Merged Master Resource List

au (Australia)

Karma (ATNF@CSIRO-RP): The Karma package is a library and applications for Signal and Image Processing written by Richard Gooch.
Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF): Gopher , Anonymous ftp
Australia Telescope National Facility - RP (ATNF - CSIRO Radiophysics): This server is operated by the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, located in Sydney, Australia. The Parkes Radio Observatory is also operated by ATNF. The top-level menu contains: ATNF Site Guides and General Information, The ATNF FTP Server - Documentation (See the README file first), The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes Catalogue '90, The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes, MIT, NRAO Survey, The ATNF FTP Server - COMRAD database.
There is also an FTP server , with contents: Various AIPS tasks and support routines for the processing of Australia Telescope data; Observing proposals and documentation related to the use and operation of the Australia Telescope, including vistors guides to all the ATNF sites; The Karma package (library and applications for Signal and Image Processing; A spectral line reduction package which can read a number of formats including those used by the Parkes 64m telescope; Another spectral line reduction package specifically for the reduction of spectral line data from the Parkes 64m telescope; - README
Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO): There is an anonymous-FTP server.
There is also an alternate Gopher pathway at STScI .
KOEKEMOER Anton (MSSSO)
Other Astronomy Sites on WWW (at MSSSO): This is a list of WWW astronomical resources, concentrating mainly on institutes / departments / observatories although some databases and abstract-servers are also covered. It has been created by combining information from other such lists and therefore is continually changing and never quite up-to-date. Everything is listed in alphabetical order.
FULLAGAR David (MSSSO)
MSSSO Schedule 1 Nov 1993 - 31 Jan 1994
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO): Includes another Astronomy Listing. Also, and Anonymous ftp server.
MEATHERINGHAM Stephen (MSSSO)
AAT 1 Feb 1994 - 31 Jul 1994
University of Melbourne
READMEs, manuals. etc. relating to astronomical resources.. on the Internet: A set of compressed tar files collected by Brett Holman, Univ. Melbourne, Australia.
FIGARO Software

ca (Canada)

Space Astrophysics Laboratory (SAL): The Space Astrophysics Laboratory is part of the Institute for Space And Terrestrial Science, an Ontario Centre of Excellence located in North York, Ontario. Space Astrophysics is a sub-discipline of astronomical research of the sun, planets, stars and galaxies performed from above the surface of the Earth using orbiting or space-borne instruments, producing data that can be correlated with information from Earth-based observatories.
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science (ISTS)
McGill Univ. - EPS: , Gopher , Anonymous ftp
McMaster University, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Contains information about their faculty, research, facilities and graduate programme.
CADC Tools: The CADC tools package includes: starcat - STARCAT is a tool for accessing the HST Archive, CFHT and ESO archives. xhot - X tool which displays the planned activities of the Hubble Space Telescope. It allows you to find out what the telescope is currently observing simbad - The new SIMBAD tool now runs on your workstation. xmgr - This very nice interactive plotting package is now used for the Preview system whitin STARCAT. You will be amazed by its capabilities. Data display could be FFT'd, fitted, zoomed, printed, etc...
CADC Newsletter
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC): The CADC was established in 1986 as one of three world-wide distribution centres for data from the Hubble Space Telescope and is part of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C. The CADC mandate has recently expanded and we are now archiving data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located on the Big Island of Hawaii. See ADASS'93 (Oct 13-15, 1993) for an excellent example of Web style.
CFHT Archive (1) (CFHT): (archive, CCDs, proposal template, manuals)
International Astronomy Conferences and Meetings: This list of astronomy meetings is compiled by Liz Bryson of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This version of the meeting list has been updated to provide links to those meetings which are providing information electronically. If you find this list useful please send e-mail to bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu (Bryson's plain text version of the file is available via FTP; the HTML is easier to read, and includes links).
CRABTREE Dennis (CADC)
DURAND Daniel (CADC)
GAUDET Séverin (CADC)
HILL Norman (CADC)
JUSTICE Gerald (CADC)
CFHT Archive (2): (archive, CCDs, proposal template, manuals)
Hubble Space Telescope (HST - from CADC): Also, there is a page from ST-ECF .
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO): The DAO is operated by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) through its Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA) as a national centre for astronomical research within Canada, with emphasis on UV, optical and IR astronomy. The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is a group within the DAO which is responsible for the Canadian archive of data from the Hubble Space Telescope as well the archive of data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. DAO's Facilty Manual is now online. You might also want to check out the DAO Virtual Library.
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO): DRAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. The synthesis telescope is particularly suited to comprehensive studies of the interstellar medium, extended Galactic nebulae and star-forming regions, and of nearby galaxies. The other instruments are a 26-m paraboloid and a solar flux monitoring system. Observing proposals are welcome from all interested astronomers.
Saint Mary's University, Dept. of Astronomy and Physics (SMU)
Center for Subatomic Research (CSR)
University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory: The University of Calgary is a major Canadian center for radio astronomy research. The Department of Physics and Astronomy maintains a close relationship with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, located within a days drive in the mountains of British Columbia. Opportunity exists to use this facility , which consists of a seven element aperture synthesis array plus a 26 meter single dish antenna. Includes information on a proposed high-resolution survey of galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (HI), documentation on user support software for the Russian Space VLBI project RadioAstron, information on graduate studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and a pointer to the University of Calgary's gopher server.
Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, ... Information (Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada): Solar Imagery (mirrored from SELSIS/BBSO)-updated once every three hours; Daily Reports of Ionospheric Data containing M(3000), foF2, MUF(3000), and TEC; East-West Solar Interferometer Scan Images from the Algonquin Radio Observatory 32-Element Interferometer; Weekly Solar Terrestrial Forecast and Review Reports; Daily GOES-6 and 7 X-ray Plots as well as special high-resolution xray plots of major flares; Daily NSO solar coronal line emission plots; Daily Pseudo-Full-Disk solar coronal maps of the coronal Fe XIV and Ca XV ion lines from the NSO; and more... - README
Université de Montréal, Groupe d'Astrophysique - French version
BASTIEN Pierre (Montréal)
CARIGNAN Claude (Montréal)
DEMERS Serge (Montréal)
FONTAINE Gilles (Montréal)
MICHAUD Georges (Montréal)
MOFFAT Anthony F.J. (Montréal)
NADEAU Daniel (Montréal)
RACINE René (Montréal)
SAINT-LOUIS Nicole (Montréal)
WESEMAEL François (Montréal)
Observatoire du Mont Mégantic (OMM) - French version
University of Victoria, Physics and Astronomy Dept.: Gopher
University of Western Ontario: Gopher

ch (Switzerland)

ALEPH Experiment (CERN)
CERN received high-energy physics preprints
Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) (alternate)
Space Index
WWW Servers Directory (from CERN)
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue (WWW, from CERN)
Astronomy and Astrophysics (from CERN): W3 Servers
World Wide Web (WWW, W3): "Astronomy & the Web"
on the growth of the Web
"Hypertext?"
HTML Primer (the NCSA version; here is an excellent alternative)
URL Primer (at NCSA)
the FAQ for the Web
High-Energy Physics Information (a resource list from CERN)
Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucl´e;aire (CERN)
DELPHI experiment (CERN)
Meteosat images of Europe, Africa, Atlantic and World (3x/day)
Astronomy Resources on WWW (from CUI)

cl (Chile)

Chilean weather forecasts (in Spanish)
Astronomy Resources A Chilean resource list in Spanish.: Select Gopher item 7 "Servicios Miscelaneos",
then select item 4 "Informacion sobre Astronomia/Astronautica y Espacio".

com (US Commercial)

NETLIB Software
DEC gatekeeper.dec.com Archive
Zoomer Personal Digital Assistant
National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT)
Global Network Navigator (GNN)
GNN Toolkit (GNN) (alternate - from Canada) (GNN) (alternate - from Germany) (GNN) (alternate - from Ireland) (GNN) (alternate - from Japan) (GNN) (alternate - from Germany) (GNN) (alternate - from United Kingdom)
GNN (Global Network Navigator) Toolkit
O'Reilly Resource Center
Welcome New Navigators! at GNN (Global Network Navigator): has an astronomy catalog
Astronomy Resources on the Internet (at GNN): alternate
The EARN Guide to network services
A paper on the problem of Resource-Discovery (in Postscript)
MathSource -- Mathematica Software (Wolfram Research, Inc.): This site contains all material available through MathSource. The General directory contains items of general interest to the Mathematica community, such as administrative info, MathGroup archives, Mathematica tutorials, MathSource information, utility programs, and Mathematica tips. The Enhancements directory contains items that enhance the functionality of Mathematica beyond the capabilities of the basic kernel. Items in the Applications directory deal with the application of Mathematica to specific problems or subject areas. The subcategories group related items together into manageable sizes. Subcategories under Applications include: Audio, Chemistry, Complexity, Computer Science, Data-Tables, Economics-Finance, Education, Engineering, Geography, Graphics, Life Science, Material Science, Math, and Physics. Books supplements, periodicals, journals, press-announcements, bibliographical information, Mathematica documentation, and the like are all stored in the Publications directory.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

de (Germany)

