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2-Telescopes Large Interferometer
(GI2T REGAIN)
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The Grand Interferometre a 2 Telescopes is an Optical Interferometer,
on Plateau du Calern, Departement Fresnel, Observatoire de la Côte
d'Azur, France.
- http://www.obs-nice.fr/fresnel/gi2t/en/
- Categories: telescope optical
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2dF QSO Redshift Survey
(2QZ)
-
The official home page of the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
(2QZ), an Anglo-Australian collaboration surveying 740 square degrees of high-galactic
lattiude sky. It will contain more than 25 000 z<3
QSOs, making it far the largest QSO survey in existence.
This web site describes the survey objectives, current status and
is the primary site for public access to survey data
products. Currently approximately half of the full data set is
available online for download.
- http://www.2dfquasar.org/
- Categories: survey optical
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Advanced Camera for Surveys
(ACS)
-
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) will be installed in
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during a Space Shuttle mission
scheduled in 2000. ACS will increase the discovery efficiency of
the HST by a factor of ten. ACS will consist
of three electronic cameras and a complement of filters and
dispersers that detect light from the ultraviolet at 1200 angstroms
to the near infrared at 10,000 angstroms.
- http://adcam.pha.jhu.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical space ultraviolet
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Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle
(AFOE)
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A Spectrograph for Precise Stellar Radial Velocity Measurements.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/
- Categories: telescope optical planetary
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Air Force Maui Optical Station
(AMOS)
-
Information about the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS), located
on Maui, Hawaii. This is a dual-use facility, supporting both
US government agencies as well as the civilian community. Assets
include visible and IR sensors, and a 3.67 meter telescope
under construction.
- http://www.maui.afmc.af.mil/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment
(AGAPE)
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AGAPE (Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment) is a French
collaboration between CNRS (IN2P3 and INSU) and
CEA (DSM/DAPNIA) laboratories.
The project is a search
for microlensing on unresolved stars of the Andromeda M31 galaxy
by MACHOs (baryonic dark matter candidates) of the halo of
the Milky Way as well as of the halo of
M31. [in French].
- http://cdfinfo.in2p3.fr/Experiences/Agape/
- Categories: survey optical
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Anglo-Australian Observatory
(AAO)
-
The Anglo-Australian Observatory operates the Anglo-Australian and UK Schmidt
Telescopes at Siding Spring, Australia, and a laboratory on the
same campus as the ATNF in the Sydney Suburb of
Epping.
- http://www.aao.gov.au/
- Categories: dept infrared optical telescope
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Apache Point Observatory
(APO)
-
APO is privately owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research
Consortium. Located near Sunspot, New Mexico, the observatory consists of
a 3.5-meter telescope, the 2.5-meter Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope,
and two smaller telescopes.
- http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Aristarchos 2.3m Telescope Project
(The New Greek Telescope)
-
The New Greek Telescope project of the AI-NOA for
the 2.3m Ritchey-Chretien telescope, funded by the European Commission and
the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Hellenic
Ministry of Development.
- http://www.astro.noa.gr/ASC_2.3m/ngt_main.htm
- Categories: telescope optical
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Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational-sciencES
(ARIES)
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This observatory at Himalayan regions of Nainital, India (long.~79.5 degree
E, lat.~29.4 degree N , height~1951m) provides optical observational facilities
(astronomical and atmospheric sciences) with 5 telescopes of sizes in
between 15cm and 104cm. In future, ARIES plans to set-up
a 1-m class robotic and a 3-m class telescope. The
main research areas are in solar astronomy, star clusters, GRBs
and supernova, and stellar pulsations. ARIES also promotes research work
using radio and X-ray telescopes.
- http://aries.ernet.in/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Asiago Observatory
(Padova)
- http://www.pd.astro.it/asiago
- Categories: telescope optical
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Astrographic Catalogue 2000
(USNO)
-
The Astrographic Catalogue (AC) was an international effort designed to
photograph and measure the positions of all stars brighter than
magnitude 11.0. In total, over 4.6 million stars were observed,
many as faint as 13th magnitude. This project was started
over 100 years ago. The sky was divided among 20
observatories, by declination zones. Each observatory exposed and measured the
plates of its zone, subsequently publishing the plate measures.
The U.S. Naval Observatory has completed data entry of the
printed volumes of the AC, has completed the data reduction
of each zone, and has converted the positions to the
system defined by Hipparcos. The resulting catalog, called AC 2000,
is now available.
- http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ac/ac.html
- Categories: center optical
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Astronomical Data Center
(ADC)
-
The Astronomical Data Center (ADC), at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, is a cooperative effort between the National
Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/ World Data Center A for
Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S) and its parent organization, the Space
Science Data Operations Office . Currently, the ADC archives hold
more than 670 catalogs of astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, radio, and
other miscellaneous data for stellar and nonstellar objects. The data
were acquired through exchanges with the Centre de Donn'ees Astronomiques
de Strasbourg (CDS) , other astronomical data centers throughout the
world, and by direct contributions from the international astronomical community.
- http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical radio ultraviolet
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Astronomical Ring for Access to Spectroscopy
(ARAS)
-
ARAS is an informal group of volunteers who aim to
promote cooperation between professional and amateur astronomers in the field
of spectroscopy. The purpose of ARAS in fostering the participation
of amateur astronomers in scientific projects in the field of
spectroscopy is not to implement and coordinate observing campaigns. This
is the role of astronomy research scientists, laboratories or international
consortiums. ARAS will however attempt to consolidate the acquired data
into a web database and will ensure that the quality
of its data is compatible with scientific processing methods. ARAS
was held from 6 to 11 May 2003 by the
8th "Ecole d'Astrophysique d'Oléron, France" and organized by Jean-Pierre Rozelot
("Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur", France), under the aegis of
the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS). This session
essentially focused on the theme "Astrophysics Tools for Cooperation between
Amateur and Professional Astronomers", with special emphasis on spectrography. It
demonstrated that amateurs can make a useful contribution to observation
in a broad range of fields. [also in French, Italian,
Portuguese, and Spanish]
- http://astrosurf.com/aras/
- Categories: society optical
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Astrophysical CATalogs support System of the Special Astrophysical Observatory
(CATS)
-
Astrophysical CATalogs Support System (CATS) of the Special Astrophysical observatory
includes a large number of astrophysical catalogs (mostly radioastronomical) and
allows users to select sources from the CATS by different
parameters, to make cross-identifications with user's lists and to study
radio spectra of radio sources.
- http://cats.sao.ru/
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical radio
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Atomic Line List
-
The atomic line list is a compilation of approximately 855,000
allowed, intercombination and forbidden atomic transitions with wavelengths in the
range from 0.5 Å to 1000 µm. Its primary intention
is to allow the identification of observed atomic absorption or
emission features. The list is nearly complete for all ionization
stages of all elements up to zinc. Transition probabilities are
available for nearly 14% of the lines; they are mostly
derived from Opacity Project data.
- http://www.pa.uky.edu/~peter/atomic/
- Categories: physics center high_energy infrared optical ultraviolet
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Automated Patrol Telescope
(APT)
-
The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field CCD imaging
telescope, which is operated by the University of New South
Wales at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.
- http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/apt.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Belogradchik Astronomical observatory
- http://www.astro.bas.bg/~aobel/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Bentec Multiplexed Hyperaspheric Optical Surfaces
-
Polymer Optics Manufacturing and free optical software illustrating Multiplexed Hyperaspheric
Optical Surfaces.
- http://www.bentecservices.com
- Categories: software optical
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Bernard Lyot Telescope
(UPS)
-
2 m Cassegrain telescope operating in the visible domain. Located
at 2878 m high on the Pic du Midi in
the French Pyrénées. [also in French]
- http://bigorre.bagn.obs-mip.fr/tbl/indexeh.htm
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Big Bear Solar Observatory
(BBSO)
-
This site contains daily images from our solar optical telescope
at Big Bear, California. Fulldisk images for the current month.
H-alpha, white light, and Ca-II K-line images are generally available
for every observing day; Ca-II K-line fulldisk archive; H-alpha fulldisk
archive; White light fulldisk archive; Current high-resolution region images; Programs
to read FITS images on IBM PCs and Macintoshes.
- http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical pictures solar
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Bradford Robotic Telescope
(University of Bradford)
-
The engineering in astronomy Team in the Department of
Industrial Technology are currently working on low-cost fully-robotic telescopes.
- http://www.telescope.org/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Brazil National Laboratory for Astrophysics
(LNA)
-
The Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica is an Institute of the
Brazil National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). At
present, LNA supports 3 telescopes: the 1.6-m Ritchey-Chretien and coudé,
the 0.6-m Cassegrain and the 0.6-m telescope of the University
of São Paulo. [also in Portuguese]
- http://www.lna.br/Welcom_e.html
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Brazil National Observatory
(ON)
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The Observatório Nacional of Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro,
was founded in 1827. [in Portuguese]
- http://www.on.br/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Bucknell University Observatory
- http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/physics/astronomy/observatory/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Bulgaria National Astronomical Observatory "Rozhen"
(NAO-Rozhen)
-
The National Astronomical Observatory (NAO) - Rozhen (the Rhodopes), operated
by the Institute of Astronomy (IA), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
disposes with a 2-meter Ritchey-Chretien-Coude (RCC) telescope, a 50/70 cm
Schmidt, and a 60 cm Cassegrain telescope. On the 2-m
telescope, in the RC mode, direct images of extended astronomical
objects are obtained on astronomical photographic plates with size up
to 30x30 cm2, covering a field 1° x 1°. The
three cameras of the Coude spectrograph allow the obtaining of
spectra of astronomical objects with dispersions ranging from 2 Å
mm-1 to 36Å mm-1.
- http://www.astro.bas.bg/rozhen.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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CCD-world
(Charge-Coupled Device)
-
A mailing list for the discussion of issues relating to
the use of CCD and SWIR systems in professional astronomy.
The list address is CCD-world@ctio.noao.edu
- http://www.ctio.noao.edu/CCD-world/
- Categories: mailing_list infrared optical
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COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits - Asteroseismology and Search for Exoplanets
(COROT)
-
A space mission of the French Space Agency (CNES), with
a launch planned in 2006. COROT stands for COnvection ROtation
and planetary Transits.
- http://www.lam.oamp.fr/projets/corot/
- Categories: telescope optical planetary space
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Cagliari Astronomical Observatory
(International Latitude Station)
-
The Cagliari Astronomical Observatory was established as International Latitude Astronomical
Station of Carloforte in 1899, a small town of the
sardinian island of S. Pietro. It has been, for about
80 years, one of the five international stations devoted to
study the Earth rotation and polar motion. Observations with the
zenital telescope were carried out, except in the period of
the second world's war. Starting from 1978, the headquarters were
moved to Punta Sa Menta, a site 15 km far
from Cagliari which has the same latitude of the Carloforte
station. (Satellite Laser Ranging, Astrophysics, Planetary Dynamics, Time Laboratory, Data
Processing). [in Italian]
- http://www.ca.astro.iT/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Calar Alto Astronomical Observatory
(Calar Alto Astronomical Observatory)
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The German-Spanish Astronomical Center at Calar Alto is located in
the Sierra de Los Filabres in Southern Spain. It operates
four telescopes with apertures from 1.2m to 3.5m as well
as a Schmidt reflector.
- http://www.caha.es
- Categories: telescope optical
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Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
(COAST)
- http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Canada France Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT)
-
CFHT is a joint facility of the National Research Council
of Canada, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of
France, and the University of Hawaii. The CFH observatory hosts
a world-class, 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope. The observatory is located
atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant
volcano located on the island of Hawaii. The CFH Telescope
became operational in 1979.
