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Dafydd's Astronomy Page
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Here are some links to astronomical WWW pages.
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Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
- Probably the best meridian telescope in the world.
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Hipparcos
- ESA Astrometric Satellite.
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GAIA
- The next ESA Astrometric Satellite (Cornerstone 6) - to be launched
no later than 2012.
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Cambridge Astronomy Home Page - The general home page for all Cambridge's
astronomical institutions.
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La Palma - Information about the telescopes on El Roque de los
Muchachos, which includes the ING group
of telescopes. The IAC have a good
weather page
for La Palma.
If you want more detailed weather information for the Observatory then the
NOT
and ING
have the info for you.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service - very useful.
US
link. You may also need the
astro-ph server.
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AstroWeb - a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information
available on the Internet.
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APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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Astronomer's Bazaar - Catalogues at the CDS.
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SIMBAD - The SIMBAD astronomical database.
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STARLINK - Information on the Starlink Project, the computing
facility for UK astronomers.
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The Digitized Sky Survey - Almost faster than going to the plate
library (LEDAS, UK link). The
STScI link (US).
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Space Telescope - Information about the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Exoplanets - List of currently known extrasolar planets.
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Space Calendar - What's about to happen in space soon.
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Astronomy Now - All the latest from Astronomy Now.
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Today at NASA - All the latest news from NASA. From here you can get
information on most NASA things.
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Solar System - The Solar System Dynamics group at JPL. If you want
some ephemerides click
here.
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IERS - The bulletins of the International Earth Rotation Service.
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IAU WWW home page - International Astronomical Union - "You don't get me
I'm part of the union."
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RAS - Royal Astronomical Society.
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Astronomy Acknowledgement Index - See how often people acknowledge you.
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SkyView - as the blurb says "SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the
Net. SkyView generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all
regimes from radio to gamma-ray".
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Bad Astronomy - how to get things wrong.
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Published by Dafydd Wyn Evans / IoA / dwe @ ast.cam.ac.uk
Last modified 5 June 2023