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USEFUL LINKS

Most of astronomy resources on the Internet network

We propose hereafter links towards interesting sites where more information about the Solar system or general astronomy is available. The language is the one of the title of the site.    Attention, your computer must be connected to Internet.

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French observatories and institutes of astronomy and astrophysics

Sites of observatories, institutes, universities and organizations dedicated to astronomy

Sites for the observers and amateur astronomers

Educational sites for teachers and students

Main ephemerides services providing positions of solar system bodies

Sites providing satr catalogues, maps and images of the sky

The databases of solar system and general astronomy images

Sites dedicated to space and missions of probes in the solar system

Sites dedicated to history of astronomy

Libraries and databases of papers and books in astronomy

Other non astronomical interesting sites (meteo, cartography, ...)

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French observatories and institutes

• Paris Observatory (Paris and Meudon)
• The station of radioastronomy of Nançay
• The Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemerides computation (IMCCE)
• The Reference system Time-Space department of Paris observatory (SYRTE) and the The French Metrology laboratory (LNE)
• Le Bureau des longitudes
• L'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP, Paris)
• The Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS, Paris-Sud, Orsay)
• The Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (Toulouse, France) (IRAP)
• The Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute (IPSL)
• Institute of Research into the Fundamental laws of the Universe, CEA Saclay (IRFU)
• The Observatory of the Côte d'Azur (OCA: Nice, Calern, Sophia-Antipolis)
• Pytheas Institute, OSU Aix-Marseille University
• The Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP)
• L'observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse, Pic du Midi)
• L'observatoire du Pic du Midi
• The laboratory of astrophysics of Bordeaux
• The laboratory "Univers et Particules" of Montpellier (LUPM, Montpellier)
• L'observatoire de Lyon (CRAL)
• L'observatoire de Grenoble (LAOG)
• The Institute of Millimetric Radioastronomy (IRAM)
• Besançon Observatory (OSU-THETA)
• L'observatoire de Strasbourg
• The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS)
• The Research Group in Spatial Geodesy (GRGS)
• The INSU : the Web server of the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers 
• The CNRS : the web server of the National Center for Scientific Research 
• The SF2A : the web server of the Société Française des Spécialistes en Astronomie
• The Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)

 
 

Sites of observatories, institutes, universities

and organizations dedicated to astronomy worldwide

• USA, Canada, Hawaii :

• California Institute of Technology - Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (CalTech)
• Mount Palomar Observatory (CalTech)
• Kitt Peak
• Mont Wilson
• Cornell University - Department of Astronomy
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• Hubble Space Telescope
• James Web Space Telescope project
• Johns Hopkins University - Department of Applied Physics and Astronomy
• Lowell Observatory
• MIT Haystack Observatory
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)
• University of Maryland, NASA - Astronomy Department (PDSSBN)
• University of Maryland, College Park - Astronomy Department
• Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division (NRL SSD)
• U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO)
• University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy (UH - IfA)
• Radiotelescope in Arecibo (Porto Rico)
• Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
• Observatories of the Astrophysical Institute Herzberg (Canada)

• Europe :

• Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA, Garching, Germany)
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain)
• Cambridge University - Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge, UK)
• Jodrell Bank (UK)
• Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (QMW, University of London)
• Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE, Ecosse, UK)
• Royal Observatory Greenwich (London, UK)
• H.M. Nautical Almanac Office (UK Hydrographic Office)
• Konkoly Observatory (Hungaria)
• Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Firenze, Italy)
• Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania (Sicile, Italy)
• Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo (Italy)
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy)
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo "Giuseppe S. Vaiana" (Sicily, Italy)
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR, Italy )
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT, Italy)
• Sterrewacht Leiden (The Netherlands)
• Warsaw University - Astronomical Observatory (Poland)
• Lund Observatory (Sweden)
• Stockholm University - Department of Astronomy (Sweden)
• Uppsala Astronomical Observatory (Sweden)
• Vatican Observatory (Castelgandolfo, City of Vatican and Arizona, USA)

• Countries of the former SSSR:

• Institute of Applied Astronomy (Saint-Petersburg) 
• Pulkovo Observatory (Saint-Petersburg)
• Zelenchuk Observatory (Special Astrophysical Observatory)
• Maidanak Observatory (Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute)
• Institut Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia)

• Asia, Australia :

• Observatory of Tokyo (Mitaka, Japan)
• Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/NICT (Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan)
• Telescope Subaru
• Astrophysical Institute of Bangalore (India)
• Chinese Observatories (NAOC - China)
• Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)
• Australian National University - Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO)
• University of Western Sydney, Nepean

• Central and South Americas :

• Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (UNAM - Mexico)
• European Southern Observatory at La Silla (ESO, Chile)
• ESO - VLT at Paranal (Chile)
• Observatório Nacional, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil )
• Observatorio do Valongo, universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

• Africa :

• The Cape Observatory (SAAO, Sutherland Observatory, South Africa)

• Miscellaneous lists

• The Wikipedia list of astronomical observatories
• The list of amateur observatories in France, Belgium and Switzerland
• The ESO map of astronomical observatories

• International Astronomical Union (IAU) :

