical studies of supernova remnants. Issues addressed by our group include particle acceleration, origin of synchrotron emission, and the hydrodynamic evolution of SNRs. Other topics pursued in theoretical astrophysics include the physics of collisionless shocks, accretion processes, stellar jets and winds, and interacting binary stars.
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso ( INFN, Italy )
Underground laboratory for Particle Physics and Astrophysics. The server includes information about the experiments:
Comets & Meteor Showers
A www page for observers of comets and meteor showers. Includes most of text of 1988 book Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog detailing 120 radiants. Also gives historical details of current comets, as well as highlights of current apparition, including ephemerides and movies showing comet motions. Soon to include finder charts.
Aspen Center for Physics ( ACP )
The Aspen Center for Physics is a scientific organization which promotes organized research in physics, astrophysics and related fields through a program of individual and collaborative research, seminars, workshops and conferences and which promotes the education of the general public through public lectures and other activities.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Department of Astronomy
The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program's World Wide Web pages offer information on the Graduate Program, including information on research projects and the individual research programs of the department members, and a directory of astronomical images at a variety of wavelengths, highlighted by a clickable map of the L1641 dark cloud showing images from several positions within the dense molecular cores at multiple wavelengths ranging from soft x-rays, (from the ROSAT PSPC) through visible and near infrared images, to IRAS images and mm and cm wavelength images of outflows associated with deeply embedded objects. Also we are currently serving the most recent pre-main-sequence evolution tracks from D'Antona & Mazzitelli (ApJ Suppl, Jan 1994). In the near future we will be adding an extensive database of standard star spectra
  1. in the red region (5500-9000 A) from the HYDRA spectrograph
  2. in the near infrared region from the FTS spectrograph on the KPNO 4m telescope.
This database will include the Kleinmann et al. 2 micron spectra as well as recently acquired spectra in the J and H bands for the entire range of spectral types and luminosities. We also have available a set of transparent bitmaps of the Greek alphabet for use in Mosaic pages that are available for pickup if you wish to use them.
ARNY, Thomas ( UMASS )
VAN BLERKOM, David ( UMASS )
DEUTSCH, Lynne K. ( UMass )
DOUGADOS, Catherine ( Grenoble )
EDWARDS, Susan ( UMass )
ERICKSON, Neal ( UMass )
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory ( FCRAO )
The FCRAO was founded in 1969 by the University of Massachusetts, together with Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. The original low frequency telescope was superseded in 1976 by a 14-m diameter radome-enclosed antenna for use at high radio frequencies (mm wavelengths), built primarily to study the physics and chemistry of interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, planetary atmospheres, and comets.
GREENSTEIN, George ( UMass )
HARRISON, Edward R. ( UMass )
HEYER, Mark ( UMass )
HUGHES, Joanne ( Univ. Washington )
Infrared and Optical Telescope Array ( IOTA )
IRVINE, William ( UMass )
KLEINMANN, Susan ( UMass )
STROM, Karen M. ( UMass )
KWAN, John ( UMass )
LADD, Ned ( UMass )
PRATAP, Preethi ( UMass )
PREDMORE, C. Read ( UMass )
SCHLOERB, F. Peter ( UMass )
SCHNEIDER, Stephen ( UMass )
SNELL, Ronald ( UMass )
STROM, Stephen E. ( UMass )
TADEMARU, Eugene ( UMass )
TUOVINEN, Jussi ( UMass )
UNGERECHTS, Hans ( IRAM )
WALL, David E. ( UMass )
WEINBERG, Martin ( UMass )
WHITE, Richard ( UMass )
XIE, Shuding ( UMass )
YOUNG, Judith ( UMass )
University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Department of Astronomy: Preprints ( Star Formation and Theory Group Preprints )
Abstracts and full text preprints of accepted papers from the Star Formation and Theory groups at the University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program.
UMASS Astronomy Image Library
A library of optical, near infrared, IRAS, and mm radio images of astronomical objects of special interest to the UMass Astronomy group. This library includes the hyperlinked tour of the Lynds 1641 molecular cloud in Orion, and a library of images of molecular line maps of star formation regions studied at FCRAO.
Brown University - Astronomy ( Brown )
Lists Faculty, Courses, Brown Observatories, etc.
Brown University - Observatories
TARGAN, Dave ( Brown Univ. )
University of Oxford - Astrophysics
Oxford Workshop on Evidence for Tori in AGN
SUTHERLAND, Will ( Oxford )
APM Galaxy Survey
The APM Galaxy Survey contains over 2 million galaxies with Bj < 20.5 in the South Galactic Cap. This page provides a summary of the survey and some pretty pictures.
IRAS PSC Redshift Survey
The IRAS Point Source Catalog redshift survey is a survey of (almost) all of the 15,000 galaxies brighter than 0.6 Jansky at 60 microns, over 83% of the whole sky. The survey is virtually complete as of Jan 1995, and results on large-scale structure should appear in the next few months.
Ohio State University - Department of Astronomy
Provides information about the personnel, research and teaching activities, and resources of the OSU Astronomy Department. Includes our on-line graduate program brochure, links to the personal home pages of faculty, staff, and students, and calendars of local events.
IAU Colloquium #159
IAU Colloquium 159, ``Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques'', will be held in Shanghai, The People's Republic of China, 17 - 20 June 1996. The focus of this meeting, which will be co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Astronomical Society, and The Ohio State University, will be on observations and interpretation of emission lines in the X-ray to radio spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and physically or phenomenologically related sources. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques, including new results from satellite observatories, emission-line observations in non-traditional wavebands, imaging spectroscopy, and reverberation mapping, and on improvements to the fundamental atomic and molecular data base.
WANDERS, Ignaz
MARTINI, Paul ( Ohio State Univ. )
This web page contains links to a variety of internet resources for both professional and amateur astronomers.
POGGE, Richard W. ( Ohio State Univ. )
PRADHAN, Anil K. ( Ohio State Univ. )
TERNDRUP, Don ( Ohio State Univ. )
University of Oxford - Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics.
Kyoto University - Department of Physics: Cosmic Ray Group
IAU Symposium No.179 - New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys
University of Washington - HPCC/ESS Project
The Department of Astronomy offers the results of simulations including SPH gas dynamics and dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, and the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY.
LAKE, George ( Univ.Washington )
DIKAIAKOS, Marios ( Univ.Washington )
MOORE, Ben ( U. Washington )
KATZ, Neal ( Univ.Washington )
QUINN, Tom ( Univ.Washington )
GARDNER, Jeff ( Univ.Washington )
AstroEd
A collection of pointers to resources related to teaching/learning Astronomy. Includes pointers to courses, multimedia documents, image catalogs, history, and others.
Astronomy Education Resources ( AstroEd )
HPCC K-12 Outreach Project, University of Washington What's New Sites which have been added to these pages recently. AstroEd Curriculum materials and on-line courses Popular Astronomy Articles Articles for the general population written by members of the HPCC group. AstroNews Newsletters, magazines, hypertext articles, and bulletins. AstroImage Images, animations and simulations from many sources. AstroHistory Links to history resources related to astronomy and space science Ask-an-Astronomer You can send a question about astronomy and receive an answer from a professional astronomer whose expertise is in the area of your question. Additional Astronomy Resources Software, on-line telescopes, organizations, planetaria, museums, and indeces NASA A basic attempt to find materials in this huge labyrinth on the web
PhysicsEd
Collection of pointers to courses, multimedia documents, lesson plans, software, organizations, and other resources useful in the teaching/learning of Physics.
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics ( ISTP )
The International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Science Initiative Home Page provides information on ISTP missions, campaigns, and activities.
Observatoire de Lyon
MAUBON, Gregory ( student )
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ( PASP )
PASP is the technical journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It has been published continuously since 1889 (except for one issue which was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and had to be reprinted).
BRIEU, Philippe P. ( Michigan )
Physics and Space Technology Directorate ( LLNL )
FRANK, Louis A. ( U. Iowa )
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ( SDSS at Fermilab )
(1) In the pi steradians of the available North Galactic Pole (b > 30 degrees), we shall conduct surveys in the following manner: Obtain a photometric survey, in four or five filters to 23rd magnitude (R), 5 sigma, for stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all galaxies down to 19th magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all QSOs down to 20th magnitude (B). (2) In the available South Galactic Pole region there will be a deeper survey in a strip 2 degrees (dec) by 50 degrees, in order to: obtain a photometric survey, in four or five filters to 25th magnitude (R), 5 sigma, for stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all galaxies down to 20th magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all QSOs down to 21st magnitude (B). (3) In the additional available sky covering the Galactic disk, a deep photometric survey will be conducted on a best effort basis to 23rd magnitude (R), 5 sigma.
NASA Ames Space Science Division
Astrophysics Exobiology Planetary Systems Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards Galileo Probe Home Page Planetary Rings Node Center for Mars Exploration Astrochemistry Laboratory Mars Atmosphere General Circulation Modeling Group Pioneer Plasma Group Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment DATA Center for Data Analysis Technology & Applications
LATTER, William B. ( NASA - AMES )
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( SLAC )
Stanford Public Information REtrieval System ( SLAC-SPIRES )
A variety of SLAC's databases of interest to high-energy physics community is now made available via WWW, including: Preprints: HEP preprint database. Contains bibliographic summaries of more than 280,000 particle physics papers. Included are preprints, journal articles, technical reports, thesis, etc. Searchable by author, title, report number, institution, collaboration, and more. Find citations of your favorite author or article. View full postscript versions of selected preprints, read abstracts of bulletin-board papers. Need more help? Abstracts: Bulletin boards abstracts database. Useful in searching for recent physics bulletin board articles not yet covered by the HEP database. Find abstracts (and more!) of the articles posted today, yesterday, in the last seven days, week before that, or anytime.
UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Space Science Center
Magnetospheric physics, Solar Wind Coupling and Geomagnetic Activity, Space Simulations and Space Physics
BOILY, Christian ( QMW College London )
PDRA in astronomy; Research interests:
dynamics, hydrodynamics, star formation, YSOs.
Cosmological Constant Conference
International Conference on "The Cosmological Constant and the Evolution of the Universe", The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), November 7 - 10, 1995
Recent observational data, such as the Hubble constant measurements and estimates of the age of globular clusters, have strongly suggested the existence of nonvanishing cosmological constant. It is, however, quite difficult to explain the observationally suggested value on purely theoretical grounds. The purpose of the Conference is to bring together the observational data and theoretical ideas concerning the cosmological constant.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS: T. Broadhurst, W. Freedman, R. Griffiths, S. Hawking, E. Kolb, M. Rees, J. Silk, E. Turner, A. Vilenkin, S. White
SSIN ( Student Solar Information Network )
Provides information, news, resources and conference details free to anyone studying solar and renewable energy. Contact: m.e.thornton@bham.ac.uk
WebStars ( Astrophysics on the Web )
WebStars, at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, is about astronomy & astrophysics; the Space Science Web Group; software & icons downloading; WWW technical pages & style guides; on-line articles about astronomy on the Web; HEASARC/StarTrax Browse and other online services; and virtual reality. If you have a document or resource you wish to be included, send me the text (preferably HTML) or a URL. WebStars is referenced by many other sites on the Web. It has been expanded and reorganised extensively since its first announcement in February, so visit again! The What's New page lists file change dates, to help you discover updates. Also, there are New Additions areas.
Tartu Observatory
Anglo-Australian Observatory ( AAO )
Anglo-Australian Telescope - Schedules ( AAT )
Anglo-Australian Observatory Library ( AAO Library )
Anglo-Australian Telescope / Schmidt Telescope Unit ( AAT / STU )
Astronomical Images from the AAO
The images available here are low resolution scanned derivatives of over 100 AAO photographs.
American Astronomical Society ( AAS )
Contains information on the Society, meeting schedules, meeting abstracts (in HTML), staff directory, the AAS Job Register and AASTeX .
Electronic Astrophysical Journal Letters ( ApJL )
The Astrophysical Journal Letter on-line, a demonstration of the AAS's Electronic Journal Project. The AAS Electronic Journal Project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
AAS Job Register (Current)
AAS Meetings
BOYCE, Peter ( AAS )
Interests: Electronic Publishing, SETI, Public Policy
American Association of Variable Star Observers ( AAVSO )
SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM is an IBM PC-based stellar spectral synthesis program. Given a stellar atmosphere model, SPECTRUM computes the LTE synthetic spectrum. This Web site contains an introduction to SPECTRUM, full on-line documentation, and access to the ftp site for downloading SPECTRUM and auxiliary files. SPECTRUM is being made available over the Internet for the purposes of research and education.
Astronomy at ADFA
Astronomy homepage for the School of Physics at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Containing information on research interests and personnel. Images to come!
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam ( AIP )
TUCKER, Douglas ( Potsdam )
Scientific Interests: extragalactic astronomy, redshift surveys. Member of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey team.
The Las Campanas Redshift Survey/European Mirror Site ( LCRS European Mirror )
Las Campanas Redshift Survey data and publications. Mirror of http://manaslu.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html.
American Institute of Physics ( AIP )
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.
Applied Physics Letters ( APL )
European Association for Astronomy Education ( EAAE )
The purpose of the EAAE is to improve and promote scientific astronomical education all over Europe in schools of all levels and other institutions involved in the teaching of astronomy.
McELROY, Doug ( JPL/Caltech )
Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona ( Barcelona )
Argonne National Laboratory ( ANL )
American Nuclear Society ( ANS )
Apache Point Observatory
APO is privately owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC), consisting of the University of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study, Johns Hopkins University, New Mexico State University, Princeton University, University of Washington, and Washington State University. The observatory consists of a 3.5-meter telescope and three future telescopes which are under construction.
BRINKMANN, Jonathan ( NMSU )
GLORIA, Karen ( Williams )
SIEGMUND, Walt ( Univ.Washington )
NASA Ames Research Center ( ARC )
US Army High Performance Computing Research Center ( AHPCRC )
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri ( Firenze )
English Version (not as current as Italian version)
MANNUCCI, Filippo ( Arcetri )
FINI, Luca ( Arcetri )
STRAUS, Thomas ( Arcetri )
Steward Observatory (WWW)
The Steward Observatory Home Page provides information on the academic and research activities of the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy as well as information on the facilities of Steward Observatory.
HINES, Dean C. ( Steward Obs. )
HILL, John ( Steward Obs. )
IVANOV, Valentin D. ( Arizona )
University of Texas, Austin - Department of Astronomy / McDonald Observatory
University of Texas, Austin - ISM Group: Preprints
CORNELL, Debbie ( U. Texas )
West Virginia University Astrophysics ( WVU )
Cambridge University Astronomy
Includes: Institute of Astronomy (IoA) Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomer Place Index (via gateway ), People Index (via gateway ), Postal Index (via gateway ), a Catalog of Galactic SNR's , and more
Other Astronomy Home Pages ( Cambridge )
Cambridge (UK) Institute of Astronomy ( IoA )
Hubble Space Telescope picture gallery
a mousable sequence of press release photographs taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Royal Greenwich Observatory ( RGO )
Astronomy information leaflets
These WWW pages form part of a series of astronomical pamphlets distributed by the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Information includes: The Solar System and the most distant object in it, as well as the objects that have come closest to the earth; What is a star? Aurorae; The Twenty Five brightest stars and the Thirty closest stars; The Galileo, Hipparcos, and Cassini satellites; Telescopes; Meridian Astronomy; The surface temperatures of the planets; Cosmology and Galaxies; Day and Night and the seasons including Summer Time and information on Lighting-up time, sunrise, sunset and twilight; About Time: The calendar, the date of Easter, the equation of time, and leap years. Also the year 2000 AD; Tides; Supernovae, pulsars, and Black Holes; Photometry - measuring the brightnesses of stars; Eclipses, including the total lunar eclipses on 1992 December 9 and 1993 November 29; How stars and other objects get their names; Space travel and the shuttle missions in 1993 The Satellite Laser Ranger; The use of Computers at the RGO; Sundials and the Greenwich Water Tanks
Hubble Space Telescope - pictures
Publicly released images from post-servicing observations by Hubble Space Telescope. The images in this directory are in GIF format which supports up to 256 colors (8-bits). They include 30 Doradus, 47 Tucanae, Comet 1993e, Eta Carinae, Mars, M31, M87, M100, NGC1068, NGC2440, NGC6624, NGC7252, Nova Cygni, Orion (incl. animation), QSO1220+204, the Saturn storm, SL-9, SN1987A (with rings), and SN1994I. The images have originally been made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Abstract searches - Cambridge, UK
Archive of Starlink Newsgroups
An archive of the Starlink newsgroups, in the uk.org.starlink hierarchy, is kept in Cambridge. This gives read access to the newsgroups to interested parties who do not have the newsgroups on their local news server. The articles in the archive are sorted by subject to make following threads easier.
GLAZEBROOK, Karl ( IoA-Cambridge )
pgperl ( - a graphics extension for perl - a macro language for pgplot - )
pgperl is a version of the Perl 4.0 language which has been combined with the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data. (As a glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) The details of this involve some complicated C glue routines but are transparent to the user. perl is a real C-like language with full control structures, and is very fast and efficient. All the power of perl (and believe me that is a lot) is available to extract data to plot from multitudes of files in complicated free formats.
La Palma - Isaac Newton Group (WWW) ( ING )
The Issac Newton Group consists of three telescopes, the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5 metre Isaac Newton Telescope, and the 1.0 metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telscope. They are situated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma in the Canary Islands, and are operated by the Royal Observatories of the UK. This resource contains documentation for many of the major instruments, details of how to apply for time, brief descriptions of the telescopes, details and status of the service programme, current telescope schedules, daylight and moonlight diagrams from the Nautical Almanac Office of the RGO, reports on recent instrument commissioning, and pointers to weather information for La Palma and to the home pages of other institutions which share the site.
Cambridge University Astronomy Society
Contains links to various resources of interest to astronomers as well as society information.
MCMAHON, Richard ( IOA )
CUMMING, Robert ( Stockholm )
TRIBBLE, Peter ( IoA,Cambridge )
Peter Tribble's Papers
Peter Tribble has converted some of his preprints into hypertext form. In addition, permission has been obtained to make his papers published in Monthly Notices available. (Note that the published papers are copyrighted and this is something of an experiment, so that some feedback would be appreciated.)
University of Vienna - Institute for Astronomy
This is the WWW server of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Vienna in Austria and provides information about the Institute and the Stellar Surface Structure conference in october 95. Further on, an electronical version of the Delta Scuti Star Newsletter is distributed.
S.T.A.R.S. Workshop
S.T.A.R.S. (Seismic Telescope for Astrophysical Research in Space) - Stellar Astrophysics at the Turn to the 21 st. Century - Announcement of a workshop in Val Cenis, France 28. Jan. to l. Feb. 1996
University of Alabama - Department of Physics and Astronomy
A listing of faculty, postdocs, and graduates students as well as information on the Graduate program of study, the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, and a description of research facilities. Online preprints, job listings, and other information will be added soon.
KEEL, William ( Alabama )
WHITE, Raymond E., III ( U. Alabama )
ESKRIDGE, Paul ( U. Alabama )
Nicolaus Copernicus University - Institute of Astronomy
ZUBKO, Victor ( IA, Torun, Poland )
Research interests: physics of cosmic dust, dust formation around RCB and WR stars, carbon condensate in a white dwarf atmosphere, optical properties of dust grains, computational methods in dust astrophysics
Poznan Observatory ( A. Mickiewicz University )
Information on the staff and research activities.
Astronomical Dep. of University Of Thessaloniki
SEIRADAKIS, John H. ( Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki )
PAPADOPOULOS, Demitrios ( Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki )
SPYROU, Nicholas ( Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki )
VLAHOS, Loukas ( Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki )
University of Wales, College of Cardiff - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Cardiff Astronomical Society
Cardiff Astronomical Society, UK, News and Homepage Information on astronomy, telescopes and exhibitions Links to other society pages and astronomy sites in the UK.
Cardiff Star Formation Group ( UK )
Welcome to the home page of the Cardiff Star Formation Group, part of the Physics and Astronomy Department at UWCC. We conduct numerical simulations of star formation running on the Cray YMP at Oxford and local Sun workstations
Columbia University - Astronomy and Astrophysics
This is the homepage for the Columbia University Astronomy Department.
HALPERN, Jules ( Columbia Univ. )
HASWELL, Carole A. ( Columbia Univ. )
KAMIONKOWSKI, Marc ( Columbia Univ. )
KAY, Laura E. ( Columbia Univ. )
MIGHELL, Kenneth J. ( Columbia Univ. )
RICH, R. Michael ( Columbia Univ. )
SPIEGEL, Edward A. ( Columbia Univ. )
BAKER, Norman H. ( Columbia Univ. )
CROTTS, Arlin ( Columbia Univ. )
HELFAND, David J. ( Columbia Univ. )
KAARET, Philip ( Columbia Univ. )
FANG, Yihu ( Columbia Univ. )
Czech Astronomical Society
Czech Astronomical Society
Czech Astronomical Society (CAS) is a voluntary association of professional and amateur astronomers and friends of astronomy and related sciences and also corporate members in the Czech Republic. CAS was founded on December 8, 1917 in Prague.
CHLACHULA,Josef ( Zlin )
Glasgow University - Astronomy Group
Some astronomical resources ( Glasgow )
Solar Conferences 1994 ( Glasgow )
Indiana University Automated Photometric Telescope
Kirkwood Observatory
WIYN, from Indiana University
Copenhagen University Observatory
NORDLUND, Åke ( Copenhagen )
PEDERSEN, Holger ( Copenhagen )
Danish telescopes around the world
PETERSEN, Jørgen Otzen ( Copenhagen )
KJæRGAARD RASMUSSEN, Per ( Copenhagen )
University of Michigan Astronomy Department ( U. Mich. Astronomy )
Includes Interactive Radio Observatory Database
Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory ( MDM Observatory )
MDM Observatory is a collaboration between the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Observatory is located on the southwest ridge of the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ. It operates two telescopes: the 2.4-m Hiltner telescope and the 1.3-m McGraw-Hill telescope. Each institution receives one third of the telescope time on both telescopes.
Curtis Schmidt Telescope
The Curtis Schmidt telescope is a 0.61/.91 meter diameter Schmidt telescope located at the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory, about 500 km north of Santiago, Chile. This telescope was originally installed at the University of Michigan's Portage Lake Observatory in 1950, and moved to the much clearer skies of north central Chile in 1966. Two thirds of the time on this telescope is available to US and Chilean astronomers, with the remaining one third reserved for astronomers from the Dept. of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.
COWLEY, Charles R. ( U. Michigan )
SCHULMAN, Eric ( Michigan )
HUGHES, Philip A. ( U. Michigan )
FISCHER, Philippe ( Michigan )
Create your own Stellar Population ( Dial-a-model )
This form allows users to cook up arbitrary combinations of single-burst stellar population ages and metallicities. A grid of models is automatically consulted and properties of the requested population (integrated colors, M/L ratios, SBF magnitudes, and line strengths) are immediately returned. Optionally, the entire SED (spectral energy distribution) is sent to the user in a file.
HOUK, Nancy ( U. of Michigan )
primary interest:stellar spectroscopy and spectral classification career-long project: The Michigan Spectral Catalogue (see link in personal home page)
Lund Observatory
Local information, re- and preprints, images from the Nordic Optical Telescope
La Palma - Nordic Optical Telescope - Schedules ( NOT )
La Palma - Nordic Optical Telescope ( NOT )
Lund Observatory: Preprints
a list of recent preprints published by astronomers at Lund Observatory
DRAVINS, Dainis
High-speed astrophysics Stellar surface structure
Northwestern University - Astronomy ( NWU )
Contents include information on undergraduate studies and graduate studies, who we are, what we do, and our gallery of gamma-ray bursts as observed by the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on board the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO).
All-sky Low Energy Gamma Ray Observatory ( ALEGRO )
ALLEGRO is a proposed MidEx class instrument providing all-sky monitoring of low-energy gamma-rays at unprecedented sensitivity. Unlike previous hard X-ray experiments, there is no time-averaging, data-selection, or triggering on-board: ALLEGRO transmits all events, time-tagged to 1/8th ms and with full energy information. This produces a database of uniformly high resolution in both energy and time, permitting non-triggered, unbiased detection of transient and pulsed events.
BUSCOMBE, William ( Northwestern Univ. )
FINN, Lee Samuel ( Northwestern Univ. )
GRABELSKY, David ( Northwestern Univ. )
LENTZ, Robert A. ( Northwestern Univ. )
MEYER, David M. ( Northwestern Univ. )
MILLER, Guy ( Northwestern Univ. )
NOVAK, Giles ( Northwestern Univ. )
PENDLETON, Jim ( Northwestern Univ. )
PURCELL, William R. ( Northwestern Univ. )
ROMER, Kathy ( Northwestern Univ. )
TAAM, Ronald E. ( Northwestern Univ. )
ULMER, Melville P. ( Northwestern Univ. )
YUSEF-ZADEH, Farhad ( Northwestern Univ. )
Lentz Astronomy Listing ( NWU )
Princeton University Observatory
SPERGEL, David N. ( Princeton )
LUPTON, Robert ( Princeton )
RHOADS, James ( Princeton )
THE AMATEUR SKY SURVEY
This project, aka TASS, hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the world. The goal is to monitor the sky down to fourteenth-sixteenth magnitude and study variable stars, asteroids and comets.
XU, Guohong ( Princeton )
Pennsylvania State University - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( PSU )
BEST, Jason ( Penn State Univ. )
BURROWS, David N. ( Penn State Univ. )
CARKNER, Lee ( PSU )
Lee Carkner, graduate student, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics. These pages contain information on my research into T Tauri stars and star formation, as well as internet resources for the class I am teaching this semester, Introductory Astronomy Laboratory.
CHARLTON, Jane C. ( Penn State Univ. )
CHESTER, Margaret McMath ( Penn State Univ. )
SCHNEIDER, Donald ( Penn State Univ. )
FEIGELSON, Eric D. ( Penn State Univ. )
NEFF, James
FELDMEIER, John ( PSU )
MESZAROS, Peter ( Penn State Univ. )
PAVLOV, George ( Penn State Univ. )
Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
CIARDULLO, Robin ( Penn State Univ. )
SKINNER, Mark A. ( Penn State Univ. )
Grupo de Astronomía y Astrofísica ( PUC )
Grupo de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Universitity of Groningen - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
There is also a Gopher server. Includes Dutch Astronomy Services
KOORNNEEF, Jan ( Groningen )
Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork ( PLANET )
The PLANET collaboration is a worldwide network of astronomers with access to Dutch, South African, and Australian telescopes. The primary goal of PLANET is the study of microlensing anomalies (departures from an achromatic point-source, point-lens light curve) through multi-band, rapidly-sampled photometry. An ultimate goal is to place constraints on the number and distribution of planets around other stars.
Planetary Nebulae
IAU Symposium No. 180 PLANETARY NEBULAE Groningen, The Netherlands, 26 - 30 August 1996
Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universitt Bochum ( AI-RUB )
Local information about the institute, the research groups and actual Astro-News. There also is an Astro-Flame-Wall.
HOFFMANN, Dirk ( Ruhr-Universitt Bochum )
GOLLA, Götz ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
JÜTTE, Marcus ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
KAMPMANN, Heiko ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
SCHMIDTOBREICK, Linda ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
WERGER, Michael ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
HANUSCHIK, Reinhard ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
POST, Uwe ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
PH308 --- Galaxies, Quasars & Cosmology
This course is a third year undergraduate option taught by the Astronomy Group at Southampton University. The course is intended to provide a broad introduction to extragalactic astronomy: it is divided into three main sections, which cover the properties of normal galaxies, the nature of active galaxies, and our current understanding of cosmology.

