Astronomy

The Contingent Universe

KEYWORDS: ADS; astronomical data; astronomical data archive; astronomical database; astronomical data centre; astronomical image; astronomy; astronomy picture; astrophoto; astrophysics; automated telescope; cosmos; images; remote viewing; robotic telescope; robot observatory; virtual astronomy; virtual telescope; space; universe

List of Contents

Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomy Education Forums, Periodicals, & Societies Astronomy Software Observational Astronomy Ground Observatories Space Astronomy Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys Astronomical Images Stars and Galaxies Galaxies and the Milky Way Stars and the Interstellar Medium Galactic and Stellar Evolution Protostars and Star Formation Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Evolution Post-MS and Stellar Endpoints The Far Country: Amateur Astronomy Stargazing Equipment Amateur Telescope Making Astrophotography Clubs and Societies Astronomy Travel

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Astronomy & Astrophysics	Astronomical Data	The Universe	Stars and Galaxies
Amateur Astronomy	The Visual Sky	The Solar System	Earth Sciences
Space Studies	Astrobiology	History & Philosophy	AstroNews

Observational Astronomy

Ground Observatories
Space Astronomy
Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys
Astronomical Images

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Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Data Mining, Robotic Telescopes, and Virtual Astronomy

Astrobrowse (HEASARC)

-- Astrobrowse at SAO

-- AstroGLU (CDS)

-- Starcast (STScI)

The Astronomer's Telegram (ed. R. E. Rutledge)

The Astronomical Almanac Online (UK)

The Astronomical Almanac Online (US)

Astrophysics Data Portal | NVO @ Hayden Planetarium
(American Museum of Natural History)

Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

CDS Strasbourg (Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg)

-- Information & On-line Data in Astronomy (ed. Daniel Egret & Miguel A. Albrecht, Sep 1995)

-- The CDS Information Hub (Françoise Genova et al., ADASS X, 2000)

The Cosmology Survey Multi-Cycle Treasury Program (Sandra Faber & Harry Ferguson et al.)

-- New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time (Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Press Release, 15 Mar 2010)

-- New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time, study dark energy (Robert Sanders & Tim Stephens, UC Berkeley Press Release, 15 Mar 2010)

Digital Dig - Data Mining in Astronomy (Matthew Woodard, ASP Mercury E-zine)

Distributed Information Search and Retrieval for Astronomical Resource Discovery and Data Mining (Fionn Murtagh & Damien Guillaume, 1998)

IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT)

International Astronomical Union Circulars - Recent IAUCs

LAMBDA - Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data
(NASA Goddard SFC)

LISA Conferences: Library and Information Services in Astronomy
(European Southern Observatory)

The Munich Astro Archive (Christine Kronberg)

NASA Astronomical Data Center: Access to Astronomy Data and Catalogs

-- ADC for Amateur Astronomers

-- Science Data

-- Web Site Map

NASA's Data Mining Resources for Space Science
(Kirk D. Borne & Cynthia Y. Cheung)

NightSkyLive.net | The Night Sky Live (Robert J. Nemiroff et al.)

NVO DataScope (HEASARC)

OASIS (On-line Archive Science Information Services) Home Page (IRSA)

-- OASIS On-Line Help

Online Data and Catalog Links (Sky and Telescope)

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace

WikiSky (Konstantin Lysenko & Sergei Goshko, Sky-Map.org, Oakville, Ontario)

See also AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Stargazing: Visual Astronomy and the Deep Sky, and Virtual Astronomy

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ACS Ultra Deep Field (HST Advanced Camera for Surveys)

ADASS Conference Series (Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems)

-- ADASS 2000 Conference Proceedings (2001)

-- Reflections on a Decade of ADASS (Richard A. Shaw et al., ADASS X, 2000)

ADCCC - The Astrophysics Data Centers Coordination Council (NASA)

AEGIS - All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (University of California, Santa Cruz)

The Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas (CDS)

Aladin Java: A Sky Atlas (CDS)

ALEXIS Project

-- ALEXIS Data Viewer

ALFALFA | The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey
(Cornell University)

AMASE | The Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine
(NASA)

The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey--I: Data (Jagadheep D. Pandian et al., astro-ph/0702147, 6 Feb 2007)

ARIBIB | ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg)

ASAS | The All Sky Automated Survey (Bohdan Paczynski & Grzegorz Pojmanski)

-- Princeton Mirror

-- The All Sky Automated Survey (Grzegorz Pojmanski, 11 May 2000)

Assessment of the Usefulness and Availability of NASA's Earth and Space Science Mission Data (U.S. National Research Council, 2002)

An Astronomer's Data Manifesto (Ray Norris)

Astronomical Databases

Astronomical Data Analysis Center, NAO, Japan

Astronomical Data Centre (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Astronomical Data Center (NAOJ/ADAC, Japan)

Astronomical Data Sources on the Web (Douglas J. Mink, SAO)

Astronomical Data Management (Ray Norris et al., astro-ph/0611012, 1 Nov 2006)

Astronomical Survey Projects (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomical Survey Projects (AstroWeb, STScI)

Astronomical Survey Projects (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Astronomy Formulas Page (James Q. Jacobs)

Astronomy Information Systems (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomy Information Systems (AstroWeb, STScI)

Astronomy Information Systems (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, STScI)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Astropulse: A Search for Microsecond Transient Radio Signals Using Distributed Computing (Joshua Solomon Von Korff, PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, May 2010) PDF

ATLAS: Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (Australia Telescope National Facility)

ATLASGAL - APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (MPIfR, Bonn)

ATLASGAL - The APEX telescope large area survey of the galaxy at 870 microns (Frederic Schuller et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 29 Jun 2009) PDF

-- Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: largest map of cold dust revealed (ESO Photo Release ESO 24/09 , 1 Jul 2009)

Atomic & Molecular Databases of Use in Astronomy
(CfA Atomic and Molecular Physics Division)

Atomic Data for Astrophysics (Dima Verner)

Atomic, Molecular, & Plasma Physics (Southwest Research Institute)

CASB Homepage (STScI Catalogs and Surveys Branch)

The CatPlot Applet: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Smallish Catalogues (Joachim Köppen, University of Strasbourg)

CATS Database - Astrophysical CATalogs Support System (Vladimir N. Chernenkov et al., Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia)

CDS, Strasbourg (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg)

CDS Tutorial

Centre for Astronomical Data (Moscow)

CFHLS - The Canada France Hawaii Legacy Survey

CFHTLS-SL2S (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey)

Chandra Data Archive (Chandra X-ray Center)

CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy (Enrico Landi, NRL)

-- Arcetri Mirror

-- Cambridge Mirror

Cloudy and Associates: Photoionization Simulations for the Discriminating Astrophysicist (Gary J. Ferland)

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) -- Overview (Nick Scoville et al., astro-ph/0612305, 12 Dec 2006)

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Subaru Observations of the HST COSMOS Field (Y. Taniguchi et al., astro-ph/0612295, 12 Dec 2006)

COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey)

Data and Archive Centers (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Data and Archive Centers (AstroWeb, STScI)

Data and Archive Centers (WWW-VL)

The DEEP (Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe) Project
(Sandra M. Faber et al.)

The DEEP2 Redshift Survey (Marc Davis et al.)

Deep Extragalactic Surveys around the Ecliptic Poles with AKARI (ASTRO-F) (Hideo Matsuhara et al., astro-ph/0605589, 23 May 2006)

Deep Lens Survey (Bell Labs)

DENIS Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
(CDS, Strasbourg)

Designations of Astronomical Catalogs (INSPEC)

ELAIS | European Large-Area ISO Survey
(Imperial College Astrophysics)

EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe (Ray Norris, Australia Telescope National Facility)

-- EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe (ASKAP wiki page)

Ephemerides and Orbital Elements
(CfA Planetary Sciences Division)

ESO and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities

-- Public Datasets

ESO HST Guide Star Catalogue (ESO/ST-ECF)

Expanding Universe: Observatories

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory (Arne Rau et al., arXiv:0906.5355v1 [astro-ph.CO], 29 Jun 2009)

The FIRBACK Survey: Probing the Cosmic Infrared Background with a Deep Survey (IAS, Orsay, France)

-- US Mirror (Hervé Dole, University of Arizona)

FIRES - Faint InfraRed Extragalactic Survey (ESO VLT)

GaBoDS: The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey V. Data release of the ESO Deep-Public-Survey (Hendrik Hildebrandt et al., astro-ph/0509882, 29 Sep 2005, revised)

GALEX Public Data Archive (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)

Gemini Deep Deep Survey (Gemini Observatory)

Gemini Observatory Data Index

The Gemini Observatory Media Resource Page

Gravitational Lens Data Base - CASTLES Survey
(CfA-Arizona Space Telescope LEns Survey)

Gravitational Lensing Bibliography (University of Liège)

GOODS: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (ESO)

GOODS: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (STScI)

-- CADC Clone of the GOODS Data

Guide Star Catalog (CASB)

Guide Star Photometric Catalog (CASB)

HEASARC Data Archive

The Herschel ATLAS (Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey)

Herschel: the first science highlights (Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 518, Jul-Aug 2010)

HIPASS | HI Parkes All Sky Survey (David Barnes, Aus-VO)

The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues

HST Science Search (STScI)

The IAU Working Group on Astronomical Data (Ray Norris et al.)