HERMES Experiment
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR): NOD executables
Colloquium schedule (KOLLOQUIUMSPLANUNG -- Diese Planungsdatei ist LAN-öffentlich und über Internet zugänglich via 'anonymes ftp')
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München: Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Fakultät für Physik (Univ. Freiburg-im-Breisgau)
Universität Münster, Astronomisches Institut: - in German

edu (US Education & Research)

Steward Observatory

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space was founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton and consists of an international group of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from a diverse range of educational backgrounds who are working to promote space as a whole. SEDS is a chapter based organization with chapters throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Latin America, and the Middle East. The permanent National Headquarters for SEDS-USA resides at MIT. Each chapter is fairly independent and coordinates activities and projects in its own area.
There is also a Gopher server which contains a Rennes archive mirror plus software.

sci.astro.hubble Archive

This archive is intended for materials pertinent to the discussions in the newsgroup sci.astro.hubble, part of the USENET news structure. Valid items for placement here are large datasets, public domain software (in compressed tarfile form), imagery (GIF preferred) and Postscript renderings of relevant papers on the topic of data processing in connection with Space Telescope. - README

Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE)

EUVE has a service that computes the suitability function to observe any target with our satellite. We also have other software on line such as an ISM absorption computation for specific wavelengths. There are other services as well.

Center for EUV Astrophysics (CEA, EUVE Guest Observer Center)

An Impressive Example of WWW usage. NASA's Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) satellite was launched on June 7, 1992 from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a Delta II rocket. The payload contains three EUV scanning telescopes equipped with imaging detectors as well as a Deep Survey Spectrometer instrument which divides the light from a fourth telescope between an imaging detector and three EUV spectrometers.
There is also an AnonFTP server which contains all the publicly available documents from the EUVE GO Center relating to the current NRA. This includes all the appendices; Releases of the IRAF/EUV software; Releases of the calibration reference data set that is required for the IRAF/EUV software; All the publicly available documents from the EUVE GO Center relating to the IRAF/EUV software. This includes the IRAF/EUV User's Guide; All other the publicly available documents from the EUVE GO Center; All the publicly available archive data from EUVE. - README

Univ. Calif. - Berkeley Gopher

Brown University (High-Energy Physics Group)

Web services - lists and maps.

PGPLOT Software

Infrared Sky Survey Atlas (ISSA)

IRSKY

IPAC IRSKY Remote Access Tool

This can run an X session on your local machine.

IPAC XCATSCAN Catalog Scanning Tool

This can run an X session on your local machine.

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), CalTech

(NOTE -- Telnet interface, not WWW)
The June 1993 Version of NED contains POSITIONS, BASIC DATA, and over 500,000 NAMES for 250,000 EXTRAGALACTIC OBJECTS, as well as some 450,000 BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES to 21,000 PUBLISHED PAPERS, and 25,000 NOTES FROM CATALOGS and other publications. NED supports searches for objects and references, and offers browsing capabilities for 7,400 ABSTRACTS of articles of extragalactic interest that have appeared since 1988 in A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, and PASP. PAS Japan, Soviet Astronomy and its Letters have also been added to that list.

Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC)

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those projects to the astronomical community. IPAC is operated by the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

California Institute of Technology Pulsar Group (CalTech)

Various recent Caltech pulsar group preprints; A workable HTTP interface to the PDB pulsar data base browser; Find BibTeX form of pulsar references.

California Institute of Technology Theoretical Particle Physics (CalTech)

California Institute of Technology (UGCS?) (CalTech)

Pomona College Astronomy Program

Includes a complete description of the Pomona College and Claremont College astronomy programs, including a tour of the Frank Brackett Observatory, and the 40" telescope at Table Mountain

StatLib Archives

StatLib Index

StatLib, a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP, gopher, and WWW. StatLib started out as an e-mail service and some of the organisation still reflects that heritage.

ADS ,

Abstracts

Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

The ADS is a free software aimed at the Astrophysics community. It is a distributed environment that provides access to a variety of astronomical data for the scientific user community. At present the main emphasis is on making data collected by NASA space missions available to astronomers. This is being expanded to include access to data from ground based observations. The ADS provides access to over 190 astronomical catalogs and approximately 125,000 astronomical abstracts. It also provides direct access to the HEASARC Browse tool, NSSDC's Online Data and Information Service (NODIS), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), and access to SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data). The user is able to access all of this information via a simple-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI). Simply "point and click" to retrieve the information you need for proposals, research projects, or classroom assignments.

Center for Applied Parallel Processing (CAPP)

Front Range Consortium (FRC)

The Front Range Consortium (FRC) is a consortium of three institutions: CAPP, NCAR/SCD, NOAA/FSL, all of which are located in Boulder, Colorado. The FRC is committed to the development of high performance scalable computing and its application to Grand Challenge research problems in science and engineering. The FRC is a member institution of the National Consortium for High Performance Computing (NCHPC).

University of Colorado (Gopher)

IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (Colorado)

Interactive Data Language from Research Systems, Inc. (IDL)

IDL, Interactive Data analysis Language, is a complete package for the interactive reduction, analysis, and visualization of scientific data and images. Optimized for the workstation environment, IDL integrates a responsive array oriented language with numerous data analysis methods and an extensive variety of two and three dimensional displays into a powerful tool for researchers. IDL supports an extensive data import capability, publication quality hard copy output, and user-defined Motif graphical user interfaces. Users can create complex visualizations in hours instead of weeks with the aid of IDL's high level capabilities and interactive environment. IDL is useful in physics, astronomy, image and signal processing, mapping, medical imaging, statistics, and other technical disciplines requiring visualization of large amounts of data.
The pages include technical information about IDL, pricing and distributor information, a gallery of images that you can download, and links to the IDL ftp site. The pages are part of an ongoing project at the NASA Software Support Laboratory that is compiling information about a number of scientific visualization products.
IDL (ftp)
IDL Astronomy Library
IDL FAQs (frequently asked questions)

Software Support Laboratory (SSL)

The Software Support Laboratory (SSL) archives and distributes software -- and information about software -- for space and Earth scientists.

Design Research Institute (DRI)

Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory

Advanced Computing Research Institute (ACRI)

Corporate Research Institute (CRI)

Cornell University Theory Center

Cornell University, Department of Astronomy

Electronic Journal of Astron. Soc. of the Atlantic

Georgia State University Astronomy

CHARA = Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
The Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
Hard Labor Creek Observatory

Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service provides access to currently about 160,000 Astronomy and Astrophysics abstracts with a sophisticated searching system. Using Lynx, this now also provides access to this service from character based terminals. More information about this service is available in the Abstract Service Help Pages .

KARAKASHIAN Todd (ADS)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CFA

The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe. The CfA operates the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts. There is also a Theory Group ).

Oak Ridge Observatory

Whipple Observatory

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1) (SAO)

RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software

Radial Velocity Analysis, Guide Star Catalog Search and Plot Software at Harvard-SAO.

CfA index of ApJ, AJ and PASP (from Jan. 1988) (telnet)

CfA Index of ApJ, AJ, PASP

If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here

CfA Index of ApJ Lett

If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Theory Group

Numerical Recipes Software

Einstein On-Line Service - Einline

Contains an extensive set of Radio Astronomy catalogs.

AXAF [Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility] Science Center (ASC)

The ASC is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The purpose of the ASC is to provide the support required by the science community to realize fully the potential of the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF).

Einstein Data Archive (SAO, Cambridge, MA)

The Einstein Observatory was a satellite based imaging X-ray telescope in operation from November 1978 to April 1981. The focal plane detectors included two Imaging Proportional Counters (IPC), three High Resoultion Imagers, an Objective Grating Spectrometer (OGS), a Focal Plane Crystal Spectrometer (FPCS) and a Solid State Spectrometer (SSS). The most commonly used instrument was the IPC, which made nearly 4000 observations of astronomical sources. This page gives information about the Einstein data archive, and about access to Einstein Data.

EICHHORN Guenther (ADS)

FISHER Wes (CADC)

KURTZ Michael J. (ADS)

GRANT Carolyn Stern (ADS)

MURRAY Stephen S. (ADS)

PROS Software

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)

Astrophysics Data System; AXAF Science Center; Data analysis for the Einstein Observatory; Jonathan McDowell's quasar energy distribution database and software library; PROS 2.2 software - README

Einstein Observatory

SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) (FTP)

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2) (SAO)

Includes: AXAF Science Center (ASC) . Anonymous ftp

Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)

CFHT (Canada France Hawaii Telescope) (FTP)

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)

A CFHT page at CADC has information about the CFHT archive, CCDs, proposal template and manuals.