The purpose of these WorldWide Web pages is to provide direct access to some of my notes, to a number of the on-line resources used in preparing the lectures, and to further material. They are not a substitute for the lectures (at least, not yet)!

Stockholm Observatory
University of British Columbia - Department of Geophysics and Astronomy ( UBC )
University of California, LA - Department of Physics and Astronomy (UCLA) ( UCLA )
Home page for the Astronomy Division of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. Information on faculty, staff, graduate students, graduate programs, and research programs.
GHEZ, Andrea ( UCLA )
JURA, Michael A. ( UCLA )
MALKAN, Matthew A. ( UCLA )
PLAVEK, Mirek J. ( UCLA )
WANG, Zhengzhi ( UCLA )
FIGER, Don ( UCLA )
WRIGHT, Edward L. ( UCLA )
University of Florida Astronomy Dept.
KAUFMANN, David ( U. Florida / GSFC )
OLIVER, John P. ( U. Florida )
Magellanic Clouds Newsletter ( MCnews )
An bi-monthly electronic publication on Magellanic Clouds related research. The online content of the www page includes downloadable recent and back issues, news, and hyperlinks to other Magellanic Clouds related sites.
University of Maryland, College Park - Astronomy Department
COLBERT, Edward ( U. Maryland )
Newsletter for Galactic Center Research ( GCNEWS )
GCNEWS is a bi-monthly Newsletter dedicated to research dealing with the center of the Galaxy. The Newsletter contains abstracts to recently submitted papers with links to electronic preprints, a short invited article, and misc. announcements/conferences/job offer etc. In addition to the Newsletter a weekly Newsflash service distributes recently submitted article by emails. The electronic version of GCNEWS (HTML/PS) is available online, as are the most recently submitted abstracts and papers. On the web-page you will find the Galactic Center White Pages- a listing of people working in this field.
GRAYZECK, Edwin J. ( U. Maryland )
GRUENDL, Robert ( Maryland )
HAMILTON, Douglas ( U. Maryland )
FALCKE, Heino ( Univ. Maryland )
AGN, compact radio cores, Galactic Center, Sgr A*, Seyferts, jets, accretion disks and black holes
GALLIMORE, Jack ( STScI )
A'HEARN, Michael F. ( U. Maryland )
MATTOX, John ( Maryland )
MILLER, Scott ( U. Maryland )
MORGAN, James ( U. Maryland )
GEIER, Sven ( U of Maryland )
STARK, Michael ( Maryland/GSFC )
TEUBEN, Peter ( Maryland )
VOGEL, Stuart ( U. Maryland )
Université de Montréal - Groupe d'Astrophysique [English] ( [French] )
BASTIEN, Pierre ( Montréal )
CARIGNAN, Claude ( Montréal )
DEMERS, Serge ( Montréal )
FONTAINE, Gilles ( Montréal )
MICHAUD, Georges ( Montréal )
MOFFAT, Anthony F.J. ( Montréal )
NADEAU, Daniel ( Montréal )
RACINE, René ( Montréal )
SAINT-LOUIS, Nicole ( Montréal )
WESEMAEL, François ( Montréal )
Observatoire du Mont Mégantic ( OMM )
EVERSBERG, Thomas ( UdeM )
Astronomische Gesellschaft
The WWW pages of the German Astronomical Society, ''Astronomische Gesellschaft`` contain basic information on the activities and members of this organization of German speaking astronomers.
OSSENKOPF, Volker ( University Observatory Jena )
Astronomical Institute of Würzburg University ( Würzburg )
Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory ( TRAO )
Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) is an educational and research facility to study the Universe by means of radio waves. The Observatory is a part of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Nicolaus Copernicus University.
MARECKI, Andrzej ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
WALENTYNOWICZ, Grazyna ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
OWSIANIK, Izabela ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
BORKOWSKI, Kazimierz ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
BLASZKIEWICZ, Leszek ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
FEILER, Roman ( Torun Radio Astronomy Obs. )
Astronomisches Institut der Universitt Basel ( Basel )
Centro de Astrofisica
This is the Home Page of The Astrophysics Research Center at the University of Porto, providing general information on people and their research.
University of Toronto - Department of Astronomy
Encompasses the David Dunlap Observatory and the library and provides links to other UofT and Canadian servers.
University of Toronto - David Dunlap Observatory ( DDO )
Selected astronomy book and software reviews
GARRISON, Robert F. ( Toronto )
LILLY, Simon J. ( Toronto )
RUCINSKI, Slavek ( Toronto )
University of Toronto Southern Observatory ( UTSO )
UTSO operates the 60cm Helen Sawyer Hogg Telescope located on Cerro Las Campanas in north-central Chile. This homepage provides information useful to potential users and others interested in our facility.
Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
The WWW-server contains information about research activities etc, at the astronomical observatory at Uppsala University.
PIJPERS, Frank P. ( Uppsala )
LAGERROS, Johan ( Uppsala )
Astronomical Institute " Anton Pannekoek"
This is the homepage of the Astronomical Institute " Anton Pannekoek" in Amsterdam. It gives information on the Institute, the peoples homepages, several links to astronomical things etc.
FLUKS, Marc-Alexander ( Amsterdam )
JONGERT, Haakon ( Amsterdam )
VAN DEN ANCKER, Mario ( Amsterdam )
BERGER, Michiel ( Amsterdam )
University of Amsterdam
A collection of pretty astronomy and space images used as a slide show on the `Open Day 1994' of the Astronomical Institute, with graphical index.
University of Amsterdam - Astronomical Institute: Preprints
University of Virginia - Astronomy Department
SARAZIN, Craig L. ( U. Virginia )
TOLBERT, Charles R. ( U. Virginia )
WHITTLE, D. Mark ( U. Virginia )
FREDRICK, Laurence W. ( U. Virginia )
BALBUS, Steven ( U. Virginia )
GOLDSTEIN, Samuel J. ( U. Virginia )
MAJEWSKI, Steven R. ( Virginia )
KUMAR, Shiv S. ( Univ. Virginia )
University of Virginia: Preprints
PALMA, Chris ( Univ. Virginia )
PLAIT, Phil ( Virginia )
PATTERSON, Ricky ( U. Virginia )
ROOD, Robert T. ( U. Virginia )
University of Washington - Department of Astronomy
The Department participates in these major projects: Apache Point Observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA High Performance Computing and Communications. The HPCC Project offers the results of simulations including gas dynamics or just dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY, and Lecture notes for introductory astronomy courses.
Astronomical Journal ( AJ )
The Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256) is published monthly and consists of two volumes per year; an author and subject index appears at the end of each volume. An annual author and subject index is located in the last volume of each year.
BALICK, Bruce ( Univ. Washington )
BECK-WINCHATZ, Bernhard ( Univ.Washington )
BROWNLEE, Don ( U. Washington )
COLLIER, John ( Univ.Washington )
DEUTSCH, Eric ( Univ.Washington )
GRIFFITH, Mark ( Univ.Washington )
HOARD, D.W. ( Univ.Washington )
INGRAM, Doug ( Univ.Washington )
ALEXANDER, Jason ( Univ.Washington )
BROWN, Jeff ( Univ.Washington )
RODRIGUES-Williams Liliya ( Univ.Washington )
MARGON, Bruce ( Univ.Washington )
MENDOZA, Luis ( Univ.Washington )
OLSEN, Knut ( Univ.Washington )
NELSON, George D. ( U. Washington )
REISS, David ( Univ.Washington )
RODGERS, Bernadette ( Univ.Washington )
RUGERS, Martin ( Univ.Washington )
SILBER, Andy ( Univ.Washington )
SMITH, Toby ( Univ.Washington )
ZUCKER, Dan ( Univ.Washington )
Williams College - Astronomy Department
The Williams College Astronomy Department homepage features information on the Department's observatory facilities, links to faculty and staff homepages (with information on faculty and staff background and research interests), links to color CCD images taken at Williams College, current Astronomy Dept. course listings, and information on recent student projects at the observatory.
PASACHOFF, Jay M. ( Williams College )
KWITTER, Karen B. ( Williams College )
MARAZITI, Deborah L. ( Williams College )
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Astronomy Department
Also contains: Woodman Astronomical Library
Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper ( WHAM )
The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper will produce a survey of H-Alpha emission from the interstellar medium (ISM) over the entire northern sky. The instrument combines a 24-inch telescope and a high-resolution, 6-inch Fabry-Perot spectrometer to achieve 8-12 km/s velocity resolution in one-degree beams on the sky. By utilizing CCD technology, we hope to attain a sensitivity level of 0.01 Rayleighs. This survey, the first of ionized hydrogen in our galaxy, will be used to explore the spatial and kinematic structure of the warm ionized component of the ISM. WHAM is currently at Pine Bluff Observatory but will move to Kitt Peak, Arizona in the Fall of 1996 for the survey, which should take about 2 years.
COX,Andrea ( UW-Madison )
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Astronomy Department: Preprints
Constellations and Their Stars
Contains a page for each of the 88 constellations. On each page are links to the Messier objects and named stars which can be found in that constellation. There is also an ongoing project to add descriptions of each constellation, including images, history, mythology and descriptive notes.
BJORKMAN, Karen S. ( Wisconsin )
RUBENSTEIN, Eric ( . )
Globular Clusters; Binary Stars; Cataclysmic Variables
Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo " Giuseppe S. Vaiana"
Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo " Giuseppe S. Vaiana" : Preprints
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Instituto de Astronomía
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
The Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN) operates 3 telescopes (2.1m, 1.5m, and 0.84m) up in the mountains of the Sierra San Pedro Martir of Baja California. The observatory offices and workshops are located in Ensenada, B.C. overlooking the Pacific ocean. OAN is a part of the Instituto de Astronomía of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
TOVMASSIAN, Gaghik ( OAN / UNAM )
Warsaw University - Astronomical Observatory
Contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena.
KRUSZEWSKI, Andrzej ( Warsaw University Obs. )
JAHN, Krzysztof ( Warsaw University Obs. )
POJMANSKI, Grzegorz ( Warsaw University Obs. )
SEMENIUK, Irena ( Warsaw University Obs. )
KALUZNY, Janusz ( Warsaw University Obs. )
KIRAGA, Marcin ( Warsaw University Obs. )
KURPIEWSKI, Andrzej ( Warsaw University Obs. )
SZYMANSKI, Michal ( Warsaw University Obs. )
PYCH, Wojtek ( Warsaw University Obs. )
UDALSKI, Andrzej ( Warsaw Univ. Obs. )
Warsaw University - Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment ( OGLE )
The server contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena. Information on the side projects conducted parallely to the main search are also there.
Arizona State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( ASU )
The ASU Physics and Astronomy Department website provides information about our department, links for alumni, and a service for all students, staff, and faculty.
Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page
The Daily Planet
Brought to you by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois. Contains: Weather World the WWW version of the U of I Weather Machine.
Australia Telescope National Facility ( ATNF )
CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is an organisation that supports and undertakes research in radio astronomy. It operates the Australia Telescope, the collective name for a set of radio telescopes in New South Wales. These telescopes are used, individually or together, to study objects in the Universe ranging from the remains of dead stars to entire galaxies.
Astronomical Society of Australia ( ASA )
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) is the society of professional astronomers in Australia. This link points to the ASA Home Page, listing a variety of information on the Society and its activities, including " Instructions to Authors" for its journal and email addresses of members.
SAULT, Bob ( ATNF )
ASTRO ( Astronomy Discussion List )
Discussion of astronomy and related topics, with emphasis on current happenings, discoveries, and theory. Sponsored by the Atlanta Astronomy Club.
Illini Space Development Society ( ISDS list )
International Student Space Simulations ( ISSS )
International Student Space Simulations is a teaching method that challenges students to design, construct, and live in a self- contained habitat for an extended period of time.
JCMT-L
Networks those affiliated with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
ASTR-O
Exchanges information in astronomy, announces conferences, coordinates observations and related activities. Sponsored by SAB: Socieadade Astronomica Brasileira.
Students for Exploration and Development of Space List ( SEDS-L )
Discusses issues related to interchapter communication for SEDS (Students for Exploration and Development of Space) and space in general.
Students for Exploration and Development of Space News ( SEDSNEWS )
News about space from SEDS (Students for Exploration and Development of Space). Distributes informational postings from several space research facilities.
Israeli Space and Remote Sensing Bulletin ( SPACE-IL )
Israeli Space and Remote Sensing Bulletin announces events, opportunities and new publicatons in areas related to the Israeli space and remote sensing community. Produced for the Israeli Space Agency, Ministry of Science and Development by the Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting at Tel-Aviv University.
Bureau des Longitudes ( BdL )
The BdL publishes ephemerides and performs research activities related to solar system objects, celestial mechanics and astrometry.
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
Includes history, research activities, photos, preprints and a visit to the Astronomical Museum to view items from the collection.
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna: Preprints
Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Astronomia
Includes links to 'The Astronomical Museum: Museo della Specola', 'Il corso di laurea in astronomia' and 'La pagina degli studenti (TBD)'.
The Loiano Telescopes - Bologna
Bologna 152cm Telescope - Schedules
University of Colorado - Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA )
JILA is the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a joint institute run by the University of Colorado and the National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST).
CARPINO, Mario ( Brera Astronomical Observatory )
solar system dynamics, orbit determination
Mid-Atlantic Star Party ( MASP )
Bucknell University Observatory
Butler University - Physics and Astronomy
Views Of The Solar System
Views of the Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. The image processing for many of the images was done by Calvin J. Hamilton.
BENFORD, Dominic ( CalTech )
CalTech - Submillimeter Wave Astrophysics Group
This group operates a single-dish submillimeter telescope on Mauna Kea Hawaii for the astronomy community under contract from the NSF.
PHINNEY, E. Sterl ( CalTech )
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory ( CSO )
A single-dish submillimeter telescope on Mauna Kea Hawaii operated by Caltech for the astronomy community under contract from the NSF
HUNTER, Todd ( Caltech )
LARKIN, James ( CalTech )
CalTech - Infrared Astrophysics Group
Much of the research done by members of the group is performed at the Palomar 5-meter telescope, in the " near infrared" range of the electromagnetic spectrum between wavelengths of 1 and 5 microns.
KNOP, Robert ( CalTech )
WARD, John ( CalTech )
CalTech - High Energy Astrophysics Group
PRINCE, Tom ( CalTech )
CEA Guest Investigator Program
In order to promote research using data from NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) satellite, the Center for EUV Astrophysics (CEA) is offering a Guest Investigator Science Program. The purpose of the program is to be an educational service which provides information and training in the use of public EUVE data.
ETOOLS Project
ETOOLS is a NASA ADP funded software development project to produce a package of general purpose tools for use in the reduction of event data. The package is intended to be useful with event data from any source. In addition to applications for basic analysis, ETOOLS will contain software libraries which any interested developer will be able to use to extend the package to their own specific needs.
MERIWETHER, Dave ( CEA )
OLSON, Eric ( CEA )
MCDONALD, Kelley ( CEA )
High-Energy Physics Information ( a resource list from CERN )
Canada France Hawaii Telescope (WWW) ( CFHT )
CFHT is a joint facility of the National Research Council of Canada, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France, and the University of Hawaii. The CFH observatory hosts a world-class, 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope. The observatory is located atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii. The CFH Telescope became operational in 1979.

