Astronomy

The Contingent Universe

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God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.

Genesis 1:3

The rivers of light flow to our eyes, and we shall trace them back to their source.

Michael Rowan-Robinson

List of Contents

Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomy Education Forums, Periodicals, & Societies Astronomy Software Observational Astronomy Ground Observatories Space Astronomy Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys Astronomical Images Stars and Galaxies Galaxies and the Milky Way Stars and the Interstellar Medium Galactic and Stellar Evolution Protostars and Star Formation Post-MS and Stellar Endpoints The Far Country: Amateur Astronomy Stargazing Equipment Amateur Telescope Making Astrophotography Clubs and Societies Astronomy Travel

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Space Studies	Astrobiology	History & Philosophy	AstroNews

Observational Astronomy

Ground Observatories
Space Astronomy
Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys
Astronomical Images


If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible go see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till Age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee...

John Donne

Adaptive Optics (ESO)

Adaptive Optics at MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Adaptive Optics: Laird Close's Home Page
(Laird M. Close, Steward Observatory)

Adaptive optics with a Laser For Astronomy (ALFA) Homepage
(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Astronomical Spectroscopy (Mike Guidry)

Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (Christopher F. McKee & Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., et al., NRC Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Washington, DC, 9 Jan 2001)

-- Panel Reports

-- Web Site

Astronomical Instrumentation Group, University of Durham

Astronomy by Wavelength @ GCA7Sky
(Gary Agranat)

Astropulse: A Search for Microsecond Transient Radio Signals Using Distributed Computing (Joshua Solomon Von Korff, PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, May 2010) PDF

AstroTwitter (Stuart R. Lowe, arXiv:0907.0193v1 [astro-ph.IM], 1 Jul 2009)

An Atlas of The Universe (Richard Powell, New Milton, UK)

Basics of Radio Astronomy (Diane K. Fisher, JPL)

Bill Keel's Lecture Notes - Astronomical Techniques
(William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

Bob Tubbs' Interferometry Page

Canadian Radio Astronomy in the 21st Century - The Challenge
(C. Carignan et al., Dec 1996)

Center for Adaptive Optics (dir. Jerry Nelson, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics (University of Arizona)

Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
(University of Texas at Brownsville)

CHICOS | California HIgh School Cosmic ray ObServatory

Chromoscope (Cardiff University)

CompletePlanet - Directory Observatory

COMRAA Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NAS Board on Physics and Astronomy)

-- U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics: Managing an Integrated Program
(John Huchra et al., 10 Sep 2001)

-- Prepublication Ms (4 Sep 2001) PDF

Cool Cosmos: The Infrared Universe (Michelle Thaller et al., Caltech Infrared Processing and Analysis Center)

Cosmic Ray / Gamma Ray / Neutrino Experiments
(Konrad Bernlöhr, MPI Heidelberg)

CREAM | Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (UMD Cosmic Ray Physics Group)

An Experimental setup to develop RFI mitigation techniques for radio astronomy (K. Jeeva Priya & D. Anish Roshi, astro-ph/0602270, 13 Feb 2006)

The exploration of the unknown (Kenneth I. Kellermann et al., arXiv:0912.4441v1 [astro-ph.IM], 22 Dec 2009)

Explore the Universe (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC)

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century (ESO Astrophysics Symposium, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Berlin, 18-21 May 2004)

Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey (L. G. Spitler et al., arXiv:1404.2934 [astro-ph.HE], 14 Apr 2014)

-- New Radio Burst Deepens Mystery (Shannon Hall, Sky & Telescope, 18 Jul 2014)

Flavor Ratios of Astrophysical Neutrinos: Implications for Precision Measurements (Sandip Pakvasa et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4517, 8 Feb 2008, revised)

From the Ground Up: Balancing the NSF Astronomy Program (Roger D. Blandford et al., National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, 22 Oct 2006) PDF

Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes (GNAT)

Gravitational Astronomy (The Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingin, Western Australia)

Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy (Joachim Wambsganss, Living Reviews in Relativity, Dec 1998)

High-Energy Astronomy (AstroWeb, NRAO)

High Energy Astronomy (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysics Resources (AstroWeb, STScI)

High energy cosmic rays (Graciela B. Gelmini, arXiv:0903.4716v1 [astro-ph.HE], 26 Mar 2009)

High Priority Projects in Astronomy and Astrophysics (U.S. National Academies)

Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Detectors: First Light (Francis Halzen, arXiv:0911.2676v1 [astro-ph.HE], 13 Nov 2009)

NOVA | Hunting the Edge of Space (Oliver Twinch & Peter Jones et al., PBS, 6 & 13 Apr 2010)

