Bookmarks

• Organisations, Institutes, Departments, & Societies

  • Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik:
    home - internal - Einkauf - IR/submm - computing - printer queues - resources - Astrobibliothek (home) - SSH

  • Data Centres:
    Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
    NASA Astronomical Data Center
    European Southern Observatory - User Portal - Staff Contact - Meetings
    Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, Herzberg (home)
    Space Telescope Science Institute

  • My previous institutions:
    Oxford Astrophysics
    Edinburgh Institute for Astronomy

  • Societies:
    IAU
    Royal Astronomical Society
    Institute of Physics - IoP publishing - CPhys DocRepos - Careers procedures - see also the online journal PhyscisWeb

  • Other:
    Vavliov State Optical Institute - (see also NATO CLG & Science for Peace, INTAS, ISTC)
    European Space Agency
    Mt Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatiories

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• Astrophysics Journals

  • Astrophysical Journal (& supplement) - reviewers and authors
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - web submission
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics - manuscript management: authors / referees
  • Astronomical Journal
  • Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Astrophysics & Space Science
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific: PASP - ASP conference series
  • Experimental Astronomy
  • Optics Communications
  • JOSA A
  • SPIE Digital Library

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• Laser Guide Stars & Adaptive Optics

  • LGS Projects
    • LBT laser (wiki) - MPE intranet
    • PARSEC - internal - LGSF - intranet - VPN - chemical hazards - software development
    • ALFA - operators
    • LLNL - list of other sites
    • Steward observatory (MMT)
    • Keck - laser pages - their list of all refereed science papers

  • Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics
    • Gemini MCAO
    • ESO MCAO demonstrator
    • Gerard Rousset's page
    • Elise Vernet's page
    • Andre Tokovinin's page
    • Padova pages
    • Arcetri pages - Publications

  • general Adaptive Optics projects
    • ESO AO projects
    • SPIE AO forum
    • Center for Adaptive Optics - AO software
    • ADONIS
    • Hokupa'a
    • Pueo - list of other sites

  • Papers, Experiments, & Miscellaneous
    • Venice 2001 papers
    • some AO Science Papers
    • Mesospheric Na experiments
    • ESO's astroclimatology - Paranal site monitoring (database) and Na monitoring pages
    • LIDAR: MPI für Meteorologie

  • Interferometry - project links
    • VLTI
    • CHARA

  • TMR network
    • LGS network homepage
    • LGS/AO simulator (workpackage B)
    • Member institutions:
      Imperial College, Applied Optics Group
      Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
      Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon, AIRI team
      Osservatori Astrofisico di Arcetri
      European Southern Observatory Adaptive Optics Group
      MPE: IR/submm group: ALFA
      National University of Ireland, Galway

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• Databases, Literature, Catalogues, Sky Surveys, Archives

  • Literature
    • XXX preprints - recent submissions - mirrors - how to submit a paper
    • ADS abstracts (customised) (and mirrors) - my publications: refereed and most of the non-refereed

  • Objects: galaxies & stars
    • NED
    • SIMBAD
      query by identifier/coordinates or parameters
    • HST guide star catalogue: from ESO/ST-ECF, STScI, Vizier, or Vizier batch job
    • USNO star catalogue: from ESO, Vizier
    • standard/PSF stars: UKIRT (near-IR) photometric list and ESO's (optical) spectroscopic list, or Paranal star Search

  • Catalogues
    • libraries of Stellar Spectra
    • CDS - Astronomer's Bazaar - VizieR (try `cmc', `sky2000', 'tycho-2', or 'usno')
    • Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
    • CADC catalogues
    • ESO/ST-ECF catalogues
    • WDS: The Washington Double Star Catalogue (or use 'wds' in Vizier)
    • Galaxy UBVRI photometry

  • Sky Surveys
      General - Skyview (advanced form)
      Digitised Sky Survey - ESO/ST-ECF - CADC (batch) - APS
      Near-infrared - IRSA (including 2MASS)
      Radio 20cm - FIRST, 5" - NVSS, 45" (UK mirror)
      X-ray - ROSAT

