Astronomy Resources

Astronomy Related WWW Pages

These links were swiped from the ISU-Astro homepage when managed by Sean O'Brien in the late 90's. Many are outdated and some broken. My apologies, but you've been warned....

Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Sky at Night
- StarTrak : monthly viewing tips for the night's sky.
- Abrams Planetarium : SKYWATCHER'S DIARY
Organizations
- The American Astronomical Society
- NASA Information Services and Today @ NASA
- CDS, Strasbourg
- ESO On-Line Information System
- International Astronomical Union
  - Information on individual IAU members.
- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- AIP - American Institute of Physics
- TGSAA - Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
- The Iowa Space Grant Consortium
- The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute
- Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (A research department of the National Air and Space Museum)
- Time Service Department (formerly The Directorate of Time) of the U.S. Naval Observatory, has a real-time UTC clock. It also gives updates on important things like the introduction of leap-seconds...
- The Ames Area Amateur Astronomers have compiled an impressive selection of astronomical web resources
Professional and Popular Journals
- Papers Recently Submitted to Selected Astronomical Publications
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal Electronic Edition
- The Astronomical Journal
- BAAS - Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- PASP - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- New Astronomy The new professional astrophysics journal published on the WWW
- AIP Journals (Applied Physics Letters, CHAOS, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, etc.)
- Bibliographic Codes, Journal Abbreviations
- SKY online
- Astronomy Magazine
Telescopes and Observatories
- The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
- University of Iowa's Automated Telescope Facility (ATF)
- NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope
- National Optical Astronomy Observatories
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- The WWW Virtual Library Astronomical Observatories Page maintains the most complete, up-to-date list of Radio, Optical, Space, Solar, Cosmic Ray, Gamma Ray, and Neutrino Observatories in the World
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- A Ground-based Solar and Astrophysical Observatory Guide is maintained by Gordon Johnston of NASA's Office of Space Access and Technology.
- Gordon Johnston's Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
- Mark Peairs's Observatory Page "collects pointers to observatories that provide public viewing through telescopes."
- Automated Telescopes on the Internet
- The Whole Earth Telescope
Resources
- Mike Boschat has compiled an enormous list of astronomy-related web pages.
- AstroWeb : Astronomical Internet Resources
- HEASARC's General Astronomy Resources page
- WebStars : Astrophysics in Cyberspace
- ADS Astrophysics Data System
- Astrophysics Abstract Service
- Los Alamos Astrophysics E-Print archive
- International Astronomy Meetings
- SkyView Image Retrieval Facility
- IRAF Support Services
- The HST Data Archive
- The Astronomy Cafe, featuring links such as "Ask the Astronomer," "Next Generation Space Telescope," "Anatomy of a Research Paper," etc.
- Amateur Telescope Maker's Resource List
Pretty Pictures
- This Atlas of Mars is browsable, zoomable and scrollable, and shows the locations (footprints) of thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images.
- HST Public Images
- The Web Nebulae
- The Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
- A tour of our Solar System
- The NASA Planetary Photojournal
Other Fun and Informative Sites
- Chicago's Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
- Cosmos in a Computer Map
- Stars and Galaxies
- Nasa's Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards" page will scare you silly!
- Messier Objects, all 103 (+7) of them.
- Constellation Quiz, from Mount Wilson Observatory.
- Astronomy Notes
  - Sky & Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin
- AstroNet