Links to Useful Sites

1. Electronic Data Archives
2. Useful Observing Information
3. Electronic Journals and Archives
4. Astronomy Departments
5. Observatories and Observing
6. Weather
7. Astronomy Sites
8. People's Home Pages
9. Search Engines
10. Useful Web Tools
11. Net Stuff
12. Computing-Related Sites
13. Astronomical Software
14. Astronomical Instrumentation
15. Astronomical Surveys
16. Optics and Telescope Building

Electronic Data Archives

• USNO A2.0 Astrometric Catalog
• APS POSS-I Catalog
• IPAC Page - 2MASS Image Sampler
• STScI DSS
• NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)
• HST Archives
• SkyView
• HST GSC
• IPAC user online services
• NSSDC archive
• CDS Strasbourg archive
• ADC Holdings
• STScI archive
• The Hubble Deep Field

Useful Observing Information

• Astronomical calendar tools
• Airmass calculator
• Lick and Keck observing calendars
• KPNO exposure time calculator
• HST Instruments
• Observing with HST
• WFPC2 Home Page
• WFPC2 Handbook
• WFPC2 exposure time calculator
• STIS exposure time calculator

Electronic Journals and Archives

• astro-ph
• astro-ph authors/titles new
• ADS - Get Copies of Papers
• ADS abstracts search
• eApJ home page
• ApJ Home Pages:
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The ApJ Letters
  • The ApJ Supplement Series
• The Astronomical Journal
• MNRAS
• ApJ Letters Electronic Submission
• Nature US site

Astronomy Departments

• ASU Physics and Astronomy
• Caltech Astronomy
• UC Berkeley Astronomy Department

Observatories and Observing

• Palomar Observatory Web Pages
  • Palomar Observatory Home Page
  • Palomar Observatory: 200" Telescope: Instruments: COSMIC
• Keck Observatory Web Pages
  • W.M. Keck Obervatory
  • LRIS
  • NIRC
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  • NOAO Home Page
  • KPNO
  • CTIO
• McDonald Observatory
• MMT Observatory
• Mt. Hopkins Observatory (MMT)
• Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
• UCO/Lick Observatory
• Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Steward Observatory Home Page
• Steward Almanac

Weather

• CNN Weather -- Southwest
• The Weather Channel -- West Coast
• LA satellite weather
• San Diego satellite weather
• NRL weather
• SFSU GOES West
• Keck weather
• UofOregon satellite weather
• Uof Hawaii Meteorology Local Weather
• Purdue Weather Processor

Astronomy Sites

• American Astronomical Society Home Page
• NASA homepage
• NSF Astronomy
• Astronomy Links (CIW links)
• IPAC HomePage

People's Home Pages

• Steve Odewahn
  
• Robert Brunner
• George Djorgovski
• Laura Ferrarese
• Roy Gal
• Mike Pahre
• Yogesh Wadadekar

Search Engines

• Yahoo Search
• Open Text Power Search
• AstroWeb
• Yahoo - Science:Astronomy

Useful Web Tools

• Webster Dictionary
• UCSD Webster Gateway
• SpellWeb

Net Stuff

• Bare bones HTML guide
• LaTeX2HTML Converter
• RGB color chart
• Background colors

Computing-Related Sites

• Dell Computers
• Caltech ADPF
• Statistics Group, University of Antwerp
• Tim Pearson's PGPLOT page
• Classification Society of America
• Pattern Recognition Resource Page
• CCO PPP Info at Caltech
• Online CLUSTERING Software
• PSU Statcodes
• PGPERL
• Netscape Javascript Reference
• Timothy's Javascript Examples
• Perl Tutorial
• Shell script Tutorial

Astronomical Software

• Astronomical Software Resources
• IRAF Support Services
• IDL Astronomy Programs
• WCS Tools (Great Astrometry Stuff!!!)

Astronomical Instrumentation

• Megacam (Upgraded MMT)
• Tim Abbott's CCD Resources Page

Astronomical Surveys

• The VLA FIRST Survey
• 2dF
• IRAS website

Optics and Telescope Making

• Telescope Making Books
• CCD Builders Cookbook Page
• Al Kelly's CCD Page (Great stuff!)
• Baton Rouge Astronomical Society (Telescope Making)