Published in "Internet Resources for Professional
Astronomy", Cambridge University Press, 1999.
OPTICAL AND UV ASTRONOMY IN THE INTERNET AGE
Daniel Golombek
Space Telescope Science
Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
E-mail: golombek@stsci.edu
Abstract. This series of lectures is
devoted to optical and UV data, with particular emphasis on observations
obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We explore the instruments
on board the HST which have taken data since the telescope was launched
and the instruments which will continue to observe in the future. The
contents
of the HST Data Archive are discussed, along with information on how to
retrieve and understand HST observations which can be found in the archives.
Other optical and UV archives are also briefly discussed.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- ASTRONOMICAL DATA
- FITS
- Reading HST FITS Files
- Other File Formats
- OPTICAL AND UV INFORMATION
- Preprints and Papers
- NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)
- A Thousand and One Catalogues in Strasbourg:
CDS
- SIMBAD
- VizieR
- Aladin
- Dictionary of Nomenclature of Astronomical
Objects
- Information & On-line Data in Astronomy
- StarPages
- NSSDC
- Leda
- Data
- Other Images, Lists and Catalogs
- Scanned Data
- Optical and UV Surveys
- Multiwavelength Maps
- Astrometry
- Artificial Data
- Other Meta Databases
- Software
- Planetary Information
- Organizations
- How Am I Going to Remember This?
- OPTICAL AND UV ARCHIVES
- Optical Archives
- Other Ultraviolet Satellites
- THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
- Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS)
- The Faint Object Camera (FOC)
- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object
Spectrometer (NICMOS)
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)
- Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS)
- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS)
- High Speed Photometer (HSP)
- The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
- THE HUBBLE DATA ARCHIVE
- The Data Archive and Distribution Service
(DADS)
- Browsing the HDA
- How to Use the HDA
- SURFING FOR DATA
- ACRONYMS
- ASTRONOMICAL CDs
- REFERENCES
