For resources not listed here, try searching the AstroWeb database at STScI or at CDS.

United Kingdom

• Cambridge Astronomy server. Including
  • VizieR mirror
  • HST mirror
  • ING information
• PPARC. Including
  • PATT
• STARLINK. Including
  • people/places directory
  • AIPS support
  • IRAF mirror
  • Astronomical Archives list (by Anne Charles).
• Royal Astronomical Society.

Europe

• IAU (including member's addresses).
• CDS. Including
  • SIMBAD Database of approx 3 million objects of all classes (except Solar System)
  • VizieR catalogue browser (or the UK mirror)
  • Aladin Sky Atlas
  • Catalogues
  • Astronomical Designations
  • Star*s
  • journal tables.
• ST-ECF (including HST archive).
• ASTRON (NL) (including CRAF).
• ROSAT Scientific Data Center at MPE.
• EVN - the European VLBI Network and JIVE - the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe.

North America

• JACH (for JCMT and UKIRT).
• NRAO. Including
  • FITS
  • AIPS
  • AIPS cookbook.
• American Astronomical Society.
• NASA. Including
  • WISARD for data archives
  • Missions.

Images/Surveys/Catalogues/Archives

• NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database).
• Simbad Database of approx 3 million objects of all classes (except Solar System).
• LEDAS (Leicester Database and Archive Service) including:
  • ARNIE (Archive Network Interface);
  • STScI Digitized Sky Survey mirror.
• ROSAT all-sky survey.
• NASA/GSFC for:
  • ADC (Astronomy Data Center, including all sky plots);
  • SKYVIEW image server or alternative SKYVIEW server;
  • HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center), including Astrobrowse.
  • AMASE (Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine).
• IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Centre) and IRSA (Infrared Science Archive) for:
  • Definitive IRAS site at IRSA , with comprehensive archives, access interfaces, analysis packages and tools (including ISSA, IGA, GATOR, FRESCO, HIRES, SCANPI, SUPERSCANPI etc).
  • 2MASS survey at IPAC and 2MASS access tools at IRSA.
  • SWAS Spectrum Server for Submillimeter-Wave Astronomy Satellite.
• U.S. Naval Observatory Radio Reference Frame Image Database (RRFID).
• VLBA and other VLBI Surveys including
  • VLBA Pre-launch Observations (VLBApls) for the VLBI Space Observatory Programme(VSOP);
  • VLBA Calibrators Survey;
  • VLBA 2-cm survey;
  • Caltech-Jodrell Bank and Pearson-Readhead suveys.
• EVN Image Gallery.
• MERLIN archive.
• Radio Surveys list.
• FIRST VLA survey: see also the local mirror.
• NVSS VLA survey: see also the local mirror.
• WENSS (Westerbork Northern Sky Survey) at 92 cm, at Leiden University; see also WSRT recent results page for links to other Westerbork surveys and projects.
• Effelsberg radio image server.
• IRSA at IPAC (Now hosts the IRAS archive and comprehensive supporting facilities and tools - see above).
• STScI Digitized Sky Survey: see also the Leicester mirror.
• APS (Automated Plate Scanner) catalog.
• NCSA astronomy image library.
• NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center).
• CD-ROMs at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (Mirror at Nottingham).
• 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ).
• COCO coordinate conversions.

Astronomical resource lists/publications

• AstroWeb (CDS, STScI, NRAO).
• Astronomical Conferences.
• Astronomy WAIS resources,

Astronomical journals/publishing

• IAU Circulars.
• Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics (full text).
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (full text).
• Astronomical Journal (full text).
• Astronomy & Geophysics (full text at Synergy).
• Astrophysical Journal (full text)
• Astronomy & Astrophysics (2000 and earlier, full text).
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series (2000 and earlier, full text).
• Astronomy & Astrophysics (2001 and later, full text).
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Review (full text).
• MNRAS information (and full text at Synergy or NesLi).
• New Astronomy (full text)
• Observatory information.
• PASA (full text).
• PASJ (full text).
• PASP (full text).
• ADS for: abstracts; articles; library, and Handbook (or the Nottingham or CDS mirrors).
• ARIBIB ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References.
• CDS abstracts (including A&A and A&AS; PASP)
• Astrophysics e-preprints mirror at uk.arXiv.org (or at LANL).
• ApJ yellow pages of recently submitted papers.
• Astronomy Thesaurus.

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