AstroWeb: Astronomy Information Systems

Aladin Sky Atlas

Aladin is an interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS (Strasbourg, France), allowing the user to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogs or personal, user data files, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad, NED, and Vizier databases for all known objects in the field.
The set of sky images consists of the STScI Digital Sky Survey (DSS-I), as well as an ensemble of higher resolution images (ESO-R and SERC plates) digitized at the MAMA facility in Paris.

http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/

AstroBrowse (HEASARC)

The great number of sites with information about astronomical objects makes it very difficult for astronomers to find out where there might be information of interest to their research. Astrobrowse is an effort to use modern Web techology to enable astronomers (and the public) to query many sites easily.
Other Astrobrowse servers:

• AstroGLU (CDS)
• Starcast (STScI)
• AstroBrowse (SAO)

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ab/

AstroBrowse (at SAO)

AstroBrowse is a service to allow scientists to determine the existence, location, and access to astronomical data being held at various data centers, institutions, and other sites. It is intended to help answer the question: "Tell me about...".

http://asc.harvard.edu/astrobrowse/

AstroGLU

AstroGLU is a discovery tool, to help you locating database servers providing relevant information in the astronomical context related to a selected data type: object name, position on the sky, astronomer's name, etc.
AstroGLU is based on a dictionary of remote services, developed by CDS in the framework of the GLU system. It is the CDS contribution to the AstroBrowse project.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/glu/cgi-bin/astroglu.pl

AstroWeb index

WAIS index to the Astronomical Internet Resources database, a product of AstroWeb consortium.

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/search-master.html

Astronomer's Telegram (ATEL)

Telegram service for the reporting and commenting on new astronomical observations.

http://atel.caltech.edu/

Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO)

The Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory is jointly responsible for publishing the annual Astronomical Almanac, Nautical Almanac, and Air Almanac. We also produce MICA, a computer-based almanac, and other astronomical software products. In addition, we compute and make available a wide variety of practical astronomical data. The Department also maintains a modest research program to support our products.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/

Astronomy News & Links

"Astronomy News & Links" follows current astronomical research and makes links available to recent announcements and press releases of new observations and latest scientific findings. Former news are archived. - Additionally there's a compendium of astronomical links. - Update about weekly. - The pages are also available in german.

http://home.t-online.de/home/SWeimer/astro.html

Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: (1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing over 500,000 abstracts; (2) instrumentation; (3) physics and geophysics; and (4) Los Alamos preprint server. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words. In addition, the abstract service includes links to scanned images of over 40,000 journal articles for articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.

http://adswww.harvard.edu/

Astrophysics Data System Catalog Service (ADS Catalog)

WWW Forms interface to ADS Catalogs

http://adscat.harvard.edu/catalog_service.html

Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine (AMASE)

AMASE is an online astrophysics catalog developed using object-oriented database (OODB) technology to help researchers locate multi-mission data in the NASA archives.

http://amase.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Digital Sky Survey (DSS)

The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. The Catalogs and Surveys Branch (CASB) is digitizing the photographic plates to support HST observing programs but also as a service to the astronomical community.
Images of any part of the sky may be extracted from the DSS, in either FITS or GIF format.

http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/

ESA Data Dissemination Network (at ESRIN)

Information Retrieval Service, EMITS, DODIS; Prototype International Directory; European Space Information System; Columbus Users Information System; ERS-1 European Central Facility; ERS-1 User Services; and more ...

telnet://esrin.esa.it/

Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)

http://helios.tuc.noao.edu/gonghome.html

Interactive Graphical Milky Way Concordance

The Concordance is a suite of programmes and catalogues which display all objects of interest in a user-specified sky window. Currently specialising in nebulous galactic objects, the Concordance plots source positions and sizes, and labels each object with its catalogue name and distance. The Concordance uses the SuperMongo plotting package.

http://www.nrao.edu/~pbarnes/concord/

JPL Molecular Spectroscopy (JPL Line Catalog)

The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Home Page is the starting point for accessing the JPL Submillimeter, Millimeter, and Microwave Spectral Line Catalog, which is a collection of predicted line positions and intensities for use in Astrophysics, Planetary Science, and studies of the Earth Atmosphere. There is also a collection of programs used to calculate the spectra.

http://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA Information Systems Newsletter

WAIS index to NASA's Information Systems Newsletter from issue 21 onwards

wais://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/iso-newsletter

NASA Planetary Data System (PDS)

The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications to ensure the long-term usability of data, to stimulate research, to facilitate data access, and to support correlative analysis. Subnodes include: MIT Microwave Subnode , Infrared Subnode , among others. There is a telnet_pds_guest_account at JPL.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA Search (NASA wide search engine)