IMPReSS | IMage PeRimeters of Sky Surveys
(Ed Shaya & Vincent Kargatis)

INES Principal Centre at LAEFF (IUE Newly Extracted Spectra)

-- INES Archive Data Server (CADC)

-- INES Archive Data Server (UK)

-- INES: The Next Generation Astronomical Data Distribution System (R. GonzaACUTElez-Riestra et al., ADASS X, 2000)

Infrared Observatories and Surveys (Robert Bradbury)

INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (Versoix, Switzerland)

IPAC Main Page (Infrared Processing and Anaysis Center)

The Iron Project

IRSA: The Infrared Science Archives (NASA/IPAC, Caltech)

-- Data Information Services at the Infrared Science Archive (John Good et al., ADASS X, 2000)

KISS -- KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey
(John Salzer, Wesleyan University)

The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (Huan Lin)

LEDAS Home Page (LEicester Database and Archive Service)

LISA III | Library and Information Services in Astronomy III
(Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 21-24 Apr 1998)

-- ASP/STScI Mirror

LISA IV | Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV
(Charles University, Prague, 2-5 Jul 2002)

LISA V | Library and Information Services in Astronomy V
(CfA/MIT, 18-21 Jun 2006)

LMT Home Page (Liquid Mirror, Laval)

LSST (Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope) Observatory
(Dark Matter Telescope)

MAPS (Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner) Catalog of the POSS I (University of Minnesota)

MAST (Multimission Archive at STSci)

-- The Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Paolo Padovani et al., ADASS X, 2000)

MilkyWay@home (Travis Desell et al., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

MIPS GTO Cosmological Surveys (Hervé Dole, University of Arizona)

MISAO Project (Seiichi Yoshida, Multitudinous Image-based Sky-survey and Accumulative Observations)

Morel Astrographics: Stellar Data and Information Centre
(Mati Morel)

NASA NStars Database (Nearby Stars Project)

-- The NStars Spectra Homepage (Appalachian State University)

NASA's ADC Science Data (Astronomical Data Center)

NASA's Space Physics Data System

NASA SSDS Home Page (Space Science Data System)

National Space Science Data Center (NASA Goddard SFC)

NCSA Digital Information System: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Netastrocatalog - Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog
(Lew Gramer)

-- IAAC Deep-Sky Observing Log Entry

-- Search the IAAC Deep-Sky Observing Logs

A new reduction of the raw Hipparcos data (Floor van Leeuwen & Elena Fantino, astro-ph/0505432, 20 May 2005)

New Worlds Atlas: An Extrasolar Database (Planet Quest)

NIST Physical Reference Data

The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey

NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey (Michael J. Hudson et al.)

NOAO Survey Programs (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)

The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (J. J. Condon et al.)

NSF MPS/ASTronomy Home Page

Nuclear Astrophysics Data (LBL Isotopes Project)

Objective Subclass Determination of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Unknown Spectral Objects (David Bazell et al., astro-ph/0512119, 5 Dec 2005)

Online Data and Catalog Links (Sky and Telescope)

The Online HST Guide Star Catalogue (ESO)

OP (The Opacity Project at CDS)

The Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)

The Palomar-QUEST Variability Survey

The Palomar Transient Factory (Shri Kulkarni et al., Palomar Observatory)

The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results (Nicholas M. Law et al., arXiv:0906.5350v1 [astro-ph.IM], 30 Jun 2009)

The Parallax Project (Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, 1910-1969)

PDS Catalogs and On-Line Data (NASA Planetary Data System)

PDS-D | PDS Online Data Distribution System
(Planetary Data System)

Portals to the Universe: The NASA Astronomy Science Centers (Steven R. Bohlen et al., National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2007)

Project Deeprange: A Deep Wide Area I-Band Survey
(Marc Postman et al.)

Project Warpfire: The Motion of the Local Group
(Tod R. Lauer et al.)

Pulsar surveys present and future: The Arecibo pulsar-ALFA survey and projected SKA survey (J. S. Deneva et al., astro-ph/0701181, 8 Jan 2007)

RAVE: RAdial Velocity Experiment (Potsdam)

RAVE: RAdial Velocity Experiment (Swinburne)

Rights and wrongs of the Hipparcos data: A critical assessment of the Hipparcos catalogue (Floor van Leeuwen, astro-ph/0505431, 20 May 2005, revised)

The ROSAT X-Ray All-Sky Survey

SAO Telescope Data Center (Douglas J. Mink)

The Second Palomar Sky Survey | POSS II (Wallace Sargent, Caltech)

SHADES: SCUBA Half Degree Extragalactic Survey
(James Dunlop et al.)

SIMBAD Astronomical Database (CDS)

-- Harvard Mirror

SINGS: SIRTF Nearby Galaxy Survey

6dF Galaxy Survey (Matthew Colless)

SLACS (The Sloan Lens ACS survey)

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (UC Astro)

-- The 'Black Book': The SDSS NASA Proposal (ed. Jill Knapp et al.)

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Changing How Scientists - and the Public - Do Astronomy (Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 21 Aug 2008)

The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. A Large Spectroscopically Selected Sample of Massive Early-Type Lens Galaxies (Adam S. Bolton et al., astro-ph/0511453, 15 Nov 2005)

Sofia Sky Archive Data Center (Milcho Tsvetkov et al., Bulgaria)

A Solar EUV Atlas from SUMER

Spectral Atlas Central (Daryl W. Willmarth & Matt Cheselka, US National Optical Astronomy Observatories)

The STScI Digitized Sky Survey (Space Telescope Science Institute)

The SUMER Atlas of Solar Disk Lines (Max Planck Institute)

SuperCOSMOS (Harvey T. MacGillivrary et al.)

SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (Wide Field Astronomy Unit at IfA Edinburgh)

-- The SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (Mike Read & Nigel Hambly, ADASS X, 2000)

SuperNova Legacy Survey

SWAS Data Archive (Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite)

SWIRE: The SIRTF Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Survey

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (Matthew Colless)

-- Fly-through of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (Swinburne Centre)

The 2df QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ)

The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (IRSA)

-- The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (T. H. Jarrett et al.)

2MASS - 2 Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC

-- 2MASS Spring 1999 Release Gallery

-- 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release Gallery

2MASS - 2 Micron All Sky Survey at UMass

UKIDSS | The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
(Steve Warren, UK Infrared Telescope)

The UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey (Omar Almaini et al., UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey)

UMRAO Database Interface (U of Michigan)

The UnOfficial Chandra Archive Search

USNO Data Online (United States Naval Observatory)

Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA)

Vargas Home Page - Data Archives and Sky Atlases Online
(Stefano 'Vargas' Padovan)

The VizieR Catalogue Service (CDS)

-- ADC Mirror (NASA)

-- CADC Mirror

The VLA FIRST Survey (Richard L. White)

VLSS: The VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey
(R. A. Perley & N. E. Kassim)

VMC Survey (The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System)

-- Ambitious Survey Spots Stellar Nurseries (eso1033 - Photo Release, 11 Aug 2010)

Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data (WISARD)

Web MICA (Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac)

WFCAM Science Archive (Wide Field Infrared Camera for UKIRT)

The Wide-Field Plate Database (Milcho K. Tsvetkov et al., Institute of Astronomy, Sofia)

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (JPL)

-- NASA's WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky Survey (JPL News Release 210-238, 16 Jul 2010)

-- WISE Takes a Look (All) Around (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 19 Jul 2010)

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NASA)

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (UC Berkeley)

See also AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources, Images (Astronomy), NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Planetaria, and NASA Centres

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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

ADS | The NASA Astrophysics Data System (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

-- Mirror Sites

-- ESO Science Archive Facility (Garching, Germany)

-- Nottingham (UK)

ADS Article Service

ADS Abstract Service

-- Abstract Service Help

-- ADS Abstracts What's New Service

-- Astronomy Query Form

ADS Browse Service

ADS Digital Library

ADS Frequently Asked Questions

ADS Historical Literature Project

ADS Proceedings Query Page

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The Astrophysics Data System Abstract and Article Services
(A. Accomazzi et al., SAO)

The New Astrophysics Data System (G. Eichhorn et al., 1995)

The Astrophysics Data System (Guenther Eichhorn et al., 1998)

The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Free Access to the Astronomical Literature On-line and through Email (Guenther Eichhorn et al., HEP Libraries Webzine 5, Nov 2001)

Collaborator's Guide to the ADS (SAO/NASA ADS at SAO)

PaperScope (SourceForge)

Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library (Michael J. Kurtz et al., Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56:36, 2005) PDF

Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library (Michael J. Kurtz et al., arXiv:0909.4786v1 [cs.DL], 25 Sep 2009)

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Data Mining, Robotic Telescopes, and Virtual Astronomy

For the use of robotic telescopes in astronomy education, see also Astronomy Education.

The Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas (CDS)

Apogee Robot Observatory

AST@RHO (John Oliver et al., Automated Student Telescope at Rosemary Hill Observatory)

AstroGrid Portal (UK)

The AstroGrid Project (UK)

-- Astronomical Archives - Current Status (Clive G. Page)

-- First AstroGrid Workshop (Belfast, 29-30 Jan 2001)

Astronomical Archives of the Future: A Virtual Observatory
(Alexander S. Szalay & Robert J. Brunner, 17 Dec 1998)

Astronomy Web Cams (Patrick Curran, Sky Router)

Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (Europe)

AstroVirTel Project | Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes (ST-ECF)

-- ASTROVIRTEL: Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes (F. Pierfederici et al., ADASS X, 2000)

Australian Virtual Observatory (Australia Telescope National Facility)

Australian Virtual Observatory (Aus-VO)

Automated Telescope Facility (U of Iowa)

Automatic Telescopes on the Internet (Michael Richmond)

Bradford Robotic Telescope

Canadian Virtual Observatory (Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

Can Remote Observing be Good Observing? Reflections on Procrustes and Antaeus (Felix J. Lockman, 1993; astro-ph/0507140, 6 Jul 2005)

Capabilities of NED in the Era of a Global Virtual Observatory (Joseph M. Mazzarella et al., Sep 2001)

Cherry Mountain Observatory, Texas Hill Country - Rent Telescope Time (David Plesko, Fredericksburg, Texas)

CWRU Nassau Station Robotic Telescope

Data Mining in Astronomical Databases (Kirk D. Borne, Oct 2000)

Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Alexander S. Szalay et al., 6 Jul 1999)

Digital Dig - Data Mining in Astronomy (Matthew Woodard, ASP Mercury E-zine)

Digital Sky (Center for Advanced Computing Research, Caltech)

The Digital Sky Project: Federating the Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys (NPACI)

The Digital Sky Project: Prototyping Virtual Observatory Technologies (Robert J. Brunner et al., 10 Nov 2000)

Digitized Sky Survey (CASB)

Distributed Information Search and Retrieval for Astronomical Resource Discovery and Data Mining (Fionn Murtagh & Damien Guillaume, 1998)

Downloading the Sky (Jonathan C. McDowell, IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2004)

ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey

European Grid of Solar Observations (Virtual Solar Observatory)

Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys (S. George Djorgovski et al., 22 Dec 2000)

Explore the sky with Google Earth

"Eyes on the Skies" Robotic Solar Telescope Observatory
(Mike Rushford)

Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes (GNAT)

Global Rent-a-Scope (Arnie Rosner et al., GRAS)

gSky Browser (HubbleSite - Explore Astronomy)

Hands-On Universe (Lawrence Hall of Science)

The heavens at your fingetips (Geoff Brumfiel, Nature 420:262-4, 21 Nov 2002) PDF

Hungarian Automated Telescope (Gáspár A. Bakos et al., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

iBisque Internet Astronomy (Software Bisque)

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance

The Iowa Robotic Telescope

Japanese Virtual Observatory

The LCA Simulated Cluster Archive

LightBuckets - Online Telescope Rentals and Astrophotography (Steve Cullen et al., Rodeo, New Mexico)

Management and Operation of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 22 Jan 2008)

MAST Digitized Sky Survey (AURA)

-- CADC Interface

Mining the Sky (MPA/ESO/MPE Joint Astronomy Conference, Garching, Germany, 31 Jul - 4 Aug 2000)

-- On-line Proceedings

NASA's Data Mining Resources for Space Science
(Kirk D. Borne & Cynthia Y. Cheung)

The National Virtual Observatory (Alexander S. Szalay, ADASS X, 2000)

The National Virtual Observatory Science Definition Team

The New Paradigm: Novel, Virtual Observatory Enabled Science (Robert J. Brunner, 15 Dec 2000)

NVO @ Hayden Planetarium | American Museum of Natural History

NVO DataScope (HEASARC)

PAIRITel (Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope) | Robotic Transient Astronomy for the 21st Century (J. Bloom, Fred L. Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona)

Remote and Robotic Telescopes (Mark Cox)

ROBOsky (Orangeville, Ontario)

The Robotic Observatory (Jeff Medkeff)

rtVO (real-time Virtual Observatory)

Russian Virtual Observatory (Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences)

SDSS Fermilab WWW Server

SDSS SkyServer: Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data (Jim Gray, Microsoft Research)

-- Personal SkyServer (Jim Gray et al., Microsoft Research)

Share Your Sky! Your Observatory on the Web
(Robert B. Denny, Mesa, Arizona)

Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization(Ryan Scranton et al., arXiv:0709.0752v1 [astro-ph], 5 Sep 2007)

The SkyMapper Telescope (ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics)

SkyQuery (Alex Szalay et al.)

Skyview: The Internet's Virtual Telescope (Thomas A. McGlynn & Laura McDonald, NASA GSFC)

-- Alternate Server

Sloan Digital Sky Survey SkyServer

-- Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database (Jim Gray et al., 12 Feb 2002)

-- Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data (Alexander S. Szalay et al., 12 Feb 2002)

SLOOH | Astronomy, Remote Control Telescopes, Observatories, View the Universe (Michael Paolucci et al.)

The Spectroscopic Virtual Observatory (R. Elizabeth Griffin et al.)

The STScI Digitized Sky Survey (AURA)

Telescopes In Education (TIE) Project

TERAPIX Project (Yannick Mellier et al., France)

Theory in a Virtual Observatory (Peter Teuben et al., 26 Nov 2001)

Toward an International Virtual Observatory (ESO Garching, 10-14 Jun 2002)

Towards a Virtual Observatory (George Djorgovski, Caltech Astronomy)

Toymodel Theory Virtual Observatory (Peter J. Teuben, BIMA)

UCSB Remote Access Astronomy Home Page

Using Fuzzy Logic for Automatic Analysis of Astronomical Pipelines (Lior Shamir & Robert J. Nemiroff, astro-ph/0506618, 27 Jun 2005)

US National Virtual Observatory

Virtual Astronomy (George Djorgovski)

Virtual Observatories and Theory (Peter J. Teuben, BIMA)

Virtual Observatories of the Future
(Caltech Conf., 13-16 Jun 2000)

The Virtual Observatory (LSST)

Virtual Observatory Activities (ADCCC)

Virtual Observatory, Cyber-Science, and the Rebirth of Libraries (S. George Djorgovski, ARL/CNI Forum on E-Research and CI, 15 Oct 2004)

