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

Last modified 12 July 2002.