There is a Mirror
copy of the Web site at CDS.
A CFHT page at CADC has information about the
CFHT archive, CCDs, proposal template and manuals.
- http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Canada France Hawaii Telescope (ftp)
(CFHT)
- ftp://ftp.cfht.hawaii.edu/pub/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Archive at CADC
(CFHT)
-
All the CFHT data are now being archived since September
18, 1992 and the proprietary period is 2 years. After
that time, they become public and are available world wide.
- http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
- Categories: center optical
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Canadian Satellite Tracking and Orbit Research
(CASTOR Satellite Tracking Project)
-
The Canadian Satellite Tracking and Orbit Research (CASTOR)project, based in
Ottawa, Ontario Canada, uses optical telescopes to track earth orbiting
satellites and inform the general public about our satellite population
that we take for granted every day.
- http://www.castor2.ca
- Categories: telescope education optical space
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Canopus 1 m telescope
(Tasmania)
- http://www.phys.utas.edu.au/physics/opttastr/canopus.htm
- Categories: telescope optical
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Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
(CMT)
-
The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (formerly the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle)
is located on La Palma and is dedicated to carrying
out high-precision optical astrometry.
- http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~dwe/SRF/camc.html
- Categories: telescope optical survey
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Carnegie Institution Observatories
(OCIW)
- http://www.ociw.edu/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Carter Observatory
(New Zealand)
-
Carter Observatory is the National Observatory of New Zealand.
- http://www.carterobservatory.org
- Categories: dept education meetings optical telescope
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Case Western Reserve University - Nassau Station Robotic Telescope
(CWRU)
- http://astrwww.astr.cwru.edu/nassau/nassau.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan
(Cassini)
-
Saturn and Titan will be the destination for the Cassini
mission, a project under joint development by NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
The U.S. portion of the mission is managed for NASA
by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/
- Categories: planetary center infrared optical particles radio space telescope ultraviolet
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Catania Astrophysical Observatory
(INAF-OACt)
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Daily solar images (chromosphere and photosphere). [also in Italian]
- http://woac.ct.astro.it/index_en.html
- Categories: telescope dept education optical solar
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Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics
(CAAO)
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The Center's mission is to develop state-of-the-art adaptive optics systems
for the many large telescope projects currently under development by
Steward Observatory in collaboration with a number of partners
worldwide.
- http://athene.as.arizona.edu:8000/caao/
- Categories: dept optical
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Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
(CHARA Array)
-
CHARA research is focused on the development of astronomical long-baseline
optical/infrared interferometry and the application of interferometry to high resolution
observations leading to the determination of the astrophysical properties of
stars. The Center operates the CHARA Array, a six-telescope optical/infrared
interferometric array in a Y-shaped array contained within a 400m
diameter circle (on Mount Wilson, California). This configuration will provide
high resolution interferometry in the visible spectral region as well
as the K spectral band (2.2 micron), with a limiting
resolution of 0.2 milliarcsec in the visible.
- http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
(CTIO)
-
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory is a complex of astronomical telescopes
and instruments located approximately 80 km to the East of
La Serena, Chile at an altitude of 2200 Meters.
CTIO
is operated by the Association of Universities for Research
in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), under a cooperative agreement with the
National Science Foundation as part of the National
Optical Astronomy Observatories.
- http://www.ctio.noao.edu/ctio.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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China National Astronomical Observatories
(NAOC)
-
The NAOC-Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were officially founded on
April 25, 2001 through the bringing together of four CAS
observatories, three CAS observing stations and one CAS research centre.
The Headquarters of the NAOC are situated in the northern
suburbs of Beijing on the site of the former Beijing
Astronomical Observatory (BAO), and take responsibility for all matters relating
to the former BAO. [also in Chinese]
- http://www.bao.ac.cn/english/home.asp
- Categories: telescope infrared optical radio
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Climenhaga Observatory
(Canada)
- http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/climenhaga/obs/telescope.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Copenhagen University Observatory
- http://www.astro.ku.dk/
- Categories: dept optical
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Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
(CrAO)
-
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) is one of the largest
scientific center in Ukraine. Mirror site: Stanford (USA). [also
in Russian]
- http://www.crao.crimea.ua/
- Categories: telescope optical
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
(DENIS - IAP)
-
DENIS is a deep complete survey of the astronomical sources
of the Southern Sky in 2 near-infrared bands (J at
1.25 micron & K at 2.16 micron) and one optical
band (I at 0.8 micron) simultaneously, using a one meter
ground-based telescope at La Silla (Chile), with limiting magnitudes 18.5,
16.5 and 14.0, respectively.
- http://www-denis.iap.fr/denis.html
- Categories: center infrared optical survey
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky: Point Source Database
(DENIS)
-
DENIS is a deep astronomical survey of the Southern Sky
in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 µ and K
at 2.16 µ) and one optical band (I at 0.8
µ) simultaneously, conducted by a European consortium, using a one
meter telescope (ESO, La Silla). The survey started in 1996
and is expected to be completed in 2000.
The Centre
de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) is implementing the final
point source databases and is providing access of the processed
and calibrated data to the worldwide community.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/denis.html
- Categories: center infrared optical survey
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DIRECT Project
(Determining the distances to nearby galaxies)
-
We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the
direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance
ladder -- M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs)
and Cepheids.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kstanek/DIRECT/
- Categories: survey optical
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Danish telescopes around the world
- http://www.astro.ku.dk/~michael/dantel.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical other_astronomy
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Dark Matter Telescope Project
(DMT / LSST)
-
The Dark Matter Telescope, also referred to as the Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope, is a proposed 8.4 meter, 3-degree-field, synoptic
survey telescope.
- http://www.dmtelescope.org/
- Categories: survey optical telescope
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David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto
(DDO)
-
The David Dunlap Observatory is located in Richmond Hill, Canada.
As part of the University of Toronto's Department of Astronomy
it operates optical telescopes for research, the largest being a
1.88m telescope. DDO is also a centre for student training
and public education.
- http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/DDO/
- Categories: telescope education optical
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Delta Scuti Star Network
(DSN)
-
The Delta Scuti Star Network for Observation and Investigation of
Delta Scuti, Gamma Doradus and SX Phe Stars is a
collaboration of astronomers all around the world, who observe and
study short period variable stars.
- http://dsn.astro.univie.ac.at/
- Categories: misc optical
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Digital Sky Survey
(DSS)
-
The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic
surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted
with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. The Catalogs and
Surveys Branch (CASB) is digitizing the photographic plates to support
HST observing programs but also as a service to the
astronomical community.
Images of any part of the sky
may be extracted from the DSS, in either FITS or
GIF format.
- http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/
- Categories: survey infosys optical
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Digitized Sky Survey at LEDAS
-
This service provides access to digitized optical Schmidt plates forming
the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). The DSS is particularly
useful in producing finding charts. Users are able to tailor
the size of the output image (from 17" to 1°)
to suit their particular needs.
- http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/DSSimage
- Categories: center optical
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Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
(DAO)
-
The DAO is operated by the National Research Council of
Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (NRC-HIA) as a national
centre for astronomical research within Canada, with emphasis on UV,
optical and IR astronomy. The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
(CADC) is a group within the DAO which is responsible
for the Canadian archive of data from the Hubble Space
Telescope as well the archive of data from the Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope. DAO's Facility Manual is now online.
- http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/dao/index_e.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Dutch Open Telescope
(DOT)
-
Innovative new optical solar telescope at the Roque de los
Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Canary Islands). The DOT provides
extended sequences of solar images in various wavelengths with high
angular resolution (0.2 arcsec).
- http://dot.astro.uu.nl/
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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ESO-MIDAS Users Guide
(Overview)
-
ESO-MIDAS is the acronym for the European Southern Observatory -
Munich Image Data Analysis System which is developed and maintained
by the European Southern Observatory. The MIDAS system provides general
tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on
astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO
instrumentation at La Silla. Volume A describes the basic MIDAS
system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control
Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image
display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). Site specific features are
given in an appendix. Volume B describes how to use
the MIDAS system for astronomical data reduction. Application packages for
special types of data or reductions (e.g., long slit and
echelle spectra, object search, or crowded field photometry) are discussed
assuming intensity calibrated data. A set of appendices gives a
detailed description of the reduction of raw data from ESO
instruments. Volume C gives the detailed description for all commands
available. This volume is not available to remote users as
the complete volume as it is accessed via the MIDAS
GUI XHelp.
- http://www.eso.org/esomidas/doc/user/
- Categories: software optical
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El Leoncito Astronomical Complex
(CASLEO)
-
The Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito is an astronomical facility operated
under agreement between the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y
Técnicas de la República Argentina and the Universities of La
Plata, Córdoba and San Juan.
Its main telescope is a
2.15 meter reflector, equipped with direct CCD camera, spectrographs, a
photopolarimeter and other instruments. It is located at 2552 meters
above the sea level, in a high quality astronomical site
in the mountains of Calingasta, 240 km away from the
city of San Juan (Argentina).
The use of this facility
is open to the national and international astronomical community. [also
in Spanish]
- http://www.casleo.gov.ar/indexingles.htm
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Estacion Astronomica Rio Grande
(EARG)
- http://www.earg.gov.ar/
- Categories: dept earth optical
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European Asteroidal Occultation Results
(euraster)
-
Online European observational results of stellar occultations by asteroids since
1997 (and sometimes by Pluto and satellites of outer planets).
- http://www.euraster.net/
- Categories: center optical
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European Northern Observatory
(ENO)
-
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and its Observatories
(the Observatorio de Teide, on Tenerife, and the Observatorio del
Roque de los Muchachos, on La Palma) make up a
Spanish research and observational centre, which, since 1979, has been
open to the international scientific community and effectively constitute the
European Northern Observatory (ENO). [also in Spanish]
- http://www.iac.es/eno/
- Categories: telescope dept infrared optical
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European Southern Observatory
(ESO)
-
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is a multinational organisation of
eight European member states. It operates astronomical observatories in Chile
and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany.
- http://www.eso.org/
- Categories: agency dept optical telescope
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European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System
(ESO-MIDAS)
-
The European Southern Observatory, established in 1962, operates astronomical observatories
at La Silla (600 km north of Santiago de Chile)
and at Paranal (130 km south of Antofagasta). ESO's headquarters
are in Garching, just north of Munich, Germany. ESO is
supported by: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden
and Switzerland. In Europe and in Chile, ESO has a
combined scientific, technical, adminstrative and visiting staff of around 400.
- http://www.eso.org/esomidas/
- Categories: dept optical software
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Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems
(ExNPS)
-
NASA's plan for the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS)
consists of a long term program of continuous scientific discovery
and technological development leading ultimately to the detection and characterization
of Earth-like planets around nearby stars.
- http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/exnps/ExNPS.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical planetary space
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FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph
(FORS, ESO VLT)
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The two FORS instruments are designed as all-dioptric focal reducers
for the ESO Very Large Telescope. They are capable of
doing : direct imaging , long slit grism spectroscopy ,
multi object grism spectroscopy , polarimetry (FORS1), medium dispersion echelle
grism spectroscopy (FORS2), and all sensible combinations of these modes
(e.g. imaging- or spectropolarimetry) in the wavelength range from 330nm
to 1100nm.
- http://www.eso.org/instruments/fors1/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Fibre Large Area Multi-Element Spectrograph
(FLAMES, ESO VLT)
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FLAMES is a Fibre Facility for the ESO VLT. It
includes a high and intermediate resolution optical spectrograph (GIRAFFE), with
its own fibre system.
