Data and Software Archives & Catalogs
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- Access Astronomical Catalogues – CDS (Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center)
- AIPS – Astronomical Image Processing System – NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
- Aladin Sky Atlas – from CDS
- ARI APFS Database – (Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars) published by the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI)
- Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
- AstDyS-2 (Asteroids-Dymanic Site) – Data on numbered and multiopposition asteroids, catalogs updated monthly
- astLib – Set of Python astronomy modules
- Astrobrowse – No longer supported, replaced by VAO Data Discovery: DataScope
- AstroGrid – Virtual Observatory (VO) software for astronomers
- Astronomical Almanac Online – Provides data in machine-readable form (USNAO)
- Errata – 2001 to present
- Astropy – A Community Python Library For Astronomy
- AstroPython – Python for Astronomers
- Atlas of Very High Resolution Stratospheric IR Absorption Spectra – 2007 ed. PDF
- Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMP) Tools (Databases) – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Australia Telescope Online Archive
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- BBXRT Archive (Broad Band X-Ray Telescope) – NASA’s HEASARX: Observatories
- Bibliography of Close Binaries – 2001 to the present, IAU Commission No. 42
- CDS (Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) – collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data and related information
- Chandra Data Archive (CDA) – Chandra X-ray Observatory
- DENIS (DEep Near Infrared Survey) – An astronomical survey of the Southern Sky in two near-infrared bands
- DIRA2-WWW – Software structure for managing astronomical data files, especially catalogues developed by the Astronet Working Group, Italy
- DSS (Digitized Sky Survey) – Available at ESO or STScI
- Search Template from STScI
- DS9 (SAOImage) – Imaging and data visualization application, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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- ESO Science Archive Facility
- ESO-MIDAS – Tools for image processing and data reduction
- ESO SkyCatTool – Image visualization, access to catalogs and archive data
- EXOSAT Data Archive (European X-Ray Observatory Satellite) – NASA’s HEASARC
- FIGARO (PDF) – A general data reduction system, part of the Starlink project
- FITS Header Archiving System
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- Gemini Observing Tool
- HEADS FTP Archive – (High Energy Astrophysics Data Software) (NASA) Inactive link
- HEASARC Datasets – High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
- Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues – ESA
- HITRAN Database (HIgh-Resolution TRANsmission Molecular Absorption)
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- IDL Astronomy User’s Library Software
- IRAF Software (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
- IUE Archive (International Ultraviolet Explorer) – STScI
- INES Archive Da/ta Server – Provides access to IUE Final Archive data, processed with the INES system
- IRSA (InfraRed Science Archive) – NASA/IPAC: data from 2MASS, IRAS and MSX surveys, and the ISO and SWAS observatory missions
- JSky – Java Components for Astronomy – Version 3.0 of jskycat
- IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance)
- KOA (Keck Observatory Archive)
- KPNO FTP Archives (Kitt Peak National Observatory)
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- LAMBDA – Data Products – (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis)
- LIGO/Virgo software – On Gentoo Linux
- LIGOtools homepage
- … LALSuite (LSC Algorithm Library Suite) – Gravitational wave data analysis routines
- LIGO Data Analysis Software Working Group
- LIGO Data Grid
- MACS (MAssive Cluster Survey) – “The most X-ray luminous distant cluster s of galaxies from ROSAT All-Sky Survey data”
- MAPPINGS III – Photoionization models, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
- MAPS Catalog Archive (Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner) – Catalog of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, Minnesota State University Moorhead
- MAST Archive (Multimission Archive at STScI)
- Messier Catalog – Catalog of nebulae, star clusters and galaxies
- Minor Planet Names – Alphabetical list
- MultiNest – Bayesian inference tool
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- NED – (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
- NEODyS-2 – (Near Earth Objects-Dynamic Site)
- NIST Atomic Spectra Database – (Natl. Institute of Standards and Technology, Physics Laboratory)
- NSO Digital Library – Archive of major National Solar Observatory data sets
- NSSDC Archive – (NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive) – NASA’s permanent archive for space science mission data
