A page of useful links

Work-related: | Astro Places | Meetings | References | Databases & Archives | Observing | Pretty Pictures | Astro Miscellania | Maths/Physics | Computing | VO | Wordy stuff |

Other links: | News | Sport | Entertainment | Travel |

Work-related Links

Astronomical Institutions

UNSW • U.Melb • RSAA (ANU) • U.Adelaide • Swinburne • U.Sydney • ASA

Observatories:

AAO • MSSSO • ATNF • Gemini • Aust. Gemini Office • Subaru • CTIO • ESO • Spitzer • SKA • More observatory links

Astro Meetings

ASA • Astronomy meetings worldwide.

Old meetings that have useful webpages of talks:
2007 Aus-VO Summer School • Deep Surveys with SKA Pathfinders • SKA pathfinders & Science with MIRA • AAO Observational Techniques workshop, April 2001 • 2001 ATNF Synthesis Imaging Workshop • 2006 ATNF Synthesis Imaging School (updated version of the previous link) • NASA X-ray Astronomy Schol, from 2003 and 2005 • 2005 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, at Penn State.

References (Journals, Preprints, Newsletters etc.)

A longer list of journals • ADS • astro-ph ArXiV preprints • NED's Level 5 (glossary and articles) • ApJ • MNRAS online • MNRAS • MNRAS letters • AJ • A&A • Nature • PASA • Active Galaxies Newsletter • Blazar Times • Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics • Wolfram World of Science

Databases and Archives

NED • NED search-by-name • SIMBAD • Astronomer's Bazaar • Aladin • CATS • MAST • Skyview Virtual Observatory • SDSS DR6 • SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys • Interactive NGC Catalog

Useful Stuff for Observing

SSO Satellite Weather • APT All Sky Camera • SSO CONCAM All Sky Camera • Heavens-Above • AGN Finding Charts (Heidelberg) • PEGA Finding Charts • Perugia Blazar List • Sunrise & Sunset computing • Sky View Cafe

Pretty Pictures

APoD • HubbleSite • Hubble news • Hubble Heritage • ESO Press Releases • Subaru picture gallery • Hawaiian Starlight • Chandra • Multi-Wavelength Milky Way • SkyView Virtual Observatory

Astro Miscellania

Australian Astronomy • AstroWeb • SpaceFlightNow • Science@NASA • Bad Astronomy • Basics of Space Flight

Other Science stuff

Atomic Line List • Fundamental Physical Constants • AstroStatistics FAQ • Mathworld • Physlets • Encyclopedia of Life

Computing-related stuff

PGPLOT: (subroutines, FAQ, graph markers, & colour indices.) • CFITSIO • WCSLIB • iraf.net • IRAF @ ANU • IRAF @ NOAO • Cosmology Calculator • Astrophysical Calculator • Numerical Recipes (C and FORTRAN 77) • LaTeX resources • LaTeX guide • search CTAN • XHTML 1.0 • HTML 4.01 • symbols in HTML • HTML colours • Subversion • Trac

Virtual Observatory

IVOA • ATNF VO • FITS • VOSTAT • UCD list

Wordy stuff

Macquarie Dictionary • Merriam-Webster • OED • Roget's Thesaurus • Astronomy Thesaurus

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Other links

News

ABC • SMH • The Age • News.com.au • The Oz

Sport

Demons • AFL • Cricinfo • Cricket Australia

Entertainment

Sydney Pub Guide • yourTV • yourMovies • IMDb • The Basement • ninemsn

Travel

Will I get wet on the walk home? • Will the train be on time? • Sydney bus timetables • Qantas • Virgin Blue • Smartraveller.gov.au • Wotif • need it now • YHA Australia • Lonely Planet • Thorn tree • Universal Currency Converter

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