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Explorations: Stars, Galaxies, and Planets
Thomas Arny, University of Massachusetts

Telescopes

Web Links


Governmental Agencies

http://www.nasa.gov/
(http://www.nasa.gov/)

NASA homepage
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosat3.html
(http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosat3.html)

Another ROSAT Satellite page maintained by NASA
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/index.html
(http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/index.html)

NASA's Deep Space Network
http://www.mtwilson.edu/
(http://www.mtwilson.edu/)

Mount Wilson Observatory's website has more than just resources for observers. Their site includes history, outreach, services, and lots more.
http://inferno.physics.uiowa.edu/
(http://inferno.physics.uiowa.edu/)

University of Iowa's Automated Telescope Facility (ATF)
http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov
(http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Next Generation Space Telescope
Institutional / Education

http://praxis.pha.jhu.edu/hut.html
(http://praxis.pha.jhu.edu/hut.html)

Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Project at Johns Hopkins University
http://www.stsci.edu/public.html
(http://www.stsci.edu/public.html)

Hubble Space Telescope pictures and information about the telescope.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
(http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html)

Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
http://www.noao.edu/noao.html
(http://www.noao.edu/noao.html)

Information about the National Optical Astronomy Observatories
http://www.nrao.edu
(http://www.nrao.edu)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/iso/iso.html
(http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/iso/iso.html)

U.S. Infrared Space Observatory
http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/~iota
(http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/~iota)

Infrared Optical Telescope Array at the University of Massachusetts
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/
(http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
http://argo.tuc.noao.edu/
(http://argo.tuc.noao.edu/)

National Solar Observatory
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/doc/vla/html/VLAhome.shtml
(http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/doc/vla/html/VLAhome.shtml)

NRAO's page on the Very Large Array Telescope
http://www.noao.edu/kpno/kpno.html
(http://www.noao.edu/kpno/kpno.html)

Kitt Peak National Observatory
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/
(http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/)

Cambridge Optical Aperature Synthesis Telescope (COAST)
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/index_e.html
(http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/index_e.html)

Effelsberg Radio Telescope at the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
http://stdatu.stsci.edu
(http://stdatu.stsci.edu)

The Hubble Data Archive, a WWW distribution center for data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the VLA FIRST Survey.
http://wet.iitap.iastate.edu
(http://wet.iitap.iastate.edu)

Whole Earth Telescope
Other Links of Interest

http://www.eso.org
(http://www.eso.org)

European Southern Observatory
http://www.seds.org/~spider/oaos/oaos.html
(http://www.seds.org/~spider/oaos/oaos.html)

Information on orbital telescopes
http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat
(http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat)

ROSAT Satellite
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/hubble/index.html
(http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/hubble/index.html)

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Hubble Telescope, But Were Afraid to Ask
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/
(http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/)

The Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xte_weather/
(http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xte_weather/)

RXTE ASM X-ray Weather Map
http://www.seds.org/billa/bigeyes.html
(http://www.seds.org/billa/bigeyes.html)

The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/automated.html
(http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/automated.html)

Links to automated telescopes on the Internet