This service allows you to easily search through hundreds of thousands of documents published on NASA web sites. Enter a word or phrase and press the return key. The results will be sorted by best match.

http://www.nasa.gov/search/

NASA Space Physics Data System (SPDS)

http://spds.nasa.gov/spds.html

Out of This World star atlas exhibition

An exhibition of rare star maps and atlases from the History of Science Collection of the Linda Hall Library

http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome.htm

PDS Data Set Catalog

WAIS index to a collection of text files extracted from NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) Data Set Catalog (a Sybase database). The information contained within each text file describes an individual entity from the catalog's meta-data. These entities include: Planetary Data Sets and Data Set Collections, Missions, Instrument Hosts - both Spacecraft and Earth-Based, Targets - planets, asteroids, sky, star, etc. A good starting point when searching is to use mission names, such as Voyager or Magellan, and/or target names such as Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.

wais://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog

Planetary Atmospheres Node (NASA/PDS)

http://atmos.nmsu.edu/

Planetary Data System Imaging Node (PDSIMG)

The Imaging Node of the Planetary Data System is the curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present, and future planetary missions. The node provides to the NASA planetary science community the digital image archives, necessary ancillary datasets, software tools, and technical expertise necessary to fully utilize the vast collection of digital planetary imagery.

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/

Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data (SIMBAD at CDS)

The SIMBAD astronomical database, created and maintained by the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies. SIMBAD contains information for about 3 million objects, for which 8 million identifiers, 3 million observational measurements and 3 million bibliographical references are available.
If you don't have a userid, and your institute is not registered yet, you will need to register.

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html

SkyView

SkyView is a facility available over the net which allows users to retrieve data from public all-sky surveys conveniently. The user enters the position and size of the region desired, and the surveys wanted and the data is extracted and formatted for the user. Documentation available through anonymous ftp.

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Space Science Data Services (SSDS, NASA)

http://ssds.nasa.gov/

Starcast (Navigating the Astronomical Internet)

Starcast is ST ScI's prototype implemetation of Astrobrowse, a coordinated effort to develop common interfaces to the growing multitude of online astronomical services.
Starcast is an interface for querying multiple data archives, catalogs, and other online astronomical resources from a single Web-based form. Using simple but common query parameters, you can use Starcast to quickly locate online services (maybe even services you didn't know existed) that may have the data you're looking for.

http://archive.stsci.edu/starcast/about.html

Starcat (ESO)

July 1998: STARCAT is now becoming obsolete. Use it only to access astronomical catalogues or request special file types. Use WDB instead.

http://archive.eso.org/starcat/

Starlink

The Starlink Software Collection is an anthology of astronomy applications packages and supporting subroutine libraries and utilities. It is provided by the UK Starlink Project and contributing institutions, and distributed to non-profit making organizations for use in astronomical research. At present, the collection comprises some 140 different items covering most wavebands and branches of astronomy. Most run on popular versions of UNIX. Starlink sites in the UK automatically receive regular updates, while other sites may obtain copies of the collection (and updates) on request to ussc@star.rl.ac.uk.

http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/

TCL WWW Info

These pages are an index to a set of TCL/Tk references on the WWW. The author has started off with pointers to the ones he could access from the TCL FAQ and added references as he came across them.

http://www.pi.infn.it/tcl/Tcl.html

Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy (URANIA)

Named for the muse of astronomy, the Urania resource is composed of electronic astronomical scholarly journals, bibliographic information, electronic archives of original data, electronic copies of the historical scholarly literature for the last twenty years and a special reference system archive organized by object in the sky. The separate resources which make up Urania comprise a functioning distributed digital library of astronomical information which provides a power and utility heretofore unavailable to the researcher.

http://www.aas.org/Urania/

VizieR Catalogue Service (CDS, Strasbourg)

VizieR provides access to the most complete library of published astronomical catalogues and data tables available on line, organized in a self-documented database.
Query tools allow the user to select relevant data tables and to extract and format records matching given criteria. Specific care has been taken for optimizing access to some very large catalogues such as Guide Star Catalog or USNO-A2.

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/

WebStars (Astrophysics in Cyberspace)

WebStars, now at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/www_info/webstars.html

Z39.50 Maintenance Agency

This page includes documentation and information related to the development and ongoing maintenance of Z39.50; development of future versions of Z39.50; and information related to the implementation and use of the Z39.50 protocol.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/

astro!nfo (Information Service)

astro!nfo is a Information Service made by amateur astronomers. There will published many informations about the amateur scene. Most of the text is written in German language.

http://www.astroinfo.ch/

xxx.lanl.gov e-Print archive

Contains preprints for: High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology, Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Experiment.

http://xxx.lanl.gov/