A CFHT page at CADC has information about the CFHT archive, CCDs, proposal template and manuals.

CFH List of Astronomical Observatories
Astronomical Internet Resources (CFHT)
Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Schedules (at Hawaii) ( CFHT )
Georgia State University - Astronomy ( GSU )
CHARA = Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
Hard Labor Creek Observatory
Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service for brighter earth satellites;
Be Star Newsletter
The Be Star Newsletter is a non-refereed electronic and paper journal that is published approximately twice per year. The Be Star Newsletter is open to all contributions (observations, theory, or other news) concerning early-type stars and especially hot, near main-sequence stars. The goal of the Newsletter is to foster communication between researchers interested in this field of stellar astronomy.
Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy ( CHARA )
CHARA Array
The CHARA Array will consist of five 1-m aperture telescopes (with an eventual goal of seven) in a Y-shaped array contained within a 400m diameter circle. This configuration will provide high resolution interferometry in the visible spectral region as well as the K spectral band (2.2 micron), with a limiting resolution of 0.2 milliarcsec in the visible.
Hard Labor Creek Observatory ( HLCO )
GIES, Douglas R. ( GSU )
MASON, Brian D. ( GSU )
MCALISTER, Harold A. ( GSU )
MILLER, H. Richard ( GSU )
NOBLE, John ( GSU )
SHURE, Mark ( GSU )
WINGERT, David W. ( GSU )
GUDEHUS, Donald H. ( GSU )
WIITA, Paul J. ( GSU )
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics ( CITA )
The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is a national research centre for studies in theoretical astronomy and related subjects; it is hosted by the University of Toronto. CITA has two primary missions: a Canadian one - to foster interaction in the Canadian theoretical astrophysics community, and also between theorists and observational astronomers; the other is an international one - to be a world-class centre of excellence for theoretical studies in astrophysics.
BASU, Shantanu ( CITA )
CHABOYER, Brian ( CITA )
WARNOCK, Archibald (alternate)
Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL )
DARDY, Henry ( NRL )
CNAM (French National Conservatory of Arts & Works)
at Paris, an Astronomy Server
Ames Area Amateur Astronomers ( AAAA )
The Ames Area Amateur Astronomers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational and scientific organization. Our new 24-inch f/4 primary mirror will become part of a state-of-the-art robotically controlled observatory to be completed in 1996.
PRESTON, Heather
Planetary Nebulae and Numerical Hydrodynamics

Evolution of Planetary Nebula morphology, hydrodynamical simulations of interacting winds, etc., Binary Central Stars of Bipolar Planetary Nebulae, other interacting winds phenomena, such as SNRs, bipolar outflows.

Company Seven Astro-Optics Division
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Ours is a firm that is involved in the design, manufacture, resale, and service of astronomical telescopes and related systems. Our credentials include support of mission critical aspects of the NASA International Comet Halley Watch, the Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission, and a variety of Defense and Law Enforcement projects.

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Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales ( CONAE, Argentina )
Information on the Centro Regional de Datos Satelitales (CREDAS) and on Argentina's National Space Plan
NASA COmputer Software Management and Information Center ( COSMIC )
Front Range Consortium ( FRC )
The Front Range Consortium (FRC) is a consortium of three institutions: CAPP, NCAR/SCD, NOAA/FSL, all of which are located in Boulder, Colorado. The FRC is committed to the development of high performance scalable computing and its application to Grand Challenge research problems in science and engineering. The FRC is a member institution of the National Consortium for High Performance Computing (NCHPC).
Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory ( MPCRL )
German Astronomical Directory
WWW-Pages of Amateur astronomers from Austria,Switzerland and Germany
Trinity Astronomy & Space Society Homepage ( TASS )
Astronomy & Space Society in Trinity College Dublin
Hypermedia Issues And Applications
State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications, by V. Balasubramanian, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey (bala@pegasus.rutgers.edu). Chapter 1: Hypertext - An Introduction, Chapter 2: Implementation Issues, Chapter 3: Database Issues, Chapter 4: User Interface Issues, Chapter 5: Information Retrieval Issues, Chapter 6: Integration Issues, Chapter 7: Applications, Chapter 8: A Systematic Approach To User Interface Design For A Hypertext Framework. Postscript version available (tar'ed and compressed)
Hafak Astronomical Society ( HAF )
Hafak Astronomical Society, the second biggest society in Zlin, the Czech Republic. Goals: Observing for publics, variable stars, star eclipses by Moon, CCD observing and software. Here a lot of news, events and pictures.
Global Network of Automatic Telescopes ( GNAT )
Home page of the Global Network of Automatic Telescopes including white papers, meeting announcements and other information.
Catania Astrophysical Observatory ( OAC )
Daily solar images (chromosphere and photosphere)
Book on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact - Call for photographs and pictures
Young European Radio Astronomers Conference ( YERAC electronic proceedings )
The electronic proceedings of the XXVIIth Young European Radio Astronomers Conference, which was held in Cambridge, UK, 1994 September 18th to 23rd.
NRAO Charlottesville ( NRAO-CV )
This web page contains links to these items, among others: AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System), AIPS++, NRAO Headquarters, The Central Development Lab, and the main NRAO Library.
Postage Stamp Server for NVSS Radio Sky Survey ( NVSS Postage Stamp Server )
This Web page allows the user to obtain "postage stamp" FITS images of selected, small fields from the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). Either 1950 or 2000 positions are supported as are a number of projective geometries. This survey is being done with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array telescope at a wavelength of 20 cm (1.4 GHz) and is producing images of the sky north of declination -40 deg with a resolution of 45". Both total intensity and linear polarization is being imaged. This project began in September 1993 and the main body of observations will be finished in the Summer of 1996. Results are being made available as they are produced.
AIPS++
AIPS++ is a software package which will calibrate and image (primarily) radio astronomical data. It is being written in an object-oriented style using the C++ language. AIPS++ is being developed by an international consortium. AIPS++ is not yet of interest to users, although there are some email reflectors you may wish to join for information. A beta library release is available via anonymous ftp. This may be of interest to C++ software developers.
Astronomical Image Processing System ( AIPS (the Classic Variety) at NRAO )
The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. There is a Usenet newsgroup alt.sci.astro.aips that deals with AIPS issues and has occasional interesting announcements. There is an AIPS memo that nicely describes the AIPS software system (PostScript, 189404 bytes). It contains one schematic diagram of the overall AIPS structure.
NRAO-RAPS (WWW): preprints
NRAO-Charlottesvile Library ( RAPcat, PageCharge Policies )
UniPOPS ( NRAO )
BRIDLE, Alan ( NRAO )
WOOTTEN, Al ( NRAO )
FITSview FITS image viewers ( FITSview )
The FITSview family of viewers for FITS format astronomical images are available for Microsoft Windows (FITSview), Apple Macintosh (MacFITSview) and Unix/X-Windows (XFITSview) computer systems. These viewers have easy to use graphical controls and will display astronomical images in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format allowing zooming, scrolling, modifying the brightness, contrast and pseudo color and allow determination of celestial positions and the physical brightness units in the image. Both standard World Coordinate System (WCS) and Digitized Sky Survey
NICE, David ( NRAO )
MURPHY, Edward ( NRAO )
NRAO VLA Sky Survey ( NVSS )
The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) is mapping the sky north of -40 deg declination at 1.4 GHz. The principal data products are (1) 4 deg X 4 deg continuum maps " cubes" with three planes containing Stokes I, Q, and U images, (2) source lists, and (3) processed (u,v) data sets. The maps have 45 arcsec FWHM resolution and nearly uniform rms noise, about 0.45 mJy/beam = 0.14 K (Stokes I) and 0.29 mJy/beam (Stokes Q and U). The rms uncertainties in right ascension and declination vary from 0.3 arcsec for strong (S > 30 mJy) point sources to 5 arcsec for the faintest (S ~ 2.5 mJy) detectable sources.
Case Western Reserve University Astronomy Department ( CWRU )
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics ( HIA )
The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA)is the scientific institute within the National Research Council of Canada which is responsible for operating Canadian observatories. Subdivisions and related facilities of HIA include: the DAO, DRAO, JCMT, CFHT, Gemini, and Solar Terrestrial Physics
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (WWW) ( DAO )
The DAO is operated by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) through its Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA) as a national centre for astronomical research within Canada, with emphasis on UV, optical and IR astronomy. The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is a group within the DAO which is responsible for the Canadian archive of data from the Hubble Space Telescope as well the archive of data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. DAO's Facilty Manual is now online. You might also want to check out the DAO Virtual Library.
AIKMAN, Chris ( DAO )
BATTEN, Alan ( DAO )
COWLEY, Anne ( DAO )
CRABTREE, Dennis ( DAO )
CRAMPTON, David ( DAO )
DAVIDGE, Tim ( DAO )
DURAND, Daniel ( DAO )
FLETCHER, Murray ( DAO )
GAUDET, Séverin ( DAO )
HERRIOT, Glen ( DAO )
HESSER, James ( DAO )
HILL, Graham ( DAO )
HUTCHINGS, John ( DAO )
JUSTICE, Gerald ( DAO )
KITTY the Cat ( DAO )
LECKIE, Brian ( DAO )
MCCLURE, Robert ( DAO )
MORBEY, Chris ( DAO )
MORRIS, Stephen ( DAO )
MUROWINSKI, Rick ( DAO )
OKE, Bev ( DAO )
MORRIS, Simon ( DAO )
STETSON, Peter ( DAO )
STILBURN, James ( DAO )
VAN DEN BERGH, Sidney ( DAO )
WOODSWORTH, Andrew ( DAO )
YOUNGER, Frank ( DAO )
International Dark-Sky Association ( IDA )
The International Dark-Sky Association is a non-profit corporation formed to serve the public and astronomy community through information, education, and research on light pollution, energy conservation, rotection of observatory environments and related topics. IDA assists by sharing knowledge on a local, national and international basis. While IDA was organized for the purpose of preserving dark skies for astronomy and the general public, solutions to the problem of light pollution will promote the best outdoor lighting design, thereby reducing energy use and helping preserve Earth's resources.
International Dark-Sky Association ( IDA )
The International Dark-Sky Association is a non-profit corporation formed to serve the public and astronomy community through information, education, and research on light pollution, energy conservation, rotection of observatory environments and related topics. IDA assists by sharing knowledge on a local, national and international basis. While IDA was organized for the purpose of preserving dark skies for astronomy and the general public, solutions to the problem of light pollution will promote the best outdoor lighting design, thereby reducing energy use and helping preserve Earth's resources.
Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy
In space physics, active areas of research include theoretical studies of space plasmas, computer simulations of plasmas, studies of auroral particle acceleration and heating, investigations of the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and studies of geomagnetic storms. The observational space physics program at Dartmouth uses ground-based, rocket-launched, and satellite instrumentation to study the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Observational work in astronomy is carried out not only at the MDM Observatory, but at national and international facilities including the Hubble Space Telescope. Ongoing research includes optical, UV and X-ray studies of supernovae and supernova remnants, investigations of the interstellar medium, shock waves, and Wolf-Rayet stars, optical studies of X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variable stars. Additional work focuses on cosmology, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the end states of stellar evolution. The theoretical particle physics and cosmology group at Dartmouth conducts research into general relativity, field theory, particle physics and phase transitions in the early universe, and baryogenesis, as well as investigations of star formation and the origins of large scale structure in the universe.
National Institute of Space Research - Astrophysics Division ( INPE - DAS, Brazil )
In our department we have researchers working on the following topics: High Energy Astrophysics, Optical Astronomy, Radioastronomy, and Gravitational Waves.
University of California, Santa Barbara - Astrophysics Group ( UCSB )
Remote Access Astronomy Project ( RAAP )
The Remote Access Astronomy Project

The RAAP is an educational outreach program that promotes interest in science through providing astronomy educational resources. These include a series of digital image processing exercises to teach a variety of physical concepts as well as access to our computer controlled telescope allowing motivated students design and carry out their own experiments.

The Astronomer
TA produces a magazine for the advanced amateur and its aim is to publish all observations of astronomical interest as soon as possible after they are made. The magazine has been published monthly since 1964 and subscribers are found all over the world. It also provides a very comprehensive electronic circulars service to keep our members up to date.
European Space Operations Centre ( ESA/ESOC )
ESOC is the satellite control centre of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is responsible for the operations of all satellites and related ground stations and communications network.
Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures ( DAHAP )
A collection of images from the history of astronomy, for use in research and teaching.
Aarhus University - Institute of Physics and Astronomy
NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility ( DFRF )
Web of Wonder: List of Observatories
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory [English] ( DRAO )
DRAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. The synthesis telescope is particularly suited to comprehensive studies of the interstellar medium, extended Galactic nebulae and star-forming regions, and of nearby galaxies. The other instruments are a 26-m paraboloid and a solar flux monitoring system. Observing proposals are welcome from all interested astronomers.
Submillimeter astronomy from space - 1 ( ODIN at NRC, Canada )
Odin is a combined astronomy/aeronomy mission first conceived and developed by Sweden. Canada, France, and Finland are international partners in the mission. Canada has a 20% share in both aspects of the mission. Launch is anticipated in 1997. The duration of the mission is expected to be about 2 years
Danish Space Research Institute ( DSRI, Denmark )
Danish Astronomical Society ( Denmark )
Astronomical Society in Denmark
The Astronomical Society in Denmark is the only danish, nationwide society for people interested in Astronomy. On the AS homepage you can get information about the activities currently going on, get news about the Society and Astronomy in general and find out how to become a member.
Dunsink Observatory Homepage
The Dunsink Observatory homepage provides useful links to other astronomical and academic institutions, software, search engines and other links of local interest.
Linux for Astronomy CDROM project
The Lfa CDROM contains Linux versions of the following Astronomical data reduction and analysis packages : AIPS (radio astronomy and image processing) ASSIST (gui for IRAF +) glish (distributed processing) IRAF + contributed packages (general purpose) Karma (image processing) NEMO (stellar dynamics) MIDAS (general purpose) PGPERL (graphics) SAOIMAGE (imaging/graphics) SAOtng (imaging/graphics) StarBase (astronomy database)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series ( A&AS )
A&AS is a European peer-reviewed journal publishing data papers, either observational or theoretical, as well as extensive data material forming the basis of papers with astrophysical results published in the Main Journal.
The electronic version can be accessed free of charge for 1996.
Astrophysics at New Mexico Tech
The New Mexico Tech Remote Observatory Kinematics of Nearby Galaxies Observations and Interpretation of Radio Galaxies, Quasars and Clusters of Galaxies The Physics of Radio Galaxies and Their Cluster Environment Plasma Astrophysics Pulsar Radio Emission Mechanisms Radio Studies of Normal, Exploding, and Compact Stellar Systems
TONGUE, Thomas ( NMT )
WOOD, Lloyd ( Surrey )
Eugene Astronomical Society ( EAS on the WWW )
The Eugene Astronomical Society in Eugene, Oregon provides access to information about Astronomy, telescopes, meeting information, and members. Also available are links to Web formatted versions of it's newsletter, 'Io'
University of Bradford - Engineering in Astronomy Group
University of Bradford - Robotic Telescope
Automated Telescopes
Links to Automated telescopes on the Internet.
European Association for Astronomy Education--Hellas ( EAAE-Hellas(Greece )
EAAE-Hellas is the Greek National Branch of the European Association for Astronomy Education.
Elsevier Science publishers
General Information from Elsevier Science: The Elsevier Science Internet Journal and Book Catalogue, Information on TULIP - The University Licensing Program, About Elsevier Science. Electronic Journals: Computer Networks and ISDN Systems: WWW '94 Conference Proceedings. Current Awareness and Archival Services: ECONbase, Nuclear Physics Electronic. Other Services: Elsevier Science Gopher Server, Elsevier Science FTP Server.
New Astronomy
New Astronomy is fully electronic, available on the World Wide Web. A traditional paper edition is also published. The electronic version is linked to major scientific data centers, such as CDS, ADS, and NED.
New Astronomy aims to publish only the best articles in this field, without page charges, and with a very short publication time. Each field is represented by a specialist Editor who is directly responsible for the review process.
Pacific Northwest Laboratory ( PNL )
MAUBON, Gregory Maubon
McGill University - Earth and Planetary Science
The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences of McGill University have available an interactive Atlas of impact craters and coronae structures of Venus. The Face of Venus, enables browsers to interactively access a geographical database of these features. Craters or coronae can be selected by size, type, and name status to create user-generated maps of the selected features, as well as a text listing. A dynamic ISMAP is created with clickable areas where users can obtain more information about any feature viewed on the map, or directly from the text list. Users may also elect to examine the distribution of their selected features by using hierarchical cluster analysis to generate a dendrogram of any groupings.
Phase-diverse speckle reconstruction of solar data ( PDS )
Award-winning paper: " Phase-diverse speckle reconstruction of solar data," by John H. Seldin and Richard G. Paxman, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. --ABSTRACT-- Phase-diverse speckle imaging is a novel imaging modality that makes use of both speckle-imaging and phase-diversity concepts. A phase-diverse speckle data set consists of one conventional image and at least one additional image with known phase diversity for each of multiple atmospheric phase realizations. We demonstrate the use of a phase-diverse speckle data set collected at the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope on La Palma to overcome the effects of atmospheric turbulence and to restore a fine-resolution image of solar granulation. We present preliminary results of simultaneously reconstructing an object and a sequence of atmospheric phase aberrations from these data using a maximum-likelihood parameter-estimation framework. The consistency of the reconstructions is demonstrated using subsets of the sequence of images pairs.
European Southern Observatory ( ESO )
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is a multinational organisation of eight European member states. It operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany.
Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy
The increasing integration in an astronomical setting of various methodologies in pattern recognition, information retrieval and data analysis is a characteristic of modern computational astronomy. Large astronomical databases and archives from space-borne missions, ground-based observatories, and large wide-field surveys, provide the technological infrastructure.
COMERON, Fernando ( ESO )
Astronomy Librarians and Libraries Addresses
Following is an alphabetical list of astronomy librarians and a few astrolibrary-related addresses
ESO Libraries
NAUMANN, Michael ( ESO )
European Space Agency ( ESA )
Main access points are:
MICOL, Alberto ( ESIS )
MESSERI, Alfonso ( ESIS )
Astronomical information on the Internet (at ESIS)
European Space Information System ( ESIS )
The ESIS project, located at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy in the Information Systems Division of the European Space Agency is a service to the Astronomical and Space Physics communities to provide access to data of all kinds, including images and spectra from a number of space missions and bibliographic references from all the major Astronomical and Space Physics journals.
D'AMORE, Luana ( ESIS )
REGNER, Peter ( ESIS )
TORRENTE, Paola ( ESIS )
ANSARI, Salim ( ESIS )
ANSARI, Salim (alternate) ( ESIS )
ESRIN - European Space Agency ( ESRIN )
ESRIN is one of the four establishements of the European Space Agency. ESRIN's main activities are centered on the acquisition, archiving and dissemination of data from Earth Observation missions in particular ERS-1 for which it is responsible for operating the ground infrastructure needed. ESRIN's main function is as the Agency's data handling and dissemination centre, being at the forefront of technologically advanced information systems.
SUNY Stony Brook Astronomy Group
YAHIL, Amos ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
PETERSON, Deane ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
WALTER, Fred ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
LISSAUER, Jack ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
LANZETTA, Ken ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
LATTIMER, Jim ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
SIMON, Michal ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
SOLOMON, Philip ( Stony Brook Astron. Group )
ESTEC - European Space Agency ( ESA/ESTEC )
European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, one of the three centers of the European Space Agency (ESA).
CLUSTER, ESA's spacefleet to the magnetosphere
The Cluster mission of the European Space Agency is a four-spacecraft mission to carry out three-dimensional measurements in the Earth's magnetosphere, covering both large- and small-scale phenomena in the sunward and tail regions.
Observatorio Astronomico de La Plata ( OALP )
Faculty of Astronomical and Geophysical Sciences. The Observatory was established in November 1883. Its principal tasks are research and teaching in Astronomy and Geophysics.
TANCREDI, Gonzalo ( Depto. Astronomia, Montevideo, Uruguay )
Minor bodies of Solar System; Comets, asteroids; Chaotic dynamics
University of Ljubljana, Astronomical Observatory ( Slovenia )
The Ljubljana Astronomical Observatory is part of the Department of Physics and is located on the hill Golovec close to Ljubljana. Observations that require dark skies are obtained at Crni vrh observing station where two small automated telescopes equipped with state of the art systems for CCD photometry are located.

Astronomers run university courses of astronomy for astronomers as well as physicists and primary and secondary school teachers. The Observatory has a public astronomical library. Research is in large part done in collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory of Padua. Reseach interests include general relativity, active galactic nuclei, close stellar binary systems, pulsars, comets and telescope automation.