The Virtual Observatory Forum (R. Hanisch & S. Anderson)

Virtual Observatory India

Virtual Observatory Services Website (Johns Hopkins University)

Virtual Reality All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (Axel Mellinger)

The Virtual Sky (VirtualSky.org)

The Virtual Telescope (Gianluca Masi, Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory, Ceccano (FR), Italy)

Virtual Telescopes in Education (Susan Hoban et al., NASA)

VOEventNet: Real-Time Astronomy with a Rapid-Response Telescope Grid (Caltech)

WikiSky (Konstantin Lysenko & Sergei Goshko, Sky-Map.org, Oakville, Ontario)

Winchester Observatory - Live Session (Walter Macdonald, Markham, Ontario)

WorldWide Telescope (Microsoft Research)

-- S&T's WorldWide Telescope Community

-- Microsoft WorldWide Telescope on the Mac? You bet. (VMware Team Fusion, 19 May 2008)

The World-Wide Telescope (Alexander Szalay & Jim Gray, Science 293:2037, 14 Sep 2001) PDF

The World-Wide Telescope, an Archetype for Online Science (Jim Gray & Alex Szalay, Microsoft Research, Jun 2002) PDF

Yahoo! Groups : Robotic Observatory

Yahoo! Telescopes:Automated and Robotic

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Images (Astronomy)

HST Images


One day speaks to another,
night to night imparts knowledge,
and this without speech or language
or sound of any voice.

Psalms 19:2-3 (Revised English Bible)

For solar imagery, see Observer's Weather and Space Environment; for space-based imagery of Earth, see Earth Observation, Satellite Images, and Remote Imaging (PC); for space art, see Space Art.

Aerospace Image Gallery (NASA Retinex Image Processing)

-- Retinex Applications to Space Science Images

AIDA - Astronomical Image Data Archive

The Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas (CDS)

All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (Axel Mellinger)

Ames Imaging Library Server (NASA Ames Research Center)

Anglo-Australian Observatory Astronomical Images
(David Malin et al.)

APOD (Lior Shamir)

APOD Grabber for the Mac (Maury McCown, RAILhead Design)

ASP List of NGC Images

Astro1 UIT Pictures

Astro-2 UIT Release Pictures

The Astronomical Image Library (Syzygy)

Astronomical Images (UMass Astronomy)

Astronomical Images and Animations (Alan Cairns, SciEd)

Astronomical Images Archive

Astronomy Movies (Tom Michalik)

Astronomical Pictures & Animations (Frank Roussel)

-- Bordeaux Mirror

Astronomy Picture of the Day (Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell, NASA)

-- APOD Archive

-- APOD Index

Astronomy Picture Places (Gary Agranat, GCA7Sky)

AstronomyPrints.com - The Universe on Your Wall (William McLaughlin)

The Astronomy Webcams Paradise (S. Weiller, Paris)

Astrophoto of the Week (Jack Schmidling)

The Astrophysics Visualization Archive | NVO @ Hayden Planetarium
(American Museum of Natural History)

AstroPlace Image Galleries (Brian D. Kane)

An Atlas of The Universe (Richard Powell, New Milton, UK)

Atlas Photo Bank (Shigemi Numazawa)

AutoAPOD (Colourfull Creations for Macs)

Best Images of the Year (Space.com)

Browse Image Archive (JPL)

Browsing Astronomical Images on the Web (Douglas J. Mink, SAO)

Catching the Light: Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss

CEPS Planetary Image Facility (Center for Earth and Planetary Studies)

Challenger Center Online: Pat Rawlings' Gallery

Chandra Photo Album (Chandra X-Ray Observatory)

Chandra Virtual Postcards

Colour Photographs from the Anglo-Australian Observatory Telescopes

Cool Cosmos - IPAC Missions Gallery

DASCH, Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard: A New Look at the Temporal Universe (Jonathan Grindlay et al., Harvard College Observatory Astronomical Plate Collection)

David Malin's Colour Photographs of Deep Sky Objects

Deep Sky Images (Axel Mellinger)

Deepsky Images at SEDS (Hartmut Frommert)

Digital Images of the Sky (Sven Kohle & Till Credner)

Divine Sky: The Artistry of Astronomical Maps (Jacob Glenn et al., An Exhibit from the University of Michigan Shapiro Science Library)

Dreamtime

EIS (ESO Imaging Survey) Data Release Home Page

The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator (SpaceTelescope.org)

ESO Photo Gallery (European Southern Observatory)

ESO Press Releases and Photos

Ewell Observatory Image Gallery (Richard Bennion)

Exploring The Planets - Imagery Index

First Photos Through Palomar's Giant Eye (David O. Woodbury et al., Collier's Magazine, 7 May 1949; digitized by Bill Pearce, MVAS, Dec 2008)

FITS Flexible Image Transport System (FITS Support Office, NASA/GSFC)

Frank ROUSSEL

From Earth to the Universe Exhibition (IYA2009)