Indications of Intermediate-Scale Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays with Energy Greater Than 57 EeV in the Northern Sky Measured with the Surface Detector of the Telescope Array Experiment (Telescope Array Collaboration, arXiv:1404.5890 [astro-ph.HE], 23 Apr 2014, revised)

-- Cosmic Rays Hint at Hotspot (Camille M. Carlisle, Sky & Telescope, 15 Jul 2014)

Infrared Astronomy (IPAC Educational Outreach)

Interferometry (ESO)

ISSTT Conference and Proceedings (International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology)

JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Home Page (Herb Pickett)

The Large Adaptive Reflector concept (Sean M. Dougherty et al., astro-ph/0510541, 18 Oct 2005)

Lectures on High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy
(F. Halzen, astro-ph/0506248, 10 Jun 2005)

The Long Range Plan and CASCA

Long Range Planning Panel on Canada's Future in Astronomy until 2015 (National Research Council of Canada)

Long Wavelength Astronomy: A Report to the Radio Astronomy Panel (Namir Kassim et al., NRL, 1999)

Looking through Many Windows (BIMA)

Lucky Imaging Web Site Home (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

Measurement of Antenna Surfaces from In- and Out-Of-Focus Beam Maps using Astronomical Sources (Bojan Nikolic et al., astro-ph/0612241, 9 Dec 2006)

Multiwavelength Astronomy - Revealing the Universe in All of Its Light! (NASA Infrared Processing & Analysis Center)

Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Dauna Coulter & Tony Phillips, NASA Science, 16 Mar 2012)

The Mystery of the Missing Light (Maria Temming, Sky & Telescope, 16 Jul 2014)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - ISSTT Proceedings (National Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology)

The New Galileos (Andrew Luck-Baker, BBC Radio 4, 2009)

New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Roger Blandford et al., Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics, US National Research Council, Washington, DC, 13 Aug 2010)

-- Astro 2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Academies, Washington, DC, 13 Aug 2010)

-- New Horizons: Decadal Survey Identifies Top Priorities for Astronomy and Astrophysics (Molly Gavin, In Focus 10.3, Fall/Winter 2010)

The Night Sky Live (The CONCAM Project)

The Nightwatchman (Jonathan Kemp, JCMT Joint Astronomy Centre)

NRL Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch

Observational Astronomy (Megan Thomas & Kristi Carver)

OGLE | Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (Warsaw)

-- Princeton Mirror

OLBIN Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News (ed. Peter Lawson)

Optical Astronomy (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Optical Astronomy (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

OpticalAstronomy.com (Ronald Plummer)

OT 060420: A Seemingly Optical Transient Recorded by All-Sky Cameras (Lior Shamir et al., astro-ph/0607033, 3 Jul 2006)

Out-Of-Focus Holography at the Green Bank Telescope (Bojan Nikolic et al., astro-ph/0612249, 10 Dec 2006)

Photonic Astronomy and Quantum Optics (Dainis Dravins, astro-ph/0701220, 9 Jan 2007)

Quantum telescopes (Aglae Kellerer, arXiv:1403.6681 [astro-ph.IM], 26 Mar 2014)

-- Quantum telescope could make giant mirrors obsolete (Jon Cartwright, Physics World News, 29 Apr 2014)

Radio Astronomy (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Radio Astronomy (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Radio Astronomy Imaging Group (NCSA)

Radio quiet, please! - protecting radio astronomy from interference (Wim van Driel, arXiv:0906.2268v1 [astro-ph.IM], 12 Jun 2009)

Satellite Detection of Radio Pulses from Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Moon (Oscar Stål et al., astro-ph/0604199, 10 Apr 2006, revised)

A Science Vision for European Astronomy (ed. P.T. de Zeeuw & F.J. Molster, ASTRONET, 21 Sep 2007) PDF

-- A Grand Vision for European Astronomy (ESO Press Release, 28 Sep 2007)

Spacetime Ripples on the Horizon? (Camille Carlisle, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 7 Dec 2012)

Sterile neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions (Alexander Kusenko, arXiv:0906.2968 [hep-ph], 16 Jun 2009, revised)

Telescope, Instrument, and Measurement Topics @ GCA7Sky (Gary Agranat)

UK Astronomy Technology Centre (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

Unveiling the Universe (National Geographic, Oct 1999)

The Virtual Sky (VirtualSky.org)

Whispers from the Cosmos (BIMA Home Page)

Will This New Technology [ARCONS, Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotomety] Transform Astronomy? (Monica Young, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 11 Nov 2013)

WorldWide Adaptive Optics Bibliography
(Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics)

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Ground Observatories

(including Astronomical Institutes and Astronomy Departments)


Bought a quadrant and Emerson's Trigonometry.

