UKST related sites and useful links

  • Wide-Field Astronomy Unit, IfA
  • UK Schmidt at the AAO
  • SuperCOSMOS - ROE's advanced photographic plate digitising machine
  • COSMOS and APM databases at the AAO (mirrored from Cambridge)
  • APM at Cambridge - object catalogues, finding charts etc.
  • Skyview - multi-wavelength images and catalogues
  • Space Telescope Science Institute - on-line access to the guide star catalogue and digitized sky survey (DSS) (as well as the published DSS of UKST-J plates there are also some red (UKST/AAO-R) fields scanned at the higher resolution).
  • PMM USNO-A1.0 on-line catalogue