SciTech Astronomical Research ( STAR Research Telescopes )
Design and manufacture specialized and general purpose telescopes and instrumentation for research and education.
Longmont Astronomical Society
Colorado
FTP Software Inc
Innovative developer of TCP/IP transports and applications for DOS, Windows and OS/2
Finnish amateur astronomy homepage
Universiteit Utrecht. Faculteit Natuur- & Sterrenkunde ( The Netherlands )
Server of the Faculty of Physics & Astronomy at Utrecht University
Dpto. Astrofisica. I. Fisica de Cantabria
This is the Home Page of the Astrophysics Department of the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria at Santander, Spain. This is a center supported by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria. People here works in Extragalactic Astrophysics. These pages contain their work and interests as well as some miscellaneous information.
Gamma-Ray Astronomy with COMPTEL ( MPE Garching )
Local project documentation and utilities as well as collaboration-wide information sources are maintained by the MPE COMPTEL people for: COMPTEL Data Reduction Group work: documents, scientific results and utilities used by the data analysts, the processing team and the scientists. COMPASS software system work : technical and management documents, used and maintained by the MPE software team. the local computing environment : documents on system configuration, maintained by the MPE/RZG software team. MPE - COMPTEL People Matters: the weekly activity list individual 'home pages'
United Kingdom Students for the Exploration and Development of Space ( UKSEDS )
UKSEDS is the UK's national student space society. Take a look at our web pages for more information on our activities and how to join.
Grup d'Estudis Astronomics ( GEA )
GEA is a private non-profit organization devoted to research in Astronomy. We are now deeply involved in Jupiter & Saturn atmospheric studies. Our members are also developing LAIA a powerful image analysis tool for MS-Windows, able to reduce CCD images of Jupiter, giving coordinates of atmospheric details. We are, among others, collaborating with the " Pic du Midi" observatory (French Pyrenees). From that observatory, our members discovered and tracked the last GWS (Great White Spot) in Saturn (August 1994).
Gemini 8m Telescopes Project ( Gemini )
The Gemini 8m Telescopes Project is an international project to build two infrared-optimized telescopes. One telescope will be located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the other will be on Cerro Pachon, Chile.
The Des Moines Astronomical Society, Inc. ( DMAS )
The Des Moines Astronomical Society is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization commited to sharing astronomy with the public of central Iowa. The society maintains the Ashton-Wildwood Observatory in Jasper County, 30 miles northeast of Des Moines. The observatory is a twin-dome design and houses a 16-inch Newtonian telescope and a 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassigrain CAT telescope. The society sponsors several lectures beginning in March and ending in late October.
GOLDREICH, Peter ( CalTech )
California Institute of Technology Planetary Sciences
Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association, Inc. ( GRAAA )
Zoomer Personal Digital Assistant
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA )
Astrophysics Data Facility ( ADF )
The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is responsible for designing, developing, and operating data systems that support the processing, management, archiving and distribution of NASA mission data. The ADF serves three broadly-defined astrophysics disciplines: high-energy astrophysics, UV/optical astrophysics, and infrared/submillimeter/radio astrophysics. The ADF collaborates with the GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) and the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics (LASP) in managing data for specific missions. The ADF staff also support the astrophysics community's access to multi-mission and multi-spectral data archives in the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
COsmic Background Explorer ( COBE )
FITS Support Office
IRAS Data Products
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite surveyed almost the entire sky in four infrared bands and obtained deeper maps and low-resolution spectra of thousands of infrared sources. All of the IRAS data products released by IPAC, including catalogs and images, are accessible through this interface, provided by the Astrophysics Data Facility at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The interface also includes links to many related Astronomical Data Center catalogs.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-GSFC)
REACH, William ( NASA/GSFC )
Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory ( HartRAO )
Haystack Observatory
High Energy Physics Information Center ( HEPIC )
University of Hertfordshire. Department of Physics & Astronomy ( UK )
Brown University ( High-Energy Physics Group )
BRANDENBERGER, Robert ( Brown Univ. )
Hitachi Instruments
Hitachi Instruments, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of high efficiency diffraction gratings. We offer both standard catalog components and custom made to order items.
Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy ( ESF funded project )
Three-year funded project ('scientific network'), by European Science Foundation. Planned:workshops and visits on topics:information retrieval, image processing, artificial vision, emerging computing technologies, computational intelligence, applied to data centres, wide-field surveys, image and bibliographic databases and archives.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (ESO)
European Southern Observatory ( ESO )
The European Southern Observatory, established in 1962, operates astronomical observatories at La Silla (600 km north of Santiago de Chile) and at Paranal (130 km south of Antofagasta). ESO's headquarters are in Garching, just north of Munich, Germany. ESO is supported by: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Europe and in Chile, ESO has a combined scientific, technical, adminstrative and visiting staff of around 400.
ESO Publications
Includes access to ESO Messenger, ESO Scientific and Technical Reports (Preprints)
Libarary and Informations Services in Astronomy II Conference
The aims of LISA-II, a proposed IAU Colloquium, are twofold: (1) to provide the opportunity for librarians of astronomical observatories and institutes to meet to discuss common problems, and ways of stimulating greater cooperation between libraries and their services; and (2) to raise discussion about, and to throw light on, the interface areas between astronomical libraries and the wide range of online and other astronomical computer-based services which are becoming ever more widespread.
ESO-MIDAS Users Guide
ESO-MIDAS is the acronym for the European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System which is developed and maintained by the European Southern Observatory. The MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla. Volume A describes the basic MIDAS system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). Site specific features are given in an appendix. Volume B describes how to use the MIDAS system for astronomical data reduction. Application packages for special types of data or reductions (e.g., long slit and echelle spectra, object search, or crowded field photometry) are discussed assuming intensity calibrated data. A set of appendices gives a detailed description of the reduction of raw data from ESO instruments. Volume C gives the detailed description for all commands available. This volume is not available to remote users as the complete volume as it is accessed via the MIDAS GUI XHelp.
ESO-MIDAS Courier
The ESO-MIDAS Courier is published twice per year by the MIDAS group of the European Southern Observatory. Contributions as well as suggestions and comments are invited and can be sent to the editor: 
 Rein H. Warmels, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 
2, D 85748 Garching bei Muenchen Email: rwarmels@eso.org
In particular, authors of ESO-MIDAS application software that would be of general interest for the ESO-MIDAS community, are invited to make this software available.

If you want to receive future issues of the Courier, please contact the editor. More updated information about ES0-MIDAS can be obtained from the ESO-MIDAS Bulletin Board , which is also accessible via the USEnet News facility.

Munich Image Data Analysis System (WWW) ( ESO-MIDAS )
ESO-MIDAS is the acronym for the European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System which is developed and maintained by the European Southern Observatory. The MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla.
On-line Data and Information in Astronomy ( a paper by Heinz Andernach (IAC, 2/8/93 )
CONTENTS: Introduction, Astronomical Catalogues and On-line Data Bases, Astronomical Catalogues remotely, Catalogues at IAC, On-line Data Bases, Observatory Archives of Raw/Calibrated Data, Optical Sky Surveys and Plate Scans, Bibliographical Services, Thesauri, Desktop & Electronic Publishing, Addresses, Directories and Meetings, Astronomical Software On-line, Discussion Groups via Networks.
NASA Headquarters ( from GSFC )
CHRISTLIEB, Norbert ( Hamburg )
My scientific interests are:
KAYSER, Rainer ( Hamburger Sternwarte )
Hamburg Observatory
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ( IAC )
This is the general presentation of Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. We are using this home page to popularize the Institute developed information. This information can be outstanding for the astrophysics world.
IAC / Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos
IAC / Observatorio del Teide
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP )
Institute for Astrophysics Laboratory of CNRS (National Science Research Center in France), Paris France.
MAMON, Gary ( IAP )
KOEKEMOER, Anton ( IAP )
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (1) ( IAS )
SAtellite for Measurement of cosmological Background Anisotropies ( SAMBA )
SAMBA will use bolometers to survey the sky in the 0.3-6mm wavelength range. The project has been selected by ESA for a merging with the COBRAS proposal, which gives the COBRAS/SAMBA mission.
GISPERT, Richard ( IAS )
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale ( IAS-CNR, Frascati )
The Institute for Space Astrophysics (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale - IAS) in Frascati, belongs to the italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR). About 70 researchers and technicians operate in the Institute, in several fields of theoretical and experimental astrophysics.
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering ( ICASE )
Urania Astronomical Organization
URANIA - Meetings
Astronomical Center Of Alta Val Trebbia / Centro Astronomico dell'Alta Val Trebbia. Genoa, Italy.
URANIA - News
Astronomical Center Of Alta Val Trebbia / Centro Astronomico dell'Alta Val Trebbia. Genoa, Italy.
URANIA - Ephemerides
Bacheca dell'Astrofilo ( Italian )
WHO's Online - Physicist/Astrophysicist's section
WHO's On-line is a collective experiment towards a non-commercial HYPERbiographical database of people in the Internet. While the database contains people from all professions, this link points to the Physicist/Astrophysicist section.
University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy ( UH - IfA )
University of Hawaii IfA: 2.2m Telescope
COWIE, Antoinette Songaila ( IfA )
GIOIA, Isabella M. ( IfA )
GREENE, Thomas P. ( IfA )
KORMENDY, John ( IfA )
WAINSCOAT, Richard J. ( IfA )
Haleakala Observatories ( Hawaii )
Mauna Kea Observatories
BARNES, Joshua E. ( IfA )
CLOSE, Laird ( IfA )
MEECH, Karen ( University of Hawaii )
Planetary Astronomy - SS Formation, Distant Comets
Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria ( IFCA )
Istituto di Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie Relative ( IFCTR, Milan )
Istituto per ricerche in Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie Relative, Milan.
University of California, LA - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics ( IGPP )
IMSA Astrophysics Home Page ( A high school course in Astrophysics )
This is a one-semester course that embeds technology and the use of the internet into the daily experience of the students. Course materials, assessment tools and philosophy, and curriculum documents are all provided through this site.
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica ( INAOE, Mexico )
The INAOE is a research and teaching institution that has developed from the old Observatorio de Tonantzintla. It is a place of great astronomical tradition, where the discoveries by Guillermo Haro and coworkers took place.
The Hot Star Newsletter
A monthly electronic publication on hot luminous stars (Wolf-Rayet stars, LBV, Of and O stars) and related phenomena in galaxies. On-line resources include abstracts with hyperlinks to full text of preprints, a Wolf-Rayet catalogue and a Wolf-Rayet bibliography.
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica. Astrophysics Department ( INAOE, Mexico )
Information on the Large Millimeter Telescope an about the Cananea observatory
Large Millimeter Wavelength Telescope ( LMT, Mexico )
also see Large Millimeter Wavelength Telescope (LMT, Massachusetts)
" The 1996 INAOE Conference on STARBURST ACTIVITY IN GALAXIES" ( Tonantzintla, Puebla, MEXICO. April 29 - May 3, 1996 )
This is the STARBURST phenomenon in galaxies, to be held at INAOE. The conference responds to the rapidly growing interest in the Starburst phenomenon and the possible links between nuclear Starburst and AGN activity.The central aim is to provide an open forum to discuss the most recent results about the Starburst activity, and the possible Starburst-AGN connections.
The conference will bring together theory and observations (over a wide range of frequencies) of Star Formation and Starbursts, Galactic Winds, HII Galaxies, Interacting Galaxies, IRAS Ultraluminous Galaxies, and Nuclear Starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei.
Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Science Academy ( INASAN )
Prairie Astronomy Club of Lincoln, Nebraska ( PAC )
The Prairie Astronomy Club is a non-profit orginazation dedicated to education of the public about the science of astronomy, as well a furthering the science through the activities of the club members.
National Institute of Space Research - Astrophysics Division: Preprints ( INPE - DAS, Brazil )
National Laboratory for Astrophysics ( LNA, Brazil )
LNA is an Institute of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). At present, LNA supports 3 telescopes: the 1.6-m Ritchey-Chretien and coudé, the 0.6-m Cassegrain and the 0.6-m telescope of the University of São Paulo.
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers/CNRS ( INSU )
INSU is the French national agency for Sciences of the Universe. Endowed with its own budget, voted by the CNRS Board of Directors, INSU is responsible for the major facilities and programs in this field of research, and for the Universe Sciences Observatories in France. The server includes the list of all French astronomy departments.
DEEPSKY 2000 ( Steve Stuma )
Infrared Processing & Analysis Center ( IPAC )
The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those projects to the astronomical community. IPAC is operated by the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Infrared Space Observatory - 2 ( ISO )
The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), a fully approved and funded project of the European Space Agency (ESA), will operate at wavelengths from 2.5 - 200 microns. The satellite essentially consists of a large liquid-helium cryostat, a telescope with a 60-cm diameter primary mirror and four scientific instruments. The instrument complement is: an imaging photo-polarimeter, a camera, a short wavelength spectrometer and a long wavelength spectrometer. ISO is scheduled to be launched in late 1995 and will be operational for at least 18 months. In keeping with ISO's role as an observatory, two-thirds of its observing time will be made available to the general astronomical community.
IPAC IRSKY observation planning tool
IRSKY is an observation planning tool, which allows display of IRAS images, overlay of catalogs on the images, and information on the ISO satellite, all useful in planning ISO observations.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database ( NED, CalTech )
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is built around a master list of extragalactic objects for which cross-identifications of names have been established, accurate positions and redshifts entered to the extent possible, and some basic data collected. Bibliographic references relevant to individual objects have been compiled, and abstracts of extragalactic interest are kept on line.
NED is currently accessible in three different modes: interactive mode, batch mode, and server mode.
IPS Radio & Space Services ( IPS )
IPS is a unit of the Australian Government Department of Administrative Services and provides the Australian radio propagation and space environment services. Includes: Sydney Regional Warning Centre; Culgoora Solar Observatory; Learmonth Solar Observatory; Prediction Services; Consultancy Services
DIRA2-WWW
Dira2-WWW provides access to the Astronet DIRA2 database that holds more than 270 astronomical catalogues. The user can select catalogue data an receive output in text or FITS-table format. The Dira2 sofware, that can be used to manage personal database and display data, is available for more platforms. A telnet session (user & password = dira2) provides access to full dira2 functionality including the mixed use of public and private data. The server is located in Italy at CNR Istituto di Radioastronomia.
University of Calgary - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Submillimeter astronomy from space - 2 ( ODIN at University of Calgary )
Odin is a combined astronomy/aeronomy mission first conceived and developed by Sweden. Canada, France, and Finland are international partners in the mission. Canada has a 20% share in both aspects of the mission. Launch is anticipated in 1997. The duration of the mission is expected to be about 2 years
Rothney Astrophysical Observatory ( RAO )
International Small Satellite Organization ( ISSO MicroSpace Network )
The ISSO MicroSpace Network is an information clearinghouse for anyone interested in small and low cost space programs. Our server is available 24 hours a day for those seeking company and product information, as well as news and stories of general interest to the space enthusiast.
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science ( ISTS )
International Space University ( ISU )
The International Space University is an interdisciplinary, intercultural and international institution preparing individuals to respond to the current needs and the increasing and evolving demands of the space sector, through multidisciplinary education and research programs.
Joint Astronomy Centre ( Hilo, Hawaii )
The Joint Astronomy Centre incorporates the 15m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the 3.8m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on the 4200m summit of Mauna Kea along with the Centre's Hawaii headquarters in Hilo. The facility is operated by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh on behalf of the Science and Engineering Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and the National Research Council of Canada.
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope ( JCMT )
The 15-m JCMT is situated close to the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and is the largest submillmetre facility in the world. It is owned and operated by the UK, Canada (see HIA JCMT pages) and the Netherlands on behalf of astronomers worldwide. Its home page contains information about the site, the antenna and the instrumentation, as well as a description of the JCMT-CSO interferometer, and details of the various time allocation processes.
UK Infra-Red Telescope ( UKIRT )
KRISCIUNAS, Kevin
Jandel Scientific Software ( Jandel )
Jandel Scientific offers PC-based software to aid researchers in many areas of astronomy and astrophysics. Jandel products include SigmaPlot graphics software, SigmaStat statistical software, TableCurve 2D and 3D curvefitting software, and SigmaScan image measurement and analysis software. In business since 1982, Jandel serves nearly 100,000 customers, many in astronomy and related disciplines.
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories
The NRAL home page is located at Jodrell Bank, and provides information about the research carried out by the members of the University of Manchester's Radio Atronomy Group. It also provides details of the Laboratories' main instrument, MERLIN, including details for applying for time, observing schedules, and user's guide.
Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network ( MERLIN - Jodrell Bank )
Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ( ATMoB )
ATMoB is one of the nation's oldest and largest astronomy clubs. Meetings are held monthly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA and feature a wide range of guest speakers. A clubhouse and observing site is maintained in Westford, MA.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL )
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Image/Information Archives ( JPL )
This is a public access computer site containing information on and images from missions conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it is operated by the JPL Public Information Office. Contents of the site include:
-- JPL news releases, status reports, fact sheets and other data on JPL missions.
-- Images from JPL missions as GIF computer files. These may be displayed on various makes of computers; viewing software may also be downloaded.
-- Back issues of JPL's in-house newspaper, Universe.
In addition, teacher materials provided by the JPL Public Education Office are planned to be added shortly.
Subdirectories are named archive, educator, images, missions, news, sircxsar, software, universe and file whats.new.
Wide Field Infrared Explorer ( WIRE )
The Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) is a mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will survey from earth orbit starburst galaxies, galaxies where star formation is taking place at a high rate. It is part of the space agency's Small Explorer Program (launch: 1998).
NASA Johnson Space Center ( JSC )
NASA Internet Connection
This is a list of known connections to NASA Internet services
Johnson Scientific International
Developers of the Satellite Visualization Tool and other astrodynamic analysis software.
ASTRONOMY on the Web
ASTRONOMY on the Web presents the contents of the current issue of ASTRONOMY magazine, previews the next issue, and highlights current and future sky events. Full text is available for featured articles, an introduction to the hobby, and guides to buying telescopes and accessories. It also provides links to many astronomical resources on the Web. Programs that appeared in ASTRONOMY are also available for downloading.
The Kepler Mission ( Searching for Earth-Sized Planets )
The goal of this NASA satellite mission will be to discover and characterize earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars.
Konkoly Observatory
The Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has evolved from the private observatory of Miklos Konkoly-Thege. Konkoly founded his observatory in 1871 in Ogyalla. Twenty-nine years later he donated the telescopes and instruments to the Hungarian state. The construction of Piszkesteto Mountain Station started in 1958. Three telescopes currently operate there: a 60/90 cm Schmidt (since 1962), a 50 cm Cassegrain (since 1966) and an 1 m RCC (since 1974).
IAU Commission 27 Homepage ( IAU-C27 )
International Astronomical Union, Commission 27: Variable stars (etoiles variables)
Membership info. - Meetings - Proceedings - Catalogues - Announcements
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars ( IBVS )
The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars is a bulletin of the Commissions 27 and 42 of the International Astronomical Union, published by Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary.
NASA Kennedy Space Center ( KSC )
Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University ( Kyoto )
VSNET
VSNET, maintained by VSNET Administrators, Kyoto University, consists of mailing lists for distribution of various messages on variable stars, especially cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects. VSNET now has three addresses for delivering different content of mails. (click to retrieve mail archives) vsnet-obs@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp vsnet@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp The first address is used for data distribution. The second is for alert on the discovery of supernovae, novae, rare outbursts, discovery of new variable star, dramatic change of known variable stars, and so on. The third is for the general information, discussion on the variable stars problems, complied data, finding charts, preprints and other variable star-related contents which are not covered by the first two addresses.
Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental ( LAEFF, Spain )
EROS Experiment
In this (still experimental) server you may find general informations as well as the latest publications/preprints from the EROS collaboration. Our main topic is the search for microlensing amplification of the luminosities of LMC/SMC stars.
Ventspils International Radioastronomy Centre ( VIRC )
The Ventspils 32-m antenna is the biggest in the Baltics.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - WWW
NASA Langley Research Center ( LaRC )
MISSION: An extensive listing of online NASA resources is here
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( LBL )
NASA Lewis Research Center ( LeRC )
Out of This World star atlas exhibition
An exhibition of rare star maps and atlases from the History of Science Collection of the Linda Hall Library
Yerkes Library
The astronomy collection housed in Yerkes Library is designed to support the research and educational activities of Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, with emphasis on practical and observational astronomy, charts and catalogs of astronomical objects, and the design and construction of astronomical instruments and lenses. The collection also supports the activities of the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA), whose headquarters are located at the Observatory.
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers
The Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers (Philadelphia, Pa) is dedicated to encouraging cooperation among amateur astronomers and educating the general public in astronomy. Our home page details the club's activities, and includes excerpts from our newsletter.
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO )
Limber Observatory
Limber Observatory is a private observatory and residence in the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio, specializing in optical polarimetry of early emission line stars.
MCDAVID, David ( Limber Observatory )
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL )
LLNL has developed world-class core competencies which are extending the frontiers of science and technology in many areas, including: defense systems science and technology, nuclear science and technology, high-performance computations, high-performance lasers, advanced sensors and instrumentation, energy science and technologies, environmental technologies, biology and biotechnology, including genomics, atmospheric science, large-scale science systems, precision manufacturing.
Parallel Tools Consortium ( Ptools )
The purpose of the Ptools WWW pages is to provide information about the Ptools software consortium to the community. The on-line pages include up-to-date general information about the consortium, consortium project descriptions, meeting announcements and minutes, the email reflector archive, the by-laws, and pointers to other WWW resources.
Hubble Space Telescope - an artist's view
Loch Ness Productions: Planetarium resources
The "official" list of planetarium and planetarium- related Web sites is here, as well as Loch Ness Productions resources for planetaria: shows, original artwork slides, space music CDs and tapes, the LNP Planetarium Compendium (directory of the world's planetaria), and more.
Lowell Observatory
CCDPHOT
An IDL widget based CCD photometry reduction system
The Role of Small Telescopes in Modern Astronomy
The Role of Small Telescopes in Modern Astronomy: The First Annual Lowell Observatory Fall Workshop. Largely in response to the looming closure or privatization of small telescopes at the national facilities, a workshop will be held at Lowell Observatory, October 14 & 15, 1996, to consider "The Role of Small Telescopes in Modern Astronomy." The objectives of this meeting are: * to convincingly demonstrate the critical role of small telescopes in many areas of important astronomical research, in education, and in support of space missions and research on large telescopes; * to explore innovative ways in which such telescopes can be well equipped and made available to the community during tight budgetary times; and * to summarize the available inventory of small U.S. research telescopes at good observing sites.
Department of Planetary Sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory ( LPL )
La Silla - All Telescopes
La Silla - ESO Facilities
La Silla - All Telescopes - Schedules
Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( LSW )
International Astronomical Union ( IAU )
Announcements, Information bulletin and services of the International Astronomical Union, hosted by the Landessternwarte at Heidelberg-Königstuhl
Memphis Astronomical Society
The Memphis Astronomical Society is a non-profit, public service organization promoting interest and education in astronomy and related sciences.
Austin Astronomical Society ( AAS )
Austin Astronomical Society (AAS) is a non-profit organization for anyone interested in any aspect of astronomy or the space sciences. A major portion of AAS activities are public education outreach efforts.
Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory
Facilities, research, and personnel of the SFASU Observatory.
Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory
Facilities, research, and personnel of the SFASU Observatory.
Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory ( SFASU )
Facilities, research, and personnel of the SFASU Observatory.
HEGGIE, Douglas ( Edinburgh )
Monash University - Applied Mathematics Department
QMW Astronomy Unit ( QMW College, Univ. of London, UK )
Our web pages have information on the Unit, its members and their research activities, as well as courses offered. Check out our searchable preprint database.
European Cosmology Network ( ECN )

ECN comprises most of the European institutions active in cosmological research. About 30 institutions from 11 European Countries take part in the network, but these teams vary greatly in number and research interest, as well as in their organisational role within ECN.