- http://www.eso.org/instruments/flames/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Florence and George Wise Observatory
(Wise)
- http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
(FLWO)
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The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) is the largest field
installation of the Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) outside Cambridge,
MA (USA). Located near Amado, Arizona on Mount Hopkins, the
FLWO has the following facilities: * The 6.5-meter MMT (256-inch) ,
a joint facility operated with the University of Arizona, for
solar system, galactic and extragalactic astronomy. * The 1.5-meter (60-inch) and
1.2-meter (48-inch) reflector telescopes, for solar system, galactic and extragalactic
astronomy. * The 1.3-meter(51-inch) PAIRITEL (Peters Automated IR Imaging Telescope, ex-2MASS)
reflector, for infrared observations, especially of gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and
other variable sources. * The 10-meter optical Gamma-ray reflector telescope. Also
visit VERITAS. * The IOTA Telescopes, used for optical and infrared
interferometry (in collaboration with several institutions). * The HAT (Hungarian Automated
Telescope) network of optical refractor telescopes, used for robotic observations
of the night sky.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/flwo/index.html
- Categories: telescope high_energy infrared optical
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French ground based solar database
(BASS2000)
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The BAse de données Solaire Sol 2000 was created as
a support for THEMIS data and in complement of the
MEDOC database of space observations (SOHO). This database is implemented
on two complementary sites (Meudon and Tarbes); it
archives data from Tenerife (THEMIS), Meudon, Nançay, and Pic du
Midi.
- http://bass2000.bagn.obs-mip.fr/pageac_ang.htm
- Categories: center optical radio solar
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Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
(FAME)
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FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented
accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars
within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between
the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and several other institutions. FAME
will measure stellar positions to less than 50 microarcseconds. It
is a NASA MIDEX mission scheduled for launch in 2004.
- http://aa.usno.navy.mil/FAME/
- Categories: telescope optical space
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Gemini - U.K. Support Group
(UKGSG)
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The U.K. GEMINI Support Group based at Oxford University, England
is aimed at supporting the U.K. astronomer community in the
use of the GEMINI 8m Telescopes. This site is the
main source of information on the telescopes themselves, their instrument
compliment, applying for observing time, observing with the GEMINI telecopes
and post-observing data reduction/analysis for U.K. researchers.
- http://gemini.physics.ox.ac.uk/
- Categories: dept infrared optical telescope
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Gemini Multiobject Spectrographs
(GMOS)
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There will be one GMOS for each of the two
GEMINI 8-m telescopes ( UK mirror ) which are due
for completion in 1998 and 2000. They will provide a
versatile low/medium resolution spectroscopic capability which will exploit the excellent
image quality delivered by the telescopes at optical and near-infrared
wavelengths.
- http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~jra/gmos.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Gemini Observatory
(Two 8 m telescopes)
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The Gemini Observatory consists of twin 8-meter optical/infrared telescopes located
on two of the best sites on our planet for
observing the universe. Together these telescopes can access the entire
sky. The Gemini South telescope is located at almost 9,000’
elevation on a mountain in the Chilean Andes called Cerro
Pachón. Cerro Pachón shares resources with the adjacent SOAR Telescope
and the nearby telescopes of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
The Gemini North Telescope is located on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea
as part of the international community of observatories that have
been built to take advantage of the superb atmospheric conditions
on this long dormant volcano that rises almost 14,000' into
the dry, stable air of the Pacific. The Gemini Observatory’s
international headquarters is located in Hilo, Hawaii at the University
of Hawaii at Hilo’s University Park.
- http://www.gemini.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Georgia State University - Astronomy
(GSU)
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CHARA = Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service for brighter earth satellites.
- http://www.chara.gsu.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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German Interferometer for Multi-channel Photometry and Astrometry
(DIVA)
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The Deutsches Interferometer fuer Vielkanalphotometrie und Astrometrie (DIVA) is a
small astronomy satellite, planned for launch in 2004. It is
aimed to measure positions, proper motions and parallaxes, brightness and
color of at least 30 million stars.
This amount
and the high precision is unreached so far by any
predecessor mission. In a sense it is a pathfinder mission
for the technology of upcoming cornerstone missions in the ESA
Horizon 2000+ and the NASA Origins programmes like GAIA, DARWIN,
LISA, SIM etc.
- http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/diva/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical space ultraviolet
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Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
(GAIA)
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GAIA is a preliminary concept for a second space astrometry
mission (after HIPPARCOS), recently recommended within the context of ESA's
Horizon 2000 Plus long-term scientific programme. It is aimed at
the broadest possible astrophysical exploitation of optical interferometry using a
modest baseline length.
- http://www.rssd.esa.int/gaia/
- Categories: telescope optical space
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Globular Cluster Group, Padova
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Web site of the Globular Cluster Group of the Astronomy
Department of the University of Padova, including an archive of
photometrically homogeneous color-magnitude diagrams for Galactic Globular Clusters (from both
groundbased and HST observations).
- http://dipastro.pd.astro.it/globulars
- Categories: dept optical
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Gran Telescopio Canarias Project
(GTC)
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The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), is a high performance segmented
10-meter telescope to be installed in one of the best
sites of the Northern Hemisphere: the Roque de los Muchachos
Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain). First light is planed
for 2002.
The GTC project is a Spanish initiative,
led by the IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
with the aim of becoming an international project. GRANTECAN
has undertaken the construction of this telescope. [also in Spanish]
- http://www.gtc.iac.es/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Guillermo Haro Observatory
(Cananea, Mexico)
- http://www.inaoep.mx/~astrofi/cananea/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Haleakala Observatories
(Hawaii)
- http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/haleakala/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical solar
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Hard Labor Creek Observatory
(HLCO)
- http://www.chara.gsu.edu/HLCO/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(CFA)
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The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College
Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of
those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution
of the universe. The CfA operates the Whipple Observatory in
Amado, Arizona, and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts.
There is also a Theory Group ).
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
(HIA)
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The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA)is the scientific institute within
the National Research Council of Canada which is responsible for
operating Canadian observatories. Subdivisions and related facilities of HIA include:
the DAO, DRAO, JCMT, CFHT, CADC, Gemini, and Solar Terrestrial
Physics.
- http://www.hia.nrc.ca/
- Categories: dept optical
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Hipparcos
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Hipparcos space astrometry mission: Professionals, amateurs, and educators in astronomer
should be interested in the (updated) Hipparcos astrometry mission www
page, maintained by ESA. The monumental Hipparcos and Tycho star
catalogues, with stellar positions, distances, and proper motions, double star
data, and photometry (including thousands of light curves) was completed
in June 1997. The 17-volume publication (including 6 ASCII CD-ROMs)
can be ordered via the www page; the main catalogues
can also be searched on-line, by object or sky region,
with hyperlinks to the principal annexes. An "Educational Page" offers
some ideas for observational projects for amateurs or for student
projects, with the facility to search for the periods of
variable stars interactively.
- http://www.rssd.esa.int/Hipparcos/
- Categories: survey optical space
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Hitachi High Technologies America
(Hitachi HTA)
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Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider
of high efficiency diffraction gratings. We offer both standard catalog
components and custom made to order items.
- http://www.hii-hitachi.com/
- Categories: misc optical
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Hobby Eberly Telescope
(HET)
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The Hobby-Eberly telescope (HET) is a new 9 meter telescope,
built at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory near
Ft. Davis Texas as a result of an international collaboration
between the University of Texas at Austin, The
Pennsylvania State University and Stanford University in the United
States and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, and Goerg-August-Universitaet Goettingen. The
HET has been tailored for spectroscopy, and in particular, fiber-coupled
spectroscopy.
- http://www.astro.psu.edu/het/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Hubble Heritage Project
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A striking astronomical image, created by the Hubble Heritage team,
is released at this site the first Thursday of every
month. As well as creating color images from the exposures
in the Hubble Telescope Data Archive, this project has voting
events for choosing observing targets at this website.
- http://heritage.stsci.edu/
- Categories: pictures optical
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Hubble Space Telescope
(HST)
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a cooperative program of the
European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) to operate a long-lived space-based observatory for the
benefit of the international astronomical community. To accomplish this goal
and protect the spacecraft against instrument and equipment failures, NASA
had always planned on regular servicing missions. Hubble has special
grapple fixtures, 76 handholds, and stabilized in all three axes.
HST is a 2.4-meter reflecting telescope which was deployed in
low-Earth orbit (600 kilometers) by the crew of the space
shuttle Discovery (STS-31) on 25 April 1990. HST's current complement
of science instruments include three cameras, two spectrographs, and fine
guidance sensors (primarily used for astrometric observations). Because of HST's
location above the Earth's atmosphere, these science instruments can produce
high resolution images of astronomical objects. Ground-based telescopes can seldom
provide resolution better than 1.0 arc-seconds, except momentarily under the
very best observing conditions. HST's resolution is about 10 times
better, or 0.1 arc-seconds.
- http://www.stsci.edu/hst/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical space ultraviolet
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Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team
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See how astrometry, one of the oldest branches of astronomy,
uses the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the newest tools
of astronomy. Interrogate our home page to find out what
we do, who we are, and what we've done. Look
over our shoulder as we search for planets around a
nearby star. We use the Fine Guidance Sensors aboard the
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure star positions, study binary
stars and study stellar motions. Primarily, stellar positions yield parallaxes
which provide information on distance. The distances to nearby stars
calibrate the entire astronomical distance scale. Monitoring star position may
reveal previously unseen companions. We search for planets near Proxima
Centauri and Barnard's Star. We also work to tie the
HIPPARCOS reference frame to an extragalactic (non-rotating) reference frame. We
study binary stars unresolvable using ground-based techniques. We inspect stars
to determine whether or not they are binary. We use
the Planetary Camera to obtain images of stars in globular
clusters. The precision with which we can measure positions is
so high, that after 3-5 years a second image will
show motions of stars in clusters 6 kpc distant.
- http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/ASTindex.html
- Categories: dept optical
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Hubble Space Telescope images and press releases
(News Center)
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images, movies and animations from some of the observations by
the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). They are made available
by the Office of Public Outreach of the
Space Telescope Science Institute. See also:
TIFFs & GIFs ( Levay),
ExInEd (Macs-only)
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
- Categories: education optical space
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Hubble Space Telescope picture gallery
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a mousable sequence of press release photographs taken by the
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
- http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/OpenDay/HST/
- Categories: pictures optical space
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IAC / Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos
- http://www.iac.es/gabinete/orm/orm1.htm
- Categories: telescope optical
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IAC / Observatorio del Teide
- http://www.iac.es/gabinete/oteide/ot1.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
(IRAF)
-
The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs
for general image processing and graphics, plus a large number
of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical and
IR astronomy data (the "NOAO" packages). Other external or layered
packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or
handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as
the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or ROSAT
and AXAF (X-ray). These external packages are distributed separately from
the main IRAF distribution but can be easily installed. The
IRAF system also includes a complete programming environment for scientific
applications, which includes a programmable Command Language scripting facility, the
IMFORT Fortran/C programming interface, and the full SPP/VOS programming environment
in which the portable IRAF system and all applications are
written.
- http://iraf.noao.edu/
- Categories: software high_energy infrared optical ultraviolet
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Indian Astronomical Observatory Hanle
(IAO, the world's highest observatory for optical and infrared astronomy)
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The Indian Astronomical Observatory, the high-altitude station of IIA is
situated at an altitude of 4500 metres above mean sea
level to the north of Western Himalayas. Atop Mt. Saraswati
in the vast Nilamkhul Plain in the Hanle Valley of
Changthang, Ladakh (4250m above msl), the site is a dry,
cold desert with sparse human population and the ancient Hanle
monastery as its nearest neighbour. The cloudless skies and low
atmospheric water vapour make it one of the best sites
in the world for optical, infrared, sub-millimetre, and millimetre wavelengths.