Astronomical Internet Resources (CFHT)

CFHT Schedule 1 Feb 1994 - 30 Jul 1994

IRTF 1 Jan 1994 - 31 Jul 1994

Infra-Red Telescope Facility (IRTF)

The IRTF is a 3.0 meter telescope optimized for use in the infrared. It was first built to support the Voyager missions to Jupiter. It is now the National facility for infrared astronomy providing continued support to planetary and deep space applications. Also contains a FTP site.
Anonymous ftp (Manuals, Forms, Instrument information, Software tools)

Joint Astronomy Centre Hilo, Hawaii

The Joint Astronomy Centre incorporates the 15m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the 3.8m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on the 4200m summit of Mauna Kea along with the Centre's Hawaii headquarters in Hilo. The facility is operated by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh on behalf of the Science and Engineering Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and the National Research Council of Canada.

James Clark Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)

, Gopher

UK Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT)

FOSTER John C. (MHO)

Haystack Observatory

Millstone Hill Observatory (MHO, Haystack)

The Millstone Hill Observatory, located in Westford Massachusetts, is a broad-based atmospheric sciences research facility owned and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Atmospheric Sciences Group, which staffs and manages the observatory, is a part of M.I.T's Haystack Observatory, a basic research organization whose focus is radio wave and radar science, instrumentation and techniques. The following resources may be of interest. EISCAT is a particularly good source of data and useful information. See, for example, incoherent scatter radar and magnetosphere Millstone Hill Observatory: Information, data, etc., including real-time radar status and data when the radar is operating. EISCAT: European Incoherent Scatter Association. NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research. NSF: National Science Foundation Gopher server. NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE)

Indiana University Astronomy Department

News, Academics, Folks, Facilities, Annual Reports, Miscellaneous, Animations, Images.

Johns Hopkins University, FOS

Search and Retrieve Graphics Software and Data

Kestrel Institute

Lowell Observatory

The VISTA package is in the /pub/ directory.

VISTA Software

National Consortium for High Performance Computing (NCHPC)

MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)

The Whois protocol

UUNA Astronomy Listings

The Usenet University - New Network Academy Meta-Library listing of on-line astronomy resources.

HTTP sitelist (WWW)

Archie Gateway to WWW (ArchiePlexForm)

access to USENET News (Gopher)

Michigan State Univ. Home page

Mount Wilson Observatory

The mountain is host to several ongoing observing projects using the onsite facilities. The observatory has two primary nighttime telescopes: the 60-inch telescope, built in 1908 is home to the HK Project and the Atmospheric Compensation Experiment; and the 100-inch (Hooker) telescope, built in 1917, which is available to the scientific community. Two solar observatories, the 60-foot tower telescope (operated by USC), and the 150-foot tower telescope (operated by UCLA) maintain long-term exploration of the magnetic activity behavior of the Sun. There are also two interferometers onsite: the Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI, operated by U.C. Berkeley), and the NRL Optical Interferometer. The Telescopes in Education (TIE) Project operates a 24" telescope, as well as the Snow Solar Telescope (built in 1904). Finally, a fully-robotic 32-inch Automatic Photoeletric Telescope (APT) is operated by Tennessee State University.

National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center (NAIC, Arecibo Observatory)

Analyz single-dish spectral analysis (NAIC)

Astronomy and Astrophysics (NCSU)

Mars Mission Research Center (North Carolina State University)

Co-located at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (NCSU) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro (A&T), the Mars Mission Research Center (M2RC) is one of eight University Space Engineering Centers established by NASA in 1988. The goal of the Center is to focus on research and educational technologies necessary for planetary exploration, especially transportation to and from Mars.

Apache Point Observatory

APO is privately owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC), consisting of the University of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study, Johns Hopkins University, New Mexico State University, Princeton University, University of Washington, and Washington State University. The observatory consists of a 3.5-meter telescope and three future telescopes which are under construction.

New Mexico State University Department of Astronomy

Contains information on faculty, staff, and students and their research and educational activities, as well as descriptions of department astronomical facilities.

CTIO 1 Feb 1994 - 31 Jul 1994

Gemini/Pachon/ArCon

Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO)

Waveform Def. Language; Arcon images of 30 Dor; Argus documentation; PhotRed; Curtis Schmidt data; Schmidt + thin prism data - README

Southern Columbia Millimeter Telescope (1.2 Meter)

Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF - from NOAO)

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)

There is also an anonymous ftp

NEIDIG Donald F. (AFGL)

SIMON George W. (AFGL)

WIBORG Phil (AFGL)

ALTROCK Richard C. (AFGL)

RADICK Richard (AFGL)

KEIL Steve (AFGL)

ZIRKER Jack (SPO)

KUHN Jeff (SPO)

BALASUBRAMANIAN K.S. (SPO)

NOVEMBER Larry (SPO)

PENN Matt (SPO)

DUNN Dick (SPO)

SMARTT Raymond N. (SPO)

Sacramento Peak Observatory (SPO, part of National Solar Observatory -- NSO)

README Anonymous ftp

National Solar Observatory (NSO)

Synoptic Solar Magnetograms

WIYN - KPNO

Gemini 8m Telescopes Project

There is also a Gopher server.

IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) (NOAO)

IRAF ftp archive directories. README = This file; ORDERFORM = IRAF order form, for mailed IRAF distributions and printed and bound versions of the manuals; REGISTER = IRAF mailing list and site registration; conf = November 1991 IRAF Conference information; contrib = Contributed software; docs = IRAF user and technical documentation; extra = IRAF add-on layered packges, fixes, etc.; v28 = The IRAF V2.8 distribution (partial); v29 = The IRAF V2.9 distribution; v210 = The IRAF V2.10 distribution; web = World Wide Web (WWW) home directory.; (there is an IRAF home page (preliminary) }

KPNO Schedule Mar 1994

NOAO preprints

NOAO Newsletters (via gateway )

The latest issues (1 June 1992 and later) of the NOAO Newsletters can be searched with WAIS. The Newsletters can be searched by topic or by issue. To extract all the articles for a particular issue, search on the date of the issue, i.e., 1Sep93. Since WAIS defaults to a maximum of 40 articles you may want to click on the "Prefs" box and increase this number to 100 or so, if you are running XWAIS. We will attempt to install the latest issue of the NOAO Newsletter into WAIS as soon after its publication date as possible. For your first test of this database, try searching on the word " wais ".

National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) - WWW

NOAO-Gopher(Gemini,Weather,Veronica),
catalogs, NSO, CTIO, KPNO

VLA Schedule Mar 1994

VLBA Schedule Mar 1994

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

The NRAO is a facility operated by Associated Universities, Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
NRAO/VLA Information System -- Maintenance Report summaries (Open and to be Repaired); Official VLA, VLBA and VLBI NUG Schedules; General Info for Visitors to NRAO (New Mexico); VLA Specific Information; VLBA Specific Information; Weather Information
NRAO-Charlottesville ( Headquarters ; there is also an anonFTP server .
NRAO-Socorro (Array Operations Center)
NRAO-Tucson
NRAO-VLA (Very Large Array)
NRAO-VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array)
NRAO-Green Bank (140-foot, GBT, OVLBI)

NRAO RAPs (radio-) astronomy preprints database (via gateway )

NRAO-RAPS is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received in the Charlottesville library of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1986 forward. The preprints include papers submitted to scientific and technical journals and to appear in meeting proceedings; they cover observational, experimental, theoretical, review, instrumentation, image processing, and computing topics in a wide range of astronomical subdisciplines. Preprints include work by NRAO authors as well as preprints received from authors and institutions world-wide. On 1 May 93 there were 13,000 records in the database, and in 1992 we received and added records for 2,500 preprints. Citations are added as papers are published. The database is updated biweekly. The listing is meant to serve as an alerting service only; the NRAO library does NOT copy or distribute the preprints listed. The institution codes indicate either the source from which NRAO received the preprint or the affiliation of the preprint's authors.

VLA Sky Survey

This anonFTP directory contains all processed data from the 1.4 GHz VLA continuum sky survey. The main survey observations will begin in 1993 September and should be complete by the third quarter of 1996. The principal data product will be a set of 2326 FITS-format maps, each about 4 deg on a side, covering the sky north of -42 deg declination with 54 arcsec FWHM resolution and ~0.4 mJy rms noise plus confusion. New maps and lists will be placed in this directory as soon as they are produced. The survey group.. is making the VLA survey as a service to the whole astronomical community and claims no proprietary rights to the results.. README

Astronomical Image Processing System AIPS (the Classic Variety) at NRAO

The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. There is a Usenet newsgroup alt.sci.astro.aips that deals with AIPS issues and has occasional interesting announcements. There is an AIPS memo that nicely describes the AIPS software system (PostScript, 189404 bytes). It contains one schematic diagram of the overall AIPS structure.

FITS Information Archive

This is an archive for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.