This WWW site has been set up to assist in ECN's role of providing information and resources for the European Cosmology community. It contains information about the structure of ECN, links to institution and individual home pages of ECN team members, and news from Brussels about the TMR programme. In addition, we have a page upon which ECN members can advertise job opportunities at their institution, a page for advertising forthcoming conferences (as well as reports of past ones), and a resource page of useful links of cosmological interest.

Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Astronomy unit ( UK )
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics ( ITA )
Information about scientific activities and staff members.
UNIONE ASTROFILI ITALIANI ( UAI )
Meteosat-3/4 images (4x/day)
Satellite images received from the METEOSAT-4 and METEOSAT-3 satellites. These images are normally updated daily with the updates completed by 14.00 GMT. UK - visible and infra-red Europe - visible and infra-red Scandinavia to the Alps - visible and infra-red World - visible and infra-red
Freie Universität Berlin - Institut für Meteorologie [English] ( [German] )
The Department of Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin WWW server offers an index of sources for meteorological data on the Internet sorted by continent, manner of data and server-type. In addition they provide weather observations from Berlin and Meteosat pictures received from the University of Nottingham. For users from the FU Berlin they also offer latest radar images. They have links to other servers with interesting documents.
Texas Star Party ( TSP )
The Texas Star Party is a week-long astronomy convention held annually in April-May in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. Over 700 amateur astronomers observe & photograph the dark skies, attend daily paper sessions, hear presentations from prominent astronomers, and otherwise socialize with people from all over the world.
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera/Merate
RUSCICA, Corrado ( Brera Astronomical Observatory - Italy )
Quantum Image Processing
Quantum Image, Image restoration software for Windows 95
Puckett Observatory
Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Missouri - Columbia
HTTP sitelist ( WWW )
North Carolina State University - Mars Mission Research Center
Co-located at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (NCSU) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro (A&T), the Mars Mission Research Center (M2RC) is one of eight University Space Engineering Centers established by NASA in 1988. The goal of the Center is to focus on research and educational technologies necessary for planetary exploration, especially transportation to and from Mars.
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik ( MPA, Garching )
Binary Star Conferences in the near future ( list maintained at MPA )
MPA Binaries Group: Preprints
MPA Galaxy Formation Group: Preprints
MPA Gravitational Lensing Group: Preprints
SCHREINER, Erich ( MPA )
GAUDLITZ, Michael ( MPA )
SYER, Dave ( MPA )
CFD codes list
The CFD codes list contains an information about commercial and public domain software used in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, e.g., PPM and Roe hi-resolution shock-capturing codes, FCT, SPH, and P3M techniques.
The list is posted on regular basis to the USENET newsgroup sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics.
PLEWA, Tomasz ( Warsaw )
Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie ( MPAe )
The Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (MPAe) is one of the over sixty institutes for basic research run by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The fields of research comprise the near earth space (atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere) and extend into the interplanetary space as far as the sun and to other planets, comets and asteroids.
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik ( MPE, Garching )
MPE, Garching: Upcoming Conferences
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
The Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik is located at Heidelberg, Germany. It was founded by Wolfgang Gentner as a research centre for nuclear physics in 1958. The present major research areas include nuclear and particle physics, space science, cosmic ray research and other topics.
Calar Alto Observatory - Schedules for all telescopes
German-Spanish Astronomical Center at Calar Alto
The German-Spanish Astronomical Center at Calar Alto is located in the Sierra de Los Filabres in Southern Spain. It operates four telescopes with apertures from 1.2m to 3.5m as well as a Schmidt reflector. A 1.5m-telescope is operated under the control of the Observatory of Madrid.
DI NELLA, Helen ( MPIA )
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
The institute is one of 68 Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany and is specialized on astronomical research at optical and infrared wavelengths. Its main research facility is the Calar Alto observatory in Spain
Calar Alto Observatory
German-Spanish Astronomical Center on Calar Alto operated by the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie ( MPIfR, Bonn )
Colloquium schedule (KOLLOQUIUMSPLANUNG -- Diese Planungsdatei ist LAN-öffentlich und über Internet zugänglich via 'anonymes ftp')
Effelsberg Radio Telescope ( MPIfR )
The Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) operates the world's largest movable radio telescope, a 100-m single-dish near Effelsberg, 40 km south of Bonn, Germany.
TIEFTRUNK, Achim ( MPIfR )
MPIfR - Bonn 100-m Telescope Surveys
Michael Dumke, MPIfR Bonn ( personal home page )
Main research interest: ISM in spiral galaxies (atomic and molecular gas, cold dust, magnetic fields, cosmic rays,...)
Preprints of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Preprints of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma - Sede di Monte Porzio
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory ( MRAO )
The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is part of the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include: the cosmic microwave background (Sunyaev-Zeldovich and primordial fluctuations), radio galaxies (hot-spots, spectral ageing), ultra-luminous infra-red galaxies, star formation in galaxies, low-frequency radio surveys, mm and sub-mm instrumentation, mm and sub-mm astronomy (star formation and outflows, interferometry, the Galactic Centre), the interplanetary medium, supernova remnants, optical aperture synthesis, and maximum entropy techniques.
Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants
This is a catalogue of Galactic SNRs, giving a summary listing of the parameters for each remnant, and detailed listings (with references) for each object. The documentation gives a description of the entries, and notes on new SNRs included in this version of the catalogue, objects no longer thought to be SNRs, and possible SNRs not included in the catalogue.
The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
The CAT is a three-element interferometer for cosmic microwave background observations at 13 to 17 GHz.
Cambridge LFST
Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope ( COAST )
Cambridge Ryle Telescope
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC )
Mississippi State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Physics and Astronomy Department home page contains information about faculty, students, and departmental facilities. Research information and information about the University's Howell Observatory is also available.
Mississippi State University - Howell Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory
The mountain is host to several ongoing observing projects using the onsite facilities. The observatory has two primary nighttime telescopes: the 60-inch telescope, built in 1908 is home to the HK Project and the Atmospheric Compensation Experiment; and the 100-inch (Hooker) telescope, built in 1917, which is available to the scientific community. Two solar observatories, the 60-foot tower telescope (operated by USC), and the 150-foot tower telescope (operated by UCLA) maintain long-term exploration of the magnetic activity behavior of the Sun. There are also two interferometers onsite: the Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI, operated by U.C. Berkeley), and the NRL Optical Interferometer. The Telescopes in Education (TIE) Project operates a 24" telescope, as well as the Snow Solar Telescope (built in 1904). Finally, a fully-robotic 32-inch Automatic Photoeletric Telescope (APT) is operated by Tennessee State University. New service of MWO Online Stargazer Map
DONAHUE, Robert ( CfA )
The Numerical Algorithms Group ( NAG )
NAG is a supplier of numerical, statistical, symbolic and visualisation systems plus compilers and tools.
Arecibo Observatory - National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center ( NAIC )
A Strategy For Ground-Based Optical And Infrared Astronomy
McCray Panel on Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1995
NAS/NRC Space Studies Board
The SSB is an advisory board within the National Research Council, which is in turn the operational arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. The SSB operates a number of standing committees and task groups that perform studies in space science and policy for the federal government.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA )
NASA pages by subject ( NASA )
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
BORKOWSKI, Jerzy ( NCAC )
GORNY, Slawomir K. ( NCAC )
National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR )
Astroware 1 CD-ROM
Astroware 1: Astronomy Shareware & Freeware (ISBN 1-886376-03-4). This CD-ROM is the first to be released in a new series of space and astronomy related CD titles. Astroware 1 is devoted to shareware and freeware files on the topics of Astronomy, Amateur Telescope Making, CCD imaging and image processing. A wide range of text files and programs for DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix computers are included on this ISO-9660 disc.
Image Processing CD-ROM
The IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS CD-ROM contains a huge selection of files related to the topics of image processing, file formats and documentation, format conversions, specialized image processing applications, and source code for algorithms, converters, and complete image processing systems. The disk also includes a large amount of FITS information, CCD imaging software, and specialized astronomical image processing software.
SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM
The SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM contains a huge selection of images and other files related to the impact of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The SL9 CD-ROM contains hundreds of images, motion video sequences, and technical information related to the July 1994 collision of the Periodic Comet Shoemaker-levy 9 (1993e) and the planet Jupiter. ISO-9660 disc.
National Climatic Data Center ( NCDC )
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA )
National Consortium for High Performance Computing ( NCHPC )
National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering
Internet Resources Meta-Index ( from NCSA )
National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA )
NASA ApJ abstracts
HAHN, Joseph M. ( Univ. Notre Dame )
Earth and Sky
This is a weekly on-line publication for the public to learn more about Earth science and astronomy. It consists of transcripts of radio programs aired daily on the Earth & Sky Radio Series, which is hosted by Deborah Byrd and Joel Block. The series broadcasts on more than 500 stations in the United States and on a variety of other stations across the globe.
Parallel Virtual Machine ( PVM )
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource. The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks, such as ethernet, FDDI, etc. PVM support software executes on each machine in a user-configurable pool, and presents a unified, general, and powerful computational environment of concurrent applications. User programs written in C or Fortran are provided access to PVM through the use of calls to PVM library routines for functions such as process initiation, message transmission and reception, and synchronization via barriers or rendezvous. Users may optionally control the execution location of specific application components. The PVM system transparently handles message routing, data conversion for incompatible architectures, and other tasks that are necessary for operation in a heterogeneous, network environment.
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy ( NFRA )
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / European VLBI Network ( JIVE / EVN )
The European VLBI Network (EVN) was formed in 1980 by a consortium of five of the major radio astronomy institutes in Europe (the European Consortium for VLBI). Since 1980, the EVN and the Consortium has grown to include 9 institutes with 12 telescopes in 8 western European countries as well as associated institutes with telescopes in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and China. Proposals for additional telescopes in Spain and Italy are under consideration, and furthermore, the EVN can be linked to the 7-element Jodrell Bank MERLIN interferometer in the UK and to the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to create a " global network" . In 1993 the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) was created, with the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (Dwingeloo) acting as the host institute. It will provide both scientific user support and a correlator facility. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) achieves ultra-high angular resolution and is a multi-disciplinary technique e.g. imaging of extragalactic radio sources, geodesy and astrometry. See EVN-TWG Meeting . There is also an EVN anonFTP directory at JB .
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope ( WSRT - NFRA )
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data Archive ( DMSP )
DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. NGDC maintains an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as relayed to NGDC by Air Force Global Weather Central. Data from March 1992 to March 1994, are considered to be experimental. After March 1994, the system should be fully operational.
National Geophysical Data Center ( NGDC )
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Home Page ( STP )
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center home page. Includes several various STP disciplines within the Center: geomagentism, Iononosphere, Solar and Upper Atmosphere, and two satellte programs: GOES and DMSP.
National Information Infrastructure Testbed ( NIIT )
Access to Astronomy Class ( Open Classroom-Astro )
Astronomy at the Dalton School is a college level, full year modern astronomy elective course. In a constructivist format, computers are extensively used in the course. From the home page you can see lists of software used, topics covered, image sources, web sites, etc. You can also see the course in progress. The task stream and folders containing ongoing, unaltered student work are published on WWW pages. See Internet Project.
National Optical Astronomy Observatories ( NOAO )
NOAO-Gopher(Gemini,Weather,Veronica),
catalogs, NSO, CTIO, KPNO
Astrophysical Journal ( ApJ )
The Astrophysical Journal (ISSN 0004-637X) is published three times a month (in two parts) for the American Astronomical Society by The University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Volumes consist of two issues each. An author and subject index covering three volumes appears in Part 1 every second month. An annual index is published after the last volume of the year and is sent to each subscriber. The articles in this journal are indexed in the Science Citation Index, Philadelphia, PA.
ApJ Yellow Pages
The titles, authors, dates of submission, and sources for preprints for manuscripts submitted to eight North American journals are automatically included in the Yellow Pages of the ApJ (Part 1) unless the authors opt (upon submission) not to have that material published for their papers. Or they can opt to have the titles, authors and submission dates published but make preprints " not available."
Astrophysical Journal Letters ( ApJL )
Part 2 of The Astrophysical Journal. Published with Part 1 of the Journal on the 1st, 10th, and 20th of each month. An author and subject index covering three volumes appears in Part 1 every second month. An Annual Index is published after the last volume of the year and is sent to each subscriber. The articles in this Journal are indexed in the Science Citation Index, Philadelphia, PA.
Astrophysical Journal Supplement ( ApJS )
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ISSN 0067-0049) is published monthly for the American Astronomical Society by The University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Six volumes of two issues each are published each year. An author and subject index appears in the second issue of each volume.
Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO )
There is also an anonymous ftp
MIGHELL, Kenneth
KASHLINSKY, Alexander ( NORDITA )
Nordic Optical Telescope, image gallery
Nordic Optical Telescope - Staff members
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ( NRAO )
The NRAO is a facility operated by Associated Universities, Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
NRAO/VLA Information System -- Maintenance Report summaries (Open and to be Repaired); Official VLA, VLBA and VLBI NUG Schedules; General Info for Visitors to NRAO (New Mexico); VLA Specific Information; VLBA Specific Information; Weather Information
NRAO-Charlottesville ( Headquarters ; there is also an anonFTP server .
NRAO-Socorro (Array Operations Center)
NRAO-Tucson
NRAO-VLA (Very Large Array)
NRAO-VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array)
NRAO-Green Bank (140-foot, GBT, OVLBI)
Very Large Array ( VLA )
Very Large Array - Schedules ( VLA )
Very Long Baseline Array ( VLBA )
Very Long Baseline Array / Global Network - Schedules ( VLBA )
VOURLIDAS, Angelos ( NRAO )
NAVARRO, Jose ( NRAO )
CASSIDY, Richard ( NRL )
COFFEY, Timothy ( NRL )
Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array Project ( LMSA Project )
Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ ( NRO )
Information regarding the 45-m Telescope, the Millimeter Array(NMA), the Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array (LMSA) project, and much more.
National Science Foundation ( NSF )
Includes: Deadlines for NSF Programs; Program Areas; Grant Proposal Guide; Guide to Programs; NSF Bulletins; Search Award Information and Abstracts; Fastlane Project; Communicating with the NSF; NSF Location and Directions; Publications; Publications Search Feature; Federal Research Centers; Federal Laboratories; Selected NSF-Funded Projects; Federal Agencies.
SpaceBound
SpaceBound is an online magazine dedicated to astronomy and space exploration. The website features software reviews, Internet links, news, articles, and much more.
Cracow Observatory
The Astronomical Observatory is an institute in Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Nowadays the scientific staff of 36 people works on: physics of comets, photometry of variable stars, solar radio emission observations, investigation of extragalactic radio sources, active galactic nuclei, interstellar and intergalactic matter, physics of galaxies, large scale structure of the Universe and theoretical cosmology.
Cracow - Solar radio emission in dm wavelength
Continuous observations of solar radio emission in decimeter wavelength have been maintained in Cracow since 1957. Beginning from January 1995 we provide the reduced data on-line. The new instrument for solar radio observations is under construction. It is to start its operation in May, 1995.
OAT Astronomical Services ( Trieste )
THE Star ( ISPCS )
The Italian Solar Physics Community Server is an experimental WWW server intended to collect all the relevant information on Solar Physics Activities and Resources in Italy as well as on international scientific collaborations in ground-based projects, such as THEMIS and LEST, and in space missions, such as SOHO.
Solar Workshops ( an Italian list )
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste ( OAT )
OAT Activities include: Physics of the sun and of the solar system, Physics of the stars, the interstellar medium and of the galaxy, Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, Astronomical technologies, and Space astronomy.
Observatoire de Haute-Provence ( OHP )
The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP) is an optical observatory in southeast France offering small and medium-sized observing facilities to astronomers in France, Europe and abroad. Includes information about instruments and user manuals.
Côte d'Azur Observatory ( Nice )
Cerga Astromtrie. Godsie spatiale. Tlmtrie Laser. Mcanique cleste. Histoire des sciences. Fresnel Haute rsolution angulaire et Interfromtrie. Physique stellaire. Physique galactique et extragalactique. Recherche et dveloppement. Cassini Astronomie et Astrophysique. Mcanique des fluides. Physique des plasmas, physique atomique. Physique exprimentale. Physique Solaire.
Observatoire de Paris ( Meudon )
Paris Observatory This is the official server at Paris Observatory. You will find information about the activities of the Observatory, on departments, on its history, etc.
Tools for Variable Stars
Database of useful programs to study variable stars. You can download the program from the FTP site. If you have some programs to add to the database. Email me : dubost@obspm.fr
DUBOST, Karl ( Paris )
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
This resource, maintained by Jean Schneider (Observatoire de Paris), provides updated information about the search for extrasolar planets.
It includes a Catalog of Extrasolar Planets and a list of meetings.
Carnegie Institution Observatories ( OCIW )
Southern Astronomical Society Home Page
One of the first WWW sites of an amateur astronomical in Australia. Set up for the Southern Astronomical Society, Inc. by the administrator, Zac Pujic. The site contains general information about astronomy as well as information about the society.
Strickler Planetarium
Strickler Planetarium, located on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, is dedicated to educating the public in the Kankakee area about the astronomical wonders of space.
Onsala Space Observatory ( OSO )
OSO is the Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy.
Owens Valley Radio Observatory ( OVRO )
Caltech Millimeter Array
Michigan State University - Physics & Astronomy ( MSU )
BENDLER, Larry ( MSU )
HAMLIN, Michael ( MSU )
STEIN, Bob ( MSU )
University of Kentucky: Department of Physics and Astronomy
CLOUDY - Photoionization Simulation code ( CLOUDY )
Cloudy is a large-scale Fortran code designed to simulate physical conditions in a broad range of astronomical plasmas, and predict its resulting spectrum. The Cloudy homepage provides pointers to the code and its documentation, along with related publications and activities.
SHLOSMAN, Isaac ( U. Kentucky )
active galactic nuclei, accretion disks, galactic dynamics
VERNER, Dmitri ( U of Kentucky )
Astronomy Acknowledgement Index ( AAI )
This service provides references to all personal acknowledgements from all papers published in the leading journals in astronomy. Search by name and lists of the most acknowledged scientists are available. The database is updated monthly. The AAI is compiled by Dima Verner, University of Kentucky.
Astrophysical Journal Letters Citation Analysis ( ApJ Lett. )
The electronic edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) allows an easy statistical analysis of citations in the ApJL articles. This page (compiled by Dima Verner) provides citation statistics of the electronic ApJL starting from January 1996. The page is updated bimonthly.
Atomic Data for Astrophysics
This service provides links to archives of atomic data for astrophysics at the University of Kentucky and other sites accessible through the WWW. The ADfA page is regularly updated.
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova ( Padova )
Astronet Home Page - Navigation in Astronet ( Padova )
This is a still growing page trough which one can navigate between the www servers of the astronomical observatories in Italy. General information and software is (and will be) also available.
Padova: Ekar 182cm Telescope - Schedules
La Palma - Italian National Telescope Galileo ( TNG )
The TNG (Galileo National Telescope) is a Project of the Italian Astronomical community. TNG headquarters (TNG Project Scientist is Cesare Barbieri ) is housed in the Padova Observatory.
University of Edinburgh - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Imperial College, University of London - Astrophysics Group
MORTLOCK Daniel ( Melbourne )
MASCI, Frank ( Melbourne )
BROWN, Michael ( Melbourne )
FRANCIS, Paul ( Melbourne )
University of Texas, Austin - Department of Physics
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( JHU )
About the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy: Current research activities can be divided roughly into five areas: solid-state physics, high-energy physics, astrophysics, plasma spectroscopy, and theoretical physics. Work in the Center for Astrophysical Sciences (CAS) at JHU is now centered in three areas: developing instrumentation for astronomical observations, particularly from space; optical observational astronomy from the ground and space; and theory.Two large space astronomy projects are currently active in CAS: the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, a far-UV spectrophotometer which made its first flight aboard the space shuttle in December, 1990, and its second flight on March 2, 1995; and the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a free-flying satellite whose launch is expected in 2000.
University of Kansas - Department of Physics and Astronomy
A combined Department of Physics and Astronomy, with research groups in Cosmology, Galactic Astronomy, and Space Plasma Physics. We are in the Kansas Alliance for Cosmology and Interdisciplinary Astrophysics with Kansas State University, who are starting a program in Particle Astrophysics.
STATLER, Tom ( Ohio Univ. )
Ohio University - Astronomy and Astrophyics
Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Physics Department of Ohio University at Athens, Ohio.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL )
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Hawaii, Manoa - Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tokyo - Department of Physics: Theoretical Astrophysics Group
University of Tokyo - Department of Physics: X-Ray Astronomy Group
University of Tokyo - Department of Physics: Gravitational Wave Group
Center for Subatomic Research ( CSR )
CAMPBELL, Belva G. ( UNM )
KING, David S. ( UNM )
University of New Mexico - Institute For Astrophysics ( UNM )
Links and services which are related to astrophysics and astronomy here at UNM.
DURIC, Nebojsa ( UNM )
GREGORY, Stephen A. ( Univ. New Mexico )
HENNING, Patricia A. ( UNM )
University of New South Wales - School of Physics ( UNSW )
Australian Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy ( UNSW )
Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
This page is a resource for Antarctic astronomy, providing information of interest to anyone considering the Antarctic plateau as the site for a future major international observatory. It contains papers, images, details of meetings and lists of people involved with Antarctic astrononomy.
BURTON, Michael
RYDER, Stuart ( University of New South Wales )
University of Victoria - Physics and Astronomy Department
Gopher
Virginia Tech Astrophysics
The astrophysics group at Virginia Tech is active in extragalactic astronomy and studies of the interstellar medium (ISM)
Super-Kamiokande
Super-Kamiokande is a joint Japan-US collaboration to construct the world's largest underground neutrino observatory.
University of Georgia, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy at UGA
MAGNANI, Loris Alberto ( U. Georgia )
University of Adelaide - Astrophysics Group
High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector ( HiRes )
The HiRes detector - an atmospheric fluorescence detector: HiRes currently consists of two sites on top of two mountains seperated by 13km in western Utah. At present it consists of a 14 mirror prototype at the first site and a 4 mirror site at the second site. Construction is under way to built two full eyes which should be finnished by the end of 1996
Collaboration between Australia and Nippon for a Gamma Ray Observatory in the Outback ( CANGAROO )
The project uses two gamma ray telescopes at a dark site 15 km from Woomera, a small town 500 km north of Adelaide.
University of Adelaide - Astrophysics Group: Preprints
MELIA, Fulvio ( Steward Obs. )
University of Glasgow. Department of Physics & Astronomy ( UK )
The Whole Earth Telescope ( W.E.T. )
In 1986, astronomers from the University of Texas established a world--wide network of cooperating astronomical observatories to obtain uninterrupted time--series measurements of variable stars. The technological goal was to resolve the multi-periodic oscillations observed in these objects into their individual components; the scientific goal was to construct accurate theoretical models of the target objects, constrained by their observed behavior, from which their fundamental astrophysical parameters could be derived. This approach has been extremely successful, and has placed the fledgling science of stellar seismology at the forefront of stellar astrophysics.
Physics Servers and Services Around the World
Mirror Site at TU Vienna.
McMaster University - Astronomy and Astrophysics
Contains information about their faculty, research, facilities and graduate programme.
McMaster University - Astronomy and Astrophysics: Preprints
McMaster Cepheid Photometry and Radial Velocity Archive
This site contains ASCII data tables of photometry and radial velocities for Galactic and Extragalactic Cepheids (both Classical and Type II). Data is presented as published and full citations to the original work are given. Currently, data are sorted according to star name.
WILSON, Christine D. ( McMaster Univ. )
WELCH, Douglas L. ( McMaster )
SUTHERLAND, Peter G. ( McMaster Univ. )
PUDRITZ, Ralph E. ( McMaster Univ. )
HARRIS, William E. ( McMaster Univ. )
Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Relativity at Purdue
Rutgers University Astronomy
University of California Santa Barbara Physics ( UCSB )
Theoretical Astrophyics Astrophysics and Relativity General Relativity and Quantum Gravity Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology
KARY, Dave
AGOL, Eric ( UCSB )
University of Delaware - Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa - Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina Physics and Astronomy
The SOAR Telescope Project The Grand Challenge
University of New Hampshire - Department of Physics
The Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire has an extensive range of research including: space physics/astrophysics, nuclear physics, nonlinear dynamics and condensed matter.
UNLV Department of Physics ( UNLV )
University of Queensland - Astrophysics Group
University of Sydney - School of Physics
Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory ( IAU Symposium 189 )
First announcement, conference in Sydney, Australia, 13-17 January 1997
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics ( RCfTA )
ts members undertake research in theoretical astrophysics with special emphasis on the fundamental physics of stars and on the physics of non-thermal phenomena.
Physics at the University of Utah
The University of Toledo - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UT-P&A )
Details on the department including faculty, research projects, and the Ritter Astrophysical Research Center. The Center includes a 1m optical reflector equipped with both a low/medium resolution spectragraph and an echelle spectragraph.
Ritter Astrophysical Research Center
The Ritter Astrophysical Research Center is associated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Toledo. The Center includes faculty and graduate students working in the fields of stellar, interstellar, planetary, and extragalactic astrophysics. The Center's facilities include a 1m reflector equipped with two fiber-fed spectragraphs, one a low/medium resolution and one a high resolution echelle spectragraph and time on the departmental accelerator for investigation of astrophysically interesting atomic parameters.
GORDON, Karl ( UT )
York University - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Universität Jena - Physikalisch-Astronomische Fakultät
Universität Jena. Physikalisch-Astronomische Fakultät ( Germany )
TCL WWW Info
These pages are an index to a set of TCL/Tk references on the WWW. The author has started off with pointers to the ones he could access from the TCL FAQ and added references as he came across them.
Virgo Interferometer ( VIRGO )
The purpose of the Virgo interferometer is to detect arrival of gravitational waves on earth from astronomical sources.
WWW-homepage of the Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
The Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) is an amateur group of young people interested in all aspects regarding meteors and related matters. They observe meteors visually, photographically, video and with all-sky camera's. DMS publishes a bi-monthly magazine called Radiant. More information on DMS/Radiant can be obtained at: Hans Betlem, Lederkarper 4, NL-2318 NB Leiden, Phone: +(31)-71-5223817 E-mail: betlem@strw.leiden-univ.nl
Mira Public Observatory, Grimbergen, Belgium ( Volkssterrenwacht Mira, Grimbergen, Belgium )
The Mira Public Observatory is located north of Brussels, Belgium. Its main goal is to introduce people to the wonders and beauty of the night sky. The homepage also includes a Virtual Tour of the observatory.
California Institute of Technology - Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy ( CalTech )
This division is concerned with the very small--such as the nature of elementary particles and their interactions--and the very large--for example, the size of the universe.
Astronomie / Astronomy ( at IfAG Potsdam )
Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society ( CUAS )
The Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society (CUAS) Page

