Science References

My every day science links

Interesting topical stuff

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Earth Science Picture of the Day
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
LANL Astrophysics archive

Reference material

The NASA Astrophysics Data System Query Page
Simbad Query Form
STScI Digitized Sky Survey query form
CDS, Strasbourg
ESA's HIPPARCOS web page
NStars database search (at Ames Research Center)
Hipparcos catalog search page (ESA)

Russell Rowlett's Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Richard Lowry's statistics book at Vassar

Job stuff

AAS Job Register
Geotimes jobs ads
Chronicle of Higher Ed science jobs
Physics Today job list (search for Astronomy or Planetary)
Astrophysics Job Rumor Mill wiki at Berkeley
Astrophysics Job Rumor Mill

Planetary reference material

JPL Planetary Photojournal
Take a look at Mars: How Mars appears at a given time and date
JPL Solar System Dynamics
PDS Rings Node Tools
Dave Jewitt's Kuiper Belt page
Joel Parker's EKO pages
KBO photometry database from NAU (Tegler and Romanishin)
Planetary Positions Table
Lowell Observatory asteroid services
SMASSII asteroid taxonomic identifications (Bobby Bus)
PDS small bodies node asteroid taxonomic identifications
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (IAU)
Minor Planet Center
Minor Planet Names
MPEC web page
Near Earth Asteroid files
SEDS: The Nine Planets
ANSMET - The Antarctic Search for Meteorites
USGS -- Hawaii Volcano Observatory

Planetary Exploration Newsletter
Daniel Jacob's book "Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry"

Observing references

WMKO - Keck Ephemerides
Standard stars (including Landolt) from Mt. Hamilton (Lick Obs.)
UBVRI Standards (including Landolt) from WIYN
Landolt standards from CFHT but with *bad positions* (coords are 21 arcsec too far south)
Landolt fields with improved positions (July, 2005) from Brian Skiff/John Thorstensen
2007 Kitt Peak Calendar
2007 CTIO Calendar
ESO Airmass calculator
STScI Digitized Sky Survey query form
SDSS DR6 data server queries and SDSS DR6 sky coverage map
2MASS info
Your Sky
Guide to the magnitude scale
Astronomical Magnitude Systems

Research programs

Pan-STARRS science interface (password protected)
Pan-STARRS PSPS Wiki
Herschel TNO KP (password protected)
LSST documents and whatnot
MOPS web interface (execute "mopsweb" first)
NAU Spitzer Nstars disks program discussion forum and Quick look page and Follow up candidates page (all password protected)
Deep Ecliptic Survey pages (at Lowell)
Deep Ecliptic Survey recovery page
DES data reduction checklist
Documentation for DES photometric calibration program
SFSU/UC/UCSC/Carnegie Extrasolar Planet Search Project
Archive of very low mass binaries (Nick Siegler)
Catalog of resolved circumstellar disks (Caer McCabe)
Spectral types and color indices and temperatures (from UKIRT)
Magnitude==>Flux (W/m2/um) conversion from UKIRT
NICMOS extended source magnitudes/Jansky converter (from ESO)
List of Arc Spectra (Spectral calibration)
Center for Star Formation (NASA Ames) Home Page
SETI Institute

Proposal stuff

NASA Research Opportunities Online (NSPIRES)
SARA @ NASA -- Yvonne Pendleton
Fastlane (NSF)
UA proposal reference sheet (includes ERE and IDC)

Miscellaneous fun stuff

SETI @ home
Heavens Above satellite sightings from Philadelphia
Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
Treasure Trove (Encyclopedia) of Physics
David Darling's Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight