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Useful Links

• Proposal Tools and Information

  • OM Tool for Planning Observations with Point Sources - finds S/N ratio of point sources and issues warnings on exposure and magnitude. 
  • OM Tool for Planning User Defined Science Windows - helps you to define and visualise your own OM Science Windows.
  • Co-Ordinate Tool - transforms celestial co-ordinates to galactic and elliptical co-ordinates

• Archives, Catalogues and Databases

  • ARNIE - the ARchive Network InterfacE at Leicester
  • NVSS - NRAO/VLA Sky Survey
  • VLA Archive Database Interface
  • Hubble Data Archive at STScI - includes the HST, IUE and VLA First Survey archives
  • HEASARC archives
  • LEDAS - the Leicester Database and Archive Service
  • WGACAT - The WGA Catalogue of ROSAT Point Sources
  • SIMBAD
  • NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
  • Starlink

• Manuals

  • XMM-Newton User Handbook
  • xmm go cd documentation
  • ASCA ABC guide
  • ASCA Getting Started Guide
  • The CHIANTI homepage - "A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy"
  • The CLOUDY homepage - "Photoionization simulations for the discerning astrophysicist"
  • FIGARO - a general data reduction system, v 5.5-0 User's Guide
  • IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
  • local SPEX 2.00 manual - X-ray spectral fitting program written by Jelle Kaastra (SRON), particularly useful for high resolution XMM and Chandra data
  • XSPEC (X-ray spectral fitting program) manual
  • Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • See also the list of manuals in hardcopy form which are currently available and their location in the Lab. 

• Observatories

  • ASCA Guest Observer Facility
  • AAO - Anglo-Australian Observatory
  • Chandra
  • European Southern Observatory
  • HERSCHEL - Far IR and Submillimetre Telescope
  • Gemini Observatory
  • ING - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
  • James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
  • La Silla Observatory
  • ROSAT
  • Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
  • SAAO - South African Astronomical Observatory
  • UKIRThttp://www.jach.hawaii.edu/UKIRT/
  • NRAO VLA - Very Large Array
  • XMM-Newton
  • See also the observatories page

• Papers and Preprints

  • ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
  • BIDS - Bath Information and Data Services
  • LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory xxx-preprints archive
  • LANL xxx-preprints mirror at Southampton

• Pretty Pictures

  • APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Hubble Space Telescope images and press releases

• "Virtual" Observatories

  • APM Sky Catalogues
  • SKYVIEW
  • STScI Digitized Sky Survey

• Miscellaneous

  • International Astronomy Meetings
  • AAS Job Register
    
  • StarHeads - Astronomers and Related People - a searchable directory of personal WWW pages
  • Niel Brandt's web pages at Penn State - well worth a look!
  • Getting the train? Railtrack travel information - tells you the fastest route
  • Or travelling by car?The RAC route planner will give you the fastest and shortest routes, as well as traffic information