P. D. Lynam  

Resources

Contents

COVID-19, Novel Coronavirus

Outreach

Astronomical Data Services and Tools

Journals and Archives

Computing

Skywatching

COVID-19, Novel Coronavirus:

WHO, World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Andreas Burkert, COVID-19 Updates/Infection plots: https://www.andreasburkert.com/#corona

UCSC, Campus Status: https://www.ucsc.edu/coronavirus/index.html

Pandemic Continuity Planning,: https://oes.ucsc.edu/continuity/higher-ed-bc-planning.html

Santa Clara County, Public Health Department: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-coronavirus/Pages/home.aspx

Santa Cruz County, Public Health Department: http://santacruzhealth.org/HSAHome/HSADivisions/PublicHealth/CommunicableDiseaseControl/Coronavirus.aspx

CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html

Outreach:

Lick Observatory Refracting Telescope, in enclosure: Lick Refractor

Lick Observatory Reflecting Telescope, in enclosure: Shane Reflector

The Celestial Sphere / Rotating Sky Globe : An interactive tool https://in-the-sky.org/skymap3

Precession of the Equinoxes: An illustrative 3 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVgEoZDjok

AMNH, The Known Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

IfA Hawaii, Flight to the Virgo Cluster by R. Brent Tully: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~tully/outreach/movie.html

Illustris Simulation of the Evolution of the Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A23Ro3kiB1E

Astronomical Data Services and Tools:

COCO, Coordinate Conversion: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/convcoord/convcoord.pl

RA/Dec/PA Offset Calculator, Calculate Offsets: https://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/common/offset.php

UTC, Coordinated Universal Time: http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications

MOON Present Phase (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/idltemp/current_moon.php

Ephemerides Calculator (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

The Astronomical Almanac (HMNAO): http://asa.hmnao.com/

The Astronomical Almanac (USNO): http://asa.usno.navy.mil/

JPL Horizons, Ephemerides for Solar System Dynamics: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi

CBAT, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/Headlines.html

GCN, Gamma Ray Burst Circulars: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3_archive.html

SkyView, The Internet's Virtual Telescope: http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/skvadvanced.pl

DSS, Digitized Sky Survey: http://www3.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cadcbin/getdss

NED, NASA Extragalactic DataBase: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu

SIMBAD, Astronomical DataBase, Introduction: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

SIMBAD, Astronomical DataBase, Query: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fid

ALADIN, Interactive Sky Atlas, Introduction: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml

ALADIN, Interactive Sky Atlas, Query/Previewer: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinPreview

VizieR Astronomical Catalogue DataBase, Query: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR

IRSA Finders: http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/finderchart/

USNO Finders: http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/projects/pmm/chart.html

UKST + POSS Finders (Line-drawn, IoA): http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mike/apmcat/interface.html

STARALT Object Visibilty: http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/index.php

Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (ESO): http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/tools/standards/spectra/

Landolt Photometric Standard Stars (ESO): http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/tools/standards/Landolt/

Astrometric Standard Stars (USNO): http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/FchPix/cfra.html

Dust Extinction Maps (SFD 1998): http://astro.berkeley.edu/~marc/dust/index.html

International Astronomy Meetings List: http://www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/meetings

Journals and Archives:

Astrophysics Pre-print Server, astro-ph: http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph

Astrophysics Pre-print Server, astro-ph (Past Week): http://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/pastweek

Journal Articles via Astrophysics Data System, ADS (USA): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Journal Articles via Astrophysics Data System, ADS (France): http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abstract_service.html

Centre du Donees Astronomiques de Strasbourg, CDS: http://simbad3.u-strasbg.fr/biblio/biblio.html

Communicating Astronomy with the Public, CAP: http://www.capjournal.org/

ASP Conference Proceedings: http://aspbooks.org/a/volumes

Springer Conference Proceedings: http://www.springer.com/astronomy?SGWID=0-123-12-285199-0

Proceedings of Science, PoS (SISSA Conferences): http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/index_html.cgi

Journals of the American Physical Society, APS (Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, etc.): http://publish.aps.org/

Annual Reviews in Astronomy and Astrophysics, ARAA: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/astro

Astronomy and Astrophysics, A&A: http://www.aanda.org/

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, A&AS: http://aas.aanda.org

Astronomical Journal, AJ: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/home.html

Astrophysical Journal, ApJ: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, MNRAS: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0035-8711

Publications of Astronomical Society of Pacific, PASP: http://pasp.phys.uvic.ca

Computing:

Python: Interpreted, Interactive, Object-oriented Programming Language: http://www.python.org

Python Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/lib/genindex.html

CFITSIO: FITS file manipulation with C, FORTRAN, Python, Perl: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html

LaTeX: Document Preparation System: http://www.latex-project.org/

LaTeX: Hypertext Help: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/

LaTeX: WikiBooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

LaTeX: Arbitrary Reference: http://latex.knobs-dials.com

Numerical Algorithms Group, NAG: http://www.nag.co.uk

Numerical Algorithms Group, NAG Documentation: http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/FL/FLdocumentation.asp

PGPLOT: Graphics Subroutine Library: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/

Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, IRAF: http://iraf.noao.edu/

Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, IRAF Documentation: http://iraf.noao.edu/docs/docmain.html

Microsoft:

filehippo: Miscellaneous software downloads: http://www.filehippo.com

ShootTheMessenger: http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

SpyBot Search and Destroy: Anti Mal-ware: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

AdAware SE: Anti Mal-ware: http://rstones12.geekstogo.com/adawareSE_setup.htm

Jotti's Malicious Software Scan: Submit suspect files to be scanned by multiple anti-malware scanners: http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Trend Micro Housecall: On-line Virus Scan: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Panda ActiveScan: On-line Virus Scan. Enable Autoclean: http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

Avast: Anti Virus: http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php?lang=ENG

ccleaner: Windows Registry Cleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/

Photo Finale: Digital Photo Manipulation: http://www.trevoli.com/

Skywatching:

Daily...

Astronomy Picture Of The Day, APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

SOFIA (flightaware): https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA747

Current Lunar Phase (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/imagery/moon

Current Solar Image (SDO): Sun

Jupiter's Galilean Satellites (Sky and Telescope Magazine): http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/javascript/jupiter#

Spaceweather Notifications (NOAA/SWPC): http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html

Astronomy News (Astronomy Magazine): http://astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News.aspx

Astronomy News (Astronomy Now Magazine): http://www.astronomynow.com

Star Date (McDonald Observatory): http://www.stardate.org

International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA): http://lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm

Weekly...

This Week's Sky At A Glance (Sky And Telescope Magazine): http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/

The Night Sky This Week (Astronomy Now Magazine): http://www.astronomynow.com/AstronomyNow-TheNightSkyThisWeek.shtml

The Sky This Week (USNO): http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/tours-events/sky-this-week/

Stargazing Information (StarDate at McDonald Observatory): http://stardate.org/nightsky

Monthly...

The Evening Skymap (Skymaps.com): http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html

Tonight's Sky (HubbleSite.org): http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/

What's Out Tonight (Whatsouttonight.com): http://www.whatsouttonight.com

Eye On The Sky (Astronomy Now Magazine): http://www.astronomynow.com/night_sky.shtml

Astronomy and Space Digest (RAS): http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/

Annually...

Astronomical Information Sheets (HMNAO): http://www.hmnao.com/nao/aisinfo/

Ephemerides (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

Topics...

Apparent disk of Solar System Object (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/diskmap.php

Your Sky: Interactive Planetarium: http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Sky Maps: http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html

Navigational 57 Star Chart / Lucidae (USNO): http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Nav_Star_Chart.php

Astronomy Logs: http://www.astronomylogs.com

Magnitude 7 Star Atlas Project (Andrew Johnson): http://www.archive.org/details/Mag_7_Star_Atlas

Tri-Atlas Project (Jose Torres, Casey Skelton): http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/triatlas.html

Moon: Consolidated Lunar Atlas: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/cla/

Moon: Points of Interest North & South: https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/443/2021-moon-maps-for-international-observe-the-moon-night/?site=observe%20the%20moon

The Sky This Week (USNO): http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/tours-events/sky-this-week/

Sky and Telescope Magazine: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/

Astronomy Magazine: http://www.astronomy.com

EarthSky: Updated daily: http://www.earthsky.org

Space Weather: Updated daily: http://www.spaceweather.com

Space Daily: Updated daily: http://www.spacedaily.com

Space.com: Updated regularly: http://www.space.com

Satellite Visibility: Heavens Above: http://www.heavens-above.com/

Real-time Satellite Tracking: http://www.n2yo.com

Satellite Tracking and Decay, SatEvo: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/index.htm

Night Sky Live/ConCam: http://nightskylive.net

The Constellations and their Stars: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html

The Constellations: http://www.dibonsmith.com/stars.htm

Current Positions of Objects in The Inner Solar System: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html

Meteor Showers: Well-maintained: http://meteorshowersonline.com/

Radar Meteor Activity: http://www.knology.net/~suggs/bigradar2.gif

American Meteor Society: http://www.amsmeteors.org

Cometography: http://cometography.com

Space Weather Now/Today's Sun: Solar Activity and Aurorae: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/

Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html

Solar Data Analysis Center, SDAC: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/

SDAC Current Multi-waveband Solar Images: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html

SDO Current Multi-waveband Solar Images: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

Current Auroral Activity: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap

Green Flashes: http://aty.sdsu.edu/index.html

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz D. Schmandel:

Messier Objects: http://www.seds.org/messier/data3.html;

Jupiter's Galilean Satellites (Sky and Telescope Magazine): http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/javascript/jupiter#

Galaxy Map: http://galaxymap.org

100,000 stars: https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

Messier Objects: CCD Images: http://zebu.uoregon.edu/messier.html

David Malin: http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html/general/malin.html

Akira Fujii Wide Field Constellation Images: http://www.davidmalin.com/fujii/fujii_index.html

Bad Astronomy: http://www.badastronomy.com

Celestial Navigation: Bowditch's American Practical Navigator: http://www.irbs.com/bowditch