HST archive retrieval instructions

Anonymous-FTP Servers a list posted to sci.astro periodically

Flexible Image Transport System (FITS archive at NRAO)

Astronomy resources on the Internet (NRAO)

Microcomputer Image Processing System (MiPS)

(this document is the announcement of a demo for MS-DOS computers)

An Astronomer's Guide to On-line Bibliographic Databases and Information Services (Postscript, 306_KB; also available in TeX , 118_KB)

This is Starlink User Note 174.1 (29 November 1993).
See also "A Guide to Astronomical Catalogues, Databases and Archives available through Starlink", Starlink User Note 162.1 (18. March 1993), also by A.C. Davenhall, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Leicester.

WELLS Donald C. (NRAO)

FITS archive documents database (via gateway )

The nrao-fits WAIS server supports searches of all of the text files in the entire FITS archive. "All" means everything -- READMEs, standards, drafts, overviews, and all of the news and Email messages in the traffic archive, even including the ASCII headers of the FITS sample and test data files. All of the Postscript documents are in the index too. The WAIS server enables users to search this huge mass of text for instances of any strings.

AIPS++

AIPS++ is a software package which will calibrate and image (primarily) radio astronomical data. It is being written in an object-oriented style using the C++ language. AIPS++ is being developed by an international consortium. AIPS++ is not yet of interest to users, although there are some email reflectors you may wish to join for information. A beta library release is available via anonymous ftp. This may be of interest to C++ software developers.

UniPOPS (NRAO)

NRAO-Charlottesvile Library RAPcat, PageCharge Policies

Green Bank

Orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometry (OVLBI)

NWU Home page

Neural Network Papers

Sci.image.processing Newsgroup Archive

Princeton University Observatory

Princeton University Pulsar Group

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)

TCL Archives

Astronomy and Astrophysics (Rice)

University of Rochester's Near Infrared Group

an Internet Tools Summary

Wavelet Information

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Wilcox Solar Observatory (Stanford Univ.) (WSO)

Contains a solar physics database, currently only holds information from Wilcox observatory, but will soon become site of a National Solar Database and will hold much more data from many different sites. - README

Space Telescope Electronic Information System (STScI)

PASP abstracts archive, STScI

TIM (Telescope Imaging Model) PSF software for HST

TinyTIM PSF software for HST

STScI-authored preprints (abstracts)

NASA Research Announcements

e.g. Astrophysics Data Program in nra_93-oss-05

Big Bear Solar Observatory

Fulldisk images for the current month. H-alpha, white light, and Ca-II K-line images are generally available for every observing day; Ca-II K-line fulldisk archive; H-alpha fulldisk archive; White light fulldisk archive; Current high-resolution region images; Programs to read FITS images on IBM PCs and Macintoshes. - README , solar imagery via anonFTP (FITS format) .

Univ. of N. Carolina FITS-images (Gopher)

Univ. of N. Carolina GIF-images (Gopher)

STELAR Voyager images (experimental Gopher)

STScI phonebook

Astron. Soc. of the Pacific (ASP) conference series

Remote Proposal Submission Software (RPSS, at STScI)

Here you will find proposal-preparation software to help you develop an Observing or Archival Research Proposal for the Hubble Space Telescope. A step-by-step guide for proposers is contained in the file "how_to_submit" (under the Proposer subdirectory...one level up), while some of the documentation may be found under the "Documents" subdirectory. Note - No UNIX version of the RPSS software is currently available.

STScI-EPA HST Images

TIFFs & GIFs ( Levay), ExInEd (Macs-only)

STScI authored preprints (Gopher, searchable)

Astronomical Publication Resources (at STScI)

Astronomical Internet Resources (at STScI)

Astronomical Software Resources (at STScI)

STScI Searchtools

Includes: STEIS Gopher Menus, STScI Phonebook, Archive Exposure Catalog, Current Year's Weekly Timeline, HST Status Reports, Long Range Plan (disabled), Weekly Summaries, STScI Documents, ... WWW clients which don't support HTML forms and direct WAIS access can use a simpler interface .

Space Telescope Electronic Information System (STEIS)

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.

Data Reduction Expert Assistant DRACO

The use of large format detectors, increased access to very large astronomical databases, and other developments in observational astronomy have led to the situation where many astronomers are overwhelmed by the reduction and analysis process. Draco is a novel approach to data reduction and analysis which works in conjunction with existing analysis systems such as STSDAS/IRAF, IDL, etc. Draco takes on much of the mechanics of the process, allowing the astronomer to spend more time understanding the physical nature of the data.

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems ADASS'94

(Baltimore, September 25-28, 1994)
This conference will provide a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the production and use of software and systems. We also hope to expose developers and users to developments in other areas of computer science which may have applications in an astronomical context. Contributions to the program are invited in the areas of algorithms, software, systems, and related topics, with emphasis on practical solutions to the problems of treating real data. Key Topics: Astronomical Data Modelling and Analysis, Design and Development of Graphical User Interfaces, Network Information Systems, Parallel and Distributed Processing.

Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS)

This is a preliminary Mosaic document for the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System. STSDAS is software primarily designed for reducing and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This includes the same instrument calibration code included in the routine data processing pipeline. STSDAS also includes general-purpose tools and enhancements to IRAF.

Space Telescope Science Institute Library Service

STEPsheet, IAU circulars

HST Science Data Archive (STScI, Baltimore, MD)

(telnet, password='archive')

IAU Circulars (via gateway )

This index contains Astronomical Circulars of the International Astronomical Union beginning with number 5828, 6 July 1993. The current three months of circulars are available by subscription from the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. The Circulars include announcements of discoveries of comets, minor planets near the earth, novae and supernovae, along with information on selected observations made as a result of such announcements. Orbital data and ephemerides with predicted positions are supplied for the comets and minor planets. Recoveries of periodic comets at their predicted returns are announced. Attention is drawn to unusual activity in variable stars, and frequently include items about unexpected discoveries in all areas of observational astronomy.

STScI Old Preprint Database (via gateway )

The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-OLDSTEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library prior to the last two years (current papers are in STScI-STEP). OLDSTEP includes approximately 14,000 papers with citations, with some 2500 being added each year. The database is updated annually. The ST ScI Library will not provide copies of either preprints or reprints of papers listed in STScI-OLDSTEP. Contact the authors for copies, or see your librarian about obtaining copies of papers published in meetings or journals not available in your local library.

STScI 'STEP' Preprint Database (via gateway )

The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-STEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library during the last two years, including all HST papers in the refereed literature. The preprints include papers submitted to scientific and technical journals and to appear in meeting proceedings; they cover observational, experimental, theoretical, review, instrumentation, image processing, and computing topics in a wide range of astronomical subdisciplines. Preprints include work by ST ScI authors as well as preprints received from authors and institutions world-wide. At any one time, there are approximately 5000 papers in the database, with some 2500 being added each year. Citations are added as papers are published. The database is updated weekly.

SUNY Stony Brook Astronomy Group

University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy

A listing of faculty, postdocs, and graduates students as well as information on the Graduate program of study, the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, and a description of research facilities. Online preprints, job listings, and other information will be added soon.

HAO

High Altitude Observatory (HAO)

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Journal Abstracts papers accepted by ApJ,AJ,PASP,ApJLett

Univ. of Chigaco physics resources

UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

LISP-STAT code library

Keck schedule 24 Jan 1994 - 19 Jun 1994

Mt. Hamilton 3m 6 Jan 1994 - 30 Jun 1994

Keck Telescope

Mount Hamilton

Univ. Calif. - Santa Cruz >

UCO/Lick

Anonymous ftp

Astronomical Information from the Net (UCO/Lick)

VISTA 4.2

Vista Version 4.2 is available via anonymous FTP over Internet from Lowell Observatory. Vista is an image processing program originally developed at Lick Observatory by Richard Stover and Tod Lauer. Since then, it has been significantly expanded with contributions from many different people, in particular several generations of graduate students at Lick. In recent years, it has incorporated code from various outside sources as well, most notably plotting and display code modified from source contributed by John Tonry, and an older version of DAOPHOT contributed by Peter Stetson; any comments or questions about these routines should be directed to the Vista distributors.

Lick Observatory (UCO, University of California)

NASA COmputer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC)

Statistical Analysis System Software

The Daily Planet

Brought to you by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois. Contains: Weather World the WWW version of the U of I Weather Machine.

NCSA Software

General Relativity around the world

National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering

Internet Resources Meta-Index (from NCSA)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

NASA ApJ abstracts

Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics

The LCA develops and disseminates theoretical modeling software for astrophysics research.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS)

ARNY Thomas (UMASS)

VAN BLERKOM David (UMASS)

DENT William A. (UMASS)

EDWARDS Susan (UMASS)

Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)

The FCRAO was founded in 1969 by the University of Massachusetts, together with Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. The original low frequency telescope was superseded in 1976 by a 14-m diameter radome-enclosed antenna for use at high radio frequencies (mm wavelengths), built primarily to study the physics and chemistry of interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, planetary atmospheres, and comets.

