Bookmarks

• Organisations, Institutes, Departments, & Societies

  • Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik:
    home - internal - IR/submm - computing - printer queues - resources - Astrobibliothek - SSH

  • Data Centres:
    Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
    NASA Astronomical Data Center
    European Southern Observatory - Staff Contact
    Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, Herzberg (home)
    Space Telescope Science Institute

  • My previous insitutions:
    Oxford Astrophysics
    Edinburgh Institute for Astronomy

  • Societies:
    IAU
    Royal Astronomical Society
    Institute of Physics - IoP publishing - see also the online journal PhyscisWeb

  • Other:
    Vavliov State Optical Institute - (see also NATO CLG & Science for Peace, INTAS, ISTC)
    European Space Agency
    Mt Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatiories

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• Astrophysics Journals

  • Astrophysical Journal
  • Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
  • Astronomical Journal
  • Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Astrophysics & Space Science
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific: PASP - ASP conference series
  • Experimental Astronomy
  • Optics Communications
  • JOSA A

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• Laser Guide Stars & Adaptive Optics

  • LGS Projects
    • PARSEC - internal - LGSF - intranet - chemical hazards - software development
    • ALFA - operators
    • LLNL - list of other sites
    • Steward observatory (MMT)
    • Keck - laser pages - Spiegel article - their list of all refereed science papers

  • Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics
    • Gemini MCAO
    • ESO MCAO demonstrator
    • Gerard Rousset's page
    • Elise Vernet's page
    • Andre Tokovinin's page
    • Padova pages
    • Arcetri pages - Publications

  • general Adaptive Optics projects
    • ESO AO projects
    • SPIE AO forum
    • Center for Adaptive Optics - AO software
    • ADONIS
    • Hokupa'a
    • Pueo - list of other sites

  • Papers, Experiments, & Miscellaneous
    • Venice 2001 papers
    • some AO Science Papers
    • Mesospheric Na experiments
    • ESO's astroclimatology - Paranal site monitoring (database) and Na monitoring pages
    • LIDAR: MPI für Meteorologie

  • Interferometry - project links
    • VLTI
    • CHARA

  • TMR network
    • LGS network homepage
    • LGS/AO simulator (workpackage B)
    • Member institutions:
      Imperial College, Applied Optics Group
      Insituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
      Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon, AIRI team
      Osservatori Astrofisico di Arcetri
      European Southern Observatory Adaptive Optics Group
      MPE: IR/submm group: ALFA
      National University of Ireland, Galway

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• Databases, Literature, Catalogues, Sky Surveys, Archives

  • Literature
    • XXX preprints (and mirrors) - how to submit a paper
    • ADS abstracts (customised) (and mirrors)

  • Objects: galaxies & stars
    • NED (or telnet 134.4.10.106, login: ned)
    • SIMBAD (userid: v1583nela, psswd: 31n5v8)
      query by identifier/coordinates or parameters
    • HST guide star catalogue: from ESO/ST-ECF, STScI, Vizier, or Vizier batch job
    • USNO star catalogue: from ESO, Vizier
    • standard/PSF stars: UKIRT (near-IR) photometric list and ESO's (optical) spectroscopic list, or Paranal star Search

  • Catalogues
    • CDS - Astronomer's Bazaar - VizieR (try `cmc', `sky2000', 'tycho-2', or 'usno')
    • Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
    • CADC catalogues
    • ESO/ST-ECF catalogues
    • WDS: The Washington Double Star Catalogue (or use 'wds' in Vizier)

  • Sky Surveys
      General - Skyview (advanced form)
      Digitised Sky Survey - ESO/ST-ECF - CADC (batch) - APS
      Near-infrared - IRSA (including 2MASS)
      Radio 20cm - FIRST, 5" - NVSS, 45" (UK mirror)
      X-ray - ROSAT

  • Archives
    • ISO
    • STScI MAST multi-mission quick search
    • NOAO including JHK stellar templates
    • X-ray: Chandra - LEDAS - HEARSARC (& PIMMS simulator)
      ROSAT: from STScI, MPE
    • UV: IUE (from STScI)
    • HST archive
    • CADC archives

