Some astronomical resources

This is a fairly mixed collection of resources with astronomical connections. It is in no particular order (some afternoon...), and by no means complete, but you should be able to get to most places from here, more or less indirectly.

Contents

1. Astronomical link collections
2. Data and images
3. Journals, publications and preprints
4. Starlink
5. Physical societies and Space Agencies
6. Meetings
7. Miscellaneous

See also a list of Solar observatories.

If you have any suggestions for this page, please let me know.

Astronomical link collections

• The AstroWeb consortium is a set of five institutions, CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF (ESO) and STScI, each of which supports a version of the AstroWeb service. These are five separate versions of essentially the same information, presented in different ways. All astronomical life is here....
• The Astronomy and Astrophysics part of the WWW Virtual Library has many links to useful resources.
• There's a large collection of Physics, Maths, Computer Science and, principally, Astronomical resources called PAMNET.
• The Star*s Family is a large collection of links, plus data on thousands of other entries without WWW links (for the time being). They are
  • Star*s Family
  • StarWorlds
  • StarBits
  • StarHeads
• Rice University has a large collection of gopher links related to astronomy.
• Kerr Jamieson, in the Glasgow University Library, is building a collection of resources for astronomy, physics and maths.
• Video On-Line has a collection of astronomical links, research tools, images, etc.
• As does this page created by the University of Arizona SEDS society.

Data and images

• The Galileo Project is on-line with a host of pictures and data received from both the orbiter and the probe
• NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service and, also from NASA, the SkyView image retrieval facility/virtual observatory.
• The SOHO picture gallery , containing the lastest Solar images and some breathtaking movies.
• There's a wonderfully long (but rather disorganised) list of assorted astronomical pretty pictures and image link collections, at NRAO.
• The NOAA NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center) Solar-Terrestrial Physics division has a large archive of historical solar data.

Journals, publications and preprints

• A few astronomy publishers have a presence on the web.
• Cambridge has a link to WAIS searches of a number of current Astronomy journals, and to the RGO list of E-mail Addresses .
• There's a preprint archive at Babbage, which is a mirror of the preprint archive at LANL, only closer.

Starlink

From the Starlink home page, you can go to:

• A list of Starlink sites and other Astronomical institutes.
• The Starlink News page.
• The Starlink Programmers homepages.
• Starlink's collection of astronomy pointers.
• The collection of Starlink documentation

Physical societies and Space Agencies

A number of physical societies have a presence on the web, including:

• the Institute of Physics,
• the European Physical Society,
• the American Physical Society,
• the American Institute of Physics,
• the Royal Astronomical Society,
• the American Astronomical Society, and
• the IAU.

Here are the ESA and NASA home pages, plus a list of other space agencies.

Contrary to earlier reports, it seems that the UK does have a space agency, the BNSC. Its home page summarises its interests as the environment, commerce, commerce, and science (yes, in that order). It is possibly significant that the first of its governmental collaborators that is listed is the DTI, and the only images that seem to be available are pie-charts....

Meetings

• A list of astronomy meetings compiled by bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu.
• The EPS Physics conference server.
• The AAS meetings list.

Miscellaneous

• Cambridge hosts the home pages of RGO, IOA, MRAO and ING information.
• The EPS Physics jobs server.
• The AAS homepage contains some useful stuff including their job register.
• Here's a list of FTPable Astronomy resources. As well, NASA has a huge number of space probe images as well as other, more general information concerning planetary exploration.
• The NSF Science and Technology Information Service gopher has some stuff which could be of use to Astronomers. It's essentially just a pile of NSF documents.
• Weaving the Astronomy Web This Conference was 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. The proceedings are available on the web. One of the contributions is WWW in Astronomy and Related Space Sciences, by Daniel Egret.
• UK GEMINI Support Group home page