A 2-m optical infrared telescope is installed at the observatory.
This telescope is remotely operated from CREST, Hosakote, using dedicated
satellite links. In addition, IIA is collaborating with University of
Washington, St. Louis, in operating a 0.5-m photometry telescope for
continuous monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei. This telescope will be
one of the pair of telescopes constituting Antipodal Transient Observatory.
A 0.3-m Differential Image Motion Monitor, a 220-GHz radiometer and
an Automated Weather Station have been installed to facilitate continuation
of site characterisation.
- http://www.iiap.res.in/iao/iao.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
(IBVS)
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The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars is a bulletin of
the Commissions 27 and 42 of the International Astronomical Union,
published by Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary.
- http://www.konkoly.hu/IBVS/IBVS.html
- Categories: full_text optical other_astronomy
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Infra-Red Telescope Facility
(IRTF)
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The IRTF is a 3.0 meter telescope optimized for use
in the infrared. It was first built to support the
Voyager missions to Jupiter. It is now the USA National
facility for infrared astronomy providing continued support to planetary and
deep space applications.
- http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu
- Categories: telescope infrared optical planetary
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Infrared and Optical Telescope Array
(IOTA)
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/oir/IOTA/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica. Astrophysics Department
(INAOE, Mexico)
-
Information on the Large Millimeter Telescope an about the Cananea
observatory
- http://www.inaoep.mx/~astrofi/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Planetary Nebula Research Group
(IAC PN Group)
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Members of the group; Research projects; Publications; Meetings
- http://www.iac.es/proyect/PNgroup/root/iacpn.html
- Categories: dept optical
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Interferometry Center of Excellence
(ICE, JPL)
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The Interferometry Center of Excellence (ICE), at JPL, has been
established to ensure the development and maintenance of a leading
edge capability in optical and near-infrared interferometric astrometry and imaging.
- http://ice.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope infrared misc optical
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International Liquid Mirror Telescope Project
(ILMT)
- http://vela.astro.ulg.ac.be/themes/telins/lmt/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Iowa Robotic Telescopes Facilities
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The University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Department maintains
these pages as a guide to our suite of robotic,
autonomous tasking telescopes. In addition to using these instruments for
teaching and faculty and student research, limited observing time is
made available to anyone with an interest in Astronomy and
a valid observing request.
- http://phobos.physics.uiowa.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Isaac Newton Group - La Palma
(ING)
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The Issac Newton Group consists of three telescopes, the 4.2
metre William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5 metre Isaac Newton Telescope,
and the 1 metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. They are situated
at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on the
island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and are
operated by the Royal Observatories of the UK. This resource
contains documentation for many of the major instruments, details of
how to apply for time, brief descriptions of the telescopes,
details and status of the service programme, current telescope schedules,
weather information for La Palma, and pointers to other institutions
which share the site.
The site is mirrored at
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ING/ for faster access to UK users.
- http://www.ing.iac.es/
- Categories: telescope optical pictures
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Japan N. A. O. - Astronomical Data Analysis Center
(NAOJ-ADAC)
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On-line Access Interface to Astronomical Data. [also in Japanese]
- http://dbc.nao.ac.jp/index.html.en
- Categories: center infrared optical
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Jodrell Bank Observatory
(University of Manchester)
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Jodrell Bank Observatory is part of the University of Manchester's
Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Laboratories are home to
the Lovell Telescope and the MERLIN & VLBI National Facility
which is operated by the University on behalf of PPARC.
- http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/
- Categories: dept education optical radio schedule telescope
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Joint Astronomy Centre
(Hilo, Hawaii)
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The Joint Astronomy Centre incorporates the 15m James Clerk Maxwell
Telescope (JCMT) and the 3.8m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)
on the 4200m summit of Mauna Kea along with the
Centre's Hawaii headquarters in Hilo. The facility is operated by
the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh on behalf of the Science and
Engineering Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Nederlandse Organisatie
Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and the National Research Council of Canada.
- http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical radio
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KLEt Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
(KLENOT)
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The KLENOT project is a project of the KLEt' observatory
Near earth and Other unusual objects observations Team (and Telescope),
concentrating particularly on fainter objects, up to a limiting magnitude
of m=22.0 V. All the observing time will belong to
our team, this will allow us to make changes in
the observing programme as necessary.
The KLENOT telescope was
constructed using a 1.06-m primary mirror and a primary focus
corrector to obtain a plane field of view 33 x
33 arcminutes. This telescope is equipped with a CCD camera
Photometrics Series 300.
- http://klenot.klet.org/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory
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The Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory is operated by the Institute of
Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology (IGAM) of the University of Graz,
Austria. It is located near Villach, close to the Italian
and Slovenian border. Operated continuously and devoted also to Solar
surveillance since its foundation in 1943 it houses a rich
archive of observations.
- http://www.solobskh.ac.at/
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Keck Observatory
(CalTech)
- http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik
(KIS)
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The Kiepenheuer-Institut is a research institution of the German state
of Baden-Wuerttemberg, dedicated to the study of the Sun. It
is located in Freiburg, Germany, and operates solar observing facilities
at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain.
- http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/kiswwwe.html
- Categories: dept optical solar telescope
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Kirkwood Observatory
- http://www.astro.indiana.edu/facilities/observatories/kirkwood/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Kitt Peak National Observatory
(KPNO)
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Observing information. There is also an anonymous ftp
- http://www.noao.edu/kpno/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
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The Kodaikanal Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is
located in the beautiful Palani range of hills in Southern
India. It was established in 1899 as a Solar Physics
Observatory and all the activities of the Madras Observatory were
shifted to Kodaikanal.
- http://www.iiap.res.in/kodai/kodai.html
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Konkoly Observatory
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The Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has
evolved from the private observatory of Miklos Konkoly-Thege. Konkoly founded
his observatory in 1871 in Ogyalla. Twenty-nine years later he
donated the telescopes and instruments to the Hungarian state. The
construction of Piszkesteto Mountain Station started in 1958. Three telescopes
currently operate there: a 60/90 cm Schmidt (since 1962), a
50 cm Cassegrain (since 1966) and an 1 m RCC
(since 1974).
- http://www.konkoly.hu/
- Categories: dept optical
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Kvistaberg Observatory
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The Observing Station of the Uppsala Observatory.
- http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Kvistaberg.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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LAMOST Sky Survey Project
(LAMOST)
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LAMOST is a meridian reflecting Schmidt telescope. Using active optics
technique to control its reflecting corrector makes it a unique
astronomical instrument in combining large aperture with wide field of
view. The available large focal plane may accommodate up to
4000 fibers, by which the collected light of distant and
faint celestial objects down to 20.5 magnitude is fed into
the spectrographs, promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of
ten-thousands of spectra per night. The telescope will be located
at the Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatories. The project’s
budget is RMB 235 millions yuan, about 28.5 million USD.
- http://www.lamost.org/
- Categories: survey optical telescope
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La Silla - ESO Facilities
- http://www.ls.eso.org/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Lake Afton Public Observatory
(Wichita State University)
- http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/
- Categories: telescope education optical
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Large Angle and Spectrographic Coronagraph for SOHO
(LASCO/SOHO)
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This instrument monitors the solar corona above the Sun's limb
in a similar way as we perceive the corona during
a solar eclipse. It produces images of the corona in
the visible spectrum and with distance off the Sun's center
ranging from 1.1 to 32 solar radii.
- http://star.mpae.gwdg.de/indexe.shtml
- Categories: telescope optical solar space
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Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
(LBT)
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The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a collaboration between Arizona
(25%), Italy (25%, represented by the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in
Florence), Research Corporation (12.5%), the Ohio State University (12.5%), and
Germany (25%, represented by the LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft).
The goal
of the LBT project is to construct and exploit a
binocular telescope consisting of two 8.4-meter mirrors on a common
mount. This telescope will be equivalent in light-gathering power to
a single 11.8-meter instrument. Because of its binocular arrangement, the
telescope will have a resolving power (ultimate image sharpness) corresponding
to a 23-meter telescope.
- http://lbto.org/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical ultraviolet
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Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
(LLNL)
-
The focus of the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Program
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the development of
integrated adaptive optics (AO) and sodium-layer laser guide star (LGS)
systems for use on large astronomical telescopes.
- http://www.llnl.gov/urp/science/lgs_www/lgs.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Lausanne - General Catalogue of Photometric Data
(GCPD)
-
The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD) built at the
Institute of Astronomy of the University of Lausanne contains photometric
data for about 200000 stars from some 75 different systems,
taken from about 3300 papers. The WWW server allows to
query the database ad retrieve any data from any photometric
system. Searching the references by authors' names and keywords from
the titles offers a possibility to retrieve the data from
each of the 3300 papers directly.
- http://obswww.unige.ch/gcpd/gcpd.html
- Categories: center bibliography infrared optical ultraviolet
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Leeds University - Astrophysics Group
(School of Physics and Astronomy)
-
Within the Department of Physics at Leeds University are three
research groups that work in Astronomy related areas. The Optical
Astronomy group is mainly interested in globular clusters and CCD
photometry. The Haverah Park group studies high energy cosmic rays
by various techniques. The Whipple group is attempting to detect
gamma rays with energies > 1TeV using air-Cherenkov detectors.
- http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/
- Categories: dept optical
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Leiden Observatory
- http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/
- Categories: dept optical
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Libraries of stellar spectra
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Libraries of stellar spectra (late-type stars) by Montes et al.,
Other Libraries of stellar spectra. MK (Morgan-Keenan) Spectral Classification. Other
related links.
Maintained by David Montes, Departamento de Astrofísica,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/invest/actividad/spectra.html
- Categories: center infrared optical ultraviolet
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Lick Observatory - University of California
(UCOLICK)
-
Descriptions and users' manuals for Lick Observatory telescopes and facility
instruments on Mount Hamilton; local weather; astronomical calendars; telescope time
applications; staff and contacts at Lick Observatory.
Pages on
Lick Observatory of general interest to the public; Lick Observatory
history; visitor information; Mount Hamilton web camera.
- http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/
- Categories: telescope dept education infrared optical pictures
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Liquid Mirrors at Université Laval
(LM)
-
Liquid Mirror (LM) technology is being developed at Université Laval.
A f/1.2, 2.5 meter diameter, mercury mirror is being extensively
tested in our testing tower. We are also exploring the
use of gallium eutectics as reflecting liquids. The design of
novel optical correctors to increase the accessible field of view
of liquid mirrors up to 45 degrees is also addressed.
- http://wood.phy.ulaval.ca/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Liverpool John Moores University, Astrophysics Research Institute
(ARI, Liverpool JMU)
-
Details of the research and teaching interests of the group,
as well as information on the Liverpool Telescope project
- a fully-robotic 2m telescope to be situated at the
Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma.
As
well as the Astrophysics degree-course with Liverpool University, we also
have an innovative distance learning course.
- http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/astro/
- Categories: dept infrared optical telescope
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Loiano Telescopes - Bologna
- http://www.bo.astro.it/loiano/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Lowell Observatory
- http://www.lowell.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase
(LEDA)
-
Created in 1983, LEDA is the oldest Extragalactic Database. It
gives more than 60 of the most important parameters for
about one million galaxies. It provides charts and images through
a Web interface. In addition, a batch mode is available
and also a very powerful SQL-like query language.
- http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/
- Categories: center infrared optical
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MACHO project
-
The MACHO project is
searching for dark matter in the form of Massive Compact
Halo Objects (MACHOs) using gravitational microlensing. We search for these
events by monitoring over 10 million stars every night in
the LMC and Galactic bulge, using the dedicated 50-inch telescope
at Mt. Stromlo.