  • Miscellaneous
    • Level 5 from NED
    • Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series
    • Draine's page - PDRs, grain optical properties, etc.
    • Quasars: ADC on QSOs & AGN - Sloan DSS quasar catalog
    • Astro Utilities from UKIRT
    • OH lines from ESO
    • Handbook of Space & Astronomy
    • CD ROMs
    • Astroweb (and mirrors)
    • Star & Galaxy models - Starburst 99 (from STScI)
    • EIS, ESO imaging survey
    • coordinate calculators from NED and Parkes (COCO)
    • Units conversion
    • 2dF galaxy redshift survey

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• Selected Mirrors
  • XXX preprint mirrors: Germany - Spain - UK - USA
  • ADS abstract mirrors: CDS - ESO - Harvard
  • Astroweb mirrors: CDS - NRAO - STScI - ST-ECF

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• Observing: Tools, Telescopes, Instruments, Proposals, & Weather

  • Tools: Object Observability - Airmasses - La Silla support page
    PROAS for airmass calculations

  • Calar Alto (3.5m, 2.2m, 1.2m) - instrumentation - application - weather - newsletter

  • Mauna Kea - weather
    • UKIRT (3.8m) - instrumentation & application - service time
    • CFHT - CDS mirror
    • JCMT
    • Keck - Call for proposals - instruments - schedules - VSQ booking

  • ESO facilities - Observing (with links to schedules) and the Query Form
    ASM - instrumentation - application - exposure time calculators - P2PP
    • La Silla (3.6m, 3.5m NTT, 2.2m, 1.5m)
    • Paranal (4x8m VLT)

  • AAO (3.8m AAT, UK Schmidt) - instrumentation - application - service time - weather

  • Isaac Newton Group (4.2m WHT, 2.5m INT, 1.0m JKT)

  • HST (2.4m)

  • NOAO - KPNO, CTIO

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• Instrument & Satellite pages

• Near-infrared
  3D
  VLT instruments: SPIFFI , NAOS-CONICA , ISAAC
  KECK instruments: NIRSPEC, NIRC2
  UNSWIRF
  HST instruments: NICMOS
  Calar Alto instruments: Omega-Cass
  UKIRT instruments: CGS4, UFTI, IRCAM, ...
  ADONIS

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• Meetings & People
  • International Astronomy Meetings, from CADC and Academia Exchange
  • Specific meetings
    1998
    Astronomy with Adaptive Optics (ESO)
    Sonthofen, Germany, September 1998
    Adaptive Optical System technologies (SPIE)
    Kona, Hawaii, March 1998
    1999
    Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present (Institut d'Astrophysique)
    Paris, France, July 1999
    2000
    Astromical Telescopes and Instrumentation (SPIE)
    Münich, Germany, March 2000
    Galaxies & their constituents at the highest angular resolutions (IAU)
    (see also Symposium 205 & Bulletin 85), Manchester, UK, August 2000
    Starbursts Near and Far (MPE)
    Schloss Ringberg, Germany, September 2000
    2001
    
    The central kpc of starbursts and AGNs: the La Palma connection (ING)
    Los Cancajos, La Palma, May 2001
    Beyond Conventional Adaptive Optics (Padova, Firenze, Venezia, ESO)
    Venice, Italy, May 2001
    Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation (ESO)
    Garching, Germany, June 2001
    2002
    Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation (SPIE)
    Adaptive Optical System technologies II
    Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6-10m Class Telescopes II
    Waikoloa, Hawaii, 22-28 Aug 2002
    Diffraction Limited NIR Observations with the VLT
    Ringberg, 20-23 Oct 2002
    2003
    Science with Adaptive Optics (ESO)
    Garching, Germany, September 2003
    2004
    The interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei (IAU)
    Gramado, Brazil, March 2004
    Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation (SPIE)
    Advancements in Adaptive Optics
    Glasgow, UK, June 2004
    Starbursts - From 30 Doradus to Lyman break galaxies (IAC)
    Cambridge, UK, September 2004

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• 8-10 m Telescopes & projects
  • Major Telescopes & projects
  • 8-m telescopes
    VLT
    Gemini
    Keck
    Subaru
    LBT
    Hobby Eberly Telescope
    Gran Telescopio Canarias
    SALT
    Large Zenith Telescope

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• 30-100 m projects & concepts
  • AURA 30-50m (eg MAXAT)
    CELT 30m
    OWL 100m
    LAT 15m
    SOT 50m

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• Fun Astronomy, General Interest, & Education

