Astronomical Information

This is a selection of World Wide Web servers that have information of interest to astronomers.

People connected with astronomy:

• Astrosearch - a search engine for astronomy related persons, institutes, or addresses.

A comprehensive list of resources is:

• Archives - Astronomical archives.
• AstroWeb - Astronomy resources on the Internet (NRAO flavour).
• Star*s - The Star*s family of Astronomy resources (University of Strasbourg)
• StarWorlds - Organisations, institutions, associations, companies, etc.
• StarBits - Abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, etc.
• StarHeads - Personal WWW pages of individuals.

Other sources on the Web are:

• AAO - Anglo-Australian Telescope.
• ADC - Astronomical Data Center, GSFC, USA
• Armagh Planetarium - A friendly introduction to astronomy (and Armagh).
• ASDS - Astronomical Software Directory Service (helps you find software to solve your problem).
• Expanding Universe - A classified search tool for amateur astronomy.
• GEMINI - UK GEMINI Support Group Homepage.
• HST - UK Support Facility.
• Irish Astronomical Journal.
• La Palma - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes.
• NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
• NASA Headquarters
• NASA Information Systems
• NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
• NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center.
• PATT - Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time
• PPARC Astronomy Programme
• Starlink - Computing for UK Astronomers.

An article in the February 1995 edition of Astronomy Now by Nick Stevens described several FTP sites and WWW pages of interest to astronomers. These are reproduced here:

• World Wide Web sites.
• Clementine images are available from the Naval Research Laboratory.
• NASA has a superb home page which points to other NASA centres.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a major source of information on space probes.
• Space Environment Laboratory has an index of sites providing solar images.
• SDAC is the Solar Data Analysis Center at GSFC. It provides the latest ground- and space-based solar images.
• Astronomy servers on the Internet.
• FTP sites.
• nic.funet.fi, directory /pub/astro, is possibly the biggest collection of freely available astronomical software on the net.
• ftp.stsci.edu, directory /scsci/epa, is supported by the Space Telescope Science Institute. It has a big collection of Shoemaker-Levy Jupiter impact images.
• pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov, directory /public/jpinfo, is supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. All sorts of images and information are available, including space probes like Galileo and Magellan.
• kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov, file /pub/space/elements/satelem/new_elem.z, contains current satellite elements.
• seds.lpl.arizona.edu, directory /pub/images, has thousands of images from space missions.
• xi.uleth.ca, directory /pub, has solar images at various wavelengths.

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