Astronomy and Astrophysics WWW Resources

• Constants and Parameters
  • Astrophysical Constants and Parameters (Rev. Part. Phys., 2006, pdf file)
  • Cosmological Parameters (Rev. Part. Phys., 2006,pdf file)
• Online Journals and Articles
  • arXiv.org e-Print archive
  • The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS; Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy)
  • Living Reviews in Solar Physics (Max Planck Gesellschaft)
• The Sun
  • Solar Physics Group at MSFC
  • Current solar images (GSFC; SOHO, Yohkoh, spectroheliograms, coronameter, etc.)
  • SIDC (Solar Influences Data Center)
• The Solar System
  • Eclipses (NASA/GSFC)
  • Information on all known bodies in orbit (JPL's Solar Systen Dynamics Group)
  • The Planets (Bill Arnett)
  • Wikipedia article on planets
  • Planetary Fact Sheet (NASA's NSSDC)
  • International Meteor Organization
  • Gary W. Kronk's Cometography
  • Near-Earth Object Program (NASA)
  • Minor Planet Center
  • Solar System Dynamics (JPL)
• Stars, Stellar Systems, and Exoplanets
  • Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission
  • Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues
  • Harris' Catalog of Globular Clusters
  • Green's Catalogue of Supernova Remnants
  • Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog
  • 100 Nearest Star Systems (from the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars, http://www.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/)
  • Bright Star Catalog
  • Wikipedia article on Exoplanets (Extrasolar Planets)
  • Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets (California and Carnegie Planet Search)
• Object Catalogs (see also Ch 19 links)
  • The CDS Service for astronomical Catalogues (Strasbourg)
  • Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
  • Your Sky (Produces finding charts, radiants of meteor showers, etc.)
• Messier Objects
• Extragalactic Astronomy
  • A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
    • NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
    • Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. (Online articles)
    • Web Links (IPAC, California Institute of Technology)
• Photometry
  • The Asiago Database on Photometric Systems
  • The Asiago Database on Photometric Systems (Journal article)
  • Standard Photometric Systems (Bessell, journal article)
• Spherical Astronomy and Astrometry
  • Time
    • U.S. Official Time (NIST)
    • USNO Time Service (US Naval Observatory)
    • Julian Date and Sun's Position (from FUSE)
    • Calendar Conversion Tool (Chandra X-ray Center;JD, MJD, DOY)
    • Systems of Time (U.S Naval Observatory)
    • World Time Zone Map with current time
  • Coordinate Conversions
    • Conversion of Equatorial to Galactic Coordinates (From FUSE)
    • Precession Calculator (from FUSE)
    • Coordinate Conversion and Precession Tool (Chandra X-ray Center)
    • Local Standard of Rest (from FUSE)
  • Celestial Phenomena
    • USNO Data Services (Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, and more)
  • Missions
    • Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission
• Data Bases and Archives
  • Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues
  • SIMBAD Astronomical Data Base
  • ADC Astronomical Data Center - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
  • NASA's Data Mining Resources for Space Science
  • VizieR Service
  • CDS (Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg)
  • SAF (ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility Services)
• Software
  • The IDL Astronomy User's Library
• Astronomical Facilities
  • AstroWeb (Telescopes and Observatories)
  • List of Astronomical Observatories
  • The Largest Optical Telescopes
  • Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
• Space Observatories and Facilities
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)
  • European Space Agency (ESA)
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
  • Hinode (Solar-B)
  • IKI (Russian Space Institute)
  • Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (JAXA)
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
  • MIT Center for Space Research (renamed the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MKI)
  • Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
  • NASA
  • NASA's HEASARC data archive
  • Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
  • Space Research Centre (University of Leicester)
  • Space Research Institute (IKI)
  • Space Science Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Spitzer Space Telescope
  • SWIFT (Gamma Ray Burst Mission)
  • XMM-Newton (Science Operations Centre)
• Astronomical Techniques
  • JPL Interferometry Center of Excellence
  • Michelson Science Center (Cal Tech)
  • Optical and UV Astronomy in the Internet Age (Daniel Golombek, STSI)
• On-line courses
  • Galaxies and the Universe (Leiden University and the University of Alabama, Graduate level)
• Diffuse Matter in the Universe (M.A. Dopita & R.S. Sutherland, 2001, 361 pp., pdf)
• Stellar Atmospheres (J. B. Tatum, Univ. Victoria, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, pdf)
• ADS Digital Library