Observatories

General Lists

• List of astronomical observatories (Wikipedia)
• Astronomical Observatory Sites by Latitude and Longitude (ESO)

 

Ground based Observatories

• Archenhold Sternwarte (Berlin, Germany)
• Big Bear Solar Observatory (USA)
• Calar Alto (Spain)
• CANGAROO (Australia)
• ESO : European Southern Observatory
  • La Silla (Chile)
  • Cerro Paranal (VLT, Chile)
• High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.)
• Las Campanas Observatory (Chile), Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) (Mt. Graham, USA)
• Mount Wilson Observatory (USA)
• Observatorio Astrofisico Guillermo Haro (Cananea, Sonora, Mexico)
• Palomar Observatory (Mt. Palomar, USA)
• Pic du Midi Observatory (France)
• Skinakas Observatory (Crete, Greece)
• South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
• Subaru Telescope
  (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at Mauna Kea in Hawaii)
• Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) (Italy; loc. La Palma)
• Wendelstein Observatory (Germany)
• NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories; USA)
• International Radio Observatories
  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, USA)
  • Institut de RadioAstronomie Milimétrique : (IRAM, France)
  • The Australia Telescope National Facility : (ATNF, Australia)
  • Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA, Narrabri, Australia)
  • Effelsberg Radio Observatory (Germany)
  • Deep Space Network (DSN) (NASA, USA)
  • National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center (Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA )
  • VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array, USA)
• The Night Sky Live (a fisheye picture of the sky at eight observatories distributed around Earth)

 

Observer Tools

• Actual monthly starchart for northern and southern hemisphere (pdf)
• Observing Tools and Services (ESO)
• Astronomical Sky Calendar (allows input for observatory coordinates)
• Object Seasonal Observability (allows input for observatory coordinates)
• Julian Date Converter
• NED Coordinate & Galactic Extinction Calculator
• U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications
  (Sun and Moon rise and set times, Moon phases, eclipses, seasons, positions of solar system objects, calendars and time, and other data)
• Ephemeris Systems
  • On-line Ephemeris System for the Solar System
  • XEphem
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) (STSCI Baltimore)
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) (ESO)
• SIMBAD on the Web
• NED on the Web
• Photometric Standard Star Sequences
  • Landolt Equatorial Standards
    BVRI photometry of standard stars near the celestial equator
    (A. U. Landolt, 1992 AJ 104 340; with finding charts!)
  • Landolt A.U.
    UBV photoelectric sequences in the celestial equatorial selected areas 92 - 115
    Astron. Journ. 78, 959-1021 (1973)
  • Christian C.A., Adams M., Barnes J.V., et al.
    Video Camera / CCD Standard Stars
    PASP 97, 363-372 (1985)
  • Turnshek D.A., Bohlin R.C., Williamson II R.L., et al.
    An Atlas of Hubble Space Telescope Photometric, Spectrophotometric, and Polarimetric Calibration Objects
    Astron. Journ. 99, 1243-1261, 1344-1377 (1990)
    (bright objects!)
• XRTE light curves

 

Robotic Observatories

• Bradford Robotic Telescope   (Yorkshire, England)
• Iowa Robotic Observatory   (Iowa, USA)
• ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (Los Alamos, NM, USA)

 

Virtual Observatories

• European Virtual Observatory
• German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory

 

Instrumentation

• Optical Pulsar Timing Analyzer (OPTIMA)

 

Air Borne Observatories

• SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy )
• NASA's Scientific Balloon Program Office (Wallops)

 

Satellites, Space Probes (incl. Landers)

• High-Energy Astrophysics Observatories (General Overview)
• ESA Missions (General Overview)
• ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer)
• AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini Leggero)
• ASCA Guest Observer Facility
• Astro-E see Suzaku
• AXAF see Chandra
• BeppoSAX (formerly SAX: Satellite per Astronomia in raggi X)
• Cassini / Huygens (mission to Saturn)
• Chandra Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (CXC), (formerly AXAF)
  • Chandra at MPE
• Clementine (lunar orbiting spacecraft)
• CLUSTER : three-dimensional exploration of Earth's magnetosphere
• COBE : (Cosmic Background Explorer)
• COMPTON Gamma Ray Observatory Science Support Center (COSSC), USA
  • STS 37 / CGRO Images
  • COMPTEL Compton Telescope    at   MPE; at   UNH;
  • EGRET : Energetic Gamma ray Experiment Telescope
  • OSSE : Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
• EQUATOR-S (Germany)
• EUVE : Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, Berkeley, USA
• FAST : Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer Satellite
• Fermi : Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST)
• FUSE : Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
• GALEX: Galaxy Evolution Explorer (NASA)
• Galileo - mission to planet Jupiter
• GLAST: see Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
• GRI Gamma-Ray Imager
• GRIPS GRB Investigation via Polarimetry and Spectroscopy
• Herschel: (FIRST) Far Infrared and Submillimetre Space Telescope
• HETE-2 : High Energy Transient Explorer (2) (for gamma-ray bursts)
• Hipparcos Astrometry Mission
• Hubble Space Telescope
• INTEGRAL International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• ISO Infrared Space Observatory
  • ISO Spectrometer Data Centre at MPE Garching
• IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer
• Lunar Prospector
• Mars Express
• Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
• Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
• MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission)
• NCT (Nuclear Compton Telescope); a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray (0.2-10 MeV) telescope
• NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
• NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)
• Planck : (formerly COBRAS/SAMBA) Cosmic Microwave Background
• ROSAT
• Rosetta Mission to Comet 46P/Wirtanen
• RXTE (formerly XTE)
• SAX see BeppoSAX
• SIM 'Lite' Space Interferometry Mission
• SOHO SOlar Heliospheric Observatory
  • Solar Wind data online !
• Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly: SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility))
• Stardust Mission to Comet 81P/Wild 2
• Suzaku
• Swift A Panchromatic Gamma Ray Burst Mission
• Ulysses
• Voyager Mission to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun
• XMM-Newton The High-Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission
  • XMM-Newton at MPE