Practicum (Astronomy Links and Forms)

Immediately Useful

• SAO/NASA ADS Abstract Service -- Mirror at Strasbourg:
  • Simple reference search (e.g., "^name, i 2005" or "author:'M. J. Kurtz' 2005")

• SAO/NASA ADS Abstract Service -- Mirror at ESO

• SAO/NASA ADS Abstract Service -- Home site at Harvard

• Los Alamos Preprint Archive: Astrophysics -- Mirror in Germany
  • Recent submissions

• Los Alamos Preprint Archive: Astrophysics -- Home site at Cornell

• NED (NASA Extragalactic Database):
  Object name:
  • Search by Object Name

• HyperLeda:
  Galaxy Name : (e.g.: M31, NGC224...)
  Mean Data
  morphological type
  major and minor axes
  magnitude
  rotation velocity
  central velocity dispersion
  
  • Request data for a list of galaxies

• RC3 Search (at Vizier)

• HST Archival Searches:
  • ESO HST Archive (new interface)
  • ESO HST Archive (old interface)
  • STScI HST Archive
  • STScI HST Archive (older interface)
  • STScI HST Proposal Search
  • CADC HST Archive

• Other Archives:
  • Isaac Newton Group Archive: new interface (WHT, INT, JKT)
  • Isaac Newton Group Archive: old interface
  • CFHT Archive
  • ESO Archive (Southern Observatories: VLT, NTT, etc.)
  • UKIRT Archive
  • AAT Archive
  • SMOKA (Japanese telescope archive, including Subaru)

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey:
  • Visual Tools -- links to Navigate, etc.
  • Search Page -- links to Imaging Query, SQL Query, etc.
  • SQL search
  • JPEG color images of specific fields

• Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator

• Aladin

• SIMBAD

• Astronomy Tools -- useful oberving info (lunar phases and position, etc) from Brian Casey

• WIYN Observatory Information: UW-Madison and NOAO

References