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    • RHOADS, James ( Princeton )
    University of California, Irvine - Department of Physics ( UCI )
    BENFORD, Gregory D. ( UC Irvine )
    Planetary Science Institute ( PSI )
    The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is a non-profit organization ( a division of San Juan Institute) that conducts a wide variety of basic research in planetary science and allied fields. Established in Tucson, Arizona, in 1972, the Institute has a number of multi-faceted research programs in planetary astronomy, lunar and planetary geology, and planetary geophysics and dynamics. PSI's Astrophysics Group conducts research on cataclysmic variables, CCD observational techniques and instrumentation, multi-wavelength observations, faint object photometry, and extra-Solar planet searches. PSI currently emphasizes Mars, satellites, asteroids , and comets, as well as the origin of planets. Our scientists have participated in NASA spacecraft missions, such as Mariner 9, Viking, and Mars Observer, and are presently involved in the Galileo Mission to Jupiter and the NEAR Mission to Eros.
    Iowa State University - Department of Physics & Astronomy ( ISU )
    The Astronomy Group of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University is announcing it's WWW Home Page. It contains information about the Astronomy Program at Iowa State and links to the ISU library, Gopher and other WWW servers in the ISU campus.
    APPLETON, Philip N. ( Iowa State Univ. )
    BOWEN, George ( Iowa State Univ. )
    STRUCK-MARCELL, Curtis ( Iowa State Univ. )
    EITTER, Joseph ( Iowa State Univ. )
    KAWALER, Steven D. ( Iowa State Univ. )
    LAMB, Richard C. ( Iowa State Univ. )
    LAVERY, Russell J. ( Iowa State Univ. )
    LEWIS, David A. ( Iowa State Univ. )
    WILLSON, Lee Anne ( Iowa State Univ. )
    Iowa State University - Astronomy Program: Preprints ( ISU )
    CHARMANDARIS, Vassilis ( IowaState )
    Potchefstroom University - Physics Department: Space Research Unit
    Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London ( QMW, Univ of London )
    Astronomical Research interests at QMW include: Millimetre, submillimetre and infrared wavelength studies of Star Forming regions, Molecular Clouds, Interstellar Chemistry, Planetary Astrophysics, Extragalactic Astronomy, Solar System Studies and Dynamics, Solar and Stellar Physics, Space Plasmas, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Gravitation and Cosmology, and a programme of astronomical instrumentation development in the millimetre, submillimetre and far infrared spectral regions. Also contains a Preprint Server, an Image Library, an on-line Postgraduate Prospectus, and links to other activities in the Physics and Mathematics Departments.
    Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Physics Department Astronomy Group ( UK )
    WHITE, Glenn ( QMW, London University )
    GalaxyGuide - Constellation of the Month ( CD-ROM for Windows )
    We develop and sell GalaxyGuide, An Introduction to the Constellations. This Windows CD covers 38 constellations in depth. It includes a desktop astronomy dictionary and games. Our home page features a constellation of the month, this month Orion. Photos and discussions of shape, location, mythology, deep space objects, individual stars and related astronomy subjects are offered. Free multimedia software demo of GalaxyGuide can be downloaded. We plan to change the home page and free offerings frequently.
    Royal Astronomical Society ( RAS )
    The Royal Astronomical Society was founded in the year 1820 and received the grant of a Royal Charter in 1831. The Society's aims are "the encouragement and promotion of astronomy and geophysics." The main functions are to publish the results of astronomical and geophysical research, to maintain as complete a library as possible in these subjects and to hold meetings, in London and elsewhere, at which astronomical and geophysical matters can be discussed.
    Z39.50 resources - a pointer page
    a reference point for resources related to the Information Retrieval Service and Protocol standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.50. This standard was first successfully balloted in 1988; several companies implemented this standard or variants of this; but it did not develop large scale acceptance. A noteworthy implementation based on this standard is WAIS (Wide Area Information Services). Also see the Profiles section for more info on present development of WAIS within Z39.50.
    The Galileo Project
    A web resource on the life and works of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
    Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ( RAL )
    AMENDOLA, Luca
    Rome Observatory Astronomical Museum
    Historical Astronomical Museum, with description cards and some pictures
    Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ( ROE )
    ROE's W3 server offers information to present and potential users of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the UK Infrared Telescope, the UK Schmidt Telescope and the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine. There are also pages for:
    Royal Observatory, Edinburgh: Preprints
    UK Schmidt Telescope ( UKST )
    The initial task of the UKST was to construct a photographic survey of the entire southern sky. The telescope still takes some 700 plates a year - about half for current surveys and the remainder taken at the request of research astronomers around the world. To date the UKST has taken over 17,000 plates, the plates are stored in the Plate Library at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) and represent a huge source of data for the astronomical community. Some 300 active research programmes make use of UKST plate material. Many plates are copied in the ROE Photolabs and sold as Sky Atlases or Teaching Packages. In addition to its photographic role the UKST also has a multi-object fibre spectroscopy system known as FLAIR. e-mail ukstu@roe.ac.uk
    ROSAT
    Roentgen Satellite (X-ray satellite) operated by the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany
    Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI )
    Research in the Astrophysics Group is centered around the properties of interstellar dust and the role of dust in physical processes such as star formation and interstellar chemistry.
    Interactive Data Language from Research Systems, Inc. ( IDL )
    IDL, Interactive Data analysis Language, is a complete package for the interactive reduction, analysis, and visualization of scientific data and images. Optimized for the workstation environment, IDL integrates a responsive array oriented language with numerous data analysis methods and an extensive variety of two and three dimensional displays into a powerful tool for researchers. IDL supports an extensive data import capability, publication quality hard copy output, and user-defined Motif graphical user interfaces. Users can create complex visualizations in hours instead of weeks with the aid of IDL's high level capabilities and interactive environment. IDL is useful in physics, astronomy, image and signal processing, mapping, medical imaging, statistics, and other technical disciplines requiring visualization of large amounts of data.
    The pages include technical information about IDL, pricing and distributor information, a gallery of images that you can download, and links to the IDL ftp site. The pages are part of an ongoing project at the NASA Software Support Laboratory that is compiling information about a number of scientific visualization products.
    IDL (ftp)
    IDL Astronomy Library
    IDL FAQs (frequently asked questions)
    Rhodes University - Department of Physics
    South African Astronomical Observatory ( SAAO )
    This is the SAAO home page. It gives a brief introduction to the work done at SAAO, how to submit observing requests, lists of preprints (with abstracts) of SAAO staff members, facilities manual and pictures.
    Sociedad Astronomica de Espan~a y America ( SADEYA )
    Sociedad Astronomica de Espan~a y America WWW Information Service
    Astronomy-dedicated server.
    Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( SAI (Moscow )
    SAI Crimean Observatory SAI Astronomical Databases Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) Here you may find email address (Internet) of people at Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Stellar astrophysics department Solar structure studies group Division of Gravitational Measurements
    Space Astrophysics Laboratory ( SAL )
    The Space Astrophysics Laboratory is part of the Institute for Space And Terrestrial Science, an Ontario Centre of Excellence located in North York, Ontario. Space Astrophysics is a sub-discipline of astronomical research of the sun, planets, stars and galaxies performed from above the surface of the Earth using orbiting or space-borne instruments, producing data that can be correlated with information from Earth-based observatories.
    Sandia National Laboratories
    MCARTHUR, Greg ( NCAR )
    Hamilton Amateur Astronomers
    The Hamilton Amateur Astronomers is a group dedicated to the enjoyment of astronomy and public education.
    Kyoto University - Department of Physics
    The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope
    The best images from the hubble space telescope.
    Messier Pages at SEDS
    Images and short information for each of the 110 Deep Sky Objects of Messier's catalog, together with various indices and reference material. Including historic and observational stuff, and a big image collection.
    Software Engineering Institute ( SEI )
    The SEI objective is to provide leadership in software engineering and in the transition of new software engineering technology into practice. The SEI Information Server provides: information about the SEI and its activities to improve the state of practice of software engineering, information about the ongoing research efforts of the ARPA Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (SISTO), an index of information relating to numerous software and computing topics, pointers to many other Internet resources
    Space Environment Laboratory
    The Space Environment Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides near real-time monitoring and forecasting of the environment between the sun and the earth. Our WWW server features Today's Solar Weather with current solar images, xray and proton plots from GOES satellites, and the latest forecast of solar-terrestrial conditions.
    Science and Engineering Television Network ( SETN )
    The Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., SETN, is a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television. SETN invites other organizations to join in the creation of and distribution of programming. The network intends to mirror the best scientific print publications and it will broadcast news reports, lecture-demonstrations, interviews, conferences and discussions all concerned with the latest international developments in scientific research and science policy.
    SETI Institute Home Page ( SETI )
    The SETI Institute (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) serves as an institutional home for scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature, distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe. The largest research effort is Project Phoenix, the privately-funded continuation of the Targeted Search portion of NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey. Two other projects of interest are the Life in the Universe (LITU) Curriculum Project and the Flight Opportunities for Science Teacher EnRichment (FOSTER) Project. LITU develops supplementary science curriculum material for grades 3 through 9. FOSTER allows science teachers to experience the excitement of research on NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO).
    SETIQuest
    SETIQuest®, The Magazine of SETI and Bioastronomy, provides both professional and amateur astronomers with information concerning SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and bioastronomy. Updates are published on optical and microwave- based SETI research, conferences, papers, and activities, such as Project Phoenix and SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations).
    The Commonwealth Club of California
    The Commonwealth Club sponsors hundreds of speakers each year, many on scientific and technical topics. For a free copy of our bulletin, contact Katherine Merriman at (415) 597-6732 or at cwc@sirius.com. You are welcome to attend the lecture by Andrew Fraknoi entitled "Exploring the Eerie World of Jupiter: A Preview of the Galileo Mission" on November 13 at 4:45 pm. Call or write to RSVP.
    ISRAEL, Gianluca ( SISSA-ISAS )
    International School for Advanced Studies. Astrophysics Sector ( SISSA. Trieste, Italy )
    Robinson Lunar & Planetary Observatory
    Information, pictures, observations of amateur observatory plus pages relating to the International Occultation & Timing Association.
    Sky Online
    Sky Online, a service of Sky & Telescope magazine, is designed for astronomy enthusiasts at all levels of interest. It features excerpts from Sky & Telescope and CCD Astronomy magazines, tips for backyard skygazers, reviews of telescopes and accessories, a weekly astronomical news bulletin, calendar of upcoming star parties and amateur conventions, downloadable BASIC programs, links to other sites, and more.
    The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies
    Cosmic microwave background anisotropies provide a vast amount of cosmological information. Their full physical content and detailed structure can be understood in a simple and intuitive fashion through a systematic investigation of the individual mechanisms for anisotropy formation.
    Mees Solar Observatory ( MSO, Hawaii )
    MICKEY, Donald L. ( IfA )
    Omega Optical, Inc ( I )
    Omega Optical manufactures interference filters for astronomical applications from the deep UV to the far IR. Image quality interference filters are offered to many standard designs. Also produced are UVBRI sets from colored glasses. Optical fabrication facilities permit specialized fabrication with reasonable build times.
    SPIE Web ( SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering )
    SPIE Web, the World Wide Web server of SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, includes meeting announcements, membership information, and abstracts of nearly 30,000 papers on optics and related subjects, including astronomy. The Gateway to Photonics Information is a set of links to institutions, societies, government agencies, and other useful resources.
    University of Birmingham - Space Research
    CORBEL, Stephane ( CalTech )
    MATTHEWS, Brian ( CalTech )
    RAY, Paul ( NRL )
    CalTech - Space Radiation Laboratory
    Includes: Cosmic Ray Physics and Astrophysics ; High Energy Astrophysics (X-rays and gamma-rays) ; Computational Astrophysics
    NEELEY, James ( Idaho )
    Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory ( SSCL )
    Bristol Astrophysics Group home page
    Links to the Astrophysics and Astrochemistry pursuits of the University of Bristol Physics and Chemistry Departments.
    University of Leicester - Department of Physics and Astronomy
    XMM Survey Science Centre ( XMM SSC )
    The XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) has responsibilities within the XMM project in three main areas:
    North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club ( NSAAC )
    NSAAC is an Astronomy club of the North Shore in Massachusetts,USA
    University College London - Department of Physics and Astronomy
    Journal of the British Astronomical Association ( Journal of the UK's premier amateur astronomy organisation )
    HOWARTH, Ian
    RICHMOND, Alan ( HEASARC )
    Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy ( SCCA )
    The SCCA provides prompt high-quality statistical advice for the astronomical community. It is an interdisciplinary team of faculty at Penn State with contacts throughout the international statistical community. A wide range of issues arising in astronomical data analysis can be addressed. Questions and answers are made available on the WWW.
    Statistical Sciences ( StatSci )
    We're the developers of S-PLUS as well as developers and providers of a variety of other tools for statistical and data analysis. We strive to provide you with a variety of online information which will help you work more efficiently and creatively within S-PLUS.
    NASA RECON abstracts
    WAIS index to the Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) for the years 1990 through 1992 and International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) from the NASA RECON database for the years 1990 through 1992. There are over 200,000 abstracts containted in this database. International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA), published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. - Periodicals (including government-sponsered journals) and books. - Meeting papers and conference proceedings issued by professional societies and academic organizations. - Translations of journals and journal articles. Content includes worldwide publishe literature in the field of aeronautics and space science and technology. Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR). Significant publicationsof the following types are in this series: - NASA, NASA contractor, and NASA grantee reports - Reports issued by other government agencies, domestic and foreign institutions, universitites, and private firms. - Translations in report form. - NASA-owned patents and patent applications. - Dissertations and theses material emphasizing aeronautics, space, and supporting disciplines. (resource will be relocated to www.sti.nasa.gov)
    NASA Scientific and Technical Information ( STI )
    San Antonio Astronomical Association ( SAAA )
    Since its founding in 1974, the San Antonio Astronomical Association of San Antonio, Texas, has become one of the largest non-profit amateur astronomical organizations in the United States. Our 250+ members come from every walk of life, from elementary school students, to retirees, to teachers, to professional astronomers. For nearly a quarter century the SAAA has provided free educational programs for its members and the public.
    LINDQVIST, Michael ( Leiden Obs. )
    Leiden Observatory
    World Wide Astronomy Servers ( Leiden )
    DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky ( DENIS - Leiden )
    DENIS will be a complete deep near infrared survey of the southern sky, with the objective to provide full coverage in 2 near infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron and K at 2.2 micron) and one optical band (I at 0.8 micron), using a ground-based telescope and digital array detectors. The products of this survey will be databases of calibrated images, extended sources, and small objects. In addition catalogs of small and extended sources will be produced. We expect the survey to be completed within five years; restricted access to the databases is possible during the second half of the survey. The production of catalogs (to be distributed) will take a few additional years.
    VOS, Bart ( Leiden )
    DE BRUIJNE, Jos ( Leiden Obs. )
    DEUL, Erik ( Leiden Obs. )
    VAN DISHOECK, Ewine ( Leiden Obs. )
    VAN GENDEREN, A.M. ( Leiden Obs. )
    HABING, H.J. ( Leiden Obs. )
    ICKE, Vincent ( Leiden Obs. )
    ISRAEL, Frank P. ( Leiden Obs. )
    JAFFE, Walter J. ( Leiden Obs. )
    VAN DER WERF, Paul ( Leiden Obs. )
    ROOS, Nico ( Leiden Obs. )
    DE ZEEUW, P. Tim ( Leiden Obs. )
    Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI )
    STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.
    Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Encounters Jupiter - Latest HST Images (STScI)
    STScI phonebook
    PASP abstracts archive, STScI
    Astron. Soc. of the Pacific (ASP) conference series
    Remote Proposal Submission Software
    TIM (Telescope Imaging Model) ( PSF software for HST )
    TinyTIM PSF software for HST
    STScI-authored preprints (abstracts)
    STScI authored preprints ( Gopher, searchable )
    STScI Newsletter
    Astronomical Internet Resources ( at STScI )
    Hubble Space Telescope public images and other information
    images, movies and animations from some of the observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). They are made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute. See also: TIFFs & GIFs ( Levay), ExInEd (Macs-only)
    STScI Searchtools
    Includes: STEIS Gopher Menus, STScI Phonebook, Archive Exposure Catalog, Current Year's Weekly Timeline, HST Status Reports, Long Range Plan (disabled), Weekly Summaries, STScI Documents, ... WWW clients which don't support HTML forms and direct WAIS access can use a simpler interface .
    Spike Planning and Scheduling ( Spike )
    Space Telescope Science Institute developed the Spike planning and scheduling software in support of the Hubble Space Telescope as a general toolkit for planning and scheduling under Contract NAS5-26555 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is our desire that this toolkit be used to promote scientific research through the effective and efficient use of ground- and space-based astronomical observatories. By providing the Spike system to other facilities, we hope to develop a community of users who develop and use the Spike system. To the degree our resources allow, STScI will act as a clearinghouse for users, bug fixes, modifications, etc.
    Space Telescope Electronic Information System ( STEIS )
    JACKSON, Robert E. ( CSC/STScI )
    Network information systems, Software Tools
    MILLER, Glenn ( STScI )
    Data Reduction Expert Assistant ( DRACO )