GREENSTEIN George (UMASS)

HARRISON Edward R. (UMASS)

HEYER Mark (UMASS)

IRVINE William (UMASS)

KLEINMANN Susan (UMASS)

STROM Karen M. (UMASS)

KWANN John (UMASS)

PREDMORE C. Read (UMASS)

SCHLOERB F. Peter (UMASS)

SCHNEIDER Stephen (UMASS)

SNELL Ronald (UMASS)

STROM Stephen E. (UMASS)

TADEMARU Eugene (UMASS)

WEINBERG Martin (UMASS)

WHITE Richard (UMASS)

YOUNG Judith (UMASS)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Astronomy

The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program's World Wide Web pages offer information on the Graduate Program, including information on research projects and the individual research programs of the department members, and a directory of astronomical images at a variety of wavelengths, highlighted by a clickable map of the L1641 dark cloud showing images from several positions within the dense molecular cores at multiple wavelengths ranging from soft x-rays, (from the ROSAT PSPC) through visible and near infrared images, to IRAS images and mm and cm wavelength images of outflows associated with deeply embedded objects. Also we are currently serving the most recent pre-main-sequence evolution tracks from D'Antona & Mazzitelli (ApJ Suppl, Jan 1994). In the near future we will be adding an extensive database of standard star spectra

in the red region (5500-9000 A) from the HYDRA spectrograph
in the near infrared region from the FTS spectrograph on the KPNO 4m telescope.

This database will include the Kleinmann et al. 2 micron spectra as well as recently acquired spectra in the J and H bands for the entire range of spectral types and luminosities. We also have available a set of transparent bitmaps of the Greek alphabet for use in Mosaic pages that are available for pickup if you wish to use them.

FCRAO Mar 1994

SKRUTSKIE Mike (UMASS)

Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA - Hat Creek)

BIMA is a consortium consisting of the The University of California at Berkeley, The University of Illinois at Urbana and The University of Maryland at College Park which operates and maintains a millimeter-wave radio interferometer at Hat Creek, California.

University of Maryland, Astronomy Department: PDSSBN

This node is currently located in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park. It supports the publicly accessible files for the Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board.

Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides

US Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC)

US National Weather Service Forecasts for the United States and Canada

Archie gateway (FTP searches) (Gopher)

Gopher protocol from Univ. Minnesota (home of the "Golden Gophers")

the FAQ
lists of Gophers servers

fits_image@UNC (via gateway ) index of set of FITS files at Univ. of N. Carolina

sunsite.unc.edu Archives

KHOROS Software

Khoros is an integrated software development environ- ment for information processing and visualization. Khoros components include a visual programming language, code generators for extending the visual language and adding new application packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, interactive image display programs, surface visualization, an extensive library of image processing, numerical analysis and signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages. X applications built using the Khoros User Interface Libraries have built in journal/playback and groupware capabilities. See the README . Khoros is a Registered Trademark of Khoral Research, Inc.
Also see newsgroup comp.soft-sys.khoros .
There are additional Khoros anonFTP sites in CANADA popeye.genie.uottawa.ca/pub/khoros, GERMANY ftp.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE/graph/khoros, ITALY ipifidpt.difi.unipi.it/pub/khoros, JAPAN ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/khoros and UK unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/uunet/window-sys/khoros.

University of Oregon Physics Department

Contains The Galaxy Gallery, Electronic TextBook, and more...

CCD Images of Galaxies (Univ. Oregon)

This is a Gallery Showing Several Types of Galaxies That Inhabit the Universe. As of 2/10/94 it includes M101, Malin-1, Colliding [Starburst] Galaxies (an MPEG movie with .AU audio narration), M33, and H-alpha Emission in M33.

Astronomy_and_Astrophysics (USC)

Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team

See how astrometry, one of the oldest branches of astronomy, uses the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the newest tools of astronomy. Interrogate our home page to find out what we do, who we are, and what we've done. Look over our shoulder as we search for planets around a nearby star. We use the Fine Guidance Sensors aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure star positions, study binary stars and study stellar motions. Primarily, stellar positions yield parallaxes which provide information on distance. The distances to nearby stars calibrate the entire astronomical distance scale. Monitoring star position may reveal previously unseen companions. We search for planets near Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star. We also work to tie the HIPPARCOS reference frame to an extragalactic (non-rotating) reference frame. We study binary stars unresolvable using ground-based techniques. We inspect stars to determine whether or not they are binary. We use the Planetary Camera to obtain images of stars in globular clusters. The precision with which we can measure positions is so high, that after 3-5 years a second image will show motions of stars in clusters 6 kpc distant.

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin-Madison Astronomy Department

Also contains: Woodman Astronomical Library

American Nuclear Society (ANS)

World library catalogs via Telnet (Yale list)

es (Spain)

IUE VILSPA archive, Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, (Madrid, Spain): Password is 'db'.
Isaac Newton Group (ING, La Palma)
La Palma schedule 1 Feb 1994 - 31 Jul 1994
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)
Universidad de Cantabria - Departamento de Física Moderna
Departamento de Física Teorica de la Universidad de Zaragoza (DFTUZ)

fr (France)

CNAM (National Conservatory of Arts & Works): An astronomical database of NASA pictures
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Astronomy GIFs, English text; see Roussel ): (DCW: "a pretty icon page!")
(French text)
CNAM (French National Conservatory of Arts & Works): at Paris, an Astronomy Server
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS)
GISPERT Richard (IAS)
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
IRAM: , Anonymous ftp
Centre de Donne'es astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS): Observations of Variable Stars by the "Association Francaise d'Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables"; How to access and use The Opacity Project dataBASE, providing extensive atomic data; Documents & Files related to Astronomical Catalogues and Publications; Astrometric catalogues; Photometric catalogues; Spectroscopic catalogues; Cross-Identifications; Combined catalogues; Miscellaneous Catalogues; Non-stellar Objects; Radio catalogues; Tables etc published in Astron. Astrophys; Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.; Astron. J.; Astrophys. J.; Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser.; IAU Symposium; Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. - README
CDS Abstract Service
CDS Information Bulletin
Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg): (homepage in French)
The CDS is a data center dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data. It is located at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France. The CDS hosts the SIMBAD astronomical database, the world reference database for the identification of astronomical objects and which has a Hypertext version of the SIMBAD User's Guide . This service gives access to documents and files related to the SIMBAD astronomical database, the TOPBase of the Opacity project, the Star*s Family of directories, etc. It also includes a new feature allowing to select astronomical catalogues by keyword or author's name, among the library of more than 600 catalogues currently available (for a total of about 3 Gigabytes of observational data), and to actually retrieve the corresponding files.
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues (Astronomer's Bazaar)
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 1 million objects, for which 3 million identifiers, more than 1,5 million observational measurements and 1 million bibliographical references are available. If you have already a userid you can open a telnet SIMBAD window. f you don't have a userid yet you first need to register. The following documents can be browsed or retrieved through the network: Hypertext version of the SIMBAD User's Guide and Reference Manual, Simbad News (4) reprinted from Bull. Inform. CDS 43 (1993), Documentation of the SIMBAD astronomical database (ftp service).
BRUNEAU Chantal (CDS)
EGRET,Daniel (CDS)
DUBOIS Pascal (CDS)
DIVETAIN Eric (CDS)
BONNAREL François (CDS)
GENOVA Françoise (CDS)
OCHSENBEIN François (CDS)
JASNIEWICZ Gérard (CDS)
QUATREHOMME Isabelle (CDS)
FLORSCH Joseph (CDS)
HALBWACHS Jean-Louis (CDS)
CRÉZÉ Michel (Strasbourg Astron. Obs./CDS)
WAGNER Marie-José (CDS)
WENGER Marc (CDS)
LESTEVEN Soizick (CDS)
CDS Opacity Project (TOPbase)
MediaTheque - Audio Tapes
MediaTheque - CD-ROMs
MediaTheque
MediaTheque - Registration Form (also xdvi version and PostScript version )
MediaTheque - Report 1
MediaTheque - Software Packages
MediaTheque - Video Tapes
StarBriefs 1994 Order Form (xdvi display) (PostScript file)
Star*s Family
StarGuides 1993 Order Form (plain text file) (xdvi display) (PostScript file)
StarGuides 1994 Order Form (plain text file) StarGuides 1994 Order Form (xdvi display) (PostScript file)
StarGuides Registration Form (plain text file) (xdvi display) (PostScript file)
Anchors for Organizations and Services (at CDS)
Anchors for Individuals (at CDS, Strasbourg): (DCW: an interesting list.. take a look...)
HECK André (Strasbourg Astron. Obs.)
Obs. de Lyon
On-line Data and Information in Astronomy a paper by Heinz Andernach (IAC, 2/8/93): CONTENTS: Introduction, Astronomical Catalogues and On-line Data Bases, Astronomical Catalogues remotely, Catalogues at IAC, On-line Data Bases, Observatory Archives of Raw/Calibrated Data, Optical Sky Surveys and Plate Scans, Bibliographical Services, Thesauri, Desktop & Electronic Publishing, Addresses, Directories and Meetings, Astronomical Software On-line, Discussion Groups via Networks.
Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase (LEDA) (telnet)
Rennes' University of France: Astronomical pictures & animations with graphical indexes; - README-english , README-french
Rennes' Univ: , Gopher , Anonymous ftp
Brittany Center of Informatical Resources CRI-CICB: at Rennes, an Astronomy Server of pictures & animations
French WWW Servers (France)

gov (US Government Agencies)

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS at Fermilab)

(1) In the pi steradians of the available North Galactic Pole (b > 30 degrees), we shall conduct surveys in the following manner: Obtain a photometric survey, in four or five filters to 23rd magnitude (R), 5 sigma, for stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all galaxies down to 19th magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all QSOs down to 20th magnitude (B). (2) In the available South Galactic Pole region there will be a deeper survey in a strip 2 degrees (dec) by 50 degrees, in order to: obtain a photometric survey, in four or five filters to 25th magnitude (R), 5 sigma, for stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all galaxies down to 20th magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all QSOs down to 21st magnitude (B). (3) In the additional available sky covering the Galactic disk, a deep photometric survey will be conducted on a best effort basis to 23rd magnitude (R), 5 sigma.

