| Useful Links | Last modified: Wednesday, 21-October-98 |
| Electronic access to Journals/Preprints | |
|---|---|
| ADS (US or French site) | Abstracts from the major Astronomy journals. |
| Astro-ph (Main interface or search) | Astro-ph preprint database at Southampton. |
| American Physical Society | Physical Review, Physical Review Letters & Reviews of Modern Physics |
| A&A | Astronomy and Astrophysics. |
| A&A Review | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. |
| AJ (US or Europe) | Astronomical Journal |
| ApJ (US or Europe) | Astrophysical Journal (including Letters and Supplement). |
| CDS | A&AS and PASP abstracts. |
| Icarus | International Journal of Solar System Studies. |
| MNRAS | Monthly Notices of the RAS. |
| PASP (US or Europe) | Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. |
| Elsevier | Elsevier Science home page. |
| IDEAL | International Digital Electronic Access Library - Academic Press Journals |
| LINK | Springer's LINK service (electronic access to many of its journals). |
| Telescopes | |
|---|---|
| AAO | UK or Australian |
| Calar Alto | Spain |
| CTIO | Chile |
| ESO | Chile |
| HST | UK or USA site |
| ING | Cambridge or La Palma |
| IRTF | Hawaii |
| JAC | Hawaii |
| Jodrell Bank | UK |
| NOAO | USA |
| RGO | Cambridge |
| ROE | Edinburgh |
| SAAO | Cape Town |
| Others | AstroWeb List of Telescopes |
| Proposal Submission/Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| AAO | Full proposal information | UK or Australian site |
| PATT proposals | UK or Australian site | |
| Service proposals | UK or Australian site | |
| ING | PATT proposals | UK site |
| ESO | Full proposal information | HQ site |
| NOAO/CTIO | Full proposal information | US site |
| UKIRT | PATT proposals | Hawaii site |
| Service proposals | Hawaii site | |
| Databases | |
|---|---|
| ASAS | The All-Sky Automated Survey - photometric monitoring of ~10^7 stars brighter than 14th magnitude. |
| Astronomy Meetings (Canadian site) | A list of Astronomy meetings. It's well organised. |
| Astroweb (UK site) | A huge list of astronomical links, some of which are actually useful. |
| Cataclysmic Binaries (electronic catalogue) | The 6th Edition of the Catalogue of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Related Objects |
| CCP7 | Tools for calculating theoretical models suitable for the interpretation of stellar and interstellar spectra. |
| CDS | Strasbourg Astronomical data centre. |
| DRAGNs | An atlas of radio galaxies (and the like) at Jodrell Bank |
| DSS (Leicester or STScI) |
Access to the Digitised Sky Survey
(The Leicester service is currently an experimental version.) |
| DSS access times | A comparison of access times for various copies of the Digitised Sky View. There are also other useful databases listed on this page. |
| Dust Maps (UK or US) | Dust Maps from DIRBE/IRAS. Very pretty. |
| Dwarf star hi-res spectra | A library of high-resolution UES echelle spectra of F, G, K and M field dwarf stars |
| HEASARC |
High Energy Astronomical Archival Research Centre (well, that's my guess at the acronym) |
| Hipparcos | Access to the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues |
| LEDAS | Leicester Database and Archive Service |
| NED (WWW or telnet) | NASA Extragalactic Database |
| Periodic Table | Quite possibly more than you ever wanted to know about the Periodic Table. |
| SIMBAD (WWW or telnet) | Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data at Strasbourg |
| Skyview | Digitized images of the sky (available in virtually every waveband you could want). |
| URANIA | A collection of resources useful for Astronomy. (Most can already be found somewhere on this page). |
| It's Astronomy, but I can't think where to put itTM | |
|---|---|
| The Astronomer's Telegram | A service for reporting and commenting on new astronomical observations |
| CFD | Resources for Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| IAU | Central Bureau for Astronomical telegrams |
| LAS | Liverpool Astronomical Society |
| NETLIB | Public domain (I think) mathematical software/papers/databases (also see SLATEC) |
| Novae & Supernovae | The Astronomer Magazine novae and supernovae page |
| Numerical Recipes (C/FORTRAN) or general information | Online versions of the book |
| SLATEC | Public domain mathematical software/papers/databases (also see NETLIB) |
| Statistical Software | Want freely available statistical software in Fortran/C/whatever and have a morning to waste? |
| Variable stars | The Astronomer Magazine variable stars page |
| VSNET | The Variable Star Network |
| Zombeck | Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, now available on the web |
| Pretty pictures & NASA missions | |
|---|---|
| Mars Pathfinder (French site) | Information, and pretty 3D pictures, from the Pathfinder mission to Mars |
| NASA news (US site) | The latest news from NASA |
| NASA (US site) | The Home Page for NASA |
| HST (US site) | The latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope |
| HST (UK site) | The latest scientific results from the Hubble Space Telescope |
| Galileo - Probe or Orbiter | Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth |
| Aeroplanes | |
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| Sabena | Belgian national Airline |
| Lufthansa | Partner of United Airlines |
| Thai Airways | Partner of United Airlines |
| Air France | Check flight details |
| British Airways | Flight information |
| GO | Low-cost airline from BA |
| Virgin Atlantic | Worldwide destinations |
| Virgin Express | European destinations |
| Trains | |
| Railtrack | UK train times |
| Europe | Train times for European travel |
| Car Hire | |
| Budget | Reservations and rates |
| Budget | Maryland site |
| Hertz | Reservations and rates |
| Avis | Reservations and rates |
| National | Reservations and rates |
| Currency converters | |
| Xenon labs | The Universal Currency Converter |
| WCE | World Currency Exchange |
| OANDA | Includes exchange rates for every day from January 1990 |