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Websites in Data Archives

1. 2dF QSo Redshift Survey (2QZ)
   An Anglo-Australian collaboration surveying 740 square degrees of high-galactic lattiude sky. Contains spectroscopic data release, results, progress report, and input catalogue, survey members, and publications.
   http://www.2dfquasar.org
   
   
2. AAVSO International Database
   Over 10 million variable star estimates dating back over 100 years.
   http://www.aavso.org/data/download/
   
   
3. ADC - Astronomical Data Center
   NASA's ADC is a resource for astronomical data, catalogs, and journal tables.
   http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
   
   
4. Astronomical Data Center
   Data from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Includes catalog service, data archives, imaging services, and journals.
   http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/
   
   
5. Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
   Daily archive of interesting astronomy photos by NASA.
   http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   
   
6. Astronomy: Data Archives
   Patrick Shopbell's Astronomy Resources. Contains data archives, astronomical catalogs, atlas of nearby dwarf galaxies, and links.
   http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pls/astronomy/archives.html
   
   
7. AstronomyNook
   Contains astronomy data, news, images, information, and downloads.
   http://www.astronomynook.com/
   
   
8. Byte-O-Matic.NET Astronomical Information Archive
   Offers information services, and archiving of various astronomical issues.
   http://www.byte-o-matic.net
   
   
9. CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
   Contains digitized sky survey, IUE archive, star catalogs, and links.
   http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/CADC-homepage.html
   
   
10. CATS Database
    Astrophysical CATalogs support System. Contains list of catalogs, table of major radio catalogs, and search tool.
    http://cats.sao.ru/
    
    
11. CFHT Archive
    The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive. Includes CFHT archives, images, instruments, help, and links.
    http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
    
    
12. Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
    Contains information on the PDS and APM microdensitometer facilities, Carlsberg Meridian telescope, data archives, and processing center.
    http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mike/casu/index.html
    
    
13. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
    (CDS) Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, and directory.
    http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html
    
    
14. DARTS
    A database to provide access for general researchers to observation data about solar, astrophysics and terrestrial information derived by the observation satellites of ISAS. Includes related resource links.
    http://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp
    
    
15. 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 at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
    http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/
    
    
16. ESO, and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities
    A joint venture of The European Southern Observatory(ESO), and the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility(ST-ECF). Contains a shared archive server, services, news, updates, digitized sky images, links, and public datasets.
    http://archive.eso.org/
    
    
17. ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server
    Archive provides access to the all-sky catalogue from the set of ten CD-ROMs produced by the US Naval Observatory within the Precise Measurement Machine Project.
    http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/usnoa
    
    
18. HEASARC
    High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. Provides an archive of data on (and software for analyzing) gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources.
    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
    
    
19. Hypercat: Extragalactic database
    Search data about millions of galaxies by their name or celestial position. Also an archive of 100,000 images of galaxies.
    http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/hypercat/
    
    
20. Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
    Sky map, and point source catalogs from the all-sky survey.
    http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/iras/
    
    
21. Infrared Space Observatory
    Data archive by the European Space Agency mission with the participation of ISAS and NASA.
    http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/ida/
    
    
22. Islamic Crescents' Observation Project
    Global project organized by the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS). Contains data base for Crescent Observations.
    http://www.jas.org.jo/icop.html
    
    
23. Jim's Hubble Telescope Photo Gallery
    Presents photos from the Hubble Space Telescope.
    http://www.mindspring.com/~deline/
    
    
24. Leicester Digitized Sky Survey
    An image browser providing access to digitized optical Schmidt plates forming the STScI Survey.
    http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/DSSimage
    
    
25. MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI
    MAST supports 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/
    
    
26. Microsoft Research and the SDSS SkyServer
    A project to develop an Internet data resource in astronomy. Includes journals, reading, the sky server, team information, and links.
    http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/SDSS/
    
    
27. Multiwavelength Milky Way
    The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
    http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/milkyway.html
    
    
28. NASA Extragalactic Database
    (NED).
    http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
    
    
29. NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
    (ADIL) collects astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical community, and the general public. Offers Library access, image browse, and FITS links.
    http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html
    
