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A database to provide access for general researchers to observation data about solar, astrophysics
and terrestrial information derived by the observation satellites of ISAS. Includes related
resource links.
http://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp
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Infrared Space Observatory
Data archive by the European Space Agency mission with the participation of ISAS and NASA.
http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/ida/
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AAVSO International Database
Over 10 million variable star estimates dating back over 100 years.
http://www.aavso.org/data/download/
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The ELODIE archive
Hosts more than 16000 Echelle spectra of 2000 objects from the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP
observatory.
http://atlas.obs-hp.fr/elodie/
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NASA Extragalactic Database
(NED).
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
A survey that maps one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute
brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects.
http://www.sdss.org/
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Pat Baker's Astronomy Central
Explores astronomy, the universe, the Hubble telescope, the solar system, and astronomy history.
Offers news, images, articles, and links.
http://my.execpc.com/~dep33/
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Planetary Data System
PDS archives, and distributes digital data from past, and present NASA planetary missions,
astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. Contains data and services, educational
resources, and contact information.
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html
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Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Contains information on the PDS and APM microdensitometer facilities, Carlsberg Meridian telescope,
data archives, and processing center.
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mike/casu/index.html
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Jim's Hubble Telescope Photo Gallery
Presents photos from the Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.mindspring.com/~deline/
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The Web Nebulae
Features images of Nebulae organized by Bill Arnett. Includes glossary, image list, and sources.
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
Daily archive of interesting astronomy photos by NASA.
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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Leicester Digitized Sky Survey
An image browser providing access to digitized optical Schmidt plates forming the STScI Survey.
http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/DSSimage
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Radio Astronomy Group, University of Tasmania
Contains student research projects, astronomical data, radio observatories, and history.
http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/
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AstronomyNook
Contains astronomy data, news, images, information, and downloads.
http://www.astronomynook.com/
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The New UKIRT Archive
The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Archive. Offers search tool, and operator's log.
http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ukirt_arch/
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The Royal Astronomical Society
UK organization promoting astronomy, geophysics, and planetary science.
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.html
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ESO, and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities
A joint venture of The European Southern Observatory(ESO), and the Space Telescope European
Coordinating Facility(ST-ECF). Contains a shared archive server, services, news, updates, digitized
sky images, links, and public datasets.
http://archive.eso.org/
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Microsoft Research and the SDSS SkyServer
A project to develop an Internet data resource in astronomy. Includes journals, reading, the sky
server, team information, and links.
http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/SDSS/
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NOAO Data Archives
Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. Includes survey
programs data archive, and links to other data collections.
http://www.noao.edu/archives.html
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HEASARC
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. Provides an archive of data on (and
software for analyzing) gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet observations of cosmic
(non-solar) sources.
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Astronomy: Data Archives
Patrick Shopbell's Astronomy Resources. Contains data archives, astronomical catalogs, atlas of
nearby dwarf galaxies, and links.
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pls/astronomy/archives.html
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NVSS Postage Stamp Server
This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or
JPEG format.
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml
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Islamic Crescents' Observation Project
Global project organized by the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS). Contains data
base for Crescent Observations.
http://www.jas.org.jo/icop.html
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Solar Data Analysis Centre
Contains solar data, and images. Includes SDAC Data-Finder, current solar images, and TRACE
analysis guides.
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/
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Supercosmos Sky Surveys
Provides images, and catalogues of the southern sky in three colours. Includes access to digitised
images, and the data derived from SuperCOSMOS scans of photographic Schmidt survey plates.
http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/
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2dF QSo Redshift Survey (2QZ)
An Anglo-Australian collaboration surveying 740 square degrees of high-galactic lattiude sky.
Contains spectroscopic data release, results, progress report, and input catalogue, survey members,
and publications.
http://www.2dfquasar.org
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Byte-O-Matic.NET Astronomical Information Archive
Offers information services, and archiving of various astronomical issues.
http://www.byte-o-matic.net
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The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search
Provides a search tool for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory secondary data products archive.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
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UK astronomical data-center
Data center that is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit providing a selection of data from
the UK's ground based telescopes. Includes archives, and catalogs.
http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/
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Space Telescope Science Institute
Contains astronomy resources, space data archives, visitor information, and research opportunities.
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
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The Munich Astro Archive
Archives astronomical data. Includes star dates, comets, glossary, astronomical catalogs, calendar,
meteor events, and astromaps.
http://www.maa.mhn.de/
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Hypercat: Extragalactic database
Search data about millions of galaxies by their name or celestial position. Also an archive of
100,000 images of galaxies.
http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/hypercat/
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USGS Planetary GIS Web Server.
Mapping interface that will integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical,
statistical, and spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets.
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/
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Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
Sky map, and point source catalogs from the all-sky survey.
http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/iras/
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MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI
MAST supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically
related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
http://archive.stsci.edu/
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Personal Web pages
A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_personal.html
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SIMBAD Astronomical Database
Offers data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography for celestial
objects outside the solar system including stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our
galaxy, or in external galaxies.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
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Technical Data for the Arecibo Airglow and Optical Instrumentation
Data information, and instrument documentation from the Arecibo optical facility.
http://www.naic.edu/usrweb/tech/optical-.htm
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Starcast
Provides simultaneously queries, and many astronomical databases. Includes input target coordinates
or name, data type, source, and bandpass.
http://archive.stsci.edu/starcast/
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ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server
Archive provides access to the all-sky catalogue from the set of ten CD-ROMs produced by the US
Naval Observatory within the Precise Measurement Machine Project.
http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/usnoa
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The VLA FIRST Survey
Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.
http://sundog.stsci.edu/
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DSS - The Digitized Sky Survey
Comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the
Palomar, and UK Schmidt telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/
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CFHT Archive
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive. Includes CFHT archives, images, instruments, help, and
links.
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
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Multiwavelength Milky Way
The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/milkyway.html
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Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
(CDS) Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, and directory.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html
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The Aladin Sky Atlas
Provides an interactive sky atlas allowing users to visualize digitized images of any part of the
sky. Includes astronomical catalogs, personal user data files, and interactive access to related
data from the Simbad database, and Vizier service.
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
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The UTR-2 Catalogue
Provides a low frequency sky survey of discrete sources obtained in the Institute of Radio
Astronomy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. Images from the UTR-2 radio telescope at a
number of the low frequencies used in contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25
MHz.
http://www.ira.kharkov.ua/UTR2/
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NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
(ADIL) collects astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical
community, and the general public. Offers Library access, image browse, and FITS links.
http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html
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SAO Telescope Data Center
Creates, and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak
Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, Whipple Observatory, and Multiple Mirror Telescope on
Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is part of the Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
http://cfa165.harvard.edu/
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CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Contains digitized sky survey, IUE archive, star catalogs, and links.
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/CADC-homepage.html
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CATS Database
Astrophysical CATalogs support System. Contains list of catalogs, table of major radio catalogs,
and search tool.
http://cats.sao.ru/
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ADC - Astronomical Data Center
NASA's ADC is a resource for astronomical data, catalogs, and journal tables.
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Astronomical Data Center
Data from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Includes catalog service, data archives,
imaging services, and journals.
http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/
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WEBDA
Devoted to stars in galactic open clusters. It offers an interface to a database collecting
astronomical observations, and bibliography.
http://obswww.unige.ch/webda/
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