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

Gaia Archive

ESA HST Archive HST archive in Europe

SDSS DR14 data access

Pan-STARRS data access

DPOSS Digitised sky survey

ING Service Programme La Palma service observing

SkyView More sky survey data

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ARCHIVES

STScI Archive HST archive

CASU Archive CASU Astronomical Data Centre

WSA - WFCAM Science Archive

SIMBAD Another astronomy database

CDS catalog archive Yet another astrophysics 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)

Battlesteads Observatory (public observatory and pub)

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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