Practicum (Astronomy and Related Sciences)
Immediately Useful
NASA ADS Abstract Service
-- Mirror at Strasbourg
NASA ADS Abstract Service
-- Home site at Harvard
Los Alamos Preprint Archive: Astrophysics
-- Home site at Los Alamos
Los Alamos Preprint Archive: Astrophysics
-- Mirror in Spain
NED (NASA Extragalactic Database):
Object name:
Search by Object Name
HyperLeda:
Galaxy Name
:
(e.g.: M31, NGC224...)
Mean Data
morphological type
major and minor axes
magnitude
rotation velocity
central velocity dispersion
RC3 Search
(at
Vizier
)
HST Archival Searches:
ESO HST Archive
STScI HST Archive
STScI HST Proposal Search
CADC HST Archive
Other Archives:
Isaac Newton Group Archive
(WHT, INT, JKT)
CFHT Archive
ESO Archive
(Southern Observatories: VLT, NTT, etc.)
UKIRT Archive
AAT Archive
Aladin
HYPERCAT: Extragalactic Database
-- velocity and photometry info for galaxies, plus bibliography of spatially resolved kinematics
SIMBAD
Astronomy Tools
-- useful oberving info (lunar phases and position, etc) from Brian Casey
Astrosearch
-- find astronomy people and institutions
WIYN Observatory Information:
UW-Madison
and
NOAO
References
HST Pages
Proposals Page
WFPC2 Instrument Page
WFPC2 Exposure Time Calculator
NICMOS Instrument Page
HST Public Images
-- Pretty pictures and press releases
Astronomical Journals
The Astronomical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IRAF (
the horror, the horror...
)
IRAF Home Page
IRAF Frequently Asked Questions
International Astronomy Meetings
Digitized Sky Survey
The Lausanne Photometric Database
-- UBV and/or uvby data for ~ 200,000 stars
Observational Mishaps
-- a nice set of examples of what can go wrong with CCD observing...
AAS Home Page
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Home Page
NASA Skyview
-- retrieve multi-wavlength images of specified part of the sky
Back to Peter Erwin's Home Page...
Last modified 12 July 2002.