Astronomy

Data Archives and Catalogs

While ground-based astronomical observations are usually archived by the observatories, a number of sites archive multiwavelength and space-based astronomical data:

Astronomical Catalogs
Atlas of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies from SAO
ADF - Astrophysics Data Facility
- ADC - Astronomical Data Center, a repository of astronomical catalogs
  - Quick Reference Pages
- ADS - Astrophysical Data System
- AMASE - Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine
- NDADS - NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service; search using WISARD
APS - Automated Plate Scanner project
Atomic Data for Astrophysics
CDS - Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg
Clementine data from the NSSDC
COHO - Coordinated Heliospheric Observations Data
Copernicus
Data Mining in Astronomy
ELCAT - Planetary Nebula Emission Line Catalog
EUVE - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
GEM - Geospace Environment Modeling
HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HST - Hubble Space Telescope archive
- GSC - Guide Star Catalog
- HDF-N - Hubble Deep Field North
  - Photometric Redshift Clickable Map
- HDF-S - Hubble Deep Field South
  - spectroscopic redshifts
- HST Program Information
- Hubble Heritage Project
- MDS - Medium Deep Survey
- StarView (distributed version)
- finger archive hotseat
IRAS - InfraRed Astronomy Satellite archive
- DIRBE Dust Maps
IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer
LEDA - Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database from Lyon Observatory
LEDAS - Leicester Database and Archive Service
MAST - Multimission Archive at STScI
- MAST Catalog Cross Correlation
NED - NASA Extragalactic Database (telnet access)
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center
- Includes a Space Science Education Page
Postage Stamp Image server
SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography of Astronomical Data (US mirror)
SkyCat
SkyView, a virtual observatory
Standard Stars
- spectrophotometric standards
Stellar Spectral Flux Library
Surveys
- Index of Astronomical Surveys
- 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
- 2MASS - 2 Micron All-Sky Survey
- COSMOS survey, from the AAO
- DSS - Digitized Sky Survey
  - DPOSS - The Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
  - CADC Server
  - ESO server
  - STScI server
- EIS - ESO Imaging Survey
- FIRST - Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters
- OSU Galaxy Survey
- SDSS - Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Tartarus, a database of ASCA X-ray observations of AGN
UIT - Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
USNO A2 Star Catalog

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Last modified: Tue Mar 25 21:27:16 PST 2003