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StarDial http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/stardial/ | Raw images of the night sky. No longer in operation, but archive images available. | |||||
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Astronomical Research Institute http://ari.home.mchsi.com/home.htm | Specifically for education in NEO and Supernova searches. | |||||
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Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
http://www.sdss.org/ SDSS Navigation Tool |
Images and data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and educational lessons. | |||||
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Aladin Sky Atlas http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ | Interactive image and data retrieval from a variety of sources. Image analysis features. | |||||
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Deep Sky Browser http://messier45.com/ | Easy to use interface for data, images, and sky map. | |||||
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CDS
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html VizieR • Simbad |
Connection point for SIMBAD and VisieR | |||||
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ADC http://adc.astro.umd.edu/ | Astronomical Data Center. Exhaustive list and links to data catalogs. | |||||
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National Virtual Observatory http://www.us-vo.org/ |
Data access from a variety of catalog sources | |||||
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Starcast http://archive.stsci.edu/starcast/ | Image and data retrieval somewhat like CDS and NVO | |||||
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MAST http://archive.stsci.edu | The Multimission Archive at STScI. Primarily focused on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. | |||||
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HYG Database http://astronexus.com/node/34 | Some easy to use astronomical databases that can be read by Excel | |||||
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Fujii Bisie Observatory http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~aikow/ |
Spectral traces of many stars. 450 to 750 nm | |||||
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Project Lite http://lite.bu.edu/spex/v3/index.html |
Search and display images and spectra plus more. Education. | |||||
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AAVSO http://www.aavso.org/ | American Association of Variable Star Observers. Data on variable stars. Has an educational component. | |||||
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The STScI Digitized Sky Survey http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form | Digitized images from various sky surveys. | |||||
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WEBDA http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/webda.html | Stellar cluster in the Milky Way and Megellenic Clouds | |||||
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Deep Sky Database http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/ | Object data base for type and location. | |||||
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Sky View http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray. | |||||
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SkyMorph http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skymorph/ |
Part of SkyView. SkyMorph enables searches for variable, moving or transient objects from NEAT. | |||||
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Digital Lunar Atlas http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ | Images of every part of the near side of the moon. | |||||
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Planetary Photo Journal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html | NASA's collection of planetary images. Updated regularly. | |||||
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Mars Exploration Rover Mission http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/ | Processed and raw images from the Mars Exploration Rovers. | |||||
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Mars Global Surveyor http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ | Martian surface images form the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. | |||||
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ |
Images for the Martian surface from the orbiter. High resolution. | |||||
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MER Radiometrically Calibrated
Imagery http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/index.html |
Rover images calibrated for color correctness | |||||
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Cassini - Huygens Mission (Saturn) http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm |
Images of Saturn and its moons from Cassini and the Huygens Titan Lander. | |||||
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Solar Data Analysis Center http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/ | Solar data from many sources. | |||||
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Current Solar Data from NOAA http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html |
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Solar Weather Browser http://sidc.oma.be/SWB/ |
Solar browser software to retrieve current and past images of the sun | |||||
| Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) http://www.lsst.org |
Scheduled to begin operation in 2013. The goal is to make sky images available for the public | ||||||
| Click HERE for spreadsheet format star lists | |||||||