  • Archives
    • ISO
    • STScI MAST multi-mission quick search
    • NOAO including JHK stellar templates
    • X-ray: Chandra - LEDAS - HEARSARC (& PIMMS simulator)
      ROSAT: from STScI, MPE
    • UV: IUE (from STScI)
    • HST archive
    • CADC archives

  • Miscellaneous
    • Level 5 from NED
    • Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series
    • Draine's page - PDRs, grain optical properties, etc.
    • Quasars: ADC on QSOs & AGN - Sloan DSS quasar catalog
    • Astro Utilities from UKIRT
    • OH lines from ESO
    • Handbook of Space & Astronomy
    • CD ROMs
    • Astroweb (and mirrors)
    • Star & Galaxy models - Starburst 99 (from STScI)
    • GALFIT
    • EIS, ESO imaging survey
    • coordinate calculators from NED and Parkes (COCO)
    • Units conversion
    • 2dF galaxy redshift survey

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• Selected Mirrors
  • XXX preprint mirrors: Germany - Spain - UK - USA
  • ADS abstract mirrors: CDS - ESO - Harvard
  • Astroweb mirrors: CDS - NRAO - STScI - ST-ECF

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• Observing: Tools, Telescopes, Instruments, Proposals, & Weather

  • Tools: Object Observability - Airmasses - La Silla support page
    PROAS for airmass calculations

  • Calar Alto (3.5m, 2.2m, 1.2m) - instrumentation - application - weather - newsletter

  • Mauna Kea - weather
    • UKIRT (3.8m) - instrumentation & application - service time
    • CFHT - CDS mirror
    • JCMT
    • Keck - Call for proposals - instruments - schedules - VSQ booking - newsletters

  • ESO facilities - Observing (with links to schedules) and the Query Form
    ASM - instrumentation - application - exposure time calculators - P2PP
    • La Silla (3.6m, 3.5m NTT, 2.2m, 1.5m)
    • Paranal (4x8m VLT) - SciOps tools

  • IRAM (PdBI and 30m) - PdBI observing - schedule status

  • AAO (3.8m AAT, UK Schmidt) - instrumentation - application - service time - weather

  • Isaac Newton Group (4.2m WHT, 2.5m INT, 1.0m JKT)

  • HST (2.4m)

  • NOAO - KPNO, CTIO

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• Instrument & Satellite pages

• Spitzer
• Chandra

• Near-infrared
  MICADO - MPE intranet
  KMOS - Twiki at ROE (Issued Documents) - BSCW at ESO
  3D
  VLT instruments: SPIFFI , NAOS-CONICA , ISAAC
  KECK instruments: NIRSPEC, NIRC2
  UNSWIRF
  HST instruments: NICMOS
  Calar Alto instruments: Omega-Cass
  UKIRT instruments: CGS4, UFTI, IRCAM, ...
  ADONIS

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• Meetings & People
  • International Astronomy Meetings, from CADC and Academia Exchange
  • Specific meetings
    2012
    German-UK Astronomy Meetings (NAM/AG)
      Manchester, UK 27-30 March 2012
    SPIE Astronomical Telescope and Instrumentation
      Amsterdam, Netherlands 1-6 July 2012
    European Week of Astronomy and Space Science
      Rome, Italy 1-6 July 2012
    
    2011
    Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and their Place in the Universe - proceedings
      Milan, Italy, 4-6 April 2011
    Star Formation in Galaxies: The Herschel Era
      Ringberg, Germany 19-25 June 2011
    The Central Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei
      Bad Honnef, Germany, 29 Aug - 2 Sept 2011
    The Starburst-AGN Connection under the Multiwavelength Limelight
      Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, 14-16 September 2011
    AO for ELT 2
      Victoria, Canada, 25-30 September 2011
    AGNs and the Galactic Center (European Interferometry Initiative)
      Lisbon, Portugal, 28-30 Nov 2011
    
    2010
    Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the European ELT
      London, UK, 13-15 Jan 2010
    Galaxies in the Distant Universe: Dynamics, Gas, and Early Evolution
      Ringberg, Germany, 17-21 May 2010
    Central Massive Objects: The Stellar Nuclei - Black Hole Connection
      ESO Garching, 22-25 June 2010
    SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
      San Diego, USA, 27 June - 2 July 2010
    Compact superstar clusters, birth, evolution and feedback
      Tonantzintla, Mexico, 12-30 July, 2010
    What drives the growth of black holes?
      Durham, UK, (26-29 July 2010) (shifted from 19-22 April 2010)
    
