PAUL GREEN's Useful Links
USA
(
earth
)
A SMATTERING OF USEFUL ASTRO DATABASES:
WISARD
stands for Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data.
From the
Automated Plate Scanner
at the U. of Minn.
High energy data from
HEASARC.
A slew of catalogs in
France.
A nice compilation of links to astronomical digital images at
Project CLEA.
IMAGES FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The vast spiral galaxy
M100
!
Lensing of distant galaxies by the cluster
Abell2218
!
The spectacular
M16 nebula
!
Why not check out the
latest from HST?
!
Astronomy
Astronomical Internet Resources
(including a
Searchable version
);
StarWorlds
, a list of
catalogs
,
Astronomical Institutes
Organizations:
AAS
,
IAU
(
members
)
People:
e-mail directory
Jobs:
Job Register
,
Nature
International Astronomical Meetings
(
text version)
Optical/IR obs.:
AAO
,
CTIO
,
ESO
,
IRTF
,
Keck
(
at CIT
,
LRIS
,
HIRES
),
La Palma
,
MS&SSO
,
Palomar
,
UKIRT
HST:
STScI
,
ST-ECF
,
WFPC exp. time calculator
X-ray obs.:
ASCA
,
SAX
,
XTE
(
TOO-News
)
Astronomical tools
,
StarLab
Reference:
Physical constants
,
Roget's Thesaurus
,
Webster
Databases:
DSS
,
SkyView
,
Galactic SNRs
,
GSC (and others)
, Pulsars at
Caltech
or
Princeton
(
shortcut
)
Archives:
Astron. Data Center
,
ESO-NTT
,
W3Browse (HEASARC)
,
VLA
SIMBAD batch-job form
Journals:
ApJ
,
Nature
,
New Astronomy
,
Science
,
Sky & Telescope
Abstracts:
ADS
,
A&A abstracts
Preprints:
LANL
,
Miscellaneous
WWW:
HTML primer
,
CCO starting points
Searching by words:
Alta Vista
,
WWW Worm
Searching systematically:
Yahoo
Searching anonymous FTP sites:
archie
Weather:
satelite images
(also from
NEXOR/UK
), Western USA in
IR
or
Visual
,
UH Meteo
(
IR movie
)
Earth Quakes
National Park Service
Back to Paul Green's
HomePage
.
My email address is
pgreen AT cfa. harvard .edu
.
Phone is (617)495-7057 and FAX (617)495-7356, at the
Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138