Links to Astronomical Resources

• General Resources
• Resources for Young People
• Sky Charts
• Space Agencies
• UK astronomy
• Irish Astronomy
• Catalogues and Databases
• Tutorials
• Journals and Publications
• History of Astronomy

General Resources

• Astropersons List - Search for an astronomer.
• PhysNet - Physics Departments and Documents Network
• American Association of Variable Star Observors
• Astronomy Software Servers
• Heavens Above Satellite Information
• Sunrise, Sunset and Twilight Calculator
• Royalty Free Astronomy Images

Resources for Young People

• Kids Astronomy .com
• National Schools' Observatory
• The StarChild Learning Center
• Windows to the Universe
• Imagine the Universe
• The Bad Astronomy Website
• Interactive Orrery
• The Planets of our Solar System
• Astrophysics in Cyberspace
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Solar Online Activity Resources
• SoHO for Teachers and Students
• A Family Guide to Stargazing

Sky Charts and Maps

• The Sky Tonight from the Schools Observatory
• The Sky over Armagh
• Heavens Above - Satellite visibility and skymaps
• Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas
• SkyView: The Internet's Virtual Telescope

Space Agencies

• NASA - USA
• ESA - Europe
• IKI - Russia
• JAXA - Japan
• CNSA - China
• BNSC - UK
• DLR - Germany
• ISRO - India

U.K. Astronomy

• STFC
• Royal Astronomical Society
• Issac Newton Group
• Royal Observatory Edinburgh
• UK Astronomy Technology Center
• Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge

Irish Astronomy

• Armagh Observatory
• Armagh Planetarium
• Astronomical Science Group of Ireland (ASGI)
• Astronomy Ireland
• Birr Castle
• Blackrock Castle Observatory
• Cork Astronomy Club
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - School of Cosmic Physics
• Dunsink Observatory
• Galway Astronomy Club
• Irish Astronomical Association
• Irish Astronomical Society
• Irish Astronomy Trail
• Midlands Astronomy Club
• Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomy Society
• NUI Cork - Astrophysics
• NUI Dublin - Astrophysics Space and Relativity
• NUI Maynooth - Astrophysics
• Planetary Society
• QUB - Astrophysics and Planetary Science Division
• Shannonside Astronomy Club
• TCD Astrophysics Research Group

Catalogues and Databases

• VizieR Online Catalogues, CDS at Strasbourg.
• The Palomar Digitised Sky Survey
• IUE Merged Observing Log.
• MERLIN Data Archive
• The Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner (MAPS) Catalog
• Deep Sky Database
• Star*s Family listings of astronomical persons, places and things from the CDS at Strasbourg.
• Physical Reference Data
• Nuclear Astrophysics Data
• Atomic Line List
• Querator - multi archive search engine

Tutorials

• Astronomy Tutorials
• Cosmology Tutorials
• Galileo and Einstein
• Modern Relativity
• Webmath
• Mrs Glosser's Math Goodies
• Scientific Computing FAQ

Journals and Publications

• Armagh Observatory Preprint Series
• ADS Abstracts Database at Harvard
• Ap. J. Yellow Pages
• Links to more Journals
• ADS The Astrophysics Data System from NASA
• Sky and Telescope
• Astronomy and Space Magazine
• Astronomy Now
• The Astronomer
• Astrosurf Magazine

History of Astronomy

• History of Armagh Observatory
• Astronomiae Historia
• History of Physics and Astronomy
• UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
• History of Astronomy - IAU Commission 41
• Journal for the History of Astronomy
• British Astronomical Association - Historical Section
• Society for the History of Astronomy (UK)
• American Astronomical Society - Historical Astronomy Division
• Astronomy in Japan
• History of Chinese Astronomy

Last Revised: 2014 February 26th