Links to Some Useful Sites

1. Electronic Data Archives
2. Useful Observing Information
3. Electronic Journals and Archives
4. Astronomy Departments
5. Observatories and Observing
6. Weather
7. Astronomy Sites
8. Computing-Related Sites
9. Astronomical Software
10. Astronomical Instrumentation
11. Astronomical Surveys
12. Optics and Telescope Building

Electronic Data Archives

• USNO A2.0 Astrometric Catalog
• APS POSS-I Catalog
• IPAC Page - 2MASS Image Sampler
• STScI DSS
• NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)
• HST Archives
• HST Observing Resources
• SkyView
• HST GSC
• IPAC user online services
• NSSDC archive
• CDS Strasbourg archive
• STScI archive
• The Hubble Deep Field
• Len Cowie's Clickable HDF-N Map
• Stephen Gwynn's Clickable HDF-S Map
• ACS Parallels

Useful Observing Information

• Astronomical calendar tools
• Airmass calculator
• Lick and Keck observing calendars
• KPNO exposure time calculator
• HST Instruments
• Observing with HST
• WFPC2 Home Page
• WFPC2 Handbook
• WFPC2 exposure time calculator
• STIS exposure time calculator
• Discussion of WFPC2 Photometric Zeropoints

Electronic Journals and Archives

• astro-ph
• astro-ph authors/titles new
• ADS - Get Copies of Papers
• ADS abstracts search
• eApJ home page
• ApJ Home Pages:
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The ApJ Letters
  • The ApJ Supplement Series
• The Astronomical Journal
• MNRAS
• Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• ApJ Letters Electronic Submission
• Nature US site

Astronomy Departments

• Caltech Astronomy
• University of Alabama Physics and Astronomy

Observatories and Observing

• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Palomar Observatory Web Pages
  • Palomar Observatory Home Page
• Keck Observatory Web Pages
  • W.M. Keck Obervatory
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  • NOAO Home Page
  • KPNO
  • CTIO
• Vatican Observatory (Mt. Graham)
  • Observing Manual
  • VATT Home Page
• McDonald Observatory
• MMT Observatory
• Mt. Hopkins Observatory (MMT)
• Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
• UCO/Lick Observatory
• Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Steward Observatory Home Page

Weather

• HET weather
• West Texas Radar
• Apache Point weather
• NRL weather
• San Diego satellite weather
• Keck weather
• NOAA for West Texas
• CTI Weather

Astronomy Sites

• American Astronomical Society Home Page
• NASA homepage
• NSF Astronomy
• Astronomy Links (CIW links)
• IPAC HomePage

Computing-Related Sites

• Caltech ADPF
• Online Statistical Methods Texts and Resources
• Fionn Murtagh's Page of Multivariate Data Analysis Software
• Classification Society of America
• PSU Statcodes

Astronomical Software

• Tim Pearson's PGPLOT page
• Astronomical Software Resources
• IRAF Support Services
• Emmanuel Bertin's SExtractor Page
• SExtractor source code
• The Karma Home Page (by Richard Gooch)
• The SAO/HEAD R&D Group
• DS9 Web Page
• WCS Tools (Great Astrometry Stuff!!!)
• IDL Astronomy Programs
• IDL Astronomy Users Library

Astronomical Instrumentation

• DensePak Manual (IF Spectrometer)

Astronomical Surveys

• The DSS Quick-V Survey (Optical)
• The VLA FIRST Survey (Radio)
• 2MASS Data Server (IR)

Optics and Telescope Making

• Springfield Telescope Makers (The Source!)
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
• Baton Rouge Astronomical Society (Telescope Making)
• Telescope Making Books
• Al Kelly's CCD Page (Great stuff!)
• CCD Builders Cookbook Page