Site Name and Address |
Description |
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StarDial http://stardial.astro.illinois.edu/ | Raw images of the night sky. No longer in operation, but archive images available. | ||||||
Center for Near Earth Objects https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ | JPL center for Near Earth Object studies. | ||||||
Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
http://www.sdss.org/ SDSS Navigation Tool |
Images and data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and educational lessons. | ||||||
Aladin Sky Atlas http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ | Interactive image and data retrieval from a variety of sources. Image analysis features. | ||||||
Deep Sky Browser NLA | Easy to use interface for data, images, and sky map. Not available. Looking g for a similar site. | ||||||
CDS
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html VizieR • Simbad |
Connection point for SIMBAD and VisieR | ||||||
TDC http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/astro.data.html/ | List of astronomical data sources on the web. | ||||||
Virtual Astronomy Observatory http://virtualobservatory.org/ |
The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is a U.S.-funded effort to put efficient astronomical tools in the hands of U.S. astronomers, students, educators, and public outreach leaders. | ||||||
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. | ||||||
HYG Database http://astronexus.com/node/34 | Some easy to use astronomical databases that can be read by Excel | ||||||
Fujii Bisie Observatory NLA |
Spectral traces of many stars. 450 to 750 nm. Unfortunately not available. Nice stellar spectra. Looking for something similar. | ||||||
Project Lite http://lite.bu.edu/spex/v3/index.html |
Search and display images and spectra plus more. Education. | ||||||
AAVSO https://www.aavso.org/ | American Association of Variable Star Observers. Data on variable stars. Has an educational component. | ||||||
The STScI Digitized Sky Survey http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form | Digitized images from various sky surveys. If not working try http://archive.stsci.edu/ | ||||||
WEBDA http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/webda.html | Stellar cluster in the Milky Way and Megellenic Clouds | ||||||
Deep Sky Database http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/ | Object data base for type and location. | ||||||
Sky View https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/titlepage.pl |
Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray. | ||||||
SkyMorph http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skymorph/ |
Part of SkyView. SkyMorph enables searches for variable, moving or transient objects from NEAT. | ||||||
Digital Lunar Atlas https://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 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html | NASA's collection of planetary images. Updated regularly. | |||||
Mars Exploration Rover Mission https://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/ | Processed and raw images from the Mars Exploration Rovers. | ||||||
Mars Global Surveyor http://asimov.msss.com/moc_gallery/ | Martian surface images form the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. | ||||||
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ |
Images for the Martian surface from the orbiter. High resolution. | ||||||
MER Radiometrically Calibrated
Imagery NLA |
Rover images calibrated for color correctness | ||||||
Cassini - Huygens Mission (Saturn) https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images/ |
Images of Saturn and its moons from Cassini and the Huygens Titan Lander. | ||||||
Solar Data Analysis Center https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/index.html/ | Solar data from many sources. | ||||||
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) https://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 |