Some URLs possibly useful for 12s23

Organizations

• The American Association of Variable Star Observers
• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (many useful pointers to other astronomical sites on the web)
• Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory site
• Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab.
• Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
• [Hubble] Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• IAU Commission 8 home page
• Icarus (journal) searchable database
• IKI, the Russian/FSU space agency
• Lowell Observatory
• NASA directory
• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
• SETI Institute
• Sky Publishing Co. (good site with lots of pointers to other astronomical sites)
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• U.S. Naval Observatory Time Service (legal timekeeper of the U.S.)
• Univ. of Arizona SEDS
• Univ. of Iowa Automated Telescope

Atlases, maps, photos, images, and databases

• "Earth and Moon Viewer"
• "U.S. Gazetteer" (maps & census information)
• Lunar surface images from Clementine
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
• MIT CSR interactive Venus image collection
• Mars atlas
• Tracking Artificial Satellites
• The Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page
• Chiron Information and Documentation
• The Pluto Home Page
• Comet Observation Home Page
• University of Alabama Astronomy - GIF images of Messier objects, galaxies, etc.
• Hubble Space Telescope picturebooks - see STScI.
• National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ("atlas") searchable on-line
• Galactic Cepheid Database
• Carina Software (the folks who produce Voyager II)

• Weather info
• orbital elements of Earth satellites

• NASA Astrophysics Data System ADS Abstract Service

"other"

• Mars (Federation of American Scientists)
• Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home

• Astronomical laboratory exercises
• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive
• MIT Center for Space Research "Microwave" home page
• All(!) about the Space Shuttle
• Other NASA missions
• Case for Mars International Conference for the Exploration and Colonization of Mars
• MIT Course 12 Subjects in Observational Optical Astronomy
• Steve Slivan's CCD images of Messier objects
• In Prof. Scott Hudson's Asteroids Page, in the "Index of MPEG animations" section, animations depicting asteroid spin states, gravitational fields, and orbits.
• Near-Earth Asteroid 3753 Cruithne, a dynamical companion of Earth

Network and WWW

• AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
• Pointers to astron. Internet resources, catalogs
• Registry of astron. Internet servers
• The "Virtual Shareware Library" (public-domain, freeware, shareware; not just astronomical s/w)
• A lot of useful astronomy links
• Generally good Web/Internet "search engines"
  • Lycos, Inc. Home Page
  • WebCrawler Searching
  • Yahoo! (see Science/Astronomy S)
  • Netscape Internet Search

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Last modified 2001 Jan 19