Fermilab

LANL Gopher

LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) Physics Information Service (Gopher)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL)

Parallel Tools Consortium, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (WWW)

Library of Congress quick-guide , LOCIS

NASA space images and information

Ames SPACE Archive

Ames space GIFs (see McCreary & Balke A Contents file is available, with descriptive text..

Weathermaps

, JCUMetSat

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility (DFRF)

Compton/GRO Observatory Science Support Center/Guest Observer Facility

Query the Library Database; Archive Data Selector; Archive Data Selector Demonstrator; Trouble Report Generator; Access the GRONEWS Bulletin Board

JCMT/UK_ESO_Schmidt/AAT Archive Queries (telnet through Internet-->SPAN gateway)

Login at first prompt with '19889::'
then at second prompt with 'arcquery' for JCMT,
or 'ukscat' for UK + ESO Schmidt, AAT Plate Catalogs.

NASA Parts Project Office (NPPO)

GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center), Greenbelt, MD

GSFC, NASA, networking, US government

Compton/GRO FTP Directories

Compton/GRO News - GRONEWS

Astronomy (a resource list at GSFC-HEASARC)

WebStars Astrophysics on the Web

WebStars, at NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, is about astronomy & astrophysics; the Space Science Web Group; software & icons downloading; WWW technical pages & style guides; on-line articles about astronomy on the Web; HEASARC/StarTrax Browse and other online services; and virtual reality. If you have a document or resource you wish to be included, send me the text (preferably HTML) or a URL. WebStars is referenced by many other sites on the Web. It has been expanded and reorganised extensively since its first announcement in February, so visit again ! The What's New page lists file change dates, to help you discover updates. Also, there are New Additions areas.

ARNAUD Keith (GSFC)

DAY Charles (GSFC)

EBISAWA Ken (GSFC)

MULAI Koji (GSFC)

PETRE Robert (GSFC)

WHITE Nick (HEASARC)

NASA Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics (LHEA, at GSFC)

HEASARC (High Energy Science Archive Research Center), GSFC, Greenbelt, MD (WWW)

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC; alternate URL)

The purpose of the HEASARC is to support a multi-mission archive facility in high energy astrophysics for scientists all over the world. Data from space-borne instruments on spacecraft, such as ROSAT, ASCA (formerly Astro-D), GRO (Compton), BBXRT, HEAO 1, HEAO 2 (Einstein), EXOSAT, and XTE are provided, along with a knowledgeable science-user support staff and tools to analyze mutliple datasets. The HEASARC activity is a joint effort between the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA)and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). (there is also a Gopher )

FITS Support Office (maintained by B. Schlesinger (NOST))

IMDISP Software

NASA/STI/RECON STELAR abstracts database (GSFC)

ApJ, ApJS, AJ, PASP, A&A, A&AS, MNRAS, and JGR since 1962.

Wide-Area Information Services (WAIS)

the FAQ
NCSA Mosaic WAIS Interface
Marshall's paper
the WAIS anonFTP directory at think.com
the anonFTP directory at wais.com
about the "freeWAIS" project at CNIDR

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC, Greenbelt, MD)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

WARNOCK Archibald (GSFC)

GASS James E. (GSFC)

Study of Electronic Literature for Astronomical Research (NASA STELAR Project)

NASA Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO)

(alternate)

NASA Astronomical Data Center (ADC)

NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)

The primary responsibility of the NSSDC is to further the use of NASA spaceflight mission data. The NSSDC also provides data from some ground-based and non-NASA sources which are considered to be important adjuncts to the NASA space-based data. The Data Center maintains and distributes documentation, indexes and catalogs about the data in its archives, and similar information about important space mission datasets maintained by other institutions.

World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A)

NASA ADC Online Information System

SPACEWARN Bulletin

Astronomical Data Center ADC at GSFC

The Astronomical Data Center (ADC), at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, is a cooperative effort between the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/ World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S) and its parent organization, the Space Science Data Operations Office . Currently, the ADC archives hold more than 670 catalogs of astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, radio, and other miscellaneous data for stellar and nonstellar objects. The data were acquired through exchanges with the Centre de Donn'ees Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) , other astronomical data centers throughout the world, and by direct contributions from the international astronomical community.

NASA ADC Electronic News

Press release images from the repaired HST (at GSFC, an excellent Web page)

NASA Affiliate Institutes (from GSFC)

NASA - Information by Subjects

NASA Space Physics Data System (SPDS)

NASA astronomical databases & services STELAR

(LaRC)

AAS Job Register (via gateway )

AAS_meeting Abstracts for current meeting (via gateway )

This searchable database contains the electronically-submitted abstracts for the most recent of the semi-annual meetings of the American Astronomical Society. The AAS_meeting database is automatically pointed to the most current set of abstracts, so users do not need to retrieve the source file over and over again. The source files for the abstracts from each individual AAS meeting are available by anonymous FTP from hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov, in the directory /wais-sources. The abstracts in these databases are in LaTeX format, and require the AASTeX macro package for formatting.

AAS_meeting_Summer92 Abstracts for June '92 (via gateway )

This source contains the electronically-submitted abstracts for the 180th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in Columbus, Ohio in June, 1992. The abstracts are in LaTeX format, and require the AASTeX macro package for formatting.

AAS_meeting_Summer93 Abstracts for June'93 (via gateway )

This searchable database contains the electronically-submitted abstracts for the 182nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in Berkeley, California in June, 1993. The abstracts are in LaTeX format, and require the AASTeX macro package for formatting.

AAS_meeting_Winter93 Abstracts for Jan'93 (via gateway )

This searchable database contains the electronically-submitted abstracts for the 181st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in Phoenix, Arizona in January, 1993. The abstracts are in LaTeX format, and require the AASTeX macro package for formatting.

Astronomical Data Center Documents (via gateway )

This database contains the descriptions of data sets held by the Astronomical Data Center, part of the National Space Science Data Center, at NASA/GSFC. Contents are versions of documents from the ADC and the brief description files from the ADC on-line system.

NASA Directory of WAIS Servers (STELAR) (via gateway )

This database contains WAIS source files of interest to the NASA community. Some, but not all, are run by the STELAR project at the National Space Science Data Center. Others are here purely as a service to the astronomy, astrophysics, planetary and space physics communities. Direct queries about specific databases to the maintainers listed in the individual source files.

NASA_Missions NASA mission payload information (via gateway )

This database contains short descriptions of current and potential NASA astronomy space missions. Payload description, science objectives, phase of project and names of relevant personnel are given. This database is updated annually by NASA headquarters.

SPACEWARN NASA SPACEWARN bulletins (via gateway )

From the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) / World Data Center-A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S): This database consists of issues of the SPACEWARN Bulletin. This publication contains information on planned and actual launches of orbiting satellites. It includes pre-launch and post-launch announcements on spacecraft, expected re-entry dates of any spacecraft, rocket body, or debris; and actual re-entry dates. The international ID number for the spacecraft is given. Launch announcements contain brief mission descriptions and orbit parameters. Updates of orbital and radio beacon data are also included for certain spacecraft (normally in the VHF range). Satellite Situation Center (SSC) IUWDS IACG ICSU COSPAR NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

Working Group on Astronomical Software Archives of WGAS-L list server (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Astronomy and Astrophysics (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl. (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Astronomical Journal (via gateway )

Abstracts from the Astronomical Journal (AJ) for the years 1964-91 supplied by the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Modular System (STIMS) to the NASA Study of Electronic Literature for Astronomical Research (STELAR) project.

