Useful Links General

This page provides a series of links to websites that we feel may be of interest to you. The links categorized below can be accessed via the tabbed buttons. Just click to open and close each topic.

For now, we would like to draw your attention to the following University/Departmental links.

Astrophysics Group Wiki page (access available for UCL members only)
Query eUCLid the new library system - see also UCL Library Astronomy e-journals
Miracle High Performance Computing Project
UCL Centre for Cosmic Chemistry & Physics.
Astrophysics Group outreach program
The Extrasolar Planet Catalogue

Astronomical Databases

AAT Data Archive

ADS Abstract Service

Astroweb - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS).

Atomic line list

Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU) Data Centre.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)

Digitized Sky Survey (DSS).

ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility - ESO (La Silla & Paranal) / HST archives.

Exomol - Comprehensive database of molecular line lists.

GATOR - JHK photometry for 2MASS all-sky catalogues

JPL Molecular Spectroscopy

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

NIST Physical Reference Data - Physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data.

Simbad Astronomical Database

SkyView - A virtual observatory on the internet.

STSci Multimission Data Archive (MAST) - HST, IUE, EUVE, ASTRO & ROSAT .

MAST DSS

UK Astronomical Data Centre - ING (La Palma) and UKIRT (Hawaii) archive.

Astronomical Software

AstroGrid - Virtual Observatory Data-grid for UK astronomy.

DIPSO - A friendly spectrum analysis program.

ESO-MIDAS - European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System.

eStar - The eSTAR Project is a programme to build an intelligent robotic telescope network.

IDL (Interactive Data Language)

IDL Astronomy User's Library - Software repository for Astronomy (maintained at GSFC).

IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)

Starlink Project Homepage

Xephem - Interactive astronomical ephemeris software.

Journals and Magazines

Below is a list of popular on-line journals and magazines.

Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomical Journal

Astronomy - Popular monthly US magazine.

Astronomy & Astrophysics (EDP Sciences)

Astronomy Now - Popular monthly UK magazine.

astro-ph - Astronomy e-print archive at Los Alamos.

Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal

Astrophysics & Space Science - Kluwer's Astrophysics & Space Science abstracts (UCL only).

Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics - UCL only.

Icarus - Journal of Planetary Science.

Mercury - ASP Mercury Magazine.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

Nature - Full access to subscribers and selected UCL users (see here for details).

New Astronomy - UCL only. Search e-journals service.

New Scientist

The Observatory - ULO magazine.

Optical Engineering - Optical Engineering at SPIE.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP).

Sky & Telescope - Popular monthly US magazine.

Ground-based Observatories

The Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)

The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory

The European Southern Observatory (ESO )

The Gemini 8 Meter Telescopes Project

The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)

Isaac Newton Group (ING)

Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique (IRAM)

Infra Red Telescope Facility (IRTF)

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)

Keck

Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN)

Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO)

National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO)

Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

National Radio Astronomical Observatories (NRAO)

Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)

South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)

SOFIA

Subaru

Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG)

United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)

Space-based Observatories

Chandra X-ray observatory

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)

Herschel

Hipparcos

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Planck

ROSAT

Spitzer Space Telescope

XMM-Newton

Societies and Organisations

The American Astronomical Society (AAS home page).

The British Astronomical Association (BAA home page).

European Space Agency (ESA home page).

The International Astronomical Union (IAU home page).

NASA home page.

UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC home page).

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS home page).

Royal Society home page.