    The use of large format detectors, increased access to very large astronomical databases, and other developments in observational astronomy have led to the situation where many astronomers are overwhelmed by the reduction and analysis process. Draco is a novel approach to data reduction and analysis which works in conjunction with existing analysis systems such as STSDAS/IRAF, IDL, etc. Draco takes on much of the mechanics of the process, allowing the astronomer to spend more time understanding the physical nature of the data.
    Sacramento Peak Observatory ( SPO, part of NSO )
    Anonymous ftp
    NEIDIG, Donald F. ( AFGL )
    SIMON, George W. ( AFGL )
    WIBORG, Phil ( AFGL )
    ALTROCK, Richard C. ( AFGL )
    RADICK, Richard ( AFGL )
    KEIL, Steve ( AFGL )
    ZIRKER, Jack ( SPO )
    KUHN, Jeff ( SPO )
    BALASUBRAMANIAN, K.S. ( SPO )
    NOVEMBER, Larry ( SPO )
    PENN, Matt ( SPO )
    DUNN, Dick ( SPO )
    SMARTT, Raymond N. ( SPO )
    Sac Peak Preprint Library ( NOAO-NSO/SPO )
    RISE/PSPT newsletter ( PostScript )
    Newsletter for the precision solar photometric telescope project, of the Sacramento Peak Observatory, a part of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).
    Sunspotter
    Sunspot community newspaper (full text in PostScript format)
    MAZZOLINI, Margaret ( Melbourne )
    Astronomical Image Library
    We're undertaking the task of indexing the wealth of astronomical images available on the Internet. To use the service, you just have to go to the URL mentioned and type the name of the object you are looking for. If our database knows where an image of this object is located, you just have to click on the resulting link(s) to obtain a picture of it. We're currently indexing approximately 15,000 images and more are being added regularly.
    Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences
    Slovak Astronomical Society
    HRIC, Ladislav ( Astronomical Institute, Slovak Republic )
    KOMZIK, Richard ( Astronomical Institute, Slovak Republic )
    Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen ( TAC )
    Advanced Computing Research Institute ( ACRI )
    Corporate Research Institute ( CRI )
    Computational Science Highlights ( NSF Metacenter )
    Computational Science Highlights covers topics at all scales of scientific inquiry. Users have the option to browse the repository's contents or to search for articles by keyword, such as researcher last name or institution. Computational Science Highlights , a prototype system, currently contains articles contributed by the members of the National MetaCenter: the Cornell Theory Center (CTC), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
    Cornell University Theory Center
    Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni Extraterrestri ( TeSRE-CNR, Italy )
    Astronomical Society of North Texas ( ASNT )
    Young astronomy club north of Dallas. Lots of different interests. Monthly meetings and star parties. Special star party at Eisenhower State Park each year. Come and join our fun! Meetings are every third Tuesday of the month at the Sherman (Texas) Public Library at 7pm. Public is welcome!
    California Institute of Technology Theoretical Particle Physics ( CalTech )
    The World Guide to Observatories
    Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg ( TLS )
    The observatory is running a 2m telescope which can be used in three different optical configurations: Schmidt telescope Cassegrain telescope Coude telescope
    The Internet Pilot to Physics
    Job announcements and deadlines Conference deadlines Physics News Flashes Today in the history of physicPhysics Conference List Announce a Conference On-Line Discussion Forum Market place for used equipment Jobs on-line Student Forum Book Reviews and New Books
    Earth & Sky
    Earth & Sky is a syndicated radio program heard across the United States. The show is done by Debbie Byrd and Joel Block in Austin, Texas. The show is done every weekday (and the occasional weekend), and deals with various popular science subjects, ranging from astronomy and earth science to our environment. Questions from listeners are also addressed. The show is produced in association with the American Geophyiscal Union of Washington, D.C.
    International Meteor Organization ( IMO )
    The International Meteor Organization (IMO) was founded in 1988 and has more than 250 members now. IMO was created in response to an ever growing need for international cooperation of meteor amateur work. The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust.
    NRAO Arizona Operations ( NRAO-TUC )
    The National Radio Astronomy Observatory Arizona Operations is the center for the following NRAO activities: (1) 12 Meter Telescope and (2) Millimeter Array Development Activities.
    Millimeter Array project ( MMA )
    NRAO 12m Telescope Schedules
    Tufts University Astronomy Program
    The Astronomy Program at Tufts University includes resources for both education and research in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and physics. Links include information on our undergraduate program in Astrophysics as well as Solar Physics research into coronal magetic fields and their relation to noise storms on the sun.
    Lake Afton Public Observatory
    Manchester Astronomical Society ( MAS )
    Founded in 1903 the MAS is one of the oldest astronomical societies in the UK. The Godlee observatory houses a Grubb 8" refractor and a 12" reflector, sited on the roof of UMIST.
    Departamento de Astrofísica (UCM) ( Madrid )
    MONTES, David ( Madrid )
    University of California Observatories - Lick Observatory (WWW) ( UCO/Lick )
    Lick Observatory Anonymous ftp
    CHURCHILL, Christopher ( UCO/Lick )
    WALKER, Ian
    Graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying galaxies and cosmology
    KELSON, Dan ( UCO/Lick )
    Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project member
    UCO/Lick: Keck Telescope - Schedules ( UCO )
    VOGT, Nicole P. ( Lick Observatory )
    The WWW page for Nicole P. Vogt at UCO/Lick Observatory contains astronomical preprints, utilities, and information on the DEEP (Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Probe) project, a focused study of distant galaxy evolution and formation.
    TRAGER, Scott C. ( Lick )
    University of Cape Town - Department of Physics: Astrophysics Group ( UCT )
    Solar Physics at Dept.of Physics-Univ.Illes Balears ( U.I.B. (Spain )
    Research in Solar Physics at the Physics Department of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain)
    BREKKE, Paal ( University of Oslo )
    HAUGAN, Stein Vidar Hagfors ( University of Oslo )
    Northern Lights Planetarium ( Norway )
    The Northern Lights Planetarium opened on May 20th 1989, and it is Norway's first public planetarium, and now Norways first virtual planetarium
    U.K. Amateur Astronomy
    A collection of pages describing all major amateur astronomy organisations in the UK including the British Astronomical Association, the Federation of Astronomical Societies and the Society for Popular Astronomy, plus all UK astronomy bulletin boards and magazines. The information was provided by the organisations concerned. There are also pointers to astronomy index systems and WWW pages of interest to the amateur.
    Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen ( Göttingen Observatory )
    information (research activities, preprints, history of the institute ...) about the observatory of the University at Goettingen
    Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen - Preprints
    GAENSICKE, Boris ( Göttingen )
    Université de Rennes
    Space Movie Archive
    Enjoy this on-line biggest collection of space animations (more than 500 anims, 860 Mb) which has been rated number one for its content among all the best Space and Astronomy WWW servers in the world, equally placed with the Comet Shoemaker-Levy NASA JPL Home Page. Here's the summary : Solar eclipses | Meteorology | Science-Fiction | Star Trek | Shoemaker-Levy | Solar system bodies | Satellites, rockets and space probes | Space | STS-71 Mir-Atlantis encounter | Astro 2 Endeavor mission | Apollo missions | DCX-Y project | Future missions | Kennedy speeches at Rice University | Lunar probes
    Brittany Center of Informatical Resources ( CRI-CICB )
    at Rennes, an Astronomy Server of pictures & animations
    ROUSSEL, Frank
    Institute for Space and Atmospheric Studies ( ISAS )
    USC Astronomy
    physics graduate students may participate in the ongoing research in astronomy. Members of the Astronomy group include Professors Don Barry, Werner Dappen, Gibson Reaves, and Edward Rhodes.
    USC Space Sciences Center
    The Space Sciences Center, directed by Professor Darrell L. Judge, is engaged in both laboratory and space based investigations. Current deep space, sounding rocket, and space shuttle flight experiments investigate the characteristics of planetary atmospheres, the interplanetary medium, and the sun through remote sensing optical techniques. Recently in situ neutral particle detection techniques have been developed to extend the capability of our remote sensing heliospheric space experiment. The Space Sciences Center also has a vigorous program in the physics of binary star systems and in the analysis of luminosity variations in B and O type stars
    Universitäts Sternwarte München ( USM )
    University of Munich Observatory
    U.S. Naval Observatory ( USNO )
    The U.S. Naval Observatory performs an essential scientific role for the United States, the Navy, and the Department of Defense. Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, stars and other celestial objects, providing astronomical data; determining precise time; measuring the Earth's rotation; and maintaining the Master Clock for the United States.
    U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY LIBRARY ( USNO )
    Includes: Publications of the USNO USNO Online Catalog (username: urania) Recently cataloged books USNO Journal Holdings Recent Papers by USNO Staff Members
    Washington Area Astronomers ( WAA )
    Washington Area Astronomers meetings provide a forum in which the large number of professional astronomers and astrophysicists in the Washington-Baltimore area can present recent research results to their colleagues in the local astronomical community.
    Universities Space Research Association ( USRA )
    The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a private, nonprofit corporation organized in 1969 by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of NASA. Upon incorporation, the Association was vested in a consortium of universities. That consortium now consists of seventy-eight member universities.The Association is chartered to provide a means through which universities and other research organizations may cooperate with one another, with the government of the United States and with other organizations toward the development of knowledge associated with space science and technology. The Association is further chartered to acquire, plan, construct and operate laboratories and other facilities for research, development and education associated with space science and technology.
    ESA - Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station ( ESA - VILSPA: IUE, ISO )
    General information on the ESA Satellite Tracking Station and on the projects supported at Villafranca: IUE, Marecs and ISO (in the near future). The service includes links to other ESA Establishments.
    International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE )
    The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite was launched on the 26th of January 1978 by a Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Kennedy and transferred into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean. Information on the project is available at:
    International Ultraviolet Explorer - Schedules ( IUE schedule )
    Observing schedule at Villafranca
    Department of Physics & Astronomy - Virginia Military Institute ( VMI )
    A description of the Astronomy Program at Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Virginia. Includes a description of the VMI Observatory and the astronomy program (along with the Physics Program).
    Video On Line - Astronomy Page
    This page contains four important mirrors located at Video On Line and a list of magazines, amateur associations and astronomy observatories.
    Web services - lists and maps.
    The Journal of Astronomical Data
    The Journal of Astronomical Data accepts raw and reduced data from observations as well as from theoretical research, reduction software, complete descriptions of new instruments, PhD theses with extensive data tables, catalogues, graphs, computer code, and also lengthy articles, or regular articles accompanied by the data on which it is based.
    Contributions describe in short the astrophysical background and motive for the scientific work done, a complete description of the data-collecting process, an assessment of the accuracy of the data, next to the data themselves.
    All data are published on CD-ROM.
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Astrofysisch Instituut ( Belgium )
    BANKS, Timothy ( VUW )
    Carter Observatory
    Carter Observatory is the National Observatory of New Zealand.
    Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (2) ( CERN )
    Space Index
    WWW Servers Directory ( from CERN )
    World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue ( WWW, from CERN )
    WWW-Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics ( from CERN )
    COSMOS
    Discussion of astronomy and related topics, with emphasis on current happenings, discoveries, and theory. In Spanish. Not moderated.
    World Wide Web ( WWW, W3 )
    " Astronomy & the Web"
    " Hypertext?"
    HTML Primer (the NCSA version; here is an excellent alternative)
    URL Primer (at NCSA)
    the FAQ for the Web
    1997 Volga Space Plasma Physics Summer School Information
    The purpose of these Summer Schools, held every second summer onboard a river cruise ship on the Volga and organised jointly by the Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI), Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia and the Uppsala Division of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRFU), Uppsala, Sweden, is to give an introduction to modern space plasma physics by bringing together experienced researchers, young scientists and scholars in astrophysics, space physics and plasma physics for a fruitful exchange of ideas across areas of interest, language, culture and age barriers.
    The topics covered include linear and non-linear plasma physics, waves and radiation phenomena in plasma, waves in random media and turbulence, planetary, solar and stellar coronal plasma, plasma under extreme conditions in space, space plasma radio emission, radio methods for investigating space plasma environments, and the use of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere as a space plasma laboratory for model experiments simulating phenomena in other plasma environments.
    SALZER, John J. ( Wesleyan Univ. )
    UPGREN, Arthur ( Wesleyan Univ. )
    NASA Wallops Flight Facility
    Informational, educational, dynamic and interactive.
    Wake Forest University Department of Physics
    Institute of Theoretical Astronomy ( ITA )
    The Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the world's best known centers of astronomy. It is the leading Institute in Russia for the study and practical applications of Celestial Mechanics. In 1994 the ITA celebrated its 75 anniversary. The main divisions of ITA research are as follows: The general problems of the Celestial Mechanics Analytical and numerical theories of motion of the Solar system's bodies Ephemeris provision of basic and apply problems in astronomy and in other sciences Software, data bases, system for automation of computations for solving astronomical problems Approximately 80 scientific workers are on the staff of the Institute, 45 of whom hold scientific degrees. The different departments of the ITA carry out programs of investigations which include: Construction of precise analytical and numerical theories of the major planets and their satellites Investigation of motion of comets under the influence of gravitational and nongravitational forces Preparation of the astronomical year books including the annual Ephemerides of Minor Planets, which is distributed all over the world Investigation of the problems connected with motion of artificial Earth satellites and the gravity field of the Earth And many others The Institute has a special department in the Crimea which is engaged in observations of minor planets and comets using double 40cm astrograph and 64cm cameras. During the last thirty years about eight hundred minor planets discovered there received permanent numbers and names.
    The Automatic Radio Linked Telescope at NFO
    The ARLT is an observatory associated with Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM
    YAHOO: List of Astronomy Resources
    YAHOO: List of Observatories
    Physics, Applied Physics, and Astrophysics at Yale
    Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucláaire (1) ( CERN )
    DELPHI experiment ( CERN )
    National Academy of Sciences - Physical Sciences and Mathematics
    North Carolina State University Astrophysics ( NCSU )
    A description of activities and resources within the Astrophysics Research group in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. Contents include preprints, description of ongoing research, astrophysics MPEGs, and graduate research opportunities
    BLONDIN, John M. ( NCSU )
    CSIRO - Australia Telescope National Facility ( CSIRO - ATNF )
    Gopher , Anonymous ftp
    Australia Telescope Compact Array, Parkes, MOPRA - Schedules ( ATNF )
    Australia Telescope National Facility - Preprints ( CSIRO - ATNF )
    Full text of current preprints from the Australia Telescope National Facility.
    ATNF Parkes 21cm Multibeam Survey
    The Parkes 64-m telescope is commencing an HI Southern Sky and Zone of Avoidance survey in 1996. The survey will cover redshifts up to 0.04, and be sensitive to objects with HI mass between 10^6 and 10^10 solar masses, depending on distance. This will be the first extensive "blind" survey of the 21cm extragalactic sky.
    Miriad Interferometric Data Reduction Package
    Miriad is a radio-interferometry data reduction package, going from raw visibility data through calibration, imaging, analysis and publication quality output.
    KORIBALSKI, Bärbel ( ATNF )
    MAR, David ( ATNF )
    TSAREVSKY, Gregory ( ATNF / ASC )
    CHAPMAN, Jessica ( ATNF/AAO )
    WORKSHOP: HI in the Local Universe
    A Workshop: "HI in the Local Universe" - Sydney May 13-15 1996
    MORGANTI, Raffaella ( ATNF / Bologna )
    WALSH, Wilfred ( ATNF )
    MANCHESTER, R. N. ( ATNF )
    USGS Flagstaff Space Mission Support
    Browse the Solar System - Information about the Solar System and products created by the USGS. Current Activities, NASA Missions - Some of the NASA missions and other projects on which our scientists are currently working. Databases - Space mission databases maintained by USGS Flagstaff Field Center.
    University of New Hampshire High Energy Astrophysics Group
    COMPTEL Project Group Member Home Pages Project Smart Pages
    The MACHO project
    The MACHO project is searching for dark matter in the form of Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) using gravitational microlensing. We search for these events by monitoring over 10 million stars every night in the LMC and Galactic bulge, using the dedicated 50-inch telescope at Mt. Stromlo.
    Australian National University Astrophysical Theory Centre ( ANUATC )
    Center for Applied Parallel Processing ( CAPP )
    ATNF - Australia Telescope Compact Array ( ATCA, Narrabri )
    The Paul Wild Observatory, near Narrabri, is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), and operated by the CSIRO; the Officer-in-Charge is Dr Graham Nelson. The Narrabri site contains the Australia Telescope Compact Array, which consists of five antennas located along a 3-km railtrack, and a 6th antenna 3 km further to the west.
    ATNF - Mopra Antenna ( ATNF Mopra )
    The Mopra 22-m antenna is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), operated by the CSIRO. It is intended for use in conjunction with other AT antennas (the six 22-m dishes at Narrabri, and the 64-m Parkes dish) to form the Long Baseline Array. Like the Parkes antenna, it is also used for single-dish operation; mm-wavelength receivers are to be installed soon.
    Perugia University Astronomical Observatory
    Articles, data, researches, and new developments at Perugia University Astronomical Observatory.
    ATNF - Parkes Observatory ( ATNF Parkes )
    The CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility operates a group of radio telescopes collectively known as the Australia Telescope. The ATNF Parkes Observatory consists of a 64m telescope which is used as an independent instrument, and networked with other Australian and international radio telescopes for VLBI.
    Radio Surveys of the Southern and Northern Sky
    This page attempts to list some of the survey work at radio wavelengths in both the southern and northern hemispheres. Links to the data from these surveys are included, where available.
    WRIGHT, Alan ( ATNF/Parkes )
    CSIRO - Radiophysics Laboratory ( CSIRO - RP )
    This server is operated by the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, located in Sydney, Australia. The Parkes Radio Observatory is also operated by ATNF. The top-level menu contains: ATNF Site Guides and General Information, The ATNF FTP Server - Documentation (See the README file first), The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes Catalogue '90, The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes, MIT, NRAO Survey, The ATNF FTP Server - COMRAD database.

