Astronomical Catalogs and Databases
Catalogs and Surveys Branch (STScI Baltimore)

Digitized Sky Survey -ESO (ESO Garching)
Digitized Sky Survey - STScI (STScI Baltimore)
Digitized Sky Survey - GSFC (SkyView - GSFC/NASA Greenbelt)
Digitized Sky Survey - CNR Bologna (SkyEye - CNR Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy)

HST Guide Star Catalog (ESO Garching)
Guide Star Catalog II (version 2.2.01) (STScI Baltimore)

USNO Astrometric Catalog (ESO Garching)
USNO Astrometric Catalog (CDS Strasbourg)

APS Catalog (Automated Plate Scanner) (Univ. of Minnesota)

Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogs (CDS Strasbourg)
Hipparcos Web Site (ESA, Noordwijk)

Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (ESO Garching)
General Catalog of Photometric Data (Geneva Switzerland)

CATS database Continuum radio source data (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia)

Astro Tools (Imagiware, Inc - B.Casey/J.Thorstensen)
Stig's Sky Calendar (Java applet)

Data Bases

ESO Science Archive Facility (ESO Garching)

Simbad (CDS Strasbourg)
CDS - Centre de Données Stellaires (CDS Strasbourg)
VizieR (CDS Strasbourg)
AstroWeb (CDS Strasbourg)
NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (JPL)
HyperCat (Obs. de Lyon)

SkyView - A Virtual Observatory (GSFC Greenbelt)
The VirtualSKY (Caltech, Pasadena)
HEASARC - High-Energy Astrophysics Archive Center (GSFC Greenbelt)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (Cambridge, MA)
ADF - Astrophysics Data Facility (GSFC Greenbelt)
ADC - Astrophysics Data Center (GSFC NASA Greenbelt)
NSSDC - National Space Data Center (GSFC Greenbelt)
Data and Archive Centers (STScI Baltimore)
Information resources in astronomy (ESO Garching)

STEP sheet preprint list database (STScI Baltimore)
Database of Book Reviews (U. of Toronto, Canada)
The Astronomy Thesaurus (Mount Stromlo, Australia)
UnCover publication database
 

Astronomical Ephemeris

Serveur d'ephemerides du BdL (Bureau des Longitudes, Paris)
Web version of MICA (US Naval Observatory)
The On-line Astronomical Almanac (US Naval Observatory)
Bright Star 1997 positions (corrected) (US Naval Observatory)
 

E-mail directories

AstroSearch (old RGO E-mail Directory) (Rutherford Appleton Labs, UK)
Annuaire SFSA (CESR, Toulouse)
Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries (ESO Graching)
 

Astronomical e-journals

Astronomy and Astrophysics (previous to 2001) (Springer Verlag)
Astronomy and Astrophysics (starting from 2001) (EDP Sciences)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements (EDP Sciences)
The Electronic ApJ (Miroir au CDS)
The Astronomical Journal (Miroir au CDS)
Publications of the ASP (Miroir au CDS)
The Yellow Pages Papers submitted to Selected Astonomical Journals
New Astronomy (Amsterdam)
Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. (Blackwell Science Ltd.)
URANIA - Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy (American Astronomical Society)
 

e-print servers

Astrophysics e-print server (LANL Los Alamos)
Astrophysics e-print server (SISSA Trieste)
Astrophysics e-print server (Site mirroir à Paris)
 

Abstracts

Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References (ARIBIB) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (Heidelberg, Germany)
NASA ADS Abstract Service (Harvard University)
NASA ADS Abstract Service (Site mirroir au CDS-Strasbourg)
AAS Bibliographical Searches (Harvard University)
 

Meetings and Colloquia
International Astronomy Meetings
 

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Heritage Astronomical Images (STScI Baltimore)
Hubble Space Telescope Institute (STScI Baltimore)
ST/ECF - Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ESO Garching)
CADC - Canadian Astronomical Data Center (DAO Victoria)
 

Meteor showers

Infos sur les Leonides | The Leonid Meteor Storm
Leonids : First Reports from observers (Sky&Telescope)
Les Leonides en temps réel | Leonid shower live video broadcast

Comets

Gary Kronk's Hale-Bopp page
Ron Baalke's Comet Hale-Bopp page (JPL)
Charles Morris's Comet Observation page (JPL)
 

Solar Eclipses

NASA Solar Eclipse Bulletins (NASA/GSFC)
Éclipse totale du 11 août 1999 Bureau des Longitudes, Paris
The Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11 (NASA/GSFC)
Solar Eclipse The Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA)
 