    2009
    E-ELT PostFocal Instrumentation
      ESO Garching, 9-10 Feb 2009
    E-ELT DRM Workshop 2009
      ESO Garching, 26-28 May 2009
    MAD and Beyond: Science with Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Instruments
      ESO, Garching, 8-10 June 2009
    Physics of Galactic Nuclei
      Ringberg, Germany, 15-19 June 2009
    AO for ELT
      LESIA, France, 22-26 June 2009
    Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes: Feeding and Feedback (IAU Symposium 267)
      IAU General Assembly 2009
      Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 10-14 August 2009
    AG Tagung - E-ELT splinter meeting
      Potsdam, Germany, 21-25 September 2009
    Astronomical Instrumentation
      Madrid, Spain, 23-25 September 2009
    Astronomical Science Group of Ireland
      Galway, Ireland, 8-9 Oct 2009
    
    2008
    Science with AO fed instruments on large telescopes (AAO)
      Dunk Island, Australia, April 2008
    Gas and Stars in Galaxies: a multi-wavelength 3D perspective (ESO/RadioNet)
      Garching, Germany, 10-13 June 2008
    Adaptive Optics Systems (SPIE)
      Marseille, France, 23-28 June 2008
    Towards the Next Generation of Astronomical IR Detectors (Univ. Oxford)
      Oxford, UK, 1-2 July 2008
    2007
    The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop (ESO)
      Garching, Germany, January 2007
    2nd Generation Instrument Pipelines (MPE)
      Garching, Germany, April 2007
    Obscured AGN Across Cosmic Time (ESO)
      Seeon, Germany, June 2007
    Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and observations
      Torun, Poland - summer school photos
    Astronomy with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (MPIA/MPE)
      Ringberg, Germany, October 2007
    Galaxy and Black Hole Evolution: Towards a Unified View (Univ.Arizona)
      Tucson, Arizona, USA, November 2007
    2006
    Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies
      Ishigaki Island, Japan, June 2006
    The Central Engine of AGN
      Xi'an, China, October 2006
    2005
    Adaptive Optics Assisted Integral Field Spectroscopy (ING)
      La Palma, Spain, May 2005
    Superunification of AGN (Arcetri)
      Elba Island, Italy, May 2005
    Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy (ESO, Euro3D)
      Garching, Germany, Oct 2005
    2004
    The interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei (IAU)
      Gramado, Brazil, March 2004
      Online Proceedings
    Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation (SPIE)
      Advancements in Adaptive Optics
      Glasgow, UK, June 2004
    The role of mergers and feedback in galaxy formation (MPE)
      Schloss Ringberg, Germany, November 2004
    2004 Ringberg Castle Workshop on AGN Physics (MPE)
      Schloss Ringberg, Germany, November 2004
    EARA Workshop 2004: Black Holes, Stars and Galaxies: Simulations and Observations (MPA)
      Garching, Germany, December 2004
    2003
    Science with Adaptive Optics (ESO)
      Garching, Germany, September 2003
    2002
    Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation (SPIE)
      Adaptive Optical System technologies II
      Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6-10m Class Telescopes II
      Waikoloa, Hawaii, 22-28 Aug 2002
    Diffraction Limited NIR Observations with the VLT
      Ringberg, 20-23 Oct 2002
    2001
    
    The central kpc of starbursts and AGNs: the La Palma connection (ING)
      Los Cancajos, La Palma, May 2001
    Beyond Conventional Adaptive Optics (Padova, Firenze, Venezia, ESO)
      Venice, Italy, May 2001
    Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation (ESO)
      Garching, Germany, June 2001
    2000
    Astromical Telescopes and Instrumentation (SPIE)
      Munich, Germany, March 2000
    Galaxies & their constituents at the highest angular resolutions (IAU)
      (see also Symposium 205 & Bulletin 85),
      Manchester, UK, August 2000
    Starbursts Near and Far (MPE)
      Schloss Ringberg, Germany, September 2000
    1999
    Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present (Institut d'Astrophysique)
      Paris, France, July 1999
    1998
    Astronomy with Adaptive Optics (ESO)
      Sonthofen, Germany, September 1998
    Adaptive Optical System technologies (SPIE)
      Kona, Hawaii, March 1998