- http://wwwmacho.anu.edu.au/
- Categories: survey optical
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MDM Observatory
(MDM Observatory)
-
MDM Observatory was founded by the University of
Michigan, Dartmouth College, and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Current operating partners include Michigan, Dartmouth,
MIT, Ohio State University, and Columbia University.
The Observatory is located on the southwest ridge of the
Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ. It
operates two telescopes: the 2.4-m Hiltner telescope and the 1.3-m
McGraw-Hill telescope.
- http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/obs/mdm/
- Categories: telescope optical
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MONOPTEC's Fixed Shutter Dome
(FSD)
-
MONOPTEC licenses the Fixed Shutter Dome, an enabling technology in
observatory enclosures and satellite laser ranging systems. Four FSD's now
reside in Tokyo, Japan, as part of the Keystone Project.
- http://monoptec.com
- Categories: misc optical telescope
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Magdelena Ridge Observatory Project
(MRO)
-
The Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) project is an international scientific
collaboration between New Mexico Tech, the University of Cambridge (UK),
New Mexico State University, New Mexico Highlands University, the University
of Puerto Rico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project
is overseen by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The observatory
is primarily intended for astronomical research and will be composed
of two facilities, a single telescope and an array of
optical/infrared telescopes called the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI). Located
on the main ridge of the Magdalena mountains, some 30
miles west of the New Mexico Tech campus, at an
elevation of 10,600 ft. above sea level, it will be
the fourth highest observatory in the world.
- http://www.mro.nmt.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Magnetic Classification Values of sunspots
(after Malde)
-
Worldwide network; observations of sunspots; classifying to Zurich/McIntosh-system; generating values=Classification
Values after Malde (established in 1981; published in german mag.
"vdS-SONNE").
- http://www.cv-helios.net/
- Categories: misc optical solar
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Mauna Kea Observatories
- http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical radio
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Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
(MPIA, Heidelberg)
-
The MPIA operates the Calar Alto Observatory as well as
conducting research in different areas of astronomy and astrophysics including
star formation, extragalactic objects, astrophysical theory, and instrumentation development. [also
in German]
- http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/
- Categories: dept optical
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McDonald Observatory
(University of Texas, Austin)
-
McDonald Observatory is located 450 miles west of Austin, Texas,
in the Davis Mountains. At present, there are three operating
telescopes: 2.7-meter, 2.1-meter, and .76-meter reflectors. The Observatory is equipped
with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for imaging and
spectroscopy in the optical and infrared, and it boasts one
of the first and most productive lunar ranging stations.
- http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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McMaster Cepheid Photometry and Radial Velocity Archive
-
This site contains ASCII data tables of photometry and radial
velocities for Galactic and Extragalactic Cepheids (both Classical and Type
II). Data is presented as published and full citations to
the original work are given. Currently, data are sorted according
to star name.
- http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/Cepheid/
- Categories: center bibliography optical
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Mees Solar Observatory
(MSO, Hawaii)
- http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/mees.html
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Michigan State Univ. SOuthern Astrophysical Research Telescope
(SOAR)
-
Outreach efforts to merge astronomy research and non-science education. The
SOAR Telescope is located on Cerro Pachon, Chile, and operated
by a consortium including Michigan State University, the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory
and the country of Brazil.
- http://www.pa.msu.edu/soarmsu/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Microlensing Planet Finder Project
(MPF, ex-GEST)
-
The Microlensing Planet Finder Project (MPF) is by far the
most powerful proposed observatory for finding large numbers of planetary
systems. It answers the following questions: How many planets are
there? How are they distributed in mass and distance from
their parent stars, and in distance from the Galactic Center?
How many have large moons? How many have been expelled
from their systems? None of these questions are fully addressed
by other techniques particularly if the abundance is low. MPF
will do this by observing microlensing signals from 100 million
stars in the Galactic bulge for 4 observing seasons, and
it will have sensitivity to planets with masses as low
as 0.1 M\oplus at separations > 0.7 AU. MPF will
be sensitive to analogs of all the planets in the
solar system except for Mercury and Pluto and will complement
the Kepler mission.
- http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/GEST/
- Categories: telescope optical planetary space
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Microvariability and Oscillations of STars
(MOST)
-
MOST is Canada's first space science microsatellite and its first
optical space telescope project, aiming for launch in late 2001.
MOST is designed to measure (as its acronym implies) Microvariability
& Oscillations of STars in broadband light with a precision
of a few micromagnitudes over timescales from minutes to days.
The resulting eigenfrequency data will be used primarily for stellar
seismology, to probe the structure and ages of Sun-like stars,
magnetic stars, Wolf-Rayet stars and halo subdwarfs. The subdwarfs are
expected to yield age estimates which would place a meaningful
lower limit on the age of the Universe. MOST should
also be capable of confirming the presence of giant extrasolar
planets identified in Doppler surveys.
- http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/
- Categories: telescope optical space
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Mississippi State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy
-
The Physics and Astronomy Department home page contains information about
faculty, students, and departmental facilities. Research information and information about
the University's Howell Observatory is also available.
- http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/Physics/
- Categories: dept optical
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Mississippi State University - Howell Observatory
- http://www.msstate.edu/dept/physics/resources/observatory.php
- Categories: telescope optical
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Moletai Astronomical Observatory
(MAO)
-
The MAO (Lithuania) has three telescopes: 1.65 m telescope; 63
cm reflector; 35/51 cm Maksutov telescope.
- http://www.itpa.lt/mao/aboutmao.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
(MIRA)
-
The Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy is a non-profit
astronomical observatory, founded in 1972 and dedicated to research and
education in astronomy. Includes an Atlas of Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra
of Normal Stars.
- http://www.mira.org/
- Categories: dept education infrared optical telescope
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Mount Evans Meyer-Womble Observatory
(Denver Univ.)
-
Mt.Evans Meyer-Womble Observatory, elev. 4,303 meters, in the Colorado Rockies.
Dual 0.7 meter R-C telescopes, optical and mid-infrared instrumentation. Summer
access. Collaborations invited.
- http://www.du.edu/~rstencel/MtEvans/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Mount Graham International Observatory
(MGIO)
-
The Mt. Graham International Observatory is located on Mt. Graham
near Safford , Arizona. Two telescopes are now in operation,
the Vatican Observatory/Arizona 1.8m Lennon telescope (VATT) and the
10m diameter Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT), a joint
project of Arizona and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany.
- http://mgpc3.as.arizona.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical radio
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Mount Laguna Observatory
- http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories - Australian National University
(MSSSO)
-
Includes the Australian AstroWeb site, and an Anonymous ftp
server.
- http://msowww.anu.edu.au/
- Categories: dept optical
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Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories - Observing facilities
(MSSSO)
-
The Australian National University runs the following telescopes: 2.3m at
Siding Springs ; 74in at Mount Stromlo ; 50in at
Mount Stromlo ; 40in at Siding Springs ; 24in at
Siding Springs.
- http://msowww.anu.edu.au/observing/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Mount Suhora Observatory
(Cracow Pedagogical University)
-
The Mt.Suhora Observatory is a part of Astronomy Department at
the Pedagogical University in Cracow, Poland. It is located in
Gorce mountain, near Koninki village, 60 km south-east of Cracow.
The scientific staff of 9 people works on photometry
of variable stars.
- http://www.as.wsp.krakow.pl/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Mount Wilson Observatory
-
The mountain is host to several ongoing observing projects using
the onsite facilities. The observatory has two primary nighttime telescopes:
the 60-inch telescope, built in 1908 is home to the
HK Project and the Atmospheric Compensation Experiment; and the 100-inch
(Hooker) telescope, built in 1917, which is available to the
scientific community. Two solar observatories, the 60-foot tower telescope (operated
by USC), and the 150-foot tower telescope (operated by UCLA)
maintain long-term exploration of the magnetic activity behavior of the
Sun. There are also two interferometers onsite: the Infrared Spatial
Interferometer (ISI, operated by U.C. Berkeley), and the NRL Optical
Interferometer. The Telescopes in Education (TIE) Project operates a 24"
telescope, as well as the Snow Solar Telescope (built in
1904). Finally, a fully-robotic 32-inch Automatic Photoeletric Telescope (APT) is
operated by Tennessee State University.
- http://www.mtwilson.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical solar
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Mt John (Canterbury) University Observatory
(New Zealand)
-
There are three principal telescopes at Mt John: the 1-metre
McLellan Telescope; the 0.61-metre Optical Craftsmen Telescope; the 0.6-metre Boller
& Chivens Telescope.
- http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/research/mt_john/index.shtml
- Categories: telescope optical
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Multi-Experiment Data Operations Center for SOHO
(MEDOC)
-
MEDOC (Multi-Experiment Data Operations Center for SOHO) is designed to
meet the needs of European SOHO Investigators who wish to
work together on the data analysis and the preparation of
joint observations using SOHO instruments and also European solar ground-based
Observatories. This European Centre complements the SOHO facilities (Experiment
Operations Facility, Experiment Analysis Facility, U.S. SOHO Archive
) located in GSFC (NASA).
- http://www.medoc-ias.u-psud.fr/
- Categories: center optical particles solar space ultraviolet
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Multimission Archive at STScI
(MAST)
-
The Multimission Archive at STScI is being developed to support
a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus
on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and
near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
- http://archive.stsci.edu/mast.html
- Categories: center infrared optical ultraviolet
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Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (1)
(MMTO)
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mmt/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (2)
(MMTO)
- http://www.mmto.org/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Multiwavelength Milky Way
-
Images of the Milky Way galaxy in the light of
several spectral lines and continuum bands, spanning the electromagnetic spectrum
from radio to high-energy gamma-ray, are presented. The display is
interactive, allowing zooming and panning of the images, each of
which covers the entire sky within ten degrees of the
Galactic plane. Explanatory text and links to the data sources
and references are included. The Multiwavelength Milky Way site is
an educational service of the Astrophysics Data Facility at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center.
- http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/milkyway.html
- Categories: education high_energy optical pictures radio survey
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Munich Image Data Analysis System (FTP)
(ESO-MIDAS)
-
This directory contains: README = This file; 9NNOV = Subdirectory
containing the 9NNOV release of MIDAS (only packages, patches and
documentation); courier = Directory containing the compressed postscript files of
the newsletter: MIDAS Courier.; calib = Directory with the ESO
calibration files for MIDAS.; linux = Directory containing binary versions
of MIDAS for PC/Linux.
- ftp://ftp.eso.org/midaspub/
- Categories: software optical
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NASA National Space Science Data Center
(NSSDC)
-
The primary responsibility of the NSSDC is to further the
use of NASA spaceflight mission data. The NSSDC also provides
data from some ground-based and non-NASA sources which are considered
to be important adjuncts to the NASA space-based data. The
Data Center maintains and distributes documentation, indexes and catalogs about
the data in its archives, and similar information about important
space mission datasets maintained by other institutions. The
NSSDC's Astronomy and Astrophysics Home Page offers information about online
data and services, including access to a WAIS-searchable index of
more than 700 astronomical catalogs; high-level project descriptions for such
projects as ASCA, ROSAT, EUVE, HST, and COBE; and links
to many other popular astronomy and astrophysics resources.