  • What's Where When ?
    What's up in the Sky? - positions of the planets & other solar system stuff
    Messier Objects (list & info) - Caldwell Object list
    Satellite Tracker
    Satellite Flares - and as seen from Garching

  • Mostly Pictures
    DRAGNs
    Arnett on planets, nebulae, Messier, NGC, etc.
    HST images by subject - Hubble Heritage - HubbleSite Gallery
    AAT photographs
    Galaxies - from Princeton (catalogue) and Alabama Universities (also comets, clusters, etc.)
    Multiwavelength Milky Way
    Solar System Simulator (pictures only)
    Astronomical pictures & animations

  • Learning about Astronomy
    Runaway Universe
    Astronomy Picture of the Day
    Galaxy links from CRAL
    Windows to the Universe
    Basic Astronomy Course
    Black holes & neutron stars

  • General Interest
    International Supernova Network
    Extrasolar Planets
    Observational mishaps

  • The Good Old Days...
    History of Astronomy
    Astronomy in Ancient Cultures

• Miscellaneous Resources from:
  Fourmilab

• On-line Manuals & Documentation

  • Crimson Editor

  • eclipse (local) - isaac (local)

  • Supermongo
    pgplot - help

  • UNIX & Linux: Laptops, SuSE, XSuSE, XFree86,

  • Programming
    • FORTRAN links
    • C: links - tutorial - standard libraries (eg maths and strings)
    • C++: links - tutorial
    • more C/C++ links
    • Numerical Recipes - C codes

  • LaTeX - links - Useful links from YandY - MikTex - WinShell (see also LaTeX editors)
    • basics - guide - command list - documentation for accessories

  • Image & Data Processing
    • IRAF homepage
      STSDAS documentation
    • IDL: RSINC - Astronomy User's Library - tips - resources - ATV
    • deconvolution
      IDAC
      Université de Liège pages
    • SExtractor: homepage - cookbook

  • ImageMagick

  • HTML
    • igal image gallery maker -
    • on-line guide (German mirror)
    • Sunny's guide (very good, but often slow)
    • HTML Jalfrezi (excellent guide!, with list of special characters)
    • HTML Goodies & Javascript archive, webpage developer's reference, quick reference
    • Style sheets: CSS1 reference
    • making (animated) GIFs and banners or: free graphics - AGAG - flags - animation factory
    • Webcounter from goweb

  • Computers
    • webopedia
    • Shareware Downloads
    • Windows XP
    • FTP: ncftp
    • SSH: source codes - SSH JAVA Applet

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  • Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Translations

    • Guide to Grammar & Writing - Principles of Composition - Index

    • UCSD
      • Webster's Dictionary
      • Roget's Thesaurus

    • ARTFL
      • Webster's Dictionary
      • Roget's Thesaurus

    • Technical Dictionaries
    • Vocabulary Aids (synonyms, antonyms, etc.)

    • Foreign Langauges
      • Dictionaries
      • German/English dictionary (with English meanings)
      • Translators: AltaVista Babelfish, FreeTranslater, Dictionary.com PROMT

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  • Journals, Newspapers, & Books

    • Science Journals
      • New Scientist
      • Scientific American
      • PhysicsWeb (userid: DychTau, psswd: Camp2200) & TIPTOP
      • Nature (userid: DychTau, passwd: Camp2200)
      • Sky & Telescope
      • SpaceViews
      • Astronomy
      • National Geographic (customer service)

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  • Travel Information & Maps

    • Transport Bayern Info - everything about Bayern transport, timetables, routes, and links
      Local: Garching transport with all important links - also a full local bus timetable
      Trains: Railtrack (UK), Deutsche Bahn (Germany), or SBB (Europe)
      Planes: Flughafen Müchen Go-fly to/from London, United Aitlines - itineraries
      Ferries: P&O Stena Line
      Cars: to hire from Hertz, Avis, Alamo, etc. try www.*.de or .ac.uk or .com

    • Maps:
      microCAM
      for route planning use Autoroute
      Stadtplan - Muenchen
      UK: streetmaps - Ordnance Survey - multimap
      Worldwide: mapquest

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  • Maths, Physics, & General Science

    Wolfram science encyclodepia
    PhysLINK
    Periodic Table of Elements
    Statistics codes
    TCAEP database of equations, constants, etc.
    Integrator solves integrals (using Mathematica)
    The Geometry Center
    Britannica encyclopaedia
    teaching resource

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