Galactic Surf: Photo Galleries (Edouard Reny)

Galaxy Photography (Jason Ware)

Galaxy Picture Library (UK)

Galileo Images and Animations

Gallery: beautiful planetary nebulae (New Scientist)

A Gallery of Mark McCaughrean's Astronomical Images
(Mark McCaughrean, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam)

Garbo Astronomy Image Collection (U of Vaasa)

Gemini Observatory Image Gallery (Gemini 8M Telescopes Project)

Geometry.net | Astronomy Images

GigaGalaxy Zoom Project (ESO)

-- ESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky (ESO Photo Release ESO 32/09, 14 Sep 2009)

-- Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 2 (ESO Photo Release ESO 34/09, 21 Sep 2009)

-- The Trilogy is Complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3 (ESO Photo Release ESO 34/09, 28 Sep 2009)

Goddard Photo and Movie Gallery (NASA Goddard SFC)

Google Sky

Hawaiian Astronomical Society Image References

Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater: Visions of the Cosmos Gallery (Carolyn Collins Petersen)

High-Resolution ESO Press Photos on the WWW
(European Southern Observatory)

Hipparcos 3d Stereo Images

NOVA | Hunting the Edge of Space (Oliver Twinch & Peter Jones et al., PBS, 6 & 13 Apr 2010)

IfA - Science and Image Archive (Richard Wainscoat, U of Hawaii)

Image and Animation Links (Sky and Telescope)

Image Archive of Stefano Sposetti (AIDA)

Image Archives (Windows to the Universe)

Image Galleries (Space.com)

Image of the Day (Space.com)

Images (RASC Victoria Centre)

Images - Apache Point Observatory (James Fowler)

Images from High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA)

Images from The Night Sky (William McLaughlin)

Images from the Nordic Optical Telescope

Images from the Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)

Images from Space (Dan & Lynn Wolaver, Hollis, New Hampshire)

Images from Spitzer (Spitzer Space Telescope)

Images from the Universe Gallery (NASA Planetary Photojournal)

Images of the Heavens (SpaceKids)

Images of the Universe: A Journey Through Time (Astrophotography by Dave Jurasevich)

Images on the Web for Astronomy Teaching: Image Repositories (Andrew Fraknoi, Astronomy Education Review 7:1:132-8, 23 Jul 2008)

The Interactive NGC Catalog Online (Hartmut Frommert)

IPAC Gallery (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center)

IRAS Gallery (IPAC)

ISD VisuLab Multi Media Pages

ISD VisuLab - Select your satellite (ESA)

IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) at STScI

Jayanne English's Astronomy Images (University of Manitoba)

Jim Bell's Home Page (Department of Astronomy, Cornell University)

Journey to Jupiter: Images from Galileo

JPL Image/Information Archives (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

JPL Picture Archive

JPL Solar System Images

JPL Stars & Galaxies Images

KODAK: Space Shots

The Magellan Project Gallery of Science Images (Carnegie Observatories)

Mars Pathfinder Pictures: An Interplanetary Window
(Andrew Bayuk, Guardian's Web)

The Movie Loft: Movies and Animations from NASA and Elsewhere

MSSS MGS MOC Image Release Directory
(MGS Mars Orbiter Camera Archive)

NAI Image Gallery (NASA Astrobiology Institute)

NASA Image eXchange (NIX, Bill von Ofenheim)

NASA Images (Internet Archive)

NASA Image Web Sites (Ames Imaging Library Server)

NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection Home

NASA Observatorium Image Gallery

NASA Photo Gallery

NASA Regional Planetary Image Facilities

NASA - Space Science - Images

NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library

-- ADIL Query Page

-- The ADIL User's Guide

NED Images, Atlases & Catalogs (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

NightSkies: The Art of Deep Space (David Malin, AAO)

NOAO Image Gallery (US National Optical Astronomy Observatories)

NRAO Image Gallery (US National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

NSSDC Photo Gallery (National Space Science Data Center, NASA)

Observational Mishaps (Kaspar von Braun et al., University of Michigan)

Observatorium Hoher List: Astronomical Images (Martin Altmann)

Ohio State Astronomical Picture Gallery

PDS Imaging Node - Homepage (Elizabeth Duxbury)

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (Edward Emerson Barnard, 1927; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)

-- E. E. Barnard (Howard Schickler Fine Art, Brooklyn)

A Photographic Tour of the Universe (SpacePix)

Pictures (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Planetary Image Atlas (PDS Imaging Node)

Planetary Image Research Laboratory (University of Arizona)

Planetary Imagery Sites (CIRSelect Imagery Sources List)

Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page

Postcards from the Edge of the Universe (A Cosmic Diary Anthology, ed. Lee Pullen et al., ESO/IAU/UNESCO, 7 Sep 2010)

"Pretty Pictures" (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Pretty Pictures Resources (AstroWeb, STScI)

Recent Astronomical and Aurora Images (Solar Terrestrial Dispatch)

Regional Planetary Image Facility (Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC)

