Eric Deutsch
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington

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My Ratty Shoebox of Links

This page of links is not very exciting. It is mainly for my own use, a place to put links I may need to find again or that I use often, but maybe others will find some things useful here, too. If you're looking for a page of links to wild, crazy, and really exciting places, you'll have to look elsewhere...

Links I use a lot

• My Page of Astronomical Database Links
• Department Astronomy Tools Page
• Digitized Sky Survey
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• LANL astro-ph Archive Search Page
• ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
• SIMBAD in france or at Harvard or NED
• Local IDL Help Page
• Today's Wind Log at ATG; is it time to go sailing?
• AltaVista WWW Search Engine
• UW Travel and UAL flight search and Mileage Plus Status
• HEASARC at GSFC or ROSAT database

HST Resources

• Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page
• Space Telescope Data Archive Search Page Home Page
• WFPC2 Home Page and WFPC2 Documentation Page
• WFPC2 Exposure Time Calculator for point sources fill-out form
• WFPC2 Photometry Cookbook (short HTML version)
• WFPC2 synphot tables (short HTML version)
• Information on WFPC2 dithering and drizzling (Fruchter & Hook 1996)
• FOC Exposure Simulation Set-up form

Astronomy Resources

• The Astronomical World Wide Web Resources
• APS Finder Charts
• Some useful on-line catalogs and atlases
• The NSSDC Astronomy & Astrophysics
• The CfA High Energy Astrophysics
• The List of ASP Conference Series books
• The American Astronomical Society
• The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Headlines (and old circulars)
• Nick Strobel's most excellent Astronomy Lecture Notes
• The The Astrophysical Journal Home Page
• Electronic Submission Instructions to The Astrophysical Journal and Letters
• PROS Users's Guide
• Globular Cluster Data from Harris, W. E. 1996, AJ 112, 1487
• Ephemerides Data from Zephyr Services
• Sample Stellar Spectra from zebu oregon

Miscellaneous Astronomy Links

• The U of Oregon Electronic Universe Home Page
• The Project CLEA Home Hage
• The HST as seen from the ground by the Air Force
• The Astronomy at U Calgary
• The Fly your name on Cassini

Fun Places to Visit

• Thinking of sailing? Check out the Washington Yacht Club
• Those Crazy CarTalk Guys have quite the snazzy web site!
• Coverage of Space Shuttle missions STS-77, STS-78, STS-79, and future missions

Computing Info on the Web

• Halloween Documents: Microsoft's assessment of Open Source Software threat

Software Info on the Web

• RealAudio Player
• XAnim Movie Player and Movie and Animation theater
• Wabi 2.2 for Solaris
• UW Computing and Networking
• UW Software Program
• SunSolve Patches
• UW Sun ScholarPAC III Program
• NCD and Suns Tech Notes

Web Publishing Info

• A beginner's guide to HTML
• HTML Fill-out Form Support
• HTML Special Characters