The Star*s Family of Astronomy Resources on the Web

André HECK
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: heck@astro.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck
Daniel EGRET
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: egret@astro.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/people/de.html
François OCHSENBEIN
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: francois@simbad.u-strasbg.fr
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/people/fo.html

The Star*s Family is a line of products offering detailed information on astronomical organizations as well as services of general and practical utility for astronomers and related space scientists.

Several resources are fully operational on the WWW:

The Star*s Family resources offer outstanding advantages such as a twenty-year tradition/experience in compilations, a resulting good exhaustivity of entries (including thousands of entries still without WWW link), an homegeneous coverage of all practical data, a permanent updating and quality checking scheme (including authentication of data originators), the largest amount of URLs available in a set of astronomy resources, a unique astronomy-oriented dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, and so on.