William Herschel (19 April 1773)

Astronomical Survey Projects (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomy Departments (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomy Departments (AstroWeb, STScI)

Astronomy Departments (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Astronomy Librarians and Libraries Addresses (Uta Grothkopf, ESO)

Astronomy Observatories (Patrick Curran, Sky Router)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, STScI)

Astronomy-related Libraries (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

AstroPlace Observatories

Astro Science Portals on the Web (Edouard Reny, Galactic Surf)

Canadian Observatories (CASCA)

Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries (ESO)

Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries on the World Wide Web (Uta Grothkopf, ESO Library, Garching, Germany)

Ground-based Solar and Astrophysical Observatory Guide
(Gordon Johnston, NASA Space Technology)

Guide to Public Viewing at Observatories (Mark Peairs)

History of Astronomy: Observatories and other places
(Wolfgang R. Dick, Astronomiae Historia)

Individual Instruments Resources (AstroWeb, STScI)

Infrared Observatories and Surveys (Robert Bradbury)

Links2Go: Observatories

MEL: Observatories and Telescopes (Judy Matthews)

Milkyweb Astronomy Observatory Guide

Observatories - US (MapMuse.com)

Observatories on the Net (Astronomy Magazine)

Optical Telescope Resources (AstroWeb, STScI)

Physics and Astronomy Departments Worldwide Directory (PhysLink.com)

Radio Telescope Resources (AstroWeb, STScI)

Telescopes (AstroWeb, NRAO)

Telescopes (AstroWeb, WWW-VL)

Telescopes Around the World

Virtual Tours of Astronomical Observatories (Douglas J. Mink)

The World's Largest Optical Telescopes (Bill Arnett)

Yahoo! Observatories

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The AASTO at the South Pole (Automated Astrophysical Site-Testing Observatory)

ACT - The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, University of Pennsylvania)

ALEXIS Project

ALFA | Arecibo L-band Feed Array (Arecibo Observatory)

Allegheny Observatory

ALMA (ESO)

ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter Array (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ)

ALMA: Imaging the Light from Cosmic Dawn (NRC-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

ALMA Opens Its Eyes (ESO Press Release eso1137, 3 Oct 2011)

-- ALMA Opens Its Eyes (NRAO Press Release, 3 Oct 2011)

-- ALMA Radio Array Gets to Work (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News, 10 Oct 2011)

-- ALMA Inauguration Heralds New Era of Discovery (ESO Organisation Release eso1312, 13 Mar 2013)

-- In Search of our Cosmic Origins -- The Construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (Photo Book, ESO, 26 Feb 2013)

ALMA: Seeing the Universe in a Whole New Light (Miles O'Brien & Jonn Baime, NSF Special Report , Science Nation, 3 Dec 2012)

AMANDA (Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array)

AMBER (VLTI Astronomical Multi-BEam combineR, ESO Paranal)

AMBER, focal instrument of the VLT Interferometer
(Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)

AMBER Project: The near-infrared/red VLTI focal instrument
(Observatoire de la Cote Azur, Nice)

AMEC Dynamic Structures (Port Coquitlam, BC)

ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch)

APEX - Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (ESO)

APEX - Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (MPIfR)

APEX | The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (Special Issue, Astronomy & Astrophysics 452:2, Aug I 2006)

APO Home Page (James Fowler, Apache Point Observatory)

Arecibo Observatory Home (NAIC)

Arizona Radio Observatory (University of Arizona)

Armagh Observatory Home Page

Asia Pacific Telescope - APT (Tasso Tzioumis, CSIRO)

Associated Universities, Inc. (US)

AstroNet (Carl Koppeschaar)

ASTRONET (Europe)

The ASTRONET Infrastructure Roadmap: A Strategic Plan for European Astronomy (ed. Michael F. Bode et al., ASTRONET, Nov 2008) PDF

-- Europe Unveils 20-Year Plan for Brilliant Future in Astronomy (ESO Press Release 43/08, 25 Nov 2008)

ASTRON | Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy

Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Annamaria Canciello)

Astronomisches Institut der Universität Bern
(Zimmerwald Observatory, Switzerland)

Astronomy at the University of British Columbia

Astronomy Research at Rutgers (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

Astro Research Centre (Michael J. MacDonald)

AstroServerVienna - Inst.f.Astronomy, Vienna

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (Arthur Kosowsky, astro-ph/0402234, 10 Feb 2004)

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Al Wootten)

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Project (ESO)

