Astronomical Archives

AAT - Anglo-Australian Telescope

• AAT Data Archive (AAO, Australia)
• 2dF
  • Cambridge University AAO Mirror (UK)
  • Anglo-Australian Observatory (Australia)
• 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
  • Cambridge University AAO Mirror (UK)
  • Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO, Australia)
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
  • Cambridge (UK)
  • Mount Stromlo (MSSSO, Australia)

ADS Abstracts Service - Astrophysics Data System Abstracts Service

• Astrophysics Data System (Nottingham mirror).
• Centre de Donnees Astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS, France)
• Astrophysics Data System (at Center for Astrophysics) (CfA, US)
• National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN (NAO, Japan)

APM - Automatic Plate Measuring

• Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (UK)

AstroWeb

• Cambridge University (UK)
• Centre de Donnees Astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS, France)
• European Space Agency (VILSPA, Spain)
• Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF, ESO, Germany)
  Search handled by STScI.
• WWW Virtual Library (WWW-VL, CERN, Switzerland)
  Link to STScI for searchable version.
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI, US)
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, US)
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO, Australia)
  Search handled by CDS or STScI.

CADC - Canadian Astronomical Data Centre

• Canadian Astronomical Data Centre (CADC)

CAMC - Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (formerly the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle)

• Cambridge (UK)

COSMOS - ROE/NRL COSMOS UKST Southern Sky Object Catalog

• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, US)
• Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO, Australia)
• Cambridge University AAO Mirror (UK)
  Access to catalogue is via telnet to Australia

DSS - Digitized Sky Survey

Starlink Bulletin Article

As used from RAL for full-resolution, compressed FITS images up to 0.5 degree, SkyEye gives comparable access time to LEDAS. For images of 1 degree SkyEye is faster.
For binned (300 x 300 pixels), compressed FITS images, SkyView is faster than LEDAS.

Fastest sites:

• SkyEye (CNR Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy)
  best for full-resolution images
• SkyView (Goddard Space Flight Center, US)
  best for binned images
• LEDAS (University of Leicester, UK)
  good for both full-resolution and binned images

• CADC (Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, Canada)
• ESO (European Southern Observatory, Germany)
• STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute, US)

Ginga

• Leicester (UK)

HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

• HEASARC (GSFC, US)

Hipparcos

• Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (UK)
• Centre de Donnees Astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS, France)
• European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC, ESA, Netherlands)
  Links to CDS for catalogue
• Astronomical Data Center (ADC, NASA, US)
• National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN - Astronomical Data Analysis Center (NAOJ-ADAC, Japan)

HST Archive

• Hubble Data Archive (STScI, US)
• UK HST Support Facility (Cambridge, UK)

ING - Isaac Newton Group of telescopes, La Palma

• Cambridge (UK)

ISO - Infra-red Space Observatory (data archive)

• Vilspa (Spain)

IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer (Final Archive)

• European Space Agency (VILSPA, Spain)

JCMT - James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC, Canada)

Merlin - Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network

• Manchester (UK)

NED - The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

• Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (Caltech, US)

ROSAT

• ROSAT Results Archive Leicester (UK)
• ROSAT Data Archive Leicester (UK)
• HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (GSFC, US)
• SAO Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (US)
• MPE Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Germany)
• AIP Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)

SkyView

• Goddard Space Flight Center (US)

UKIRT - UK Infrared Telescope

• UKIRT mirror (Cambridge, UK)
• Joint Astronomy Centre (US)

UKST - UK Schmidt Telescope

• Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO, Australia)

Lists of Catalogues

• Centre de Donnees Astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS, France)
  2115 catalogues (1691 on-line, 1400 through VizieR browser)
• Astronomical Data Center (ADC, NASA, US)
  Web search
• See "AstroWeb's Data and Archive Centers Resources" List
• Astronomical Data Analysis Center (NAOJ/ADAC) (Japan)
• Database of Astrophysical Catalogues (SAO) (Russia)

IX Winter School URLs

• Some useful astronomical links November 1997

Publication

• Network Resources for Astronomers PASP, November 1994
  (same paper, different URL)

Starlink ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

Page created: 30th June 1997,
Modified: 26 August 1999.