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical particles radio ultraviolet
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NASA SCAN
-
WAIS index to abstracts from NASA's Selected Current Space Aeronautics
(SCAN) abstract service
- wais://netsrv.casi.sti.nasa.gov:210/scan
- Categories: abstracts radio optical space agency bibliography
-
NASA Shuttle flights - pictures
-
Pretty pictures from many NASA Shuttle flights, including STS-61 in
December 1993 to service the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
The images in this directory are mirrored from the site
at: ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/
- ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/images/shuttle
- Categories: pictures optical space
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NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
(NED)
-
Research tool providing access to a broad range of published
extragalactic data. NED is continuously being updated and augmented. It
is the systematic merger of major catalogs of extragalactic objects
covering all wavelengths, and of object lists appearing in the
refereed literature.
NED contains about 800,000 objects, along with
names, redshifts, positions, bibliographic references, photometric measurements, and notes. The
Web interface of NED started recently serving images of objects
at various wavelengths.
- http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
- Categories: center abstracts bibliography high_energy infrared optical radio ultraviolet
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NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
(NCSA ADIL)
-
The purpose of the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library is
to collect fully processed astronomical images in FITS format format
and make them available to the research community and the
general public via the World Wide Web. The collection contains
images from research observatories all over the world and taken
at all wavebands.
- http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html
- Categories: library center education high_energy infrared optical pictures radio ultraviolet
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NFO's Automatic Radio Linked Telescope
-
Observatory associated with Western New Mexico University in Silver
City, NM (USA).
- http://www.nfo.edu/nfo.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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National Astronomical Observatory of Spain
(OAN)
-
OAN is a 200 year old institution devoted to research
in astronomy that operates several observatories. The Yebes Observatory is
the site of a mm-wave 14m telescope devoted to spectroscopy
and VLBI. A 1.5m optical telescope is located at the
Calar Alto Observatory. The OAN is also the Spanish partner
of IRAM, which runs a 30m mm-wave telescope and a
5x15m mm-wave interferometer.
- http://www.oan.es/
- Categories: telescope optical radio
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National Optical Astronomy Observatories
(NOAO)
-
NOAO-Gopher(Gemini,Weather,Veronica),
catalogs, NSO, CTIO, KPNO
- http://www.noao.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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National Schools' Observatory
-
The National Schools' Observatory is a major web-based resource that
allows UK schools to use world-class astronomical telescopes sited all
around the world.
Using the resources and software developed by
the Observatory, students can prepare and carry out their own
astronomical research and share in the excitement of discovery.
- http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/
- Categories: education optical pictures telescope
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National Solar Observatory
(NSO, USA)
-
The mission of the National Solar Observatory is to advance
knowledge of the Sun, both as an astronomical object and
as the dominant external influence on Earth, by providing forefront
observational opportunities to the research community.
- http://www.nso.edu/
- Categories: telescope education infrared optical solar
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National Undergraduate Research Observatory
(NURO)
-
The National Undergraduate Research Observatory (NURO) at Lowell Observatory and
Northern Arizona University is a 0.8m telescope located on Anderson
Mesa south of Flagstaff, Arizona. NURO is a consortium of
Universities and small colleges to provide a research grade telescope
for undergraduate research and education.
- http://www.nuro.nau.edu/
- Categories: telescope education optical pictures
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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
(NEAT)
-
NEAT is an autonomous celestial observatory located at the USAF/Ground-based
Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) site on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.
It is designed to complete a comprehensive search of the
sky for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
- http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: planetary optical telescope
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Nearby Field Galaxy Survey
(NFGS)
-
The Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (NFGS) aims to construct a
spectrophotometric reference atlas and catalog of the observable properties of
~200 nearby field galaxies. This survey is designed to be
a benchmark for interpreting the spectra and imagery of distant
galaxies.
The NFGS web-pages are currently hosted and maintained at
the Arizona State University at www.public.asu.edu/~rjansen/nfgs/.
- http://www.public.asu.edu/~rjansen/nfgs/
- Categories: survey optical
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New England Light Pollution Advisory Group
(NELPAG)
-
Information concerning improved outdoor lighting to reduce glare and obtrusive
light.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~graff/nelpag.html
- Categories: misc optical
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Nordic Optical Telescope
(NOT, La Palma)
- http://www.not.iac.es/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Oak Ridge Observatory
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/oir/OakRidge/oak.ridge.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Observatoire de Haute-Provence
(OHP)
-
The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP) is an optical observatory in
southeast France offering small and medium-sized observing facilities to astronomers
in France, Europe and abroad. Includes information about instruments and
user manuals.
- http://www.obs-hp.fr/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Observatoire du Mont Mégantic
(OMM)
-
A Ritchey-Chretien telescope with a mirror of 1.6m, located at
about 250 km east of Montreal, at an altitude of
1111m. [in French]
- http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/omm/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Observatorio Astronomico de La Plata
(OALP)
-
Faculty of Astronomical and Geophysical Sciences. The Observatory was established
in November 1883. Its principal tasks are research and teaching
in Astronomy and Geophysics.
- http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/
- Categories: dept optical
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Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
-
The Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN) operates 3 telescopes (2.1m, 1.5m,
and 0.84m) up in the mountains of the Sierra San
Pedro Martir of Baja California. The observatory offices and workshops
are located in Ensenada, B.C. overlooking the Pacific ocean. OAN
is a part of the Instituto de Astronomía of the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- http://www.astrosen.unam.mx/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Observatorium Hoher List
(Bonn)
- http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~webstw/hl.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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OmegaCAM
-
OmegaCAM is a 1 square degree wide field, optical, 16k
X 16k camera for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST),
which is expected to become operational at Paranal during the
year 2005.
- http://www.astro.rug.nl/~omegacam/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Open Cluster Database
(WEBDA)
-
WEBDA is a site devoted to observations and data on
stars in open clusters. The database collects information on more
than 1 000 000 stars in some 1000 open clusters.
Various facilities are offered to perform selections on star clusters
and access the available data for each cluster. The database
query through cluster maps is a main feature of the
interface. A place where anybody should be able to get
the desired data and contribute his or her own observations.
Created by Jean-Claude Mermilliod (EPFL, Switzerland), WEBDA is now
located in Vienna under the maintenance of Ernst Paunzen.
- http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/
- Categories: center optical
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Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
(OGLE - Warsaw University)
-
The OGLE project is a long term microlensing survey with
main target being the search for dark matter in the
Galaxy and possibly also in the Magellanic Clouds. The second
phase of the project is realized on a dedicated 1.3m
Warsaw telescope located in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Every night
up to 30 million stars are measured in the Galactic
Bulge, LMC and SMC.
- http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle/
- Categories: survey optical
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Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera/Merate
(OAB)
-
The Osservatorio di Brera, first settled in Milan 1786, is
now split in the two sites of Brera-Milano (hosting a
small historical museum with the original Schiaparelli telescope) and Merate
(with a park and three domes still operating). Optical and
X-ray astronomy and instrumentation are the major topics studied by
people in the OAB.
- http://www.mi.astro.it/
- Categories: dept optical
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Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
(OAT)
-
OAT Activities include: Physics of the sun and of the
solar system, Physics of the stars, the interstellar medium and
of the galaxy, Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, Astronomical technologies, and
Space astronomy.
- http://www.ts.astro.it/
- Categories: dept optical
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OverWhelmingly Large Telescope Project
(OWL)
-
A project of 100-m class optical and near-infrared telescope. Building
on the success of its 8-m Very Large Telescope (VLT)
and the coming to maturity of controlled optical systems, ESO
is undertaking the design of a giant, next generation optical
and near-infrared telescope, dubbed OWL for the eponymous bird's keen
night vision, and for OverWhelmingly Large. With a diameter of
100 meter, OWL will combine unrivalled light gathering power with
the ability to resolve details down to a milli-arc second.
- http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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PDS Imaging Node
(PDSIMG)
-
The Imaging Node of the Planetary Data System is the
curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present,
and future planetary missions. The node provides to the NASA
planetary science community the digital image archives, necessary ancillary datasets,
software tools, and technical expertise necessary to fully utilize the
vast collection of digital planetary imagery.
- http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: center education infosys infrared optical pictures planetary software space ultraviolet
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PDS Imaging Node's Planetary Image Atlas
(PDSIMG Atlas)
-
The Atlas is designed to be a single interface through
which you can search for, display, and download full resolution
data for all planetary missions. It will eventually replace individual
existing browsers. Until that time, links to the individual browsers
are provided from this central location. Current missions included in
the Atlas are: 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Magellan,
Clementine, Viking, Mars Pathfinder, Voyager, and Galileo.
- http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/Atlas/
- Categories: center infrared optical pictures planetary space ultraviolet
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POLAR Spacecraft
-
Exloring through the Solar Cycle. Instruments: Plasma Waves Investigation (PWI), Magnetic
Fields Experiment (MFE), Toroidal Imaging Mass-Angle Spectrograph (TIMAS), Electric Fields Investigation (EFI), Thermal
Ion Dynamics Experiment (TIDE), Ultraviolet Imager (UVI), Visible Imaging System (VIS), Polar Ionospheric
X-Ray Imaging Experiment (PIXIE), Charge and Mass Magnetosperic Ion Composition Experiment
(CAMMICE), Comprehensive Energetic-Particle Pitch-Angle Distribution - Source/Loss Cone Energetic Particle Spectrometer
(CEPPAD/SEPS), Hot Plasma Analyzer (HYDRA).
- http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/
- Categories: telescope high_energy optical particles space ultraviolet
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Padova Astronomical Observatory
- http://www.pd.astro.it/
- Categories: dept optical
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Padova database of stellar evolutionary tracks and isochrones
- http://pleiadi.pd.astro.it/
- Categories: center infrared optical ultraviolet
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Palomar Observatory
(CalTech)
- http://astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Perugia Univ. Astronomical Observatory & Astrophysics Section
(OAUP)
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Osservatorio Astronomico e Gruppo di Astrofisica. The site contains information
on the two astronomical facilities of the Perugia University Astronomical
Observatory: the robotic telescope of the Perugia astronomical station, and
the IRAIT telescope at the Coloti (Montone) astronomical station. This
site contains also information on the local research and collaborations,
expecially in telescope automation, IRAIT Antarctic Infrared Telescope, blazar optical
monitoring, late stages of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, GLAST gamma-ray
NASA satellite and the REM telescope.
- http://astro.fisica.unipg.it/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Pico dos Dias Observatory
(OPD)
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The Observatório do Pico dos Dias (1864 m, LNA) has
three telescopes: 1.6 m, and two 0.6 m.
- http://www.lna.br/opd/opd_e.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Pine Mountain Observatory
(University of Oregon)
- http://pmo-sun.uoregon.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Planet Sciences Association - Astronomy sector
(ex-ANSTJ, France)
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Public access to a 60 cm telescope. [in French]
- http://www.anstj.org/astro/index.html
- Categories: education optical telescope
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Planetary Data System
(PDS)
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The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA planetary
missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored
by NASA's Office of Space Science. Its purpose is to
ensure the long-term usability of NASA data and to stimulate
advanced research. PDS is continually upgrading and updating its archives,
to better serve the needs of its user communities.
- http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical particles radio ultraviolet
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Poznan Observatory
(A. Mickiewicz University)
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Information on the staff and research activities.
- http://www.astro.amu.edu.pl/
- Categories: dept optical
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Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork
(PLANET)
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The PLANET collaboration is a worldwide network of astronomers with
access to Dutch, South African, and Australian telescopes. The primary
goal of PLANET is the study of microlensing anomalies (departures
from an achromatic point-source, point-lens light curve) through multi-band, rapidly-sampled
photometry. An ultimate goal is to place constraints on the
number and distribution of planets around other stars.