• Server of the IAU
• Members of the IAU sorted by name
• Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the IAU
• Minor Planet Center (IAU)
• Former Working Group on Natural Planetary Satellites  (IAU)
• Planetary System Nomenclature

 
 

Sites for observers and amateur astronomers



• Journals for amateurs and general public
• The journal "Sky and Telescope"
• The journal "Ciel et Espace"
• The journal "L'Astronomie"
• The journal "Astronomie Magazine"
• The journal "Astronomy Magazine"
• The journal "Astronomy now"
• The French speaking planetariums (APLF)
• Les Amis du Planétarium d'Aix en Provence
• Le Palais de la découverte (Paris)
• Le planétarium de Saint-Etienne
• Le planétarium de Dunkerque

• Associations of amateur astronomers :

• La Société Astronomique de France (SAF)
• L'Association Française d'Astronomie (AFA)
• Planète Science (ex-ANSTJ, Association Nationale Sciences Technique Jeunesse)
• La Société d'Astronomie populaire de Toulouse (SAP)
• Les clubs d'astronomes amateurs en France
• L'observatoire du Pic du Midi ouvert aux amateurs
• The list of amateurobservatories in France, Belgium and Switzerland
• L'astronomie d'amateurs au Québec  
• The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at Calgary
• Skylink - Astrosurf : Le serveur des astronomes amateurs de France
• A list of all planetarium worldwide
• All European planetarium
• The International planetarium society (IPS)
• "Your Sky"  : a virtual planetarium
• International Meteor Organization   : everything on the observation of shooting stars.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

 
 

Educational sites for teachers and students (in english)

• The web site of NASA for children
• HOU : Hands-On-Universe, educational site providing tools and telescope through Internet.
• HOU-EU : Hands-On-Universe - Europe, european site of "HOU international".
• The web site of the EAAE (European Association for Astronomy Education)
• The educational site of ESO (European Southern Observatory)
• The site of the Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy (CLEA) providing a software simulating observations
• The Foundation Airbus Group

Educational sites for teachers and students (in french)

• Le CNED (Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance)
• Les sites proposant des stages d'astronomie aux enseignants :
• L'observatoire de Paris-Meudon
• L'observatoire de Marseille (association Andromède)
• Le CNDP (Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique)
• Le CLEA (Comité de Liaison Enseignants-Astronomes)
• Le site de l'opération "Lycées de Nuit, collèges de nuit" de Planète Science
• Association PSTJ (Provence Sciences Techniques Jeunesse)
• Le Palais de la découverte (Paris)
• Le site de la NASA pour les enfants
• HOU : Hands-On-Universe, site américain procurant des outils didactiques pour rendre l'astrophysique accessible ainsi que des télescopes fonctionnant via Internet.
• HOU-EU : Hands-On-Universe - France, site français de "HOU international".
• Le site de l'opération "La Main à la Pâte" pour l'enseignement des sciences à l'école élémentaire
• Le site français de l'EAAE (Association Européenne pour l'Enseignement de l'Astronomie en Europe)
• Le site éducatif de l'ESO (European Southern Observatory)
• Le site du Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy (CLEA) qui permet de télécharger un logiciel permettant de simuler des observations et très intéressant au point de vue pédagogique
• Le site pédagogique du CNES   : Education à l'espace
• Les pages pédagogiques du CEA
• Le site Eduscol du Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale
• Le site de Science à l'école
• Site du Ministère de l'Education Nationale où l'on trouvera les programmes :
• Le BO   : programme de Seconde (physique)
• Le BO   : programme de Première

 
 

Main ephemerides services providing positions of the solar system objects

• The Ephemerides of the IMCCE (Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de calcul des éphémérides) (Bureau des longitudes/observatoire de Paris) : all ephemerides of the solar system bodies
• Astronomical Applications Department (U.S.N.O.)
• U.S. Time service.
• H.M. Nautical Almanac Office (UK Hydrographic Office)
• JPL Ephemerides (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) : all the ephemerides of the Solar system bodies
• Ephemerides on line of the Russian Institute of Applied Astronomy in Saint-Petersbourg.
• National Astronomical Observatory (Japan)
• Minor Planet Center  : ephemerides of all asteroids
• NSDC (IMCCE-SAI)  : the ephemerides of all natural satellites of the planets.
• Lowell Observatory :  database of the osculating elements of most of the known asteroids.
• Predictions of visibility of artificial satellites of GSOC (German Space Operations Centre) : this site provides the list of the artificial satellites which will pass above your position and the timing of their passages.
• NASA site providing eclipse predictions.
• NASA site for the predictions of NEO Earth Close approaches.
• International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) for prevent impact of NEO.
• Site NEODyS-2 on Near Earth Objects.
• NEO Coordination Centre on Near Earth Objects.
• Xavier Jubier Google-eclipses (the zones of visibility of eclipses on the Google maps)

 
 

