Abstract Services & Databases
AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory) Archive database
Access to the AAT/UKST archive database and observing logs; sky surveys/catlaogues.
Provides references from Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA) from 1983 onwards.
Online database with data derived from the Catalogues of Nearby Stars published by Astronomisches Rechen-Institut.
A collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.
CDS Service of Abstracts - PASP
Provides abstracts of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (from vol. 106, January 1994 - ). Abstracts appear several weeks before the printed version.
CDS Service of Abstracts -A&A, A&A Suppl.
Provides abstracts of A&A (starting with vol. 284, April 1994) and A&A Suppl. (starting vol. 103, January 1994- ). Abstracts appear four weeks prior to publication of printed version.
Photographic archive of the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (a survey of the northern sky).
An astronomy dictionary giving brief overviews of various topics and personalities within astronomy.
GCPD: The Lausanne Photometric Database
Contains data for 75 photometric systems and their references.
Abstracts from astronomical articles taken from journals, conference proceedings, reports and theses. Also data catalogues and data archives. Access is now available to scanned articles from major journals and some books.
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
Provides access to data from NASA spaceflight missions.
NASA Extragalactic database with 500,000 2MASS Objects with Images;40,000 SDSS Objects with Redshifts; 15,000 2QZ Objects (Part of 2dF) Frames
Provides access to SIMBAD and XSIMBAD. Contains data for celestial objects, stars, galaxies and nonstellar objects.
A virtual observatory generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from radio to gamma-ray.
Survey to map in detail a quarter of the entire sky, determining positions and absolute brightness of more than 100 million celestial objects.
Atlases/Catalogues
Astrographic Catalogue and AC 200.2
From the home page of US Naval Observatory. Provides access to data on star measurements/positions.
Access to astronomy data and catalogues from NASA.
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
Provides access to over 4000 catalogues.
Center for History of Physics. [AIP]
Access to the International Catalogue of Sources [ICOS] for resources on the history of physics and allied sciences.
A cataolgue of over 5000 galaxies south of declination -17 degrees found on 1.2-m UK Schmidt IIIa-J plates.
Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies
Also available as a book, the electronic version is better for reference as all known errata occuring in the printed versions have been corrected.
XMM Catalogue : 1XMM is the first comprehensive catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton observatory. The catalogue has been constructed by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) on behalf of ESA. Most of the entries (> 80%) have not been previously reported as X-ray sources.