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Astronomy on the Web
or how to find something in astronomy
This page contains a selection of links to astronomy
and astrophysics related stuff on the Web. The main
purpose of it is to help you finding people,
institutions, publications, catalogues and data archives
on the Internet. When you cannot find what you need from
this page, try our collection of search
engines.
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Plasma meetings
A comprehensive Directory of Plasma Conferences maintained by
the IEEE-NPSS Plasma Science and Applications Committee.
- The Star*s
- The Strasbourg astronomical Data Center contains The
Star*s, a collection of huge databases about
astronomical institutions and people. There are
three main databases:
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- AstroWeb
- AstroWeb is a collection of pointers to
astronomy-related information on Internet,
maintained by AstroWeb
Consortium. It contains links to
publications, people, meetings, societies,
weather, telescope schedules, observatories,
departments, institutions, data, software many
other resources. There is a searchable
version of AstroWeb. Several sites in the
world mirror the information of AstroWeb:
- ST-ECF
(The Space Telecsope - European
Coordinating Facility, Garching)
- STScI
(Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, USA)
- NRAO
(National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Charlottesville, USA)
- VILSPA
(Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station,
Spain)
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- American
Astronomical Society
- The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the
major professional organization in North America
for astronomers and other scientists and
individuals interested in astronomy. The
well-known journal of the AAS is The Astrophysical
Journal.
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- Astrosearch
- You can search for persons, institutions and postal addresses.
- ADS Abstract Service
- The NASA Astrophysics Data System is a very good
place to find a published paper. It contains more
than 450,000 abstracts on astronomy and
astrophysics. Just fill in the form, whatever you
know about the paper: authors, title or abstract
words... A powerfull tool!
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- Los
Alamos E-prints server (XXX)
- Contains electronic version of papers on physics
and astronomy. People usually put their preprints
at XXX as soon as they are ready, several months
before publishing. This archive is a must for a
serious researcher who wants to get up-to-date
knowledge. You can also put your own
paper/preprint there.
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- The Net Advance of Physics
- The Net Advance of Physics is a free electronic
journal/encyclopaedia bringing together review
articles and lecture notes in physics and allied
sciences from around the Internet. Although
presently consisting mainly of links to other
sites, The Net Advance of Physics also welcomes
contributions of review articles written
expressly for publication here.
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- Nature
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society
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- The Astrophysical Journal
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- The Astronomical Journal
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific
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- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle
Physics (JCAP)
- SIMBAD
- The SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements,
and Bibliography for Astronomical Data)
astronomical database, created and maintained by
the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data,
cross-identifications, observational
measurements, and bibliography, for celestial
objects outside the solar system: stars,
galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our
galaxy, or in external galaxies. It contains
information for about 1 million objects. Well, in
order to use this nice database you have to pay.
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- Astronomer's Bazaar
- Contains astronomical data catalogues, related to
observations of stars and galaxies, and other
galactic and extragalactic objects. A few
catalogues about the solar system bodies and
atomic data are also included. Currently over
1000 data catalogues and tables are available,
for a total of about 5 Gigabytes of information.
A large part of these catalogues are available
on-line.
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- Astronomical Data Center
- The Astronomical Data Center (ADC) is located at
the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, USA. It acquires, verifies, formats,
documents, and distributes files containing
astronomical data in computer-readable form. It
also develops and maintains software tools to
access these data. The ADC is part of an
international federation of astronomical data
centers.
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- HEASARC
- The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive
Research Center, located at the Goddard Space
Flight Center, provides the high energy data from
such satellites, as ROSAT, GRO, BBXRT, ASCA, XTE,
HEAO, Einstein and others. The total data volume
is of the order of 1 Terabyte.
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- STARCAT (obsolete) and WDB (new)
- STARCAT is a collection of miscellaneous
catalogues of astronomical data. You can find
there catalogues of stars, galaxies, radio
sources, high-energy sources and others.
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- USNO-SA 2.0
- Spatially Uniform Catalog of Faint Astrometric Reference Objects
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- WDS
- Washington Double Stars Catalogue
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- 6th Orbit Catalog
- Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars
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- USNO Speckle Catalog
- Fourth Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars
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- Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way
- An Online Exhibit
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- USNO Magnitude Difference Catalog
- The Second Photometric Magnitude Difference Catalog
- Polish
Astronomical Society
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- Polish
Amateur Astronomers Society
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Cracow
- Astronomical
Observatory of the Jagiellonian University
- Well, this is our observatory. The page you read
now is hosted there!
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- Mt. Suhora Observatory
- This observatory is a part of Astronomy
Department at the Pedagogical University. It is
located in Gorce moutains, near Koninki village,
60 km south-east of Cracow.
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- Youth Astronomical Observatory,
Niepolomice
- This is an amateur astronomical observatory
located near Cracow.
Opole
- Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Instytutu Fizyki Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
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Torun
- Torun Centre for Astronomy of the Nicolas Copernicus
University
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- Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre
in Torun
- This is not the part of the University, but of
the Polish Academy of Sciences, rather.
Poznan
- Poznan Astronomical Observatory
- The observatory is a part of Adam
Mickiewicz University. Its history begins in
1919. The main fields of the research are
astrometry and celestial mechanics. Lately the
scientific research has been extended also to
astrophysics.
Wroclaw
- Astronomical Institute of Wroclaw
University
- The main field of research in Wroclaw is solar
physics. The observatory owns the coronograph in
Bialkowo, near Wroclaw, and carries out regular
observations of the solar active phenomena.
Warsaw
- Warsaw University Astronomical
Observatory
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- Nicolaus
Copernicus Astronomical Centre in Warsaw
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