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• 8-10 m Telescopes & projects
  • Major Telescopes & projects
  • 8-m telescopes
    VLT
    Gemini
    Keck
    Subaru
    LBT - wiki
    Hobby Eberly Telescope
    Gran Telescopio Canarias
    SALT
    Large Zenith Telescope

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• 30-100 m projects & concepts
  • TMT Thirty Meter Telescope
    AURA 30-50m (eg MAXAT)
    CELT 30m - now obsolete; see TMT
    OWL 100m
    LAT 15m
    SOT 50m

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• Fun Astronomy, General Interest, & Education

  • What's Where When ?
    What's up in the Sky? - positions of the planets & other solar system stuff
    Messier Objects (list & info) - Caldwell Object list
    Satellite Tracker
    Satellite Flares - and as seen from Garching

  • Mostly Pictures
    The Universe in Color
    2MASS gallery
    DRAGNs
    Arnett on planets, nebulae, Messier, NGC, etc.
    HST images by subject - Hubble Heritage - HubbleSite Gallery
    AAT photographs
    Galaxies, from: Frei's galaxy catalogue - Alabama Universities (also comets, clusters, etc.) - NOAO (galaxies, nebulae, etc)
    Multiwavelength Milky Way
    Solar System Simulator (pictures only)
    Astronomical pictures & animations

  • Learning about Astronomy
    Astronomy Education Review
    JPL center for Astronomy Education
    The @stronomy Centre
    Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight (by David Darling)
    Ask an Astronomer at Cornell University
    Runaway Universe
    Astronomy Picture of the Day
    Galaxy links from CRAL
    Windows to the Universe
    Basic Astronomy Course
    Black holes & neutron stars

  • General Interest
    International Supernova Network
    Extrasolar Planets
    Observational mishaps

  • The Good Old Days...
    History of Astronomy
    Astronomy in Ancient Cultures

• Miscellaneous Resources from:
  Fourmilab

• On-line Manuals & Documentation

  • Crimson Editor

  • eclipse (local) - isaac (local)

  • Supermongo
    WIP
    pgplot - help

  • a2ps

  • UNIX & Linux: Laptops, SuSE, XSuSE, XFree86,

  • Programming
    • FORTRAN links
    • C: links - tutorial - standard libraries (eg maths and strings)
    • C++: links -
    • more C/C++ links
    • Numerical Recipes - C codes

  • LaTeX - links - Useful links from YandY - MikTex - WinShell (see also LaTeX editors)
    • basics - guide - command list - documentation for accessories

  • Image & Data Processing
    • IRAF homepage
      STSDAS documentation - CVOS (c programming interface)
    • IDL: RSINC - Astronomy User's Library - tips - resources - ATV
    • Karma
    • deconvolution
      IDAC
      Université de Liège pages
    • SExtractor: homepage - cookbook
    • L.A. Cosmic
    • Cappellari's code (MGE, Voronoi 2D, pPXF)

  • ImageMagick - examples

  • HTML
    • HTMLhelp.com from Web Design Group
    • igal image gallery maker -
    • on-line guide (German mirror)
    • Sunny's guide (very good, but often slow)
    • HTML Jalfrezi (excellent guide!, with list of special characters)
    • HTML Goodies & Javascript archive, webpage developer's reference, quick reference
    • making (animated) GIFs and banners or: free graphics - AGAG - flags - animation factory
    • Webcounter from goweb

  • Computers
    • webopedia
    • Shareware Downloads
    • Windows XP
    • FTP: ncftp
    • SSH: source codes - SSH JAVA Applet

• Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Translations

  • Guide to Grammar & Writing - Principles of Composition - Index

  • Allwords
  • Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
  • ARTFL Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus

  • Technical Dictionaries
  • Vocabulary Aids (synonyms, antonyms, etc.)

  • Foreign Langauges
    • Dictionaries
    • German/English dictionary (with English meanings)
    • Translators: AltaVista Babelfish, FreeTranslater, Dictionary.com PROMT

• Journals, Newspapers, & Books

  • Science Journals
    • New Scientist
    • Scientific American
    • PhysicsWeb (userid: DychTau, psswd: Camp2200) & TIPTOP
    • Nature (userid: DychTau, passwd: Camp2200)
    • Sky & Telescope
    • SpaceViews
    • Astronomy
    • National Geographic (customer service)

• Travel Information & Maps

  • Transport Bayern Info - everything about Bayern transport, timetables, routes, and links
    Local: Garching transport with all important links - also a full local bus timetable
    Trains: Network Rail (UK), Deutsche Bahn (Germany), or SBB (Europe)
    Planes: Flughafen Müchen Go-fly to/from London, United Aitlines - itineraries
    Ferries: P&O Stena Line
    Cars: to hire from Hertz, Avis, Alamo, etc. try www.*.de or .ac.uk or .com

  • Maps:
    microCAM
    for route planning use Autoroute
    Stadtplan Muenchen - Stadplaene
    UK: streetmaps - Ordnance Survey - multimap
    Worldwide: mapquest

• Maths, Physics, & General Science

  Stanford Linear Accelerator Virtual Visitor Center
  Wolfram science encyclodepia
  PhysLINK
  Periodic Table of Elements
  Statistics codes
  TCAEP database of equations, constants, etc.
  Integrator solves integrals (using Mathematica)
  The Geometry Center
  Britannica encyclopaedia
  teaching resource

• Mountains, Climbing & Skiing
  • Deutscher Alpenverein: DAV
    • Sections: search - München - Garching
    • Climbing Walls - Huts
    • Alpine Weather
    • Lawinengefahr - reports: Bayern
  • UK Climbing - BMC - SMC
  • Magazines: Mountain Sports - High
  • EWP
  • The Climbing Archive
  • Mountain Images
  • UIAA - Mountaineering in the Distant Ranges
  • Ice Climbing in the Alps
  • Rock climbing in France
  • Hartmut's mountaineering page
  • Russian Mountain Ranges (Kopylov) - a few more
  • Field & Trek - F&T Links
  • Needle Sports
  • Aconcagua here also
  • Skiing
    Ski IN
    the alps

• Weather
  • Online Weather Interface
  • the Met. Office
  • World Weather
  • Météo France - forecast of cloud over Europe
  • Yahoo weather for Germany
  • Weather links
  • Germany:
    forecast for Germany
    report for München
    current weather (+ ski, mountain, Europe)

• Botanical
  • Internet Directory for Botany
  • Diversity of Life web index
  • Institute of Biology
  • Planet Maxted
  • Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
  • Botanische Staatssammlung München
  • Species 2000
  • Phylogenetics Resources
  • Cladistics page of the Willi Hennig society; previously had on-line help and a 117-page manual for hennig86
  • Botany in Archaeology

• Lichens
  British Lichen Society
  Lichenology by Clifford Smith (+ International Association of Lichenologists)
  Lichen Information System maintained by Roberto Zorer
  North American Lichen Project
  The Lichens from Kochi University, Japan
  American Bryological and Lichenological Society

• Miscellaneous, and just simply Bizarre
  • Folk Songs
  • Lancing College
  • J, A & S Davies
  • C, R & N Davies
  • Keirsey Personality types/test
  • Surrealist Compliment Generator
  • Anagram generator
  • Electronic Postcard - and a whole list of such sites
  • The i Spot (art gallery)
  • Asterix and some links
  • Tintin
  • Digital Camera Reviews
  • Digital Photo Processing: Tawbaware - FreeSerifSoftware - Mediachance - NeatImage
  • MegaGames freeware games

• In & around Munich (& Other Towns)

  Munich - Garching - Salzburg - Vienna (also here)

  Zugspitze

  • Cinemas:
    English cinema (Nymphenburger Straße)
    MAXX (Isartor)
    IMAX (3D)
  • Music:
    Klangkörper des Bayerischen Rundfunks (orchestra, choir, etc.)
    Münchner Philharmoniker
  • What's on at:
    Gasteig
  • Opera:
    List of Opera companies around the world
    Bayerische Staatsoper (München)
    Vienna State Opera