Astronomical Databases and Archives

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General Data Bases

ASDC : ASI Science Data Center
Astrophysics Data System (ADS), USA
-- mirror at ESO Garching, Germany
Astronomy and Astrophysics at NSSDC
(National Space Science Data Center, USA)
Astrovirtel
"Access and use the ESO/ST-ECF Archive as if it would be a "virtual" Telescope"
(HST, ESO NTT, VLT, Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPI 2.2m Telescope)
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France
(VizieR, Aladin SIMBAD, etc.
ESO ST-ECF Science Archive Facility
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
(HEASARC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA
Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST)
(ASTRO, Copernicus, DSS, EUVE, FIRST, FUSE, HST, IUE, ORFEUS, ROSAT)
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), USA
NASA Extragalactic Data Base(NED)
Please be advised that the digital images of 113 nearby galaxies published by Frei et al. (1996, AJ 111, pp. 174) available from within the NED database have had all foreground stars removed by the authors. See also IAUC 6914.
Sky View: images of the sky in many wavelength bands (GSFC, USA)
SKYMAP Astronomical Mapping Program
an interactive astronomical display program which draws a map of the sky. Creation of finder charts is the most common use of skymap.
The Journal of Astronomical Data (JAD)

Compton-GRO public data archive , COSSC at GSFC
Fermi Large Area Telescope Bright Gamma-ray Source List
* * * paper
* * * web site
Bright AGN Source List from the First Three Months of the Fermi Large Area Telescope All-Sky Survey
* * * paper

Astronomy Resources