Useful Links

Useful Links

Last modified: Thursday, July 3 2008

Astronomy

Electronic access to Journals/Preprints
ADS (US or French site)	Abstracts from the major Astronomy journals.
Astro-ph (Main interface or search)	Astro-ph preprint database at LANL.
American Physical Society	Physical Review, Physical Review Letters & Reviews of Modern Physics
A&A	Astronomy and Astrophysics.
A&A Review	Astronomy and Astrophysics Review.
AJ	Astronomical Journal
ApJ	Astrophysical Journal (including Letters and Supplement).
CDS	A&AS and PASP abstracts.
MNRAS	Monthly Notices of the RAS.
PASP	Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
LINK	Springer's LINK service (electronic access to many of its journals).

Proposal Submission/Information
AAO	Full proposal information	Australian
ING	PATT proposals	UK site
ESO	Full proposal information	HQ site
NOAO/CTIO	Full proposal information	US site
UKIRT	PATT proposals	Hawaii site
UKIRT	Service proposals	Hawaii site

Databases
ASAS	The All-Sky Automated Survey - photometric monitoring of ~10^7 stars brighter than 14^th magnitude.
Astronomy Meetings (Canadian site)	A list of Astronomy meetings. It's well organised.
Astroweb (UK site)	A huge list of astronomical links, some of which are actually useful.
Cataclysmic Binaries (electronic catalogue)	The 6^th Edition of the Catalogue of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Related Objects
CCP7	Tools for calculating theoretical models suitable for the interpretation of stellar and interstellar spectra.
CDS	Strasbourg Astronomical data centre.
DRAGNs	An atlas of radio galaxies (and the like) at Jodrell Bank
DSS (STScI)	Access to the Digitised Sky Survey
Dwarf star hi-res spectra	A library of high-resolution UES echelle spectra of F, G, K and M field dwarf stars
Hipparcos	Access to the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues
LEDAS	Leicester Database and Archive Service
NED	NASA Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD	Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data at Strasbourg
Skyview	Digitized images of the sky (available in virtually every waveband you could want).

It's Astronomy, but I can't think where to put it^TM
CFD	Resources for Computational Fluid Dynamics
IAU	Central Bureau for Astronomical telegrams
AOAS	The Arkansas/Oklahoma Astronomical Society
NETLIB	Public domain (I think) mathematical software/papers/databases (also see SLATEC)
Statistical Software	Want freely available statistical software in Fortran/C/whatever and have a morning to waste?
HSAA	Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, now available on the web

Pretty pictures & NASA missions
NASA news (US site)	The latest news from NASA
NASA (US site)	The Home Page for NASA
HST (US site)	The latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope
Galileo	Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
Spizter	Latest images from the Spitzer Space Telescope

Aeroplanes
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Thai Airways	Partner of United Airlines
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QANTAS	Partner of American Airlines
Alaska Airlines	Partner of American Airlines
British Airways	Flight information
Virgin Atlantic	Worldwide destinations
EasyJet	European Flights
EasyJet	European Flights
Hotels
The Hilton Group	The Hilton Group of Hotels
Intercontinental Hotels	Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental Hotels etc.
Marriott	Marriott group of hotels
Starwood	Starwood group of hotels (Sheraton, Westin etc.)
Trains
Network Rail	UK train times
Europe	Train times for European travel
Eurostar	London to Paris, Brussels etc.
USA	Amtrak
Car Hire
Budget	Reservations and rates
Hertz	Reservations and rates
Avis	Reservations and rates
Currency converters
Xenon labs	The Universal Currency Converter
OANDA	Includes exchange rates for every day from January 1990