Dafydd's Astronomy Page

Here are some links to astronomical WWW pages.

Carlsberg Meridian Telescope - Probably the best meridian telescope in the world.

Hipparcos - ESA Astrometric Satellite.

GAIA - The next ESA Astrometric Satellite (Cornerstone 6) - to be launched no later than 2012.

Cambridge Astronomy Home Page - The general home page for all Cambridge's astronomical institutions.

La Palma - Information about the telescopes on El Roque de los Muchachos, which includes the ING group of telescopes. The IAC have a good weather page for La Palma, including the latest weather chart. If you want more detailed weather information for the Observatory then the NOT and ING have the info for you.

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service - very useful. US link. You may also need the astro-ph server.

AstroWeb - a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.

APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Astronomer's Bazaar - Catalogues at the CDS.

SIMBAD - The SIMBAD astronomical database.

STARLINK - Information on the Starlink Project, the computing facility for UK astronomers.

The Digitized Sky Survey - Almost faster than going to the plate library (LEDAS, UK link). The STScI link (US).

Space Telescope - Information about the Hubble Space Telescope.

Exoplanets - List of currently known extrasolar planets.

Space Calendar - What's about to happen in space soon.

Astronomy Now - All the latest from Astronomy Now.

Today at NASA - All the latest news from NASA. From here you can get information on most NASA things.

Solar System - The Solar System Dynamics group at JPL. If you want some ephemerides click here.

IERS - The bulletins of the International Earth Rotation Service.

IAU WWW home page - International Astronomical Union - "You don't get me I'm part of the union."

RAS - Royal Astronomical Society.

Astronomy Acknowledgement Index - See how often people acknowledge you.

SkyView - as the blurb says "SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net. SkyView generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from radio to gamma-ray".

Bad Astronomy - how to get things wrong.

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