The Sun

Sunspot Index Data Center (Obs. Royal Belgique) -Statistique des nombres de Wolf-
Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO, Californie) -Images récentes du Soleil-
Sacramento Peak (NOAO, Nouveau Mexique) -Images H-alpha du soleil d'il y a une minute (vidéo numérisée)
SOHO satellite (NASA/ESA) -Les dernières images
Space Environment Center (NOAA) -Informations diverses et Alertes (Today's Space Weather)
Solar Web Guide (Observatoire de Meudon)
Solar Data Analysis Center (NASA/GSFC Greenbelt)
SOHO MEDOC Page (Multi-Experiment Data Operation Centre for SOHO,IAS Orsay)
 

The Moon

Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Lunar Planetary Inst.)
Consolidated Lunar Atlas (Lunar Planetary. Inst.)
The Clementine Mission (JSC, NASA)
Clementine Lunar Image Browser (NRL)
NSSDC Moon Image Catalog (NASA GSFC)
Antonio Cidadao's Moon Page
 

Mars Missions

Mars Global Surveyor (JPL)
MGS Mars Orbiter Camera pictures (MSSS)
Mars missions (miroir chez VISUANET)
Mars missions (miroir au CNES)
 

Astronomy Software

MIDAS Software (ESO Garching)
MIDAS On-line Help (Mirroir à l'OHP)
STSDAS - Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STScI Baltimore)
IRAF Software (NOAO Tucson)
The Starlink Project (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK)
 
 

Extra-solar planets

Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Programmes(Observatoire de Genève)
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)
Darwin - List of Planet Search Programs (Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory)
Searching for Extra-Solar Planets (San Francisco State Univ.)
51 Pegasi (University of Oregon)
 
 

The Solar System

Browse the Solar System (USGS, Flagstaff)
Welcome to the Planets (Caltech: mirror at Bordeaux)
Views of the Solar System (Main site : Hawaiian Astronomical Society)
The Nine Planets (LPL: mirror at Meudon)
Les Neuf Planètes (Société d'Astronomie de Montréal)
The Solar System Arizona State University
 
 

Astronomy Pictures

Hubble Heritage Astronomical Pictures (STScI Baltimore)
NASA's Planetary Photojournal (JPL)
Astronomical Image Library (Syzygy Research & Technology, Canada)
HST Public Pictures (STScI, Baltimore, MD)
The Astronomy Picture of the Day (GSFC, Maryland)
Images Astronomiques Université de Rennes
Virtual Image Archive : Space (Imagiware, Inc.)
Astronomical Images Archive (J.Paker, U.Penn)
Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL) (NCSA, U. of Illinois)
NSSDC's Photo Gallery (NASA, GSFC)
The Messier Catalog (SEDS) (miroir à Munich)
Images from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT, Epping NSW)
 
 

Astronomy magazines

Sky and Telescope (Belmont, Mass)
Astronomy Magazine (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Astronomy Now (UK)
The Astronomer Online (UK)
Ciel et Espace
Éclipse magazine
Astronomie magazine
Le magazine Astro (en français)
Cité des Sciences (La Vilette) (Science Actualités; Astronomie & Espace)
 
 

Science magazines

Nature (UK)
New Scientist (UK)
La Recherche (F)
Science (US)
Scientific American (US)
 

Education in Astronomy

Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait, Sonoma State U.)
Space Science Headlines (NASA/GSFC)
Space Weather Bureau (NASA/GSFC)
NASA's Observatorium (NASA)
Webstars: Astrophysics in Cyperspace (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Project CLEA (Gettysburg College)
Cyber Education : Introduction to Astronomy (U. of Mass.)
NCSA Cyberia Information Center (U. of Illinois)
Violenec in the Cosmos (Mike Guidry, Univ. of Tennessee)
The Astronomy Hypertext Book (U. of Oregon)
The Electronic Universe Project : Space Science (U. of Oregon)
Multimedia Physics (Ferris State University, MI)
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
Astronomy LINKS
Dan's Home Page Dan Bruton (Texas A&M Univ.)
Dr. Odenwald's Astronomy Café
The StarChild Project
College List of College-Level Astronomy Courses (Eckerd College)
Beginning Astronomy (Brown Univ.)
Virtual Laboratory Applets (Univ. of Oregon)
General-Astronomy Tutorials
Online Astronomy Lecture Notes (Bakersfield College)
Astronomy 113 (George Mason Univ.)
Star Map (Mount Wilson Institute, CA)
Starchart Map server (Polaris Network, FLA)
StarGazer Experimental JAVA Applet
 
 

Large Surveys

2MASS Survey (U.Mass.)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey | SDSS SkyServer
DENIS Survey (Obs.Meudon)
2dF Survey (AAO)
 
 

Small telescopes

Télescopes de classe moyenne (Rapport Dennefeld)
Role of small telescopes in modern astronomy (Lowell Obs. October 96 workshop)
International Small Telescope Cooperative (Florida Inst. Tech)
 
 

Large Telescope Projects

The VLT telescopes project
VLT UT1 First Light | Première Lumière avec le VLT
40-m Telescope Project
The Gemini telescopes project
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope project
The Subaru Telescope project
The Large Binocular Telescope project
GTC Project : Grand Telescopio de Canarias
Magnum Mirror Telescope (MMT)
Magellan Project
 
 

Automated telescopes

Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) (U.Michigan)
Explosive Transient Camera (MIT)
Katzman Automated Imaging Telescope (Lick Obs.)
Remote and Automated Telescopes (Univ. of Bradford)
Bradford Robotic Telescope University of Bradford
Stardial University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
RAAP - Remotely Operated Telescope Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
Automated Telescope Facility University of Iowa
Iowa Robotic Observatory Project University of Iowa
Mount Wilson 24-inch telescope
Micro-Observatory Harvard
TAROT (CESR/CERGA)
 
 

Optical Observatories

CFH 3.6m Telescope (CFH Waimea)
ESO - European Southern Observatory (ESO Garching)
ESO La Silla Observatory (La Silla, Chile)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife / La Palma)
Pic du Midi 2m telescope (Bagnères de Bigorre)
RGO - Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO Cambridge UK)
Centre Astronomico Hispano-Alemán (Calar Alto, Almería, E)
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (Madrid, E)
NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO Tucson)
W.M.Keck Observatory (CARA, Kamuela Hawaii)
KPNO - Kitt Peak (Tucson)
CTIO - Cerro Tololo (La Serena)
Apache Point Observatory (New Mexico)
Lick Observatory (Santa Cruz, CA)
Anglo-Australian Observatory (Epping, NSW)
 
 
 

Agencies

JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena)
ESA (European Space Agency, Paris)
NASA Homepage (NASA/GSFC Greenbelt)
Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC Greenbelt)
CNES (Centre National d'Etdues Spatiales, Paris)
INSU (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers Paris)
 
 
 

Astronomical Institutes

BDL (Bureau des Longitudes)
Collège de France (Chaire d'Astrophysique Observationnelle)
OMP (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)
IAP (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
CRAL (Observatoire de Lyon)
OCA (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)
Besançon ( Observatoire)
OMP (Obs.Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse)
OMA (Observatoire de Marseille)
LAS (Lab. d'Astro. Spatiale)
LAOG (Observatoire de Grenoble)
IRAM (Radio Astronomie Millimétrique)
Nançay (Radio Astronomie)
IAS (Inst.Astron.Spatiale, Orsay)
Bordeaux (Observatoire)
Strasbourg (Observatoire)
Observatoire de Genève
UVA (University of Amsterdam)
University of Oregon (Physics Department)
 
 
 

Variable stars

AFOEV (France)
AAVSO (USA)
 

X-ray Astronomy

XMM-Newton: Latest News and Images (ESA)
XMM Science Operations Center (ESA/VILSPA)
AXAF Science Center (CFA/Harvard)
Chandra X-ray Observatory News
ASCA Home Page (Japon)
BeppoSAX Science Data Center (Italie)
XTE Observatory TOO News (GSFC Greenbelt)
XTE Science Operations Center (GSFC Greenbelt)
XTE Public Data Archive (GSFC Greenbelt)
Search of XTE Catalogues with W3Browse (NASA GSFC Greenbelt)
XTE ASM Light Curves (MIT Center for Space Research)
BATSE Home Page (NASA/MSFC Huntsville, Alamaba)
Current BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Map (NASA/MSFC Huntsville, Alamaba)
ROSAT All- Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (MPE Garching)]
ROSAT Science Center (MPI Garching)
ROSAT Guest Observer Facility (GSFC Greenbelt)
Center for Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley, CA)
LEDAS - Leicester Data and Archive Center (University of Leicester)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This page was adapted from http://www.obs-hp.fr/www/other.html,
 it was modified and completed and is updated by Cristina Afonso.