- http://planet.iap.fr/
- Categories: survey optical
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Robotic Lunar Observatory
(ROLO)
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The Robotic Lunar Observatory (ROLO) is dedicated to studying one
of the remaining unknowns of the Moon: what is its
precise brightness? ROLO is currently part of the NASA Earth
Observing Spacecraft Mission. The concept of the project is that
the Moon will be observed repeatedly, and data gathered, so
that we can predict the brightness of the Moon to
better than two percent. Then, spacecraft orbiting the Earth can
look at the Moon as part of a calibration sequence
to get an absolute brightness reference.
- http://www.moon-cal.org/
- Categories: misc optical telescope
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Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
(ROTSE)
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ROTSE is an experimental program to search for astrophysical optical
transients on time scales of a fraction of a second
to a few hours. This is an area of astronomical
science that has been relatively unexplored until now. The primary
incentive for this research is to find the optical counterparts
of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two sets of instruments are now
under construction: ROTSE-I, a 4-fold camera array using telephoto lenses
to cover a 16 degree by 16 degree field of
view and ROTSE-II, a pair of 0.45 meter aperture telescopes
to cover a 2 degree by 2 degree field of
view. The expected sensitivities of these two systems is expected
to be m_v ~ 15 and 18 respectively.
- http://www.umich.edu/~rotse
- Categories: misc high_energy optical telescope
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Rothney Astrophysical Observatory
(RAO)
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The RAO has a 1.8-m alt-alt mounted telescope equipped with
infrared and optical photometers. The latter inludes a Photometrics 1024x1024
Photometrics CCD camera and the Rapid Alternate Detection System photoelectric
photometer. Other, newly refurbished telescopes are a 0.5-m modified Baker-Nunn
satellite tracking camera, now an equatorially mounted Patrol Camera with
3Kx3K FLI CCD camera, and a 0.4-m English Cross-axis mounted
equatorial telescope with optimized Newtonian focus and FLI 1024x1024 CCD
camera. Open House evemts are held monthly from late Spring
to early Fall. A new Visitors' Centre is expected to
be open in late summer, 2004.
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~milone/rao.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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SAO Telescope Data Center
(RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software)
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Includes software packages: RVSAO, an IRAF package for finding
radial velocities from spectra; RGSC a program for searching
the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog; SKYMAP a
program for mapping star catalogs onto the sky; STAR
a program for searching star catalogs
- http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/TDC.html
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical software
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SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
(SOHO)
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The SOHO project is being carried out by the European
Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies
in the framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP).
SOHO was launched on December 2, 1995. The SOHO
spacecraft was built in Europe by an industry team led
by Matra, and instruments were provided by European and American
scientists.
- http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope optical particles solar space ultraviolet
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SOuthern Astrophysical Research telescope Project
(SOAR)
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The SOAR telescope is a Project for a 4.2-meter aperture
telescope funded by a partnership between the USA National Optical
Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), the Country of Brazil, Michigan State University,
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The
project is fully funded and under construction atop Cerro Pachón
at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) in the Chilean
Andes. The telescope is being designed to support science in
both high quality imaging and spectroscopy in the optical and
near infrared wavelengths. The f/16 Ritchey-Chrétien optical design shall deliver
a 12-arcmin diameter field of view with a tip/tilt stabilized
image through a telescope with 0.18 arcsec image quality. SOAR
should begin science operations in 2004.
- http://www.soartelescope.org/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets
(STARE)
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STARE (STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets) uses precise time-series
photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent
stars. An important byproduct of STARE will be an unusually
complete survey of variable stars within its selected fields-of-view.
- http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/stare/stare.html
- Categories: telescope optical planetary survey
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SUBARU Telescope
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Subaru is an 8.2 m Japan national optical-infrared telescope at
the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, operated by the National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
The site includes astrophotographs from Subaru.
- http://subarutelescope.org/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical pictures
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Santiago de Compostela Univ. - Ramón María Aller Astronomical Observatory
(AO RMA)
- http://www.usc.es/astro/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Schmidt telescope at Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
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The Telescope is located at the "Observatoire de Calern", above
the city of Grasse.
Equipped with a 2K CCD
camera, it is mainly used for the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
program. It is also used for geostationnaary Space Debris detection
and GRB optical counterparts follow ups.
- http://wwwrc.obs-azur.fr/schmidt/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Schwäbischen Sternwarte
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The Swabian Observatory was founded in 1919. It is a
non-profit-making organisation. Since January 8th 1922 we operate an observatory
located on a hill in Stuttgart. The focal point of
our astronomical work is the observation of occultations of stars
by the moon, the planets and their satellites, asteroids and
also mutual events. We measure the occultation timings with video
and photoelectric equipment up to 10.5 mag with an accuracy
of +/-0.01s and up to 13.5 mag with an accuracy
of +/-0.1s. We send our results to IOTA, EAON, BAA
and ILOC. Sometimes we make an excursion to observe grazing
events with our transportable telescopes, for example a Meade 2080HTC.
Another main emphasis is the observation of variable stars, mainly
Mira type stars. Normally we measure stars up to 15mag.
At the moment we are beginning to observe variable stars
with the CCD camera ST-6. We send our results to
AAVSO, AFOEV and BAV. [in German]
- http://www.sternwarte.de/
- Categories: society optical
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1)
(SAO)
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/sao-home.html
- Categories: dept optical
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Solar Data Analysis Center
(SDAC)
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The SDAC at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center serves current
solar ground- and spaced-based imagery, text, figures, maps, and tables
of NASA eclipse bulletins, solar flare data from the Compton
GRO BATSE experiment and the Yohkoh spacecraft, and science operations
planning information for the SOHO Science Working Team.... and more
to come.
- http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html
- Categories: center high_energy infrared optical particles pictures solar space ultraviolet
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Solar Observation Station - Carla Sagan Observatory
(EOS/OCS)
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The Astronomy Area of CIF-US (Center for Research on Physics/Universidad
de Sonora, Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico), operates EOS (Estacion de Observacion
Solar) and OCS (Observatorio "Carl Sagan"), the only two solar
observatories in the country with an observational program of active
regions at the continuum, and H-Alpha and Calcium lines, through
a two-heliostat system and a 15 cm refractor telescope. Live
broadcast of solar observations through ASTRO-USON WebTV with the new
14 cm Maksutov-H-Alpha telescope. [also in Spanish]
- http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/eosdata.htm
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Solar-Terrestrial Physics Home Page
(STP)
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Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center home
page. Includes several various STP disciplines within the Center: geomagnetism, Iononosphere, Solar and Upper
Atmosphere, and two satellite programs: GOES and DMSP.
DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous
satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. NGDC maintains
an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as
relayed to NGDC by Air Force Global Weather Central. Data
from March 1992 to March 1994, are considered to be
experimental. After March 1994, the system should be fully operational.
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/stp.html
- Categories: center dept high_energy infrared optical particles radio solar space ultraviolet
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South African Astronomical Observatory
(SAAO)
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The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the National Facility
for optical/infrared astronomy in South Africa. Its prime function is
to further fundamental research in astronomy and astrophysics at a
national and international level through the provision and use of
a world-class astronomical facility.
- http://www.saao.ac.za/
- Categories: telescope dept infrared optical
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Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
(SARA)
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The SARA telescope consortium operates the 0.9 meter SARA optical
telescope on Kitt Peak.
- http://astro.fit.edu/sara/sara.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Southern African Large Telescope Project
(SALT)
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SALT, a 9-m class southern hemisphere twin of the Hobby-Eberly
Telescope (HET) in Texas, to be built at the Sutherland
observing station of the South African Astronomical Observatory.
- http://www.salt.ac.za/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical ultraviolet
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Space Astrometry at The University of Texas
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Present and future results of space astrometry carried out by
researchers associated with The University of Texas McDonald Observatory and
the Department of Astronomy.
- http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/index.html
- Categories: misc optical space
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Space Interferometry Mission
(SIM)
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SIM will be NASA's first space interferometer designed specifically for
measuring the position of stars. SIM will utilize multiple telescopes
placed along a 10-meter (33-foot) structure.
- http://sim.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope optical space
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Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
(ST-ECF)
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The ST-ECF was established in 1984 jointly by the European
Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory and is located
at the ESO headquarters at Garching near Munich. The ST-ECF
supports the European astromical community in exploiting the research opportunities
provided by the earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The ST-ECF provides
detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments,
supports European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals,
coordinates the development of computer software tuned to the specific
data analysis needs of HST users, operates and maintains an
archive of all the scientific data collected by HST, and
acts as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops.
In all of these duties the ST-ECF staff maintains close
contacts with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore,
which is charged with the scientific operation of the HST
observatory.
HST Archive at CADC.
- http://www.stecf.org/
- Categories: center infrared optical space ultraviolet
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Space Telescope Science Institute
(STScI)
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STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for
Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.
- http://www.stsci.edu/
- Categories: dept center infrared library optical software space survey ultraviolet
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Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Science - Schedules
(SAO RAS)
- http://www.sao.ru/Doc-en/Telescopes/
- Categories: telescope optical radio schedule
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Standard Objects For Astronomy
(SOFA)
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Site with links to Standard Object Resources classified according to
observing techniques and wavelength domains. Created by Patrice Corporon; now
maintained by Shashikiran Ganesh and Anatoly Miroshnichenko. (Indian mirror;
US mirror)
- http://sofa.sarovar.org/
- Categories: other_astronomy center high_energy infrared optical radio ultraviolet
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Stardust
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A space mission that will fly close to a comet
and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back
to Earth
- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope optical radio space
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Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory
(SFASU)
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Facilities, research, and personnel of the SFASU Observatory.
- http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/Observatory/obs.htm
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Steward Observatory
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The Steward Observatory Home Page provides information on the academic
and research activities of the University of Arizona Department of
Astronomy as well as information on the facilities of Steward
Observatory.
- http://www.as.arizona.edu/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
(SOFIA)
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The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will be a
2.5 meter, optical/infrared/sub-millimeter telescope mounted in a Boeing 747, to
be used for many basic astronomical observations performed at stratospheric
altitudes. The Facility will accommodate installation of different focal plane
instruments, with in-flight accessibility, provided by investigators selected from the
international science community. The Facility objective is to have an
operational lifetime in excess of 20 years.
- http://www.sofia.usra.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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SuperCOSMOS Science Archive
(SSA)
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The SuperCOSMOS Science archive holds the object catalogue data extracted
from scans of photographic Schmidt survey plates.
- http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa/
- Categories: center infrared optical
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Supernova / Acceleration Probe
(SNAP)
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The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) Mission is expected to
provide an understanding of the mechanism driving the acceleration of
the universe. The satellite observatory is capable of measuring up
to 2,000 distant supernovae each year of the three-year mission
lifetime.
- http://snap.lbl.gov/
- Categories: survey optical space telescope
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Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope
(NSST)
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1m solar vacuum telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission
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Swift is a three-telescope space observatory (gamma-ray telescope, X-ray telescope,
and ultraviolet/optical telescope) for studying gamma ray bursts. Scheduled launch:
October 7, 2004.
- http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope high_energy optical space ultraviolet
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Synthetic Spectra of B Main-Sequence Stars from 3000 - 10000
(Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl)
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This Web page provides a simple interactive tool for line
identification in B stars along the main sequence. The calculation
makes use of the atomic line list of Kurucz &
Bell (1995). For one of six possible effective temperatures between
10000 and 35000 K and an arbitrary wavelength range between
3000 and 10000 Å a normalized synthetic spectrum is displayed
on-line. The output consists of a gif image (~10 kB)
or a gzipped postscript file (~30 kB).
- http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/websynspec.cgi
- Categories: center infrared optical ultraviolet
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THEMIS - Heliographic Telescope for the Study of the Magnetism and Instabilities on the Sun
(THEMIS)
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THEMIS (Télescope Héliographique pour l'Etude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités
Solaires) is a new generation Franco-Italian solar telescope built by
INSU/CNRS (France) and CNR (Italy). The main
scientific goal for which it has been designed is the
accurate determination of the vector magnetic field.
