11 Online archives (Space FAQ) part3
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
11 Online archives (Space FAQ) part3
ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES
The full SAO stellar database is probably not available online yet. It
may be ordered on magnetic tape from the NSSDC. A subset containing
position and magnitude only is available by FTP (see "Astronomy
Programs" below).
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/astro/
contains a large collection of astronomical programs for many types of
computers, databases of stars and deep sky objects, and general
astronomy information. This site is mainly for European users, but
overseas connections are possible.
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MISC/
is a database of 8,436 galaxies including name, RA, declination,
magnitude, and radial velocity, supplied by Wayne Hayes
(wayne@csri.utoronto.ca).
ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/
contains constellation boundary data (files constell.*) in a form
suitable for the construction of star charts and atlases.
ftp://iris1.ucis.dal.ca/pub/gif/
contains a number of GIFs from Voyager, Hubble, and other sources (most
of this data is also in pub/SPACE/GIF on the Ames server). Please
restrict access to 5pm - 8am Atlantic time.
ftp://pomona.claremont.edu/astro/catalog/yale_bsc/
contains the Yale Bright Star catalog. Web users, note that this is a
VMS site and Mosaic does not get along with their server, so this URL is
a placeholder - run FTP manually. Contact James Dishaw
(jdishaw@pomona.claremont.edu).
http://www.seds.org/messier/
contains Messier's catalog of Deep Sky objects, with descriptions,
images, and background material. Contact Hartmut Frommert
(spider@seds.org).
The Hubble Guide Star catalog is available on CD-ROM for the Mac and PC
for $49.95 US (catalog #ST101).
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
390 Ashton Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94112
Phone: (415) 337-2624 9 AM - 3 PM Pacific Time
FAX: (415) 337-5205
For German (and possibly other European) readers, Jost Jahn
(j.jahn@abbs.heide.de) has a FAX/email/paper mail service with current
news on the observable sky. Email him if interested, or write:
Jost Jahn
Neustaedter Strasse 11
D-29389 Bodenteich
GERMANY
+49-581-14824 (FAX) +49-5824-3197 (Voice)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/afz/
ASTRONOMY PROGRAMS
A more complete list is posted monthly to sci.astro and available in
ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/astroftp.txt
This list is maintained by the SEDS chapter at U. Arizona
(astroftp@seds.lpl.arizona.edu).
Some astronomy-related programs and databases archived from
Usenet source groups:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume8/phoon.Z
Moon phase and date routines
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume8/moon.Z
Another moon phase program
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume15/moontool.Z
Show moon phase picture on Suns
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume12/starcharts/
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume13/starchart/
Starchart program & Yale star data
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume11/starchart
Starchart program, version 3.2
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume12/starchart2
Starchart program, update to version 3.2.1
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume16/sao/
Reduced SAO catalog
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume11/n3emo-orbit
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume14/n3emo-orbit
Orbit: track earth satellites
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume13/jupmoons
Plotter for Jupiter's major moons [in perl]
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume13/lunisolar
Lunisolar (not sure what this does)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume18/planet
Planet generation simulator
Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X11R4/Motif
1.1 (or later) X Windows systems. It computes lots of information about
the planets and any solar system objects for which orbital elements are
available. A sample database of some 16000+ objects is included in the
release kit. It's in
http://iraf.noao.edu/~ecdowney/xephem.html
Contact Elwood Downey (ecdowney@noao.edu). Ephem is the forefather of
xephem designed for simple 24x80 character displays, in
ftp://iraf.noao.edu/contrib/xephem/ephem/ephem_4.28.tar.Z
Xsat 1.2.6, an X based satellite tracking program, and Xsky 2.1.6, a
computerized sky atlas for the X Window System, are available from
ftp://arizona.edu/software/unix/xsat/readme.dist
ftp://arizona.edu/software/unix/xsky/xsky-216.tarz
(This is a VMS FTP site; some Web browsers, such as Mosaic 2.4, may have
trouble with these URLs). Contact Terry R. Friedrichsen
(terry@venus.sunquest.com).
The "Variable Stars Analysis Software Archive" is in
ftp://ftpastro.vuw.ac.nz/astrophys/
This is intended for specialists in this field, and they would
appreciate people from outside New Zealand confining their FTP access to
the astrophys directory, as they pay a significant amount for Internet
access. Contributions are encouraged. Contact the archive administrator,
Timothy Banks (astrophys-archive@kauri.vuw.ac.nz). For further details
on the archive see "The Observatory", 112, 16, 1992.
The "IDL Astronomy Users Library" is in
ftp://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/README
This is a central repository for general purpose astronomy procedures
written in IDL, a commercial image processing, plotting, and programming
language. Contact Wayne Landsman (landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov).
Daniel Roth (roth@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de) offers an astronomy software
service for PC and Atari users in Europe. He has a large library
available on disk and a CD-ROM with the entire library. A catalog is
available; contact him for ordering details.
ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS
The most recent orbital elements from the NASA Prediction Bulletins are
carried on the Celestial BBS, (205)-409-9280. Documentation and tracking
software are also available on this system. The Celestial BBS may be
accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud using 8 data bits, 1
stop bit, no parity.
Orbital element sets are FTPable from the following directories:
ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/ NASA,TVRO,Shuttle
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/astro/dbases/sat-elem/
NASA,TVRO,Molczan,CelBBS,Shuttle
ftp://kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/space/ NASA,Molczan,Thomson
SPACE DIGEST ARCHIVES
Copies of back issues of Space Digest are archived on
LISTSERV@UGA.BITNET. Send mail containing the message "INDEX SPACE" to
get an index of files; send it the message "GET filename filetype" to
get a particular file.
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