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
Landolt BVRI Equatorial Standards 1992 AJ 104, 340
Spectrophotometric Standard Stars;
Infrared standards (provided by ESO)
Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables
A simple
JD/civil date conversion utility;
Energy/wavelength/frequency Converter; total galactic HI column
density
nH calculator from HEASARC.
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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