- http://www.themis.iac.es/
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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Tartu Observatory
- http://www.aai.ee/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Teide Observatory
(OT)
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Observatorio del Teide: solar telescopes and laboratories; nocturnal telescopes; cosmic
microwave background.
- http://www.iac.es/ot/indice.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical radio solar
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Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - Italian National Telescope Galileo
(TNG, La Palma)
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The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo is the national facility of the
Italian astronomical community, set in the Canary island of La
Palma (Spain). The Astronomical Observatory of Padova had the
responsibility of its construction through the TNG Project Office.
- http://www.tng.iac.es/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Tennessee State University 2-m Automatic Spectroscopic Telescope Project
(2-m AST)
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This site details development of an 80-inch automatic telescope that
Tennessee State University is developing for high-dispersion spectroscopy. It includes
engineering reports and extensive pictures of the instrument.
- http://astro.tsuniv.edu/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Terrestrial Planet Finder (Origins of Stars, Planets... and Life)
(TPF)
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The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) is a key element of
NASA Origins Program. It will study all aspects of planets:
from their formation and development in disks of dust and
gas around newly forming stars to the presence and features
of those planets orbiting the nearest stars; from the numbers
at various sizes, and places to their suitability as an
abode for life. By combining the high sensitivity of space
telescopes with the sharply detailed pictures from an interferometer, TPF
will be able to reduce the glare of parent stars
by a factor of more than one hundred-thousand to see
planetary systems as far away as 50 light years.
- http://tpf.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical planetary space
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The Amateur Sky Survey
(TASS)
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The TASS project has constructed low-cost drift-scan cameras and distributed
them to sites around the world. The goal is to
monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky.
- http://www.tass-survey.org/
- Categories: survey optical
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The SCSU Archive of the MAPS Catalog of the POSS I
(MAPS Catalog)
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This online version of the Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner (MAPS)
Catalog of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (Epoch I) [hereafter
the MAPS Catalog] was constructed by Juan Cabanela, one of
the authors of the original MAPS Catalog of the POSS
I. The MAPS Catalog was originally distributed on four DVDs
to several astronomical data centers. The goal of this project
is to make the catalog available in an interactive format.
This site should be viewed as a backup/alternate version of
the website maintained by the Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner group
at http://aps.umn.edu/.
- http://iparrizar.stcloudstate.edu/~juan/MAPS_Database/
- Categories: center infrared optical
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Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
(TLS)
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The observatory is running a 2m telescope which can be
used in three different optical configurations: Schmidt telescope Cassegrain telescope
Coude telescope
- http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Traitement Elementaire Reduction et Analyse des PIXels de Megacam
(TERAPIX)
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Terapix is an astronomical data processing center dedicated to very
large CCD images and massive data flow provided by the
CFHT Megacam camera.
Terapix is located at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.
- http://terapix.iap.fr/
- Categories: center infrared optical
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Transition Region And Coronal Explorer
(TRACE)
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TRACE will enable solar physicists to study the connections between
fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the
Sun in a quantitative way by observing the photosphere, transition
region, and corona.
- http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/
- Categories: telescope optical solar ultraviolet
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UK Astronomy Data Centre
(ADC-CASU, formerly RGO Astronomy Data Centre)
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The Data Centre is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey
Unit and houses a good selection of data from the
UK's ground based telescopes as well as a number of
catalogues.
- http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/
- Categories: center infrared optical
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UK Schmidt Telescope - Anglo-Australian Observatory
(UKST / AAO)
- http://www.aao.gov.au/ukst/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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USA National Solar Observatory / Sacramento Peak, Sunspot, NM
(NSO/SP)
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Anonymous ftp.
- http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical solar
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Udaipur Solar Observatory
(USO)
- http://www.prl.ernet.in/~uso/
- Categories: telescope optical solar
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University College London - Department of Physics and Astronomy
- http://www.phys.ucl.ac.uk/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of British Columbia - Department of Physics and Astronomy
(Astro@UBC)
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These are the pages for the astronomy group in the
larger Physics and Astronomy Department at UBC located in Vancouver,
Canada. Information on both research and educational activities is available.
- http://www.astro.ubc.ca/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of California Observatories - Lick Observatory (WWW)
(UCO/Lick)
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Lick Observatory Anonymous ftp
- http://www.ucolick.org/
- Categories: telescope dept optical
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University of California, San Diego - Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
(UCSD - CASS)
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The Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego is the birthplace of the multi-channel Digicon
photon detectors. Four of these are used on two instruments,
the UCSD Faint Object Spectrometer (FOS), and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer (GHRS), on the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST). Available at this site is information relating to
the activities, facilities, and personnel at CASS. The Faint Object
Spectrograph group, its history, and related areas of research are
described in detail.
- http://casswww.ucsd.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of Georgia, Dept of Physics and Astronomy
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Astronomy at UGA
- http://www.physast.uga.edu/
- Categories: dept optical radio
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University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy
(UH - IfA)
- http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of Hawaii IfA: 2.2m Telescope
- http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/88inch/88inch.html
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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University of Hawaii, Hilo - Department of Physics and Astronomy
(UH, Hilo)
- http://www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of Manchester - Astronomy Group
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Available are contact details, research interests of the group members,
preprints and publications, course details, a frequently updated collection of
links to items of interest to astronomers.
- http://www.ast.man.ac.uk/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of Texas, Austin - Department of Astronomy
- http://www.as.utexas.edu/
- Categories: dept optical
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University of Toronto Southern Observatory
(UTSO)
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UTSO operates the 60cm Helen Sawyer Hogg Telescope located on
Cerro Las Campanas in north-central Chile. This homepage provides information
useful to potential users and others interested in our facility.
- http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~utso/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
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The WWW-server contains information about research activities etc, at the
astronomical observatory at Uppsala University.
- http://www.astro.uu.se/
- Categories: dept optical
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VIsible and IR MultiObject Spectrographs
(VIRMOS)
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The VIRMOS project aims to deliver 2 spectrographs for the
ESO- VLT . VIMOS is a visible imaging spectrograph with
outstanding multiplex capabilities, allowing to take spectra of more than
800 objects simultaneously (10 arcsec slits), or spectroscopy of all
objects in a 1x1 arcmin2 area. NIRMOS is a near-infrared
imaging spectrograph with a multiplex of 180 (10 arcsec slits),
and allows spectroscopy of all objects in a 30x30 arcsec2
area. Together VIMOS and NIRMOS allow to get spectroscopy from
0.37 to 1.8 microns, with unsurpassed efficiency for large surveys.
- http://www.eso.org/instruments/vimos/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical survey
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VLT Survey Telescope
(VST)
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The VST project is a cooperation between the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) and the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) for the
study, design and construction of a wide field alt-az telescope
of 2.6 m aperture, specialized for high quality astronomical imaging
to be installed and operated on Cerro Paranal, next to
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
- http://oacosf.na.astro.it/vst/
- Categories: telescope optical survey
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Vainu Bappu Observatory
(Kavalur)
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The Vainu Bappu Observatory (VBO) is the main optical observatory
of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), and is located
in the picturesque neighbourhood of the village of Kavalur in
the state of Tamil Nadu.
- http://www.iiap.res.in/vbo/vbo.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Venezuela Centre for Researches in Astronomy
(CIDA)
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The Centro de Investigaciones De Astronomia (CIDA, Merida, Venezuela) hosts
the biggest telescopes of the earth equatorial belt: schmidt, reflector,
refractor, astrograph. [in Spanish]
- http://www.cida.ve/
- Categories: dept optical telescope
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Very Large Telescope Interferometer
(VLTI, ESO)
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The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) consists in the coherent
combination of the four VLT Unit Telescopes and of several
moveable 1.8m Auxiliary Telescopes. Once fully operational, the VLTI will
provide both a high sensitivity as well as milli-arcsec angular
resolution provided by baselines of up to 200m length.
- http://www.eso.org/projects/vlti/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
(VISTA)
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VISTA is the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy: a
4-m Wide Field Survey telescope for the Southern Hemisphere, being
built at Cerro Paranal, close to ESO VLT, by a
consortium of 18 UK universities.
- http://www.vista.ac.uk/
- Categories: survey infrared optical telescope
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Vulcan Camera Project
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The Vulcan Camera Project, sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center,
is designed to detect transits of large extrasolar planets using
differential photometry.
Vulcan uses a 15cm aperture refactor at
Lick Observatory to image a wide field in which ~6000
stars are monitored for two months, in a search for
the ~1% transit signal expect from a 51 Pegasi-type planet.
Vulcan is a ground-based test-bed for the proposed Kepler
Mission to detect Earth-sized exoplanets.
- http://web99.arc.nasa.gov/~vulcan/
- Categories: survey optical planetary telescope
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WIYN, from Indiana University
- http://www.astro.indiana.edu/facilities/observatories/wiyn/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Warsaw University - Astronomical Observatory
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Contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date
information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) --
a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in
our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena.
- http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/
- Categories: dept optical
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Whole Earth Blazar Telescope
(WEBT)
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The WEB Telescope (WEBT) is a network of optical observers
who in concert have the capability to obtain continuous, high-temporal-density,
optical monitoring of blazars.
- http://www.to.astro.it/blazars/webt/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Whole Earth Telescope
(WET)
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In 1986, astronomers from the University of Texas established a
world--wide network of cooperating astronomical observatories to obtain uninterrupted time--series
measurements of variable stars. The technological goal was to resolve
the multi-periodic oscillations observed in these objects into their individual
components; the scientific goal was to construct accurate theoretical models
of the target objects, constrained by their observed behavior, from
which their fundamental astrophysical parameters could be derived. This approach
has been extremely successful, and has placed the fledgling science
of stellar seismology at the forefront of stellar astrophysics.
- http://wet.physics.iastate.edu/
- Categories: telescope infrared optical
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Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper
(WHAM)
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The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper will produce a survey of H-Alpha
emission from the interstellar medium (ISM) over the entire northern
sky. The instrument combines a 24-inch telescope and a high-resolution,
6-inch Fabry-Perot spectrometer to achieve 8-12 km/s velocity resolution in
one-degree beams on the sky. By utilizing CCD technology, we
hope to attain a sensitivity level of 0.01 Rayleighs. This
survey, the first of ionized hydrogen in our galaxy, will
be used to explore the spatial and kinematic structure of
the warm ionized component of the ISM. WHAM is currently
at Pine Bluff Observatory but will move to Kitt Peak, Arizona in the Fall of 1996 for the
survey, which should take about 2 years.
- http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham/
- Categories: survey optical
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Wolfgang-Amadeus, The University of Vienna Twin Automatic Photoelectric Telescope
(APT)
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We operate two robotic 75-cm telescopes for photoelectric photometry at
Fairborn Observatory in the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona. Not
only are the telescopes automatic, but the observatory itself is
automatic. A site-control computer monitors weather sensors, operates the observatory
roof, and provides a nightly report to the observatory staff,
who are located in Vienna, Austria.
- http://www.aip.de/groups/activity/APT/
- Categories: telescope optical
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Wyoming Infrared Observatory
(WIRO)
- http://physics.uwyo.edu/~amonson/wiro/wiro.html
- Categories: telescope optical
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Yerkes Observatory
(University of Chicago)
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Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin hosts the 40" refractor,
a 41" reflector, a 24" Boller & Chivens reflector, a
10" educational telescope, and support facilities. The 41" telescope is
used for research including adaptive optics studies.
- http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
- Categories: dept education library optical telescope