Sites providing star catalogues, maps and images of the sky

• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey : all sky accessible through digitized photographic plates from the Schmidt telescope of Mount Palomar. Just enter coordinates and size of the requested field and get your image (image FITS or GIF).
• The Sloane Digitized Sky Survey  : a quarter of the sky accessible through optical and spectroscopic images. Enter the coordinates and size of the field and you will get the image (image JPEG).
• CDS : The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center: all star catalogues and other objects
• Google-sky (the sky by Google)
• Xavier Jubier Google-eclipses (the zones of visibility of eclipses on the Google maps)
• All constellations and stars du ciel
• Interactive catalogue "Messier"
• Free software Stellarium mapping the sky

 
 

The Databases of the solar system (information, numbers, images) and more generally of astronomy

• Nomenclature of planetary names from USGS
• Nomenclature of Solar system bodies du USGS
• Mapping the planets from USGS
• The Nine Planets : an encyclopedic exploration of the solar system
• Images and data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory : the last up-dated data on solar system from NASA
• The Solar System Simulator of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• View on the Solar System (C.J. Hamilton) : provide all information on planets, satellites in term of orbital period, eccentricity, albedo, inclination, density, etc.
• Views on the Solar System (C.J. Hamilton)
• Images of Enceladus
• AstroWeb, database maintained by 5 institutions : CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI
• NSSDC : the NASA database
• Universe Today : space exploration on Internet
• HST Public Pictures : images from the Hubble Space Telescope
• Video of cosmology from the Hubble space telescope (HST)
• The most beautiful images from the space telescope Hubble (HST)
• Images of the day (NASA)
• Images and video data bank (NASA)
• Images of the Earth as seen by "Spot"
• Images from ESO (European Southern Telescope)
• Images from the European Very Large Telescope (VLT)
• Aurora

 
 

Sites dedicated to space and space probe missions in the solar system

• The site showing all space missions of ESA
• The site showing all space missions of NASA

• The NEAR space probe (site of the J. Hopkins University)
• The Voyager space probe (site du JPL)
• The Galileo space probe
• The Cassini space probe
• The SOHO space probe
• The Mars Global Surveyor space mission
• The Mars Pathfinder mission
• The Mars Exploration Rover mission
• The Mars Express mission
• The Mars Odyssey mission
• Missions to Mars (The Planetary Society)
• The Venus Express mission
• The Messenger mission to Mercury
• The Bepi Colombo mission to Mercury

• Predictions of visibility of artificial satellites of GSOC (German Space Operations Centre) : this site provides the list of the artificial satellites which will pass above your position and the timing of their passages.

• The Russian space center of Baikonur : 
• The site of the Baikonur cosmodrome
• The Russian shuttle Buran

• The web site of CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in Toulouse, France)
• The web site of ESA (European Space Agency)
• The web site of NASA (National Air and Space Administration)
• The web site of NASA (for teachers)

• The space shuttle era
• The next launches Space X from Cape Canaveral
• The space center at Kourou
• The next launches worldwide
• The web site of Arianespace

• The encyclopedia of space: history of space programs

 

Sites dedicated to history of astronomy and to astronomers

• Two sites dedicated to Galileo : its telescope (Museum of the history of sciences in Florence) et in Berlin (full Galileo's codex 72)
• Site dedicated to Isaac Newton
• Site dedicated to Nicolas Copernicus (university N. Copernicus in Torun)
• Site dedicated to Tycho Brahe (Institute of technology in Lund)
• Site of the museum of the history of sciences in Oxford (Tycho Brahe, Hevelius, Flamsteed, ...)

 

The libraries in astronomy and the data bases of papers, articles, reviews and books in astronomy d'articles, revues et livres d'astronomie

• The ADS Digital Library : astronomy books on line
• STScI Library (library of the Space Telescope Institute)
• CFHT Library (library of Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)
• USNO Library (library of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C.)
• Library of Paris Observatory
• The Library of Congress
• Astrophysics Data System   : access to more than 1 700 000 abstracts or papers coming from 300 journals, colloquia, proceedings, symposia in the field of astronomy (query page of papers)
• The publications of the American Astronomical Society
• The publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• The site of Astronomy and Astrophysics at EDP Sciences
• The site of the journal Icarus
• The site of the journal Planetary and Space Science
• The site of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• The site of the journal Astronomische Nachrichten - Astronomical Notes
• The site of the journal Nature
• The site of the journal Science
• The site of the journal Journal of History of Astronomy
• The site of the journal Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage

 
 

Other interesting sites even non astronomical (meteo, cartography, ...)

• French Ministère de l'Education Nationale
• IGN (Institut Géographique National) provides information on the cartography of French territories
• IGN (Institut Géographique National): old time cartography of French territories
• "Spot" Images
• Géo-portail (France as seen from the sky by IGN)
• Google-maps (the world as seen from the sky by Google)

 
• Meteo-France, the site of the French national meteorology 
• Images from meteorological satellites  : allmetsat
• Meteorological previsions for France
• CNN meteorological previsions for Europe
• Images from meteo satellite    : Dundee Receiving station (UK)
• Meteo and clouds over Europe (Meteo Blue)

 
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France
• The magazine "La Recherche" (in french)
• France Presse Agency
• The journal "Science"
• The journal "Nature"
• The journal "Science et Avenir" (in french)
• The journal "Science et Vie" (in french)
• La revue "Pour la Science"