Eric Deutsch
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington

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Links to Astronomical Databases

Here is a growing list of links to accessing astronomical data on the Web.

• AstroWeb

Photographic Plate Based Data

• Digitized Sky Survey uncompressed Phase 2 data at STScI
• Compressed Digitized Sky Survey: 10x compressed data at STScI
• Minnesota APS plate data, finding charts, etc.
• APM Catalogue finding charts and data, etc.
• USNO A1.0 Catalog stored at ESO

Object Based Data Warehouses

• SIMBAD in france or at Harvard
• NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
• CDS
• Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues Search Page

Space Mission Databases

• Space Telescope Data Archive Search Page Home Page
• HEASARC at GSFC or ROSAT database
• The NSSDC Astronomy & Astrophysics
• The COBE Extinction Maps

Ground-based Telescope Digital Data Archives

• ESO NTT Archive Query Form
• CFHT Science Archive Query Form
• ING Science Archive Query Form (WHT, etc.)
• AAO Science Archive plus links to other archives
• Keck DB

Other Wavelengths

• FIRST Radio Survey Cutouts at LLNL
• FIRST Radio Survey Source Catalog at STScI

Miscellaneous Catalogs

• Some useful on-line catalogs and atlases at STScI
• Globular Cluster Data from Harris, W. E. 1996, AJ 112, 1487