Russell Croman Astrophotography (Austin, Texas)

Samadhi: A Space Library (David Seal, JPL)

SciArt.com - Astronomy

Science & Art Photo Gallery (Bill & Sally Fletcher)

SEDS Messier Database (Hartmut Frommert)

Selected Spacewatch Images (LPL)

Sky Image Processor (John H. Simonetti, Virginia Tech)

The Sky of Earth (Serge Brunier's Gallery)

Skyview: The Internet's Virtual Telescope (Thomas A. McGlynn & Laura McDonald, NASA GSFC)

-- Alternate Server

Software from the High Energy Astrophysics Division at CfA
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Sources of Earth and Planetary Photography (comp. Rose Steinat, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Apr 1995, updated)

SpaceArt.Com : Online Views Of The Universe

Space Gallery (JAXA)

-- NASDA Mirror

SPACEHAB - Space Photo Gallery

Space Image Libraries (Oklahoma State University)

The Space Imagery Center (Lunar & Planetary Laboratory)

Space Images (Chemistry Technical Services, UMCP)

A Space in Time (Michael Benson, The Atlantic Monthly, Jul-Aug 2002)

Space Movie Archive

-- Bordeaux Mirror

Space Pictures

SpacePix - Astronomy and Space Exploration Gallery

Space Views Image Gallery (Space.com)

Spitzer Gallery (Spitzer Space Telescope)

StarDate Online | Image of the Week

Stellarscapes Home Page

The Stellar Visions Webring (Mark C. Farrington)

-- Site List

Subaru Telescope: Gallery

2MASS All-Sky Quicklook Image Services (IRSA)

2MASS Atlas Image Gallery

2MASS Extended Source Image Server (IRSA)

2MASS Picture of the Week

2MASS Public Release Image Server

UA Astronomical Image Galleries (William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

UKAI: The UK Astro Imaging Forum (UK Astro Imaging Group)

The Universe in Color (Robert Gendler, Avon, Connecticut)

Video On Line Astronomy Page

The Virtual Amateur Astronomer (Jupiter Scientific)

VirtualSky - Image Gallery (VirtualSky.org)

Visualising the Universe (Stuart Gill et al., Swinburne University of Technology, 2001)

VLT Photo Gallery (ESO Very Large Telescope)

VOEventNet: Real-Time Astronomy with a Rapid-Response Telescope Grid (Caltech)

The Web Nebulae (Bill Arnett)

WebSEEk Subject Walk: Astronomy

WFI Astronomical Images - Index (Wide-Field Imager, ESO/MPG 2.2-m Telescope, La Silla)

WIYN Images (Nigel Sharp)

See also Astrophotography, Observatories (Ground) and Data Centres, and Virtual Astronomy

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HST Images

Astronomy Incorporated (Frank Eldridge)

Best Hubble Space Telescope Images (Space.com)

Browse Images: Astrophysics (JPL)

Dennis Chesters' Home Page

Galaxy Hunter: A Cosmic Photo Safari
(STScI Amazing Space)

Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery (Mario Livio & the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, HubbleSite NewsCenter, STScI News Release STScI-2010-13, 22 Apr 2010)

-- Happy 20th, Hubble (Ron Cowen, Science News, 10 Apr 2010)

-- Happy Birthday, Hubble! (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 24 Apr 2010)

HST Deep Field Data (The Electronic Universe Project)

HST Images by Subject

HST Medium Deep Survey (Kavan U. Ratnatunga et al., CMU)

HST News (CDS, Strasbourg)

HST Nuggets Home Page (Forrest Hamilton)

HST Public Observations (CADC)

The Hubble Deep Field (Zolt Levay, STScI)

The Hubble Deep Field North (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

The Hubble Deep Field South (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

Hubble Gallery (ESA Hubble Information Centre)

Hubble Heritage Project (STScI)

Hubble Hits (Discovery Channel)

Hubble Image Galaxy: SBO's Hubble Space Telescope Gallery
(Keith Gleason, Sommers-Bausch Observatory)

Hubble News and Photo Release Archive
(ESA Hubble Information Centre)

The Hubble Project - Image Gallery (NASA Goddard SFC)

Hubble's greatest hits (Mark Voit, Physics World, 1 Sep 2010)

HubbleSite - Discoveries

HubbleSite - Gallery

Hubble Telescope Interactive Gallery (Richard Bennion)

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HubbleSite)

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (Steven V. W. Beckwith et al., astro-ph/0607632, 27 Jul 2006)

JPL's Camera on Hubble: The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

Latest HST Pictures

NSSDC Photo Gallery: HST Index

Recent HST Images

SEDS: Best of HST

Seeing the sky through Hubble's eye: The COSMOS SkyWalker (Knud Jahnke et al., astro-ph/0607529, 23 Jul 2006)

STScI/HST Pictures

STScI Press Releases

WFPC2 Pictures (JPL Picture Archive)

WFPC2 Science Team's Favorite Images

What's New at STScI

See also Space Telescope (HST)

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