    
30. NOAO Data Archives
    Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. Includes survey programs data archive, and links to other data collections.
    http://www.noao.edu/archives.html
    
    
31. NVSS Postage Stamp Server
    This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or JPEG format.
    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml
    
    
32. Pat Baker's Astronomy Central
    Explores astronomy, the universe, the Hubble telescope, the solar system, and astronomy history. Offers news, images, articles, and links.
    http://my.execpc.com/~dep33/
    
    
33. Personal Web pages
    A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.
    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_personal.html
    
    
34. Planetary Data System
    PDS archives, and distributes digital data from past, and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. Contains data and services, educational resources, and contact information.
    http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/
    
    
35. Radio Astronomy Group, University of Tasmania
    Contains student research projects, astronomical data, radio observatories, and history.
    http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/
    
    
36. SAO Telescope Data Center
    Creates, and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, Whipple Observatory, and Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is part of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    http://cfa165.harvard.edu/
    
    
37. SIMBAD Astronomical Database
    Offers data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography for celestial objects outside the solar system including stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies.
    http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
    
    
38. Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    A survey that maps one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects.
    http://www.sdss.org/
    
    
39. Solar Data Analysis Centre
    Contains solar data, and images. Includes SDAC Data-Finder, current solar images, and TRACE analysis guides.
    http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/
    
    
40. Space Telescope Science Institute
    Contains astronomy resources, space data archives, visitor information, and research opportunities.
    http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
    
    
41. Starcast
    Provides simultaneously queries, and many astronomical databases. Includes input target coordinates or name, data type, source, and bandpass.
    http://archive.stsci.edu/starcast/
    
    
42. Supercosmos Sky Surveys
    Provides images, and catalogues of the southern sky in three colours. Includes access to digitised images, and the data derived from SuperCOSMOS scans of photographic Schmidt survey plates.
    http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/
    
    
43. Technical Data for the Arecibo Airglow and Optical Instrumentation
    Data information, and instrument documentation from the Arecibo optical facility.
    http://www.naic.edu/usrweb/tech/optical-.htm
    
    
44. The Aladin Sky Atlas
    Provides an interactive sky atlas allowing users to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky. Includes astronomical catalogs, personal user data files, and interactive access to related data from the Simbad database, and Vizier service.
    http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
    
    
45. The ELODIE archive
    Hosts more than 16000 Echelle spectra of 2000 objects from the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP observatory.
    http://atlas.obs-hp.fr/elodie/
    
    
46. The Munich Astro Archive
    Archives astronomical data. Includes star dates, comets, glossary, astronomical catalogs, calendar, meteor events, and astromaps.
    http://www.maa.mhn.de/
    
    
47. The New UKIRT Archive
    The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Archive. Offers search tool, and operator's log.
    http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ukirt_arch/
    
    
48. The Royal Astronomical Society
    UK organization promoting astronomy, geophysics, and planetary science.
    http://www.ras.org.uk/index.html
    
    
49. The UTR-2 Catalogue
    Provides a low frequency sky survey of discrete sources obtained in the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. Images from the UTR-2 radio telescope at a number of the low frequencies used in contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25 MHz.
    http://www.ira.kharkov.ua/UTR2/
    
    
50. The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search
    Provides a search tool for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory secondary data products archive.
    http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
    
    
51. The VLA FIRST Survey
    Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.
    http://sundog.stsci.edu/
    
    
52. The Web Nebulae
    Features images of Nebulae organized by Bill Arnett. Includes glossary, image list, and sources.
    http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/
    
    
53. UK astronomical data-center
    Data center that is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit providing a selection of data from the UK's ground based telescopes. Includes archives, and catalogs.
    http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/
    
    
54. USGS Planetary GIS Web Server.
    Mapping interface that will integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical, statistical, and spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets.
    http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/
    
    
55. WEBDA
    Devoted to stars in galactic open clusters. It offers an interface to a database collecting astronomical observations, and bibliography.
    http://obswww.unige.ch/webda/
    
    

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