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Provides WWW/FTP access to datasets published in the major astronomical journals (I think).
(well, that's my guess at the acronym)
| TOB's useful links (thanks to Douge) | Last modified: Nov 3rd 1999 |
| Electronic access to Journals/Preprints | |
|---|---|
| ADS (UK, US or French site) | Abstracts from the major Astronomy journals. |
| Astro-ph (Main interface or search) | Astro-ph preprint database at Southampton. |
| Astrophysics related journals | |
| American Physical Society | Physical Review, Physical Review Letters & Reviews of Modern Physics |
| A&A | Astronomy and Astrophysics. |
| A&A Review | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. |
| A&A Supplemental | Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplemental. |
| AJ (US or Europe) | Astronomical Journal |
| ApJ (US or Europe) | Astrophysical Journal (including Letters and Supplement). |
| CDS | A&AS and PASP abstracts. |
| Ingenta | What used to be BIDS (?). |
| Icarus | International Journal of Solar System Studies. |
| MNRAS | Monthly Notices of the RAS. |
| New Astronomy | An Elsevier Science publication. Two-month free access period upon registration. |
| PASP (US or Europe) | Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. |
| Physics related resources | |
| BIDS | Online access to Arnold, Blackwell Science, Gordon & Breach and Academic Press journals
which LJMU subscribe to.
Requires BIDS password for access |
| CUP | The science and technology section of the Cambridge University Press. |
| EDP Sciences (French site) | Home of the European Physical Journal series. |
| Elsevier | Elsevier Science home page. |
| IDEAL | International Digital Electronic Access Library. Access to 175 Academic Press Journals - more Physics than Astrophysics related. |
| IOP | Most of the Institute of Physics journals are available, from 1996 onwards. |
| LINK | Springer's LINK service (electronic access to many of its journals). |
| NISS EBSCO | Who comes up with these acronyms? Appears to be publications like New Scientist, Scientific American, Sky and Telescope. Requires BIDS password for access |
| Telescopes | |
|---|---|
| AAO | UK or Australian |
| Calar Alto | Spain |
| CTIO | Chile |
| ESO | Chile |
| Gemini | U.K. GEMINI Support Group or USA site |
| HST | UK or USA site |
| ING | Cambridge or La Palma |
| IRTF | Hawaii |
| JAC | Hawaii |
| Jodrell Bank | UK |
| NOAO | USA |
| 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 | |
| ESO | Full proposal information | European site |
| ING | PATT proposals | UK site |
| NOAO/CTIO | Full proposal information | US site |
| Exposure time calculator | US site | |
| PATT | Semester dates, instrument availability, proposal methods, PATT-approved telescopes and much, much, more... | UK site |
| UKIRT | PATT proposals | Hawaii site |
| Service proposals | Hawaii site | |
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Databases
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| ADC (USA site) | The Astronomical Data Center - a NASA GSFC facility. Provides WWW/FTP access to datasets published in the major astronomical journals (I think). |
| ASAS | The All-Sky Automated Survey - photometric monitoring of ~10^7 stars brighter than 14th magnitude. |
| ASCA data | A UK mirror, at Leicester, of the ASCA data archives. |
| 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. |
| CASU | Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. Contains links to APM, Hipparcos and INT WFC survey data (amongst others), as well as information about GAIA and PLANCK. |
| 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 |
| 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 (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 |
| ISO (UK site) | The home page of the UK ISO support group. |
| Mishaps (US site) | "Observational Mishaps - a Database"; a collection of images showing
just what can go wrong whilst observing together with suggestions for treating these
problems (astro-ph/9906195)
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| LEDAS | Leicester Database and Archive Service |
| MAST | Multimission archive at STScI - data from EUV to radio wavelengths. |
| NED (WWW or telnet) | NASA Extragalactic Database |
| OGLE (USA or Polish sites) | Information and data products from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment |
| 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). |
| Starburst 99 | Synthesis models for galaxies with active star formation. |
| Astronomy jobs/courses | |
|---|---|
| AAS | The current list of jobs from the AAS job register. |
| Post-Grad | Links to information on postgraduate courses (Royal Astronomical Society). |
| Rumours (Canadian site) | Pat Hall's page of job rumours. |
| Rumours (US site) | Edwin Hubble's page of job rumours. Slightly more interesting than Pat Hall's version because it includes names. |
| 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 |
| EPS | The European Physical Society. |
| IAU | Central Bureau for Astronomical telegrams |
| LaTeX help | To paraphrase a rather poor television advert, "It says what it does on the link". |
| LAS | Liverpool Astronomical Society |
| Name a star | Information (at the NASA-GSFC ADC site) describing the problems associated with buying the name of a star. |
| NETLIB | Public domain (I think) mathematical software/papers/databases (also see SLATEC) |
| Novae & Supernovae | The Astronomer Magazine novae and supernovae page |
| Numerical Recipes - 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 |
| Starlink, PPARC and the RAS | |
|---|---|
| Starlink | Home page |
| news | |
| sites | |
| PPARC | Home page |
| Grants form | |
| RAS | Royal Astronomical Society home page. |
| Pretty pictures & NASA missions | |
|---|---|
| Galileo - Probe or Orbiter | Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth |
| The Hubble Heritage Project (US site) | Beautiful pictures culled from the HST archives. |
| HST (US site) | The latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope |
| HST (UK site) | The latest scientific results from the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 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 |
| ROG & NMM | TLA (three-letter acronym) overload for the Royal Observatory Greenwich and the National Maritime Museum, with their public information service. |
| General Travel | |
|---|---|
| ETB | The English Tourist Board. |
| Liverpool | Cost of travel to Liverpool, by train and coach, from major cities in Great Britain. |
| Rough Guide | The Rough Guide on the web |
| Coaches and Trains | |
| National Express | UK coach network |
| TheTrainLine | Book your train tickets online. |
| Railtrack | UK train times |
| Europe | Train times for European travel |
| Aeroplanes | |
| American | |
| British Midland | |
| Continental | |
| Delta | |
| KLM | |
| United Airlines | |
| Airports | |
| Manchester | Apparently Manchester Airport is the Gateway to the UK |
| BAA | Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow, Southampton and Stanstead airports. |
| Airwise | A big listing of airports, air travel information and news stories. |
| Currency converters | |
| Xenon labs | The Universal Currency Converter |
| OANDA | Includes exchange rates for every day from January 1990 |