WWW astrophysics links

Information topics

Literature	Web tutorials	Directories
Data services	Organisations	Departments and groups
ESA/NASA sites	Observatories	Projects
Local societies

Literature: ADS abstract service; ADS abstract service Strasbourg mirror; ADS abstract service Nottingham (fastest); ASIAS (ADS article service by journal); astro-ph abstracts (Southampton mirror site; fastest); astro-ph abstracts (Italian mirror site); Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; The Astrophysical Journal; The Astronomical Journal; Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; Astronomy & Astrophysics
Web Tutorials: UNIX tutorial (Sussex University); Online version of the above Unix tutorial (Sussex University); UNIXhelp version 1.3.2 (Edinburgh University); Linux tutorial (Lowfat Linux); HTML and JAVA (Web Design Group); IDL for astronomy (University of Virginia); Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming; IDL (Boston University); Powerpoint; IRAF
WWW directories of astronomical information: ESO libraries (many useful links); StarPages (at Strasbourg)
Data centres: ADS (the NASA Astrophysics Data System), at the CfA; Astrobrowse at the Chandra Science Center; CDS (Strasbourg), including SIMBAD, VizieR and Aladin; Digital sky survey (at STScI); MAST (the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope); HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center); HEASARC W3browse interface to browser; IAU circulars (twenty most recent issues, at the CBAT); ING archive; IRAS data archive (IRSA at IPAC); Final archive of IUE spectra; LEDAS (Leicester Database and Archive Service); NED (NASA Extragalactic Database); NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) at GSFC; Planet atlases; MAPS the Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the POSS-I; ROSAT Data Archive Centre (Leicester), in LEDAS; SkyView image retrieval facility at GSFC; Solar Data Analysis Center (GSFC); STScI astronomy resources
Organisations: AAS (American Astronomical Society); PATT (Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time); RAS (Royal Astronomical Society); Starlink at RAL; The Royal Society
Departments and groups: CfA (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center); MPIfR (Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie); Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory (OGLE project)
ESA/NASA sites and projects: ESA home page; ESOC (European Space Operations Centre); ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Centre); NASA home page (flashy); NASA home page (with information content); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; LASP at GSFC (Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, GSFC); NASA/COSMIC the NASA software technology transfer center; NASA/Kennedy Space Center; NASA/Johnson Space Center; NASA Spacelink (NASA Education); STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Observatories: AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory); AAO (UK mirror site); Arecibo (NAIC); ASCA (Guest Observer Facility, GSFC); Astro-1; Astro-2; Astro-E2 (Guest observer facility, GSFC); ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility); CGRO (Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory), Science Support Center site; Chandra (Chandra X-ray Observatory, formerly known as AXAF); COBE (COsmic Background Explorer), data products at LAMBDA; COS-B; Copernicus (OAO 3); Einstein (HEAO 2); ESO (European Southern Observatory); EUVE (Extreme UltraViolet Explorer); EVN (European VLBI Network); EXOSAT; FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer); UK Gemini Support Group homepage (temporary?); Gemini (UK mirror site); Gemini (US project office); HEAO- 1 (High-Energy Astronomy Observatory 1); HEAO-3 (High-Energy Astronomy Observatory 3); Hipparcos; HST (Hubble Space Telescope), STScI site; IRAS (Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite), IRSA at IPAC site; ING (Isaac Newton Group, including WHT, INT, JKT); ING (Cambridge mirror); ISO (ESTEC site); IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer); IUE (support facilities at RAL); JACH (Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo, Hawaii); JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Mauna Kea); Keck I and II (W.M. Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea); MDM (Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory); MMTO (used to be the Multiple-Mirror Telescope Observatory, now 6.5-m); MRAO (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory); MSSO (Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories); NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories); NRAO new science site (National Radio Astronomy Observatory); NRAO old WWW site (National Radio Astronomy Observatory); NRAO AOC (VLA/VLBA array operations center, Socorro); NRAO Green Bank; Planck Surveyor (ESA Astrophysics home page); ROSAT (Guest Observer Centre, UK); ROSAT (HEASARC site, USA); RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), HEASARC site; ST-ECF (Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility); Spitzer was SIRTF, the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility; STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute); SWAS (Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite); UKIRT (United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, Mauna Kea); Westerbork (Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy); WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), data products at LAMBDA; XMM-Newton (X-ray Multiple-Mirror Observatory)
Projects: BIMA (Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array, to become CARMA); ISO (via IPAC); MERLIN; Space VLBI US project page, VSOP and beyond; VLA NRAO's Very Large Array
Local astronomy societies: Bristol Astronomical Society; Bath University Astronomical Society; Bristol University Astronomical Society

Mark Birkinshaw