Abstract Services & Databases
AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory) Archive database
Provides an on-line index to the data observed to date on the Anglo-Australian Telescope.
Provides references from Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA) from 1983 onwards.
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut : Catalogue files and Databases
Various databases of star catalogues.
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.
NED 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
Provides access to data on star measurements/positions.
The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at Caltech is dedicated to science operations, data archives, and community support for astronomy and solar system science missions, with a historical emphasis on infrared-submillimeter astronomy and exoplanet science.
Access to astronomy data from NASA.