Useful Links for Astronomers

FREQUENTLY USED

AAS Job Register Jobs in Astronomy.

astro-ph Astrophysics preprint search.

astro-ph new Todays postings to the above.

NASA-ADS Astrophysics publication search.

NED Extragalactic database

ESO Archive

ESA HST Archive HST archive in Europe

SDSS DR12 data access

DPOSS Digitised sky survey

ING Service Programme La Palma service observing

UKIRT Archive UKIRT archive

SkyView More sky survey data

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ARCHIVES

STScI Archive HST archive

CASU Archive CASU Astronomical Data Centre

SIMBAD Another astronomy database

CDS catalog archive Yet another astrophsics database

HEASARC-GSFC ROSAT X-ray catalogs

CADC CFHT data archive

SNe Recent Supernovae

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TOOLS

PGPLOT manual

IRAF

Numerical Recipies

Dictionary

Roget's Thesaurus

UK Rail Travel Planner Railway timetables

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SOCIETIES

RAS Royal Astronomical Society

AAS American Astronomical Society

British Astronomical Association

Sunderland Astronomical Society (amateur)

Kielder Observatory (public observatory)

Durham Astronomical Society (amateur)

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POPULAR MAGAZINES

Astronomy

Sky At Night

Astronomy Now

Sky & Telescope

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FUNDING SOURCES

STFC

The Royal Society

The British Council

NSF Grants - US

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