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Proposal Tools and Information

Observing and Proposal deadlines

Chandra proposal information and tools

Chandra proposal planning toolkit (includes PIMMS, precession and date conversion software, and a Galactic nH calculator)

NICMOS Handbook Version 2.0

NICMOS Exposure Time Calculator

NICMOS Units Conversion FORM - useful for optical/UV as well as IR

OM Tool for Planning Observations with Point Sources - finds S/N ratio of point sources and issues warnings on exposure and magnitude.

OM Tool for Planning User Defined Science Windows - helps you to define and visualise your own OM Science Windows.

Co-Ordinate Tool - transforms celestial co-ordinates to galactic and elliptical co-ordinates

Agencies and Societies

ESA - European Space Agency - Astrophysics

GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center

IoP - Institute of Physics

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

PPARC - Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

RAS - Royal Astronomical Society

STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute

Archives, Catalogues and Databases

ARNIE - the ARchive Network InterfacE at Leicester

NVSS - NRAO/VLA Sky Survey

VLA Archive Database Interface

ROSAT source browser

Hubble Data Archive at STScI - includes the HST, IUE and VLA First Survey archives

For the ING Archive, start here, click on "applying for time", then on "archive data"

HEASARC archives

LEDAS - the Leicester Database and Archive Service

WGACAT - The WGA Catalogue of ROSAT Point Sources

NED - NASA Extragalactic Database

Starlink libraries available via the web

Astronomy/Astrophysics Groups

School of Physics and Astronomy, Birmingham

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University

Department of Physics, Durham

Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Edinburgh

Department of Physics, Imperial College

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at GSFC

Department of Physics, Imperial College

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Physics Department at Keele University

Leicester X-ray Astronomy Group

Department of Physics, Oxford University

Astronomy Unit at Queen Mary and Westfield College

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State

School of Physics and Astronomy at St. Andrews

University of Southampton Astronomy Group

Physics and Astronomy at Sussex

Manuals

XMM-Newton User Handbook

xmm go cd documentation

ASCA Getting Started Guide

The CHIANTI homepage - "A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy"

The CLOUDY homepage - "Photoionization simulations for the discerning astrophysicist"

FIGARO - a general data reduction system, v 5.5-0 User's Guide

IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility

Molly (spectral fitting program) user guide and command list

local SPEX 2.00 manual - X-ray spectral fitting program written by Jelle Kaastra (SRON), particularly useful for high resolution XMM and Chandra data

XSPEC (X-ray spectral fitting program) manual

Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics

See also the list of manuals in hardcopy form which are currently available and their location in the Lab.

Observatories

ASCA Guest Observer Facility

AAO - Anglo-Australian Observatory

European Southern Observatory

HERSCHEL - Far IR and Submillimetre Telescope

The Gemini 8m Telescopes Project

ING - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (Cambridge mirror site)

IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

La Silla Observatory

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

SAAO - South African Astronomical Observatory

UKIRT: Home Page

NRAO VLA - Very Large Array

XEUS - The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission

Official (ESA) XMM Home Page

See also the observatories page

Papers and Preprints

Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Web

Electronic Edition of the Astrophysical Journal

ADS Astronomy Abstract Service

BIDS - Bath Information and Data Services

LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory xxx-preprints archive

LANL xxx-preprints mirror at Southampton

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Pretty Pictures

APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day

Pictures from NASA - from test flights to rocket launches and space walks

Hubble Space Telescope images and press releases

University of Alabama Astronomical Image Galleries

The Chandra Public Information pages are also a good source of pictures and information

"Virtual" Observatories

APM Sky Catalogues

STScI Digitized Sky Survey

Miscellaneous

International Astronomy Meetings

StarHeads - Astronomers and Related People - a searchable directory of personal WWW pages

Niel Brandt's web pages at Penn State - well worth a look!

The Greatest Color converter utility in the World (allegedly)

Getting the train? Railtrack travel information - tells you the fastest route

Or travelling by car?The RAC route planner will give you the fastest and shortest routes, as well as traffic information

Flying? Go to expedia for flight deals

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