STELAR Abstracts - Astrophysical Journal (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Astrophysical Journal Suppl. (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Journal of Geophysical Research (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Journal of Geophysical Research Suppl. (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (via gateway )

STELAR Abstracts - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (via gateway )

STELAR NASA RECON abstracts for 8 astronomy journals (via gateway )

This database is made available by the STELAR Project, part of the Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. It currently provides access to machine-readable abstracts for eight leading academic journals of interest to the astronomical community (ApJ, ApJS, AJ, PASP, A&A, A&AS, MNRAS and JGR). These abstracts have been supplied by NASA/STI from a database prepared for NASA's RECON system by an independent abstraction service. The RECON system database contains abstracts from as early as the mid-1960's. The ADF will update the set of available abstracts on a regular basis.

pds_browse Voyager Image search (STELAR, experimental) (via gateway )

HEASARC FITS toolset (W. Pence)

FITSIO This directory contains files related to version 3.410 of the FITSIO subroutine package for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format. Also: cfitsio (FITSIO in C) FTOOLS (FITS Tools) This directory contains the FTOOLS distribution file for Suns, DECstations, Alpha and VAX computers. Distribution for both the Public and Develop releases of FTOOLS are located here. This is also the distribution point for XSELECT as of the version 2.4c Develop release.

CD-ROMs at NSSDC (via gateway )

This database contains descriptions of the CD-ROM sets available through the National Space Science Data Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It it being made available by the STELAR Project at Goddard. For their first experiment with this database, astronomy people should try a search on the word " fits ".

NASA Online Data Information System (NODIS, at ADC/NSSDC)

Astronomical Data Center/National Space Science Data Center,
GSFC, Greenbelt, MD (telnet)

NODIS

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 here .

Archie, Veronica and WAIS search (via GSFC Gopher)

NASA astronomy images

SDAC (Solar Data Analysis Center), NASA, Greenbelt, MD

Current services include current solar imagery, ftp servers for the SOHO science team and public access to requested Yohkoh data sets, and on-line documentation for using data from the Yohkoh spacecraft.

NASA Headquarters (from GSFC)

Planetary Data Systems (JPL)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Public Information Office (JPL)

This is a public access computer site containing information on and images from missions conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it is operated by the JPL Public Information Office. Contents of the site include:
-- JPL news releases, status reports, fact sheets and other data on JPL missions.
-- Images from JPL missions as GIF computer files. These may be displayed on various makes of computers; viewing software may also be downloaded.
-- Back issues of JPL's in-house newspaper, Universe.
In addition, teacher materials provided by the JPL Public Education Office are planned to be added shortly.
Subdirectories are named archive, educator, images, missions, news, sircxsar, software, universe and file whats.new. See the README .

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

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS)

The Center for Advanced Space Studies is a major research and conference facility built by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in 1991 in Houston, Texas. Since the completion of the CASS facility in December 1991, it has housed the four Houston activities of USRA: Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), Exploration Science Institute (ESI), Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), Division of Educational Programs (DEP).

Johnson Space Center

NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)

NASA Internet Connection

This is a list of known connections to NASA Internet services

Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems (RICIS)

EICHMANN Dave (RBSE)

Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE)

NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)

MISSION:

Perform innovative aerospace research that is relevant to national needs and agency goals
Transfer research results to users in a timely manner
Provide development support to other government agencies, industry, and other NASA centers

An extensive listing of online NASA resources is here

NASA Online Information

NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC)

NASA Network Application and Information Center (NAIC)

NSI On-Line Network Aide - NONA

NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI)

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data Archive (DMSP)

DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. NGDC maintains an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as relayed to NGDC by Air Force Global Weather Central. Data from March 1992 to March 1994, are considered to be experimental. After March 1994, the system should be fully operational.

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Database

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL)

Sandia National Laboratories

Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSCL)

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Astronomy Servers (at USGS)

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iac ()

La Palma (IAC): Telnet

it (Italy)

Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory Firenze, Italy: English Version (not as current as Italian version)
Padova Observatory: [alternate]
Astronet Home Page (Padova)
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo: The TNG (Galileo National Telescope) is a Project of the Italian Astronomical community. TNG headquarters (TNG Project Scientist is Cesare Barbieri ) is housed in the Padova Observatory.
OAT Astronomical Services (Trieste)
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OAT): OAT Activities include: Physics of the sun and of the solar system, Physics of the stars, the interstellar medium and of the galaxy, Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, Astronomical technologies, and Space astronomy.
DIRA2 Database (Astronet @ Bologna): password = DIRA2
Ist. di Fisica Cosmica e Techn. Rel.: Istituto per ricerche in Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie Relative, Milan.
ESIS - Astronomy: European Space Information System for Astronomy (password = evalme)
StarWays - European Space Information System - ESIS
ESIS - Space Physics: European Space Information System for Space Physics (password = evalme)
EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) Newsletter (ESA)
ESIS FTP Tree: European Space Information System (FTP Access)
ESIS User Guide: European Space Information System
ESIS (European Space Information System) Newsletter (ESA)
MICOL Alberto (ESIS)
MESSERI Alfonso (ESIS)
Astronomical information on the Internet (at ESIS)
European Space Agency (ESA, a page from ESIS at ESRIN, Frascati): There is a different page from ST-ECF at ESO , Garching.
European Space Information System (ESIS): The ESIS project, located at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy in the Information Systems Division of the European Space Agency is a service to the Astronomical and Space Physics communities to provide access to data of all kinds, including images and spectra from a number of space missions and bibliographic references from all the major Astronomical and Space Physics journals.
D'AMORE Luana (ESIS)
DONZELLI Paolo (ESIS)
GIOMMI Paolo (ESIS)
REGNER Peter (ESIS)
TORRENTE Paola (ESIS)
ANSARI Salim (ESIS)
WALKER Simon (ESIS)
MOULIN Serge (ESIS)
Space Physics Resources on the Internet (from ESRIN): (also see " Space Research on the Internet ")
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 ...
Naples
SISSA received astrophysical preprints: This is the "astro-ph" astrophysics preprints server at SISSA (Trieste). There is a copy of the SISSA server at the Univ. of Chicago .
SISSA ,: Gopher
Library of The Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OAT)
Cagliari Astronomical Observatory (International Latitude Station): The Cagliari Astronomical Observatory was established as International Latitude Astronomical Station of Carloforte in 1899, a small town of the sardinian island of S. Pietro. It has been, for about 80 years, one of the five international stations devoted to study the Earth rotation and polar motion. Observations with the zenital telescope were carried out, except in the period of the second world's war. Starting from 1978, the headquarters were moved to Punta Sa Menta, a site 15 km far from Cagliari which has the same latitude of the Carloforte station. (Satellite Laser Ranging, Astrophysics, Planetary Dynamics, Time Laboratory, Data Processing)

mil (US Military Organizations)

Backgrounds Data Center BDC: The Backgrounds Data Center (BDC) is part of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The BDC was established to assist the ballistic and theater missile defense community with its requirements for information to evaluate the Strategic Defense System feasibility, development, and implementation. The BDC is located at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., and is part of the Space Science Division. Specifically, the BDC archives, catalogs, and distributes BMDO experiment program data relating to Earth, atmospheric, and celestial background scenes. Emphasis is placed on the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the spectrum.
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
DARDY Henry (NRL)
MANKIN Allison J. (NRL)
International Earth Rotation Service (IERS, USNO): TAI-UTC (leap second table) is available.

net (Network Service Organizations)

Sky and Telescope Weekly News Bulletin
STScI Newsletter
High-Energy Physics Information Center (HEPIC)

news (USEnet Newsgroups)

alt.sci.astro.aips news and information related to NRAO's Astronomical Image Processing System
alt.sci.astro.figaro concerned with the Figaro image processing and data analysis package
sci.astro.fits an unmoderated newsgroup: which provides a forum for the discussion of all topics concerning the FITS [Flexible Image Transport System] data format. It is interfaced to the Email exploder fitsbits@fits.cv.nrao.edu (send requests to fitsbits-request@nrao.edu) so that traffic originating on either the newsgroup on the exploder is automatically transmitted to the other. This newsgroup replaced newsgroup alt.sci.astro.fits in March 1992.
sci.astro.hubble a moderated newsgroup concerned with the Hubble Space Telescope
sci.astro.planetarium
sci.astro
sci.data.formats an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup: for discussing the modeling, storage, and retrieval of scientific data. The purpose of the newsgroup is to facilitate discussing use of scientific data formats such as HDF, netCDF, FITS, and various others. Topics of discussion could include problems encountered using specific formats, questions about where to get the code for data format programs, discussions of specific uses of data format programs, etc. Readers of the group are typically scientists (and software developers) who use data formats/models such as HDF, netCDF, and other such programs.
sci.image.processing
sci.physics
sci.space: NOTE! These changes were made in December 1993:
replace sci.space with sci.space.tech
create sci.space.science
rename talk.politics.space to sci.space.policy
Newsgroups sci.space and talk.politics.space will be removed in mid-March 1994.

nl (Netherlands)

