Useful Astronomy Links

Astrophysics research

• Aaron Barth's ATV IDL widget
• American Astronomical Society
• ADS Query
• ADS Mirror
• Annual Reviews
• Astronomical Journal
• Astrophysical Journal
• AJ Web Review (IOP)
• ApJL Length Calculator
• ApJ Web Review
• Astro-ph preprint service
• Astro-ph mirror
• Astro-ph local time
• Astro jobs
• Astronomy Educational Review (AER)
• Beginner's Guide to Astronomy Research
• Caltech: Astronomy Dept.
• CIT thesis page
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Heidi's Milky Way Structure Catalog
• Hex color library
• International Astronomy Meetings
• IRTF Spectral Library
• LaTeX reference, tips & tricks
• Macintosh TeX/LaTeX
• Mac OS X config tips
• Messier catalog
• NASA Extragalactic Database
• NIST Atomic Spectra Database
• Scisoft: Astro software for Macs
• SIMBAD
• SkyView Virtual Observatory
• Star Names
• STSCI
• University of Virginia: Astronomy Dept.
• Unix Tutorial
• USNO- A2
• Vizier
• 2MASS Homepage
• 2MASS All-Sky Data Release

Computing

• Remote X11 forwarding

Observing

• AccuWeather
• A-star finder
• A-star finder (Gemini faint star)
• Keck Ephemeris
• Keck Intranet
• Keck Observatory
• Keck seeing (intranet only)
• Local Sidereal Time
• Mauna Kea Weather Center
• Observation Planner
• IR Persson Standards
• Weather Underground: Sky

Useful online class material

• Claire Max's Lectures on Adaptive Optics
• Eugene Chiang's galactic structure wiki
• George Djorgovski's Photometry Notes
• George Djorgovski's Observational Astronomy Notes
• Josh Barnes' galactic structure course
• Mark Whittle's Extragalactic Web Notes
• Scott Tremaine's galactic structure course
• Steve Majewski's Galactic Structure Web Notes
• Steve Majewski's Observational Astronomy Web Notes
• SRM: Future of Stellar Pop Studies Review Article

Astronomy as a hobby

• Astronomy magazine
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Celestial Atlas of 1600
• Constellation list
• Robert Gendler Astrophotograpy
• Satellite tracking
• SETI@home