    There is also an FTP server , with contents: Various AIPS tasks and support routines for the processing of Australia Telescope data; Observing proposals and documentation related to the use and operation of the Australia Telescope, including vistors guides to all the ATNF sites; The Karma package (library and applications for Signal and Image Processing; A spectral line reduction package which can read a number of formats including those used by the Parkes 64m telescope; Another spectral line reduction package specifically for the reduction of spectral line data from the Parkes 64m telescope; - README

    X-Ray Group at IoA Cambridge UK
    Home page of the X-Ray Astronomy Group at the Instittue of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. This server provides information on the Group's research activities and links to other useful astronomical WWW sites.
    3rd Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts
    The symposium will be held October 25-27, 1995 in Huntsville, Alabama.
    sci.astro.research Archive ( SAR Archive )
    Information about the sci.astro.research Usenet newsgroup
    BRAINERD, Jim ( UAH )
    Relativistic Astrophysics Department - Sternberg Institute ( RelSAI )
    Relativistic Astrophysics Department of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Preprints of the members of the department, scientific illustrations.
    POPOV, Sergei
    First-year post-graduate student of the Moscow State University. On this HomePage my preprints and compilative catalog of X-ray pulsars are available
    X-Ray WWW Server ( at Uppsala Universitet )
    The Server makes available bibliographies and databases related to x-ray spectroscopic physics. In particular, the Henke database of atomic scattering factors can be downloaded. Also, this is the site for the Atomic and Molecular Core- Edge Excitation Database and Bibliography, compiled originally by A.P. Hitchcock, and prepared by Hitchcock and Mancini for electronic distribution (COREXDB). A simple bibliographic search mechanism has been implemented for the COREX bibliography. A visualization mechanism is currently being developed to allow Web Browsers to preview datafiles as in-line GIFs before choosing to download.
    AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set ( AVHRR )
    The Pathfinder AVHRR Land data sets are global, multichannel, land surface data derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR) on the NOAA/TIROS operational meteorological satellites (NOAA-7, -9, and -11) which provide a continuous daily and composite data set from July 1981 through the present. These data, when complete, will enable studies of global vegetation and surface characteristics over more than a decade. Every effort has been made to provide a consistently processed data record by cross-calibrating instruments and minimizing changes to the processing algorithm during the processing of the 1981 to present data.
    xxx.lanl.gov e-Print archive
    Contains preprints for: High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology, Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Experiment
    Open University. Astronomy Group ( UK )
    The OU Astronomy Group operates within the Physics Department
    of the Open University based at Milton Keynes, UK
    Sonoma State Univ. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
    COMINSKY, Lynn R. ( Sonoma State Univ. )
    TENN, Joseph ( Sonoma State U )
    SPEAR, Gordon G. ( Sonoma State Univ. )
    University of Oregon - Physics Department
    Consists of educational materials related to Astronomy, Weather, Energy and Environment, and Planet Earth. In addition, hypertext electronic textbooks and lessons are being developed. Contains The Galaxy Gallery, Electronic TextBook, and more...
    CCD Images of Galaxies ( Univ. Oregon )
    This is a Gallery Showing Several Types of Galaxies That Inhabit the Universe. As of 2/10/94 it includes M101, Malin-1, Colliding [Starburst] Galaxies (an MPEG movie with .AU audio narration), M33, and H-alpha Emission in M33.
    CCD Images of Messier Objects ( Messier Objects )
    High Quality CCD Images of Messier Objects gathered at a variety of observatories by the maintainer . Some amateur CCD images obtained at the Pine Mountain Observatory can be found here as well.
    University of Oregon - Pine Mountain Observatory
    Low Surface Brightness Galaxies ( Barely Visible Galaxies )
    Example CCD Images of Low Surface Brightness galaxies obtained from a long term survey for these objects. Recent Papers on these objects can also be found at this site.
    University of Arizona Alumni Association Astronomy Camp
    Astronomy Camp is a unique involvement in science and engineering offered through the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and the Arizona Alumni Association. Available to teenagers and adults, these camps emphasize `hands-on' experiences. No prior background in astronomy is necessary. In addition, Astronomy Camp hopes to begin a Family Camp designed for elementary students and a parent/guardian. The first of these camps is scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend 1995 on Mt. Lemmon.
    Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ( INRIA )
    Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics
    The LCA is a joint venture between the NSF, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Its purpose is to develop and disseminate numerical algorithms and community codes for CFD, primarily for astrophysics. The LCA provides software packages for 3-D MHD, 2-D radiation MHD, 1-D adaptive mesh radiation hydrodynamics, and 3-D visualization and animation. These codes are available free of charge to academic researchers.
    InfoVista ( LickVista )
    Discussion of the use and development of the Vista astronomical data reduction package which originated at Lick Observatory.
    Astronaut
    This is a mailing list for those interested in becoming an astronaut. The list is restricted to discussions of issues related to becoming an astronaut.
    dishfits ( single-dish FITS discussions )
    This Email exploder is for discussions of the use of FITS for single-dish radio astronomy. The traffic is archived at http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/traffic/dishfits/.
    fitsbits ( exploder gated to news:sci.astro.fits )
    The unmoderated USENET newsgroup sci.astro.fits provides a forum for the discussion of all topics concerning the FITS [Flexible Image Transport System] data format, the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community. The newsgroup is interfaced to the Email exploder fitsbits@nrao.edu so that traffic originating on either the newsgroup on the exploder is automatically transmitted to the other.
    HASTRO-L
    History of Astronomy Discussion Group
    alt.binaries.pictures.astro
    The last files from this newsgroup are availables
    alt.sci.astro.aips ( System )
    alt.sci.astro.figaro ( concerned with the Figaro image processing and data analysis package )
    sci.astro
    sci.astro.amateur
    Amateur astronomy equipment, techniques, info, etc.
    sci.astro.fits ( an unmoderated newsgroup )
    which provides a forum for the discussion of all topics concerning the FITS [Flexible Image Transport System] data format. It is interfaced to the Email exploder fitsbits@fits.cv.nrao.edu (send requests to fitsbits-request@nrao.edu) so that traffic originating on either the newsgroup on the exploder is automatically transmitted to the other. This newsgroup replaced newsgroup alt.sci.astro.fits in March 1992.
    sci.astro.hubble ( a moderated newsgroup concerned with the Hubble Space Telescope )
    This newsgroup is intended to complement the substantial efforts of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where support of the many users of the facility originates. The group will serve as a platform for problems, requests, suggestions and needs of the scientific community as they use the Telescope to further their research. Accordingly input from the Institute to the discussions will be vital, and several members of that facility have indicated their interest and willingness to participate fully.
    There is an Archive for the newsgroup. This archive is intended for materials pertinent to the discussions in the newsgroup sci.astro.hubble, part of the USENET news structure. Valid items for placement here are large datasets, public domain software (in compressed tarfile form), imagery (GIF preferred) and Postscript renderings of relevant papers on the topic of data processing in connection with Space Telescope. - README .
    The archive contains a form which executes WAIS searches on the archive.
    sci.astro.planetarium
    sci.astro.research ( a moderated newsgroup related to astrophysics research )
    This is a moderated newsgroup created specifically for research related topics in astronomy & astrophysics. The submission address is astres@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov, and the information address is astres-request@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov. An anonymous ftp archive in [net.pub.astres] at ssl.msfc.nasa.gov . The SAR archive now has a Web page .
    sci.data.formats ( an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup )
    for discussing the modeling, storage, and retrieval of scientific data. The purpose of the newsgroup is to facilitate discussing use of scientific data formats such as HDF, netCDF, FITS, and various others. Topics of discussion could include problems encountered using specific formats, questions about where to get the code for data format programs, discussions of specific uses of data format programs, etc. Readers of the group are typically scientists (and software developers) who use data formats/models such as HDF, netCDF, and other such programs.
    sci.image.processing
    sci.physics
    sci.space.news
    sci.space.policy
    sci.space.science
    sci.space.tech
    CfA index of ApJ, AJ and PASP (from Jan. 1988) ( telnet )
    NASA Online Data Information System ( NODIS, at ADC/NSSDC )
    Astronomical Data Center/National Space Science Data Center,
    GSFC, Greenbelt, MD (telnet)
    CfA Index of ApJ, AJ, PASP
    If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here
    CfA Index of ApJ Lett
    If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here
    La Palma Data Archive
    ESIS - Astronomy
    European Space Information System for Astronomy (password = evalme)
    CARL ( Colorado Association of Research Libraries )
    JCMT/UK_ESO_Schmidt/AAT Archive Queries ( telnet through Internet-SPAN gateway )
    Login at first prompt with '19889::'
    then at second prompt with 'arcquery' for JCMT,
    or 'ukscat' for UK + ESO Schmidt, AAT Plate Catalogs.
    Einstein On-Line Service - Einline
    Contains an extensive set of Radio Astronomy catalogs.
    ESO Bulletin Board
    Midas; Computer; Info; Garching; La Silla; Sest; Pinboard
    ESA Data Dissemination Network ( at ESRIN )
    Information Retrieval Service, EMITS, DODIS; Prototype International Directory; European Space Information System; Columbus Users Information System; ERS-1 European Central Facility; ERS-1 User Services; and more ...
    Compton/GRO Observatory Science Support Center/Guest Observer ( Facility )
    Query the Library Database; Archive Data Selector; Archive Data Selector Demonstrator; Trouble Report Generator; Access the GRONEWS Bulletin Board
    Compton/GRO News - GRONEWS
    HST Science Data Archive ( STScI, Baltimore, MD )
    (telnet, password='archive')
    Library of The Astronomical Observatory of Trieste ( OAT )
    Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase (LEDA) ( telnet )
    Created in 1983, LEDA is the oldest Extragalactic Database. It gives more than 60 of the most important parameters for about 100.000 galaxies. It provides charts and images through an X11 interface. In addition, a batch mode is available and also a very powerful SQL-like query language.
    ESO library ( rlogin )
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Database
    NODIS
    NSI On-Line Network Aide - NONA
    ESIS - Space Physics
    European Space Information System for Space Physics (password = evalme)
    HST Science Data Archive, ST-ECF, Garching, Germany
    ST-ECF STARCAT (telnet access)
    STARLINK: Job listings ( STARJOBS - UK )
    ST-ECF STINFO
    HST Status Reports; European HST News
    IUE VILSPA archive, Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, ( Madrid, Spain )
    Password is 'db'.
    IPAC XCATSCAN Catalog Scanning Tool
    This can run an X session on your local machine.
    Optical Identification Database ( OPTID )
    The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, IPAC, announces network access to the Optical Identification Database, OPTID. OPTID provides optical photographic star and galaxy identifications to IRAS Faint Source Survey (FSS) sources using two publicly available large-area optical catalogs derived from archival Schmidt plate material: The COSMOS/UKST Southern Sky Object Catalogue, which covers the sky south of declination +3 degrees and above galactic latitude 10 degrees and contains stars and galaxies to b=21st magnitude or fainter, and the Guide Star Catalog version 1.1, which covers the entire sky and is complete for stars to B=14-16th magnitude. OPTID not only provides identification probabilities for each candidate optical match to each FSS source, but also the probability each infrared source has no match in each of the optical catalogs. This information is avaliable as a computer readable table file and in highly informative reports and finding charts.
    EXOSAT database, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands ( telnet )
    NRAO RAPs (WAIS-search)
    NRAO-RAPS is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received in the Charlottesville library of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1986 forward. The preprints include papers submitted to scientific and technical journals and to appear in meeting proceedings; they cover observational, experimental, theoretical, review, instrumentation, image processing, and computing topics in a wide range of astronomical subdisciplines. Preprints include work by NRAO authors as well as preprints received from authors and institutions world-wide. On 1 May 93 there were 13,000 records in the database, and in 1992 we received and added records for 2,500 preprints. Citations are added as papers are published. The database is updated biweekly. The listing is meant to serve as an alerting service only; the NRAO library does NOT copy or distribute the preprints listed. The institution codes indicate either the source from which NRAO received the preprint or the affiliation of the preprint's authors.
    THE SCIENTIST
    WAIS index to a biweekly newspaper for research scientists, and managers in industry, academia, and government. Focuses on life sciences and biotechology.
    ST-ECF directory of WAIS databases
    WAIS index to a 'white pages' directory of astronomy & astrophysics related WAIS source files maintained at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF). The files of type text used in the index were: /home/ns3f/ecf/ftp/pub/wais/*.src To get a list of all available sources, search for 'source'.
    HST literature
    WAIS index to a bibliography of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) related literature. The underlying database is a copy of the list maintained by Sarah Stevens-Rayburn, STScI Librarian.
    HST Data Handbook
    WAIS index to the " HST Data Handbook" which describes Hubble Space Telescope (HST) datasets produced by any instrument. It includes information about how to read and understand the files on a tape, how to determine if the data should be recalibrated, how to understand potential problems with the data, and how to solve these problems. Appendixes are provided explaining how to use StarView, STSDAS, and STEIS to work with HST data.
    HST WF/PC-1 images
    WAIS index to images obtained with the WF/PC-1 camera on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), retrievable via full-text search of the associated observing proposals
    ST-ECF Newsletter
    ST-ECF software library
    WAIS index to all files in the software library of the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), which supports European astronomers in using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
    ST-ECF WWW pages
    WAIS index to all files in WISE, the World Wide Web (WWW) based information system at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) which supports European astronomers in using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
    FITS archive documents database
    The nrao-fits WAIS server supports searches of all of the text files in the entire FITS archive. " All" means everything -- READMEs, standards, drafts, overviews, and all of the news and Email messages in the traffic archive, even including the ASCII headers of the FITS sample and test data files. All of the Postscript documents are in the index too. The WAIS server enables users to search this huge mass of text for instances of any strings.
    ADASS-94 abstracts
    WAIS index to the abstracts submitted to the conference `Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) '94', held at Baltimore, MD, 25 - 28 Sept 1994. Book editors: Dick Shaw, Harry Payne, Jeff Hayes
    NASA SCAN
    WAIS index to abstracts from NASA's Selected Current Space Aeronautics (SCAN) abstract service
    NOAO Newsletters
    The latest issues (1 June 1992 and later) of the NOAO Newsletters can be searched with WAIS. The Newsletters can be searched by topic or by issue. To extract all the articles for a particular issue, search on the date of the issue, i.e., 1Sep93. Since WAIS defaults to a maximum of 40 articles you may want to click on the " Prefs" box and increase this number to 100 or so, if you are running XWAIS. We will attempt to install the latest issue of the NOAO Newsletter into WAIS as soon after its publication date as possible. For your first test of this database, try searching on the word " wais " .
    STSDAS help system index
    WAIS index of all help files for STSDAS, the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
    STSDAS source code
    WAIS index of all spp (Subset Preprocessor) source code of STSDAS (Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System), developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
    SSL software abstracts
    WAIS index to the software abstracts maintained at the Software Support Laboratory (SSL), located at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
    PDS Data Set Catalog
    WAIS index to a collection of text files extracted from NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) Data Set Catalog (a Sybase database). The information contained within each text file describes an individual entity from the catalog's meta-data. These entities include: Planetary Data Sets and Data Set Collections, Missions, Instrument Hosts - both Spacecraft and Earth-Based, Targets - planets, asteroids, sky, star, etc. A good starting point when searching is to use mission names, such as Voyager or Magellan, and/or target names such as Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.
    PDS Data Preparation Workbook ( DPW )
    WAIS index to the text chapters of NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) Data Preparation Workbook, Version 3.0. This document describes the data preparation process for active flight projects and data restoration tasks when submitting their planetary data for cataloging and archiving through the PDS. Search words that might be helpful in browsing the text include: Assemble, Keyword, Label.
    IGARSS '94 abstracts
    WAIS index to the IGARSS '94 Abstracts from the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in August 1994
    NASA Information Systems Newsletter
    WAIS index to NASA's Information Systems Newsletter from issue 21 onwards
    PDS labels
    WAIS index to examples of actual data labels and completed catalog submission templates used by NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) to catalog and archive planetary data. Objects and keywords used in the templates and labels are described in the Planetary Science Data Dictionary (PSDD) source.
    LPI bibliographic citations
    WAIS index to bibliographic citations from the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI)
    JPL planetary images
    WAIS index to captions and planetary GIF images from Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) Public Information Office.
    PDS Planetary Science Data Dictionary ( PSDD )
    WAIS index to the Planetary Science Data Dictionary (PSDD) - NASA Planetary Data System objects and element descriptions for describing and labeling planetary data. Catalog and data objects and elements (or keywords), their descriptions and attributes are included. Keyword class names such as date, time, latitude, longitude, ID, description, coordinate, etc., can be used as search words to identify individual data dictionary elements. Catalog and data type names such as table, column, histogram, document, etc., can be used as search words to identify data dictionary objects.
    PDS High-Level Catalog ( Templates )
    WAIS index to NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) High-Level Catalog Templates used for submitting metadata to the Planetary Data System data set catalog. Objects and keywords used in the templates are described in the Planetary Science Data Dictionary (PSDD) source. The templates included are: Coordinate, Discipline Description, Data Set Collection, Data Set Instrument Parameteter Description, Data Set Processing, Earthbase (Instrument Host), Earthbase Data Set, Earthbase Instrument, Inventory, Mission, Node, NSSDC ID, Parameter, Peer Review, Person, Processing Description, Spacecraft Data Set, Spacecraft Instrument, Software, Spacecraft, Target.
    Astronomy-related Email addresses
    This is the RGO Email directory. The file of type one_line used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais2/ASTROPERSONS.LIS. (There is a copy of this database at GSFC .)
    Astronomy-related institutions (site addresses)
    This database is from the RGO Email directory. The file of type para used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais/emailplaces.dat2.
    Astronomy-related Postal Addresses
    This database is from the RGO Email directory. The file of type para used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais/emailpostal.dat2.
    IoA Cambridge preprints
    WAIS index to astronomy and astrophyics preprints received at the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) Cambridge, UK
    CEA WWW pages
    WAIS index to the WWW pages of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Astrophysics (CEA), Berkeley, CA.
    CEA abstracts and publications
    WAIS index to the publications and abstracts of papers issued by the Center for EUV Astrophysics (CEA), Berkeley, CA.
    AstroWeb index
    WAIS index to the Astronomical Internet Resources database, a product of AstroWeb consortium.
    HST status
    WAIS index to daily activity / instrument status information for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Files hst_status_* in stsci/hst_news directory on STEIS are indexed.
    HST weekly timeline
    WAIS index to the Weekly Timeline files for current year's observations of the NASA/ESO Hubble Space Telescope (HST). timeline_* files in observer/weekly_timeline directory on STEIS. Provides insight on upcoming HST activities.
    STScI documents
    WAIS index to User Manuals produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute for use by Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) proposers and observers. PostScript and ASCII versions in /documents/* directories on STEIS
    STScI Old Preprint Database
    The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-OLDSTEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library prior to the last two years (current papers are in STScI-STEP). OLDSTEP includes approximately 14,000 papers with citations, with some 2500 being added each year. The database is updated annually. The ST ScI Library will not provide copies of either preprints or reprints of papers listed in STScI-OLDSTEP. Contact the authors for copies, or see your librarian about obtaining copies of papers published in meetings or journals not available in your local library.
    STScI 'STEP' Preprint Database
    The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-STEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library during the last two years, including all HST papers in the refereed literature. The preprints include papers submitted to scientific and technical journals and to appear in meeting proceedings; they cover observational, experimental, theoretical, review, instrumentation, image processing, and computing topics in a wide range of astronomical subdisciplines. Preprints include work by ST ScI authors as well as preprints received from authors and institutions world-wide. At any one time, there are approximately 5000 papers in the database, with some 2500 being added each year. Citations are added as papers are published. The database is updated weekly.
    Union List of Astronomical Serials ( ULAS )
    The Union List of Astronomical Serials, 2nd edition, is composed of bibliographic information for (primarily) non-commercial publications of observatories and institutions concerned with research in astronomy. To each of the approximately 2300 titles included are appended the holding records of 42 contributing libraries, representing the most comprehensive astronomical collections in North America, with selected holdings from China, Europe, India, and South America as well. ULAS is an on-going project of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of the Special Libraries Association. Judy Bausch of the Yerkes Observatory is the coordinator/compiler. For additional information, contact Judy at jab@tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu or Sarah Stevens-Rayburn at library@stsci.edu.