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• Solar System
• Stellar and Astrometric
• Supernovae and Remnants

Resources in This Category

• 2dF QSo Redshift Survey (2QZ)

  http://www.2dfquasar.org/
  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.

• Astronomical Data Archives Center

  http://dbc.nao.ac.jp/
  Data from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Includes catalog service, data archives, imaging services, and journals.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

  http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  Daily archive of interesting astronomy photos by NASA.

• Astronomy: Data Archives

  http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pls/astronomy/archives.html
  Patrick Shopbell's Astronomy Resources. Contains data archives, astronomical catalogs, atlas of nearby dwarf galaxies, and links.

• Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

  http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mike/casu/index.html
  Contains information on the PDS and APM microdensitometer facilities, Carlsberg Meridian telescope, data archives, and processing center.

• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre

  http://www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cadc/
  Contains digitized sky survey, IUE archive, star catalogs, and links.

• CASU Astronomical Data Centre

  http://casu.ast.cam.ac.uk/casuadc
  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.

• CATS Database

  http://w0.sao.ru/cats/
  Astrophysical CATalogs support System. Contains list of catalogs, table of major radio catalogs, and search tool.

• Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg

  http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html
  (CDS) Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, and directory.

• CFHT Archive

  http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
  The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive. Includes CFHT archives, images, instruments, help, and links.

• Chandra Data Archive

  http://cda.harvard.edu/chaser/
  A searchable database of objects.

• DARTS

  http://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/
  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.

• DSS - The Digitized Sky Survey

  http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/
  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.

• ESO, and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities

  http://archive.eso.org/
  A joint venture of The European Southern Observatory(ESO), and the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility(ST-ECF). Includes a shared archive server, services, news, updates, digitized sky images, links, and public datasets.

• ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server

  http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/usnoa
  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.

• HEASARC

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  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.

• Hypercat: Extragalactic database

  http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/hypercat/
  Search data about millions of galaxies by their name or celestial position. Also an archive of 100,000 images of galaxies.

• Islamic Crescents' Observation Project

  http://www.icoproject.org/
  Global project organized by the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS). Contains data base for Crescent Observations.

• Leicester Digitized Sky Survey

  http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/DSSbatch/
  An image browser providing access to digitized optical Schmidt plates forming the STScI Survey.

• MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI

  http://archive.stsci.edu/
  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.

• MBCAA Observatory

  http://mbond.free.fr/
  Data and graphical interpretations of observations of variable stars, gamma ray bursts, minor planets, and other transient phenomena.

• Microsoft Research and the SDSS SkyServer

  http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/SDSS/
  A project to develop an Internet data resource in astronomy. Includes journals, reading, the sky server, team information, and links.

• Multiwavelength Milky Way

  http://mwmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

• NED

  http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
  The NASA/IPEC Extragalactic Database is built around a list of extragalactic objects with cross-identifications of names, positions and redshifts.

• NOAO Data Archives

  http://www.noao.edu/archives.html
  Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. Includes survey programs data archive, and links to other data collections.

• NVSS Postage Stamp Server

  http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml
  This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or JPEG format.

• Personal Web pages

  http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_personal.html
  A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.

• Planetary Data System

  http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/
  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.

• SAO Telescope Data Center

  http://cfa165.harvard.edu/
  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.

• SIMBAD Astronomical Database

  http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad
  The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system. SIMBAD can be queried by object name, coordinates, other criteria (filters), and lists of objects.

• SIMBAD Astronomical Database

  http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
  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.

• Solar Data Analysis Centre

  http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/
  Contains solar data, and images. Includes SDAC Data-Finder, current solar images, and TRACE analysis guides.

• Space Telescope Science Institute

  http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
  Contains astronomy resources, space data archives, visitor information, and research opportunities.

• Supercosmos Sky Surveys

  http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/
  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.

• Technical Data for the Arecibo Airglow and Optical Instrumentation

  http://www.naic.edu/~craig/technical-data.html
  Data information, and instrument documentation from the Arecibo optical facility.

• The Aladin Sky Atlas

  http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
  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.

• The ELODIE archive

  http://atlas.obs-hp.fr/elodie/
  Hosts more than 16000 Echelle spectra of 2000 objects from the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP observatory.

• The Munich Astro Archive

  http://www.maa.mhn.de/
  Archives astronomical data. Includes star dates, comets, glossary, astronomical catalogs, calendar, meteor events, and astromaps.

• The Royal Astronomical Society

  http://www.ras.org.uk/
  UK organization promoting astronomy, geophysics, and planetary science.

• The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search

  http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
  Provides a search tool for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory secondary data products archive.

• The VLA FIRST Survey

  http://sundog.stsci.edu/
  Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.

• USGS Planetary GIS Web Server.

  http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/
  Mapping interface that will integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical, statistical, and spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets.

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