Nick's Astronomy Bookmarks

Catalogues

APM Catalogue: Web Interface or instructions for Telnet
CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
CDS - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre
DSS - STScI Digitized Sky Survey
GSC - ESO HST Guide Star Catalogue
Sky Surveys and Catalogues

Data Bases

- Astro-ph new (Southampton mirror)
xxx - Astro-ph archive (Southampton mirror)
ADS - NASA Abstract Service (Mirror Sites: CDS, Harvard)
HEASARC/GSFC
IPAC - Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
LEDAS - Leicester Database and Archive Service
NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
RASS - ROSAT All-Sky-Survey
AAS Job Register
CADC Meetings Page

Departments & Institutions

University of Southampton:
PATT
Starlink Sites
Starlink Project Royal Astronomical Society ESA NASA PPARC
UK Academic Sites
X-ray Surveys Workshop
National Observatory of Athens
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Instrumentation

AAO CCD Imaging - Sensitivities
CIRSI (Sackler) Camera
ING Instrument Information
MPE's 3D!
SCUBA

Journals (on-line)

Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
Astronomy & Geophysics
Astronomical Journal
Astrophysical Journal
Monthly Notices
Nature
New Scientist
Observatory Magazine
Useful IAU Abbreviations

Manuals (on-line)

Beginner's Guide to HTML
FIGARO Applications (cgt)
FIGARO data reduction system
Numerical Recipes
PGPLOT routines (local)
PGPLOT Documentation (Caltech)
Zombeck - Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics

Satellite Info

AXAF/Chandra:
Astro-E:
BeppoSAX:
Hubble Space Telescope:
Infrared Space Observatory:
MAP: Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Planck: (formerly COBRAS/SAMBA)
ROSAT:
SIRTF:
X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM):
General:

Telescope & Observatory Info

AAO - Anglo-Australian Observatory
CARA - Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
  • AST/RO - Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory
  • SPARO - Submillimeter Polarimeter for Antarctic Remote Observing
CTIO - Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
ESO - European Southern Observatory
  • VLT - Very Large Telescope Project
  • LSA - Large Southern Array Project (see also links to other mm and sub-mm arrays)
Gemini Observatory
  • UK Support Group
ING - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma
JAC - Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
  • JCMT - James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
  • UKIRT - United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope
SP10m - South Pole Ten Meter Telescope
UKST - United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope

Useful Tools

NICMOS Magnitude/Flux Conversion