Mathematical Morphology
EXOSAT database, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (telnet)
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI)
Sterrewacht Leiden
World Wide Astronomy Servers (Leiden)
European VLBI Network (EVN): The European VLBI Network (EVN) was formed in 1980 by a consortium of five of the major radio astronomy institutes in Europe (the European Consortium for VLBI). Since 1980, the EVN and the Consortium has grown to include 9 institutes with 12 telescopes in 8 western European countries as well as associated institutes with telescopes in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and China. Proposals for additional telescopes in Spain and Italy are under consideration, and furthermore, the EVN can be linked to the 7-element Jodrell Bank MERLIN interferometer in the UK and to the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to create a "global network". In 1993 the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) was created, with the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (Dwingeloo) acting as the host institute. It will provide both scientific user support and a correlator facility. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) achieves ultra-high angular resolution and is a multi-disciplinary technique e.g. imaging of extragalactic radio sources, geodesy and astrometry. See EVN-TWG Meeting . There is also an EVN anonFTP directory at JB .
NIKHEF
Groningen IP SYstem (GIPSY): README Release 3.5: This document describes how to install GIPSY Release 3.5 on one or more of the machines mentioned below. Only on these systems GIPSY is fully supported. They are: Alliant FX80, Decstations, HP 300 series, HP 700 series, IBM/RS6000, Silicon Graphics/IRIX, Sun 4 systems (<5.0), Sun 4 systems (>=5.0), Convex C2 and C3, OSF1/alpha.
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (Univ. of Groningen): There is also a Gopher server. Includes Dutch Astronomy Services
WSRT: , Telnet
XXIInd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
Sterrenkundig Instituut Preprint Service (Utrecht)
Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX
Utrecht University - Astronomical Institute ADS-X11, solar physics
Universiteit Utrecht - Faculteit Natuur- & Sterrenkunde

no ()

European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT)

org (Various Organizations)

Network Resources for Astronomers

A report prepared by Bob Hanisch (STScI) for the AAS in October 1992.

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Contains information on the Society, meeting schedules, meeting abstracts (in HTML), staff directory, the AAS Job Register and AASTeX .

CARL Colorado Association of Research Libraries

FULLTON Jim (CNIDR)

Astronomy Links (- CNIDR)

Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)

Objectives of CNIDR:

Promote and Support the implementation and use of networked information discovery and retrieval software applications such as the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) , World Wide Web (WWW) , the Internet Gopher , freeWAIS , and archie.
Coordinate to Create Consensus among NIDR applications developers to ensure compatibility and interoperability.
Disseminate Information about NIDR applications to the network community as well as those active with NIDR applications development.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Sites (from CNIDR)

ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive

European Southern Observatory / Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility

RASMUSSEN Bo Frese (ST-ECF)

PIRENNE Benoît (ST-ECF)

ALBRECHT Miguel A. (ESO)

HILL Susan (ESO)

Starcat (ESO)

ST-ECF

MURTAGH Fionn (ST-ECF)

ADORF Hans-Martin (ST-ECF)

BENVENUTI Piero (ST-ECF)

ALBRECHT Rudi (ST-ECF)

FREUDLING Wolfram (ST-ECF)

ST-ECF Astronomical Software Library

HST PR-images

Astronomical literature publicly accessible on-line: a short status report,

by Fionn Murtagh and Hans-Martin Adorf, ST-ECF, ESO Messenger No. 72, June 1993, pp. 45-47

ESA

ESIS on-line image (GIF) files

Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF)

The ST-ECF was established in 1984 jointly by the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory and is located at the ESO headquarters at Garching near Munich. The ST-ECF supports the European astromical community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The ST-ECF provides detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, supports European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals, coordinates the development of computer software tuned to the specific data analysis needs of HST users, operates and maintains an archive of all the scientific data collected by HST, and acts as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops. In all of these duties the ST-ECF staff maintains close contacts with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, which is charged with the scientific operation of the HST observatory.

Astronomical information on the Internet (at ST-ECF)

STECF Newsletter (via gateway )

DCW found not operational on 2/27/94, but try this instead.

FITS Archive (IAU FITS WG, maintained by P. Grosbøl (ESO))

Munich Image Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS)

This directory contains: README = This file; 92NOV = Subdirectory containing the 92NOV release of MIDAS (only packages, patches and documentation); courier = Directory containing the compressed postscript files of the newsletter: MIDAS Courier.; calib = Directory with the ESO calibration files for MIDAS.; linux = Directory containing binary versions of MIDAS for PC/Linux.

ESO library (rlogin)

ESO Bulletin Board

Midas; Computer; Info; Garching; La Silla; Sest; Pinboard

STECF STINFO

HST Status Reports; European HST News

ST-ECF Archives

HST Science Data Archive, ST-ECF, Garching, Germany

STECF STARCAT

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

The European Southern Observatory, established in 1962, operates astronomical observatories at La Silla (600 km north of Santiago de Chile) and at Paranal (130 km south of Antofagasta). ESO's headquarters are in Garching, just north of Munich, Germany. ESO is supported by: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Europe and in Chile, ESO has a combined scientific, technical, adminstrative and visiting staff of around 400.
There is also an anonymous-FTP server ( README ).

pl ()

Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory: Contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena.
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE): The server contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena. Information on the side projects conducted parallely to the main search are also there

se ()

Lund Observatory: Local information, re- and preprints, images from the Nordic Optical Telescope
X-Ray WWW Server (at Uppsala Universitet): The Server makes available bibliographies and databases related to x-ray spectroscopic physics. In particular, the Henke database of atomic scattering factors can be downloaded. Also, this is the site for the Atomic and Molecular Core- Edge Excitation Database and Bibliography, compiled originally by A.P. Hitchcock, and prepared by Hitchcock and Mancini for electronic distribution (COREXDB). A simple bibliographic search mechanism has been implemented for the COREX bibliography. A visualization mechanism is currently being developed to allow Web Browsers to preview datafiles as in-line GIFs before choosing to download.

uk (United Kingdom (Great Britain))

La Palma Data Archive
Institute of Astronomy & Royal Greenwich Observatory
Cambridge local preprints
Cambridge University Astronomy: Includes: Institute of Astronomy (IoA) Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomer Place Index (via gateway ), People Index (via gateway ), Postal Index (via gateway ), a Catalog of Galactic SNR's , and more
Other Astronomy Home Pages (Cambridge)
Cambridge (UK) Institute of Astronomy (IoA)
Cambridge LFST
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO): The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is part of the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include: the cosmic microwave background (Sunyaev-Zeldovich and primordial fluctuations), radio galaxies (hot-spots, spectral ageing), ultra-luminous infra-red galaxies, star formation in galaxies, low-frequency radio surveys, mm and sub-mm instrumentation, mm and sub-mm astronomy (star formation and outflows, interferometry, the Galactic Centre), the interplanetary medium, supernova remnants, optical aperture synthesis, and maximum entropy techniques.
Cambridge Ryle Telescope
Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO)
GLAZEBROOK, Karl (IoA-Cambridge)
Romulan warbird :-): Here's a picture you all might find amusing, it's a Hubble Space telescope image of what looks like, IMAO, a Romulan Warbird. Actually it's a faint 20th magnitude galaxy undergoing a merger - I think. :-) [Announcement posted to sci.astro 29 March 1994]
Astronomy-related Email addresses (via gateway ): This is the RGO Email directory. The file of type one_line used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais2/ASTROPERSONS.LIS. (There is a copy of this database at GSFC .)
Astronomy-related institutions (site addresses) (via gateway ): This database is from the RGO Email directory. The file of type para used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais/emailplaces.dat2.
Astronomy-related Postal Addresses (via gateway ): This database is from the RGO Email directory. The file of type para used in the index was /public/wwwdata/.tribble/wais/emailpostal.dat2.
Durham/RAL HEP Databases
Meteosat-3 animations (4x/day)
Meteosat-3 images (4x/day)
Glasgow University Astronomy Group
Jodrell Bank: , EVN-TWG Meeting
Merlin (Jodrell Bank)
Fortran-77 to Fortran-90 converter
STARLINK (2): The Starlink Software Collection is an anthology of astronomy application programs and associated Subroutine Libraries, provided by Starlink and contributing institutions and distributed within Starlink for use by accredited users at the 25 UK Starlink sites. The collection covers a wide range of astronomical data reduction and analysis techniques. At the core of most of these packages is a common `software environment', which provides many of the functions which applications need and offers standardized methods of structuring and accessing data. The software environment simplifies programming and support, and makes it easy to use different packages for different stages of the data reduction. Users see a consistent style, and can mix applications without hitting problems of differing data formats.
STARLINK libraries on-line help
STARLINK packages on-line help
STARLINK Unix software update system
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
University of Southampton, Astronomy Group
Observatories and Astronomical Institutions on WWW (Southampton)
Southhampton online abstracts and copies of recent papers
STARLINK (1)
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG): NAG is a supplier of numerical, statistical, symbolic and visualisation systems plus compilers and tools.
Archie Hypertext Servers (ArchiePlex): This is an elegant use of Mosaic forms to drive the Archie service for discovering which anonFTP servers contain particular files.

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