Data Archives
Categories
Links
WEBDA
Devoted to stars in galactic open clusters. It offers an interface to a database collecting astronomical observations, and bibliography.
CATS Database
Astrophysical CATalogs support System. Contains list of catalogs, table of major radio catalogs, and search tool.
SAO Telescope Data Center
Creates, and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, Whipple Observatory, and Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is part of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The UTR-2 Catalogue
http://www.ira.kharkov.ua/UTR2/
Provides a low frequency sky survey of discrete sources obtained in the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. Images from the UTR-2 radio telescope at a number of the low frequencies used in contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25 MHz.
The Aladin Sky Atlas
Provides an interactive sky atlas allowing users to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky. Includes astronomical catalogs, personal user data files, and interactive access to related data from the Simbad database, and Vizier service.
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html
(CDS) Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, and directory.
CFHT Archive
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive. Includes CFHT archives, images, instruments, help, and links.
DSS - The Digitized Sky Survey
Comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the Palomar, and UK Schmidt telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The VLA FIRST Survey
Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.
ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server
http://archive.eso.org/skycat/servers/usnoa
Archive provides access to the all-sky catalogue from the set of ten CD-ROMs produced by the US Naval Observatory within the Precise Measurement Machine Project.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
Offers data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography for celestial objects outside the solar system including stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies.
Personal Web pages
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_personal.html
A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.
MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI
MAST supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
USGS Planetary GIS Web Server.
Mapping interface that will integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical, statistical, and spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets.
The Munich Astro Archive
Archives astronomical data. Includes star dates, comets, glossary, astronomical catalogs, calendar, meteor events, and astromaps.
Space Telescope Science Institute
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
Contains astronomy resources, space data archives, visitor information, and research opportunities.
UK astronomical data-center
Data center that is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit providing a selection of data from the UK's ground based telescopes. Includes archives, and catalogs.
The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
Provides a search tool for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory secondary data products archive.
2dF QSo Redshift Survey (2QZ)
An Anglo-Australian collaboration surveying 740 square degrees of high-galactic lattiude sky. Contains spectroscopic data release, results, progress report, and input catalogue, survey members, and publications.
Supercosmos Sky Surveys
http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/
Provides images, and catalogues of the southern sky in three colours. Includes access to digitised images, and the data derived from SuperCOSMOS scans of photographic Schmidt survey plates.
Solar Data Analysis Centre
Contains solar data, and images. Includes SDAC Data-Finder, current solar images, and TRACE analysis guides.
Islamic Crescents' Observation Project
http://www.jas.org.jo/icop.html
Global project organized by the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS). Contains data base for Crescent Observations.
NVSS Postage Stamp Server
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml
This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or JPEG format.
Astronomy: Data Archives
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pls/astronomy/archives.html
Patrick Shopbell's Astronomy Resources. Contains data archives, astronomical catalogs, atlas of nearby dwarf galaxies, and links.
HEASARC
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. Provides an archive of data on (and software for analyzing) gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources.