Institutions & Observatories
NASA Space
Science Missions
STScI
; Chandra X-ray Center
; FUSE
RXTE ASM and
RXTE
GOF
Spitzer Science Center
; IPAC
; 2MASS
; Sloan Digital Sky Survey
NOAO
; NRAO
; Gemini
Astronomical Literature
ADS
Los Alamos/Cornell ArXiv Preprint Server
ApJ
; AJ
; PASP
; A&A
; MNRAS
Astronomical Software, Databases & Tools
IRAF;
StarLink
MAST
; HEASARC Archive
; Skyview
; SIMBAD
; NED
;
Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues Search facility
Web version of Skycalc
Standard Star Fields for UBVRI Photometric Calibration
provided by Paul S. Smith, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Celestial Equator:
Updates and Additions Arlo U. Landolt 2009 AJ 137
Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (from ESO);
Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes, Shara,
Webbink)
A simple
JD/civil date conversion utility;
Energy/wavelength/frequency Converter; total galactic HI column
density
nH calculator from HEASARC.
Ephemerides and Calculators (from ESO)
Graphics and Imaging
- DS9
(formerly SAOimage)
- FITS
homepage at HEASARC including links to
fv,
FTOOLS, CFITSIO, etc.
- PGPLOT a library
of plotting subroutines.
- Grace
- MONGO User's
Guide from John Tonry,
- SM the
official SM manual; see the
tutorial
and the author's
SM page;
Intro
to SM. Note: "SM" was formerly called "supermongo", but it is not an
offshoot of "mongo", so the name is just "SM".
- gnuplot (note: gnuplot is
NOT affiliated with GNU nor the FSF projects);
gnuplot - brief manual &
tutorial
Physical Constants, Time:
The CODATA Internationally recommended values of the
Fundamental physical constants from the NIST site.
The "official US time" from the US Naval Observatory & the NIST
(requires javascript)
US Naval Observatory
Master Clock Time
PST and
UTC javascript
from USNO.
A simple
JD-to-calendar date converter from the USNO.
More Tools, Resources, and Miscellaneous
Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and
Stegun
Numerical Recipes by Press,
Teukolsky, Vetterling & Flannery
"Handbook of
Space Astronomy and Astrophysics" by Martin V. Zombeck (2nd ed), from
CUP Astronomy
AASTeX
ghostscript/ghostview
home page.
International Astronomy Meetings List compiled by Liz Bryson of the
CFHT.
Broken links, suggestions, comments, requests? Please contact
W. Welsh
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