Astronomy Tools and Links
Data Reduction and Analysis tools:
- IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility Optical data reduction package
- PyRAF Python wrapper for IRAF
- DS9 Astronomical Image Viewer
- DS9 Tips My how-to for DS9
- AIPS - Astronomical Image Processing System VLA/VLBA data reduction package
- AIPY -
Astronomical Interferometry in PYthon by Aaron Parsons
- CASA - Common Astronomy Software Applications New radio reduction package (still beta)
- Starlink UK astronomical suite - supported by the
Joint Astronomy Centre
- GAIA - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool
A graphical interface for data analysis. Very useful for data cubes. It has the easiest to use isosurface renderer I've seen.
- SExtractor Source Extractor
- Extractor Starlink wrapper for SExtractor
- Steve Dawson's SExtractor tips
- AstroMD A 3d visualization tool
- AstroMed Harvard's 3d visualization tool
- Packages:
- ESO Scisoft
- JAC Starlink
- Open Source Astronomy
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Observation Tools:
- JSkyCalc Sky Calculator for planning observations
Catalogs and Databases:
- The Obvious
- SIMBAD (French server)
- VizieR (French server)
- VizieR (Harvard mirror)
- NASA ADS (French mirror) Astronomical Data System
- NASA ADS (Harvard server)
- NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit -
Not necessarily obvious, but it probably should be - it will soon include a significant H-alpha survey
- The Less Obvious
- IRSA - Infrared Science Archive
- c2d survey archive
- SkyView
- CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
- Spitzer Archive
- STSCI MAST - Space Telescope Science Institute Multimission Archive
- NRAO Archive
- LAMBDA - Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis
- NASA's National Space Science Data Center
- US National Virtual Observatory
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- The Downright Obscure
- SAGE archive Public access is at IRSA
- Ryszard Szczerba's Galactic Post-AGB catalog
- ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) Archive
- SINGS - Spitzer Nearby Galaxy Survey
- NSCA ADIL - Astronomy Digital Imaging Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign data archive
- University of Maryland's Astronomical Data Center
[no images - redundant with Vizier?]
- Galactic Plane Surveys
- Dame et al CO survey CO 1-0
- Canadian Galactic Plane Survey HI, 408 MHz
- IGPS - International Galactic Plane Survey Listing of many radio GPS
- Green Bank GPS 8.35 and 14.35 GHz
- GLIMPSE - Galactic Legacy Infrared Plane Survey Extraordinaire
- JCMT Legacy Survey450 and 850 microns
- Molonglo GPS843 MHz
- MAGPIS - Multiarray GPS 6, 20, 90cm
- SGPS - Southern GPS HI, continuum
- 151 MHZ GPS
- FCRAO surveys
- Boston University's Galactic Ring Survey
- Outer Galaxy Survey
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- All Sky surveys
- 408 MHz All Sky Survey
- 2MASS - 2 micron all sky survey
- IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
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Modeling Tools and Other:
- Clumpfind Jonathan Williams' 3D clumpfinding algorithm
- 2Dust Toshiya Ueta's radiative transfer dust modeling program
- DUSTY Dust Radiative Transfer modeling
- CSenv- Circumstellar Envelope chemistry
- Cloudy - radiative transfer
Software Development:
- Tim Robishaw's Concurrent Version System tips
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