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- Online astronomy user group – Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- PDS (Planetary Data System) – Archive of data products from NASA planetary missions
- PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library – Publication quality graphical images with minimum effort
- Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) – Archival links (ceased in 2008)
- RAVE (RAdial Velocity Experiment) – All-sky survey measures radial velocities, metallicities, and abundance ratios for 50 million stars. UK Schmidt Telescope, Australia
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- SAF (Science Archive Facility) – ESO (European Southern Observatory)
- SAO Terahertz Toolbox – Spectroscopic database and tools for analysis of astronomical observations in the Terahertz Region
- SCANPI – Scan Processing and Integration software tool for visualizing, plotting and averaging calibrated survey scans from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
- Sherpa – Modeling and fitting application for Python
- SIMBAD Astronomical Data Base – Basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside our solar system
- SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Mapping the Universe) – 3-D maps of three million plus astronomical objects
- SDSS SkyServer
- SEGUE (Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration) – Maps the structure and stellar makeup of the Milky Way Galaxy
- SPLAT – SPectraL Analysis Tool
- Splatalogue – Database for astronomical spectroscopy
- Spitzer Space Telescope – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute for Technology
- Spitzer Heritage Archive (SHA) – SHA replaced Leopard as the interface to all Spitzer data in Fall 2010
- Star Catalogs for Astronometrica
- Starburst99 – Software/data package for modeling spectrophotometric and related properties of star-forming galaxies
- STARCAT is obsolete. The WDB (Web to Database Interface) – Should now be used to Search the ESOECF catalogs and archives
- Starlink Project – Astronomical data processing (open source code}, maintained by the East Asian Observatory after March 2015
- StatCodes – Statistical software for astronomy and related fields
- STEREO – Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory
- STSI FTP Server – Space Telescope Science Institute
- Swift: Catching Gamma-Ray Bursts on the Fly – Archive access
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- 2MASS – The Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center)
- TIPTOPbase – Atomic data database collaboration of the Opacity Project and the Iron Project
- Opacity Project – Data, codes, OPserver and instructions to compute mean opacities and accelerations
- Opacity Project OPserver – Compute Rosseland mean opacities and radiative accelarations for arbitrary chemical mixtures
- Iron Project – Computation of electron excitation cross sections
- TIPbase – Fine-structure atomic data computed for ions
- TOPbase – Dataset of LS-coupling term energies, f-values and photoionization cross sections for ions
- TOPCAT (Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables) – Does what you want with tables
- UKIDSS – The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
- USNO Star Catalogs – Produced from observations made at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Obsolete.
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- VAO Software Release – Data Discovery Tool (version 1.7) released by the Virtual Astronomical Observatory – a NSF and NASA joint project
- VAO Data Discovery: DataScope – Search a position for all known information
- VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS) – Project for archiving data rates from VISTA and WFCAM
- VizieR Service – CDS/ESRIN tool for retrieving astronomical data from published cataloques and tables
- VODesktop – Part of AstroGrid and includes Astro Runtime, VOExplorer, Astroscope/Helioscope, File Explorer, Task Runner, and Query Builder
- XCATSCAN – A catalog scanning tool for scanning Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) databases and other catalogs
- XML Resources Page – Extensible Markup Language
- XMM – Newton Survey Science Centre
- XSCANPI – Decomissioned 15 March 2002 – Replaced with SCANPI Software, IRSA (Scan Processing and Integration)
- WDB (Web to DataBase Interface) – Provides access to the ESO/ST-ECF Archive
- WFCAM/VISTA Science Archive Development – A component of the VISTA Data Flow System project
- WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) – Mission to measure the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky
- WorldWide Telescope (WWT) – Created by Microsoft to display astronomical sky as maps, the 3D Universe, visualized data sets and animations
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Last checked / updated: 28 July 2020