Astronomical Databases and Archives

List of astronomical catalogues

General Data Bases

• ASDC : ASI Science Data Center
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS), USA
        -- mirror at ESO Garching, Germany
• Astronomy and Astrophysics at NSSDC
  (National Space Science Data Center, USA)
• Astrovirtel
  "Access and use the ESO/ST-ECF Archive as if it would be a "virtual" Telescope"
  (HST, ESO NTT, VLT, Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPI 2.2m Telescope)
• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
• Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France
  VizieR,  Aladin,  SIMBAD,  etc.
• ESO ST-ECF Science Archive Facility
• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
  (HEASARC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA
• Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST)
  (ASTRO, Copernicus, DSS, EUVE, FIRST, FUSE, HST, IUE, ORFEUS, ROSAT)
• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), USA
• NASA Extragalactic Data Base(NED)
  Please be advised that the digital images of 113 nearby galaxies published by Frei et al. (1996, AJ 111, pp. 174) available from within the NED database have had all foreground stars removed by the authors. See also IAUC 6914.
• Sky View: images of the sky in many wavelength bands (GSFC, USA)
• SKYMAP Astronomical Mapping Program
  an interactive astronomical display program which draws a map of the sky. Creation of finder charts is the most common use of skymap.
• The Journal of Astronomical Data (JAD)

 

Specific Data Bases