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Implications of a Potential Descope (Roger D. Blandford et al., Committee to Review the Science Requirements for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2005)

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array Web Site (NRAO)

-- MMA Project Mirror

The Atacama Telescope Project (Riccardo Giovanelli et al., Cornell Astronomy)

Auckland Observatory and Stardome Planetarium

AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

AURA's New Initiatives Office

Australian Astro Servers

Australian Long Baseline Array - LBA (Tasso Tzioumis, CSIRO)

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATNF, Narrabri)

The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Home Page
(Henrietta May, CSIRO)

Baikal Group Home Page(Zeuthen Neutrino Astrophysics Group)

Berkeley Automated Imaging Telescopes

Beyond Hubble (Zerah Lurie, CBC News, 6 Sep 2007)

Big Ear Radio Observatory (Cindy Brooman)

Bill Keel's Telescope Life List (William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

BIMA Home Page (Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association)

Brera Astronomical Observatory

Brooks Astronomical Observatory (Central Michigan University)

California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (Mauna Kea)

Cambridge X-Ray Astronomy (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

Canadian ALMA project website (University of Lethbridge)

CANGAROO Home Page (Collaboration of Australia and Nippon for a GAmma Ray Observatory in the Outback)

CARMA - Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy
(Big Pine, California)

Carnegie Observatories' Home Page (OCIW)

Carter Observatory of New Zealand (Wellington)

CAST Cern Axion Solar Telescope

Cavendish Astrophysics Group (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

CCAT at Caltech (Simon Radford)

CCAT - Cornell Caltech Atatacama Telescope
(Simon Radford, Caltech)

CDS, Strasbourg (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg)

Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA)

CFHT (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)

-- Canadian Mirror

CHARA @ Georgia State University
(Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy)

CITA - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
(University of Toronto)

The CLUE Experiment (Cerenkov Light Ultraviolet Experiment)

COAST HomePage (MRAO)

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
(University of Colorado at Boulder)

Colossus Telescope: A 74m filled aperture interferometric telescope (Jeff Kuhn et al., The Colossus Consortium)

-- SETI's Colossus (Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams, 31 May 2013)

COMICS (COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph, Subaru Telescope)

Copenhagen University Observatory Home Page

The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (Simon J. E. Radford et al., arXiv:0704.3031v1 [astro-ph], 23 Apr 2007)

Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT): a 25 m aperture telescope above 5000 m altitude (Thomas A. Sebring et al., astro-ph/0610528, 17 Oct 2006)

Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope: Feasibility/Concept Design Study (Final Report, Jan 2006) PDF

Cosmic Vision (Timothy Ferris, National Geographic, Jul 2009)

CTIO Home Page (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory)

CU Astronomy (Cornell University)

Dark Matter Telescope (LSST)

DASI Home Page (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer)

David Dunlap Observatory WWW Information

DEIMOS (DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph) Project
(Sandra Faber & David Koo)

Department of Physics & Astronomy @ McMaster University
(Hamilton, Ontario)

The Discovery Channel Telescope (Lowell Observatory)

A Dispersed Heterodyne Design for the Planet Formation Imager (PFI) (Michael J. Ireland & John D. Monnier, arXiv:1407.7036 [astro-ph.IM], 25 Jul 2014)

-- A Dramatic Upgrade for Interferometry (Ashley Baldwain, ed. Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams, 15 Aug 2014)

DRAO Home Page (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory)

DSN Radio Astronomy (Deep Space Network)

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics (University of Toronto)

E-ELT: The European Extremely Large Telescope (European Southern Observatory)

-- E-ELT Site Chosen [Cerro Armazones, Chile] (eso1018 - Organisation Release, 26 Apr 2010)

-- Peak Picked for World's Largest Scope (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 27 Apr 2010)

-- Site chosen for European superscope (Michael Banks, Physics World, 27 Apr 2010)

-- Constructing the E-ELT (Tim de Zeeuw et al., The Messenger 159, Dec 2014) PDF

-- Green Light for E-ELT Construction (ESO Organisation Release eso1440, 4 Dec 2014)

-- Big Mirrors, High Hopes: Extremely Large Telescope Is A Go (Caleb A. Scharf, Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network, 9 Dec 2014)

E-ELT: UK Project Pages (The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

The Effelsberg 100-meter Radio Telescope
(Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

EGO - European Gravitational Observatory (Pisa)

ETHZ Institute of Astronomy (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)

The ELT Design Study (European Southern Observatory)

The ESO Survey Telescopes

Euro50 50m Optical Telescope (Torbin Andersen, Lund University)

The European ELT (ESO)

European Southern Observatory

The European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN) and Its Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, ESF Coordinated Review and Assessment of (Jens Erik Fenstad et al., European Science Foundation, Sep 2000) PDF

The European VLBI Network (Consortium for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe)

Event Horizon Telescope (Shep Doeleman et al.)

-- Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Event Horizon Telescope Observations of Sagittarius A* (Avery E. Broderick et al., arXiv:1311.5564 [astro-ph.HE], 21 Nov 2013)

-- Time Travel: Installing an Atomic Clock at 15,000 Feet (Seth Fletcher, Dark Star Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 Jun 2014)

Exeter Astrophysics (University of Exeter)

Expanded VLA | The Expanded Very Large Array Project: A Radio Telescope to Resolve Cosmic Evolution (EVLA)

Expanding Universe: Observatories

Eyes On the Sky: From the Ground Up (NSF Astronomy, US National Science Foundation, 28 May 2010)

Eyes to the Sky: The Next Generation of Telescopes
(Chris King et al.)

FLAMES | Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph
(ESO Very Large Telescope)

FLAMES Science Verification Programs at Kueyen/UT2

4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Project (VELA)

Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Mt. Hopkins, Arizona)

The Gemini Observatory

-- The Australian Gemini Office

-- Canadian Gemini Office (NRC-HIA)

-- U.K. GEMINI Support Group

-- United States Gemini Program

-- Governance Oversight, Governance Documents | Governance Oversight, Governance Documents

Gemini-North Adaptive Optics System (Altair)

-- NRC-HIA: Altair

Gemini Public File Transfer Server

Geometry.net | Astronomy Observatories

Giant Magellan Telescope: GMT (Cerro Las Campanas, Chile)

Giant telescope's double vision (Jonathan Fildes, BBC News, 1 Nov 2007)

The Green Bank Telescope (NRAO GBT Home Page)

Griffith Observatory Home Page (E. C. Krupp et al.)

GROND | Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (Jochen Greiner, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Münich)

The GSMT Book: Enabling a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope for the Astronomical Community (AURA, Oct 2002)

GSMT | Developing the Future: Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (NOAO)

GSMT Technical Development (Appendix B of NOAA Long Range Plan: FY 2002-2006, 30 Oct 2001)

GTC Project (IAC Gran Telescopio CANARIAS)

-- World's largest optical telescope to see first light (David Shiga, New Scientist, 13 Jul 2007)

Guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses (Rich Curtis)

Haleakala Observatories (University of Hawaii)

Hanle - Indian Astronomical Observatory (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

HartRAO Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory

Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

HEGRA Home Page (High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy)

The Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope Observatory Home Page

-- German Mirror

Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics (National Research Council Canada)

The H.E.S.S. Project: An Array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (High Energy Stereoscopic System)

Hobby-Eberly Telescope (Penn State)

Hobby-Eberly Telescope (UT Austin)

IACS - Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences
(Annie James, CAU)

IAU Working Group on Astronomical Libraries Report 1997
(Brenda G. Corbin & Uta Grothkopf)

IceCube Neutrino Observatory (University of Wisconsin)

-- IceCube Neutrino Observatory Provides New Insights Into Origin of Cosmic Rays (US National Science Foundation Press Releasssse 12-073, 18 Apr 2012)

Imperial College Astrophysics (London)

Infrared and Submillimetre-wave Astronomy at the University of Calgary

INGRID's Home Page (Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device)

Innovative Optics [Colossus] (Dave Halliday et al., Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Maui)

Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysiqe
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics

Institute for Astronomy (University of Edinburgh)

Institute for Astronomy (University of Hawaii)

Institute for Computational Astrophysics
(Saint Mary's University, Halifax)

Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge, UK)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (La Palma)

-- Astronomical Events IAC (M. Serra-Ricart)

IRAM (Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique)

IRA SKA Group (Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy)

The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Palma)

-- UK Mirror (Cambridge Institute of Astronomy)

ISAS The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)

ISPEC - Space Physics Centers

JAC Hilo Home Page (Joint Astronomy Centre)

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

JIVE | Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (European VLBI Network)

Jodrell Bank Home Page

John M. Hill's LBT (Large Binocular Telescope) Page

Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
(Michael Burton, JACARA)

JPL Interferometry Center of Excellence Home Page

KamLAND at Caltech (Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector)

KamLAND at Stanford University

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (Groningen)

The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (BAIT)

Kitt Peak National Observatory

The Kitt Peak Virtual Tour

LABOCA - The Large Apex BOlometer Camera
(APEX, Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment)

LABOCA at the MPIfR Bolometer Group (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

LAMA Large-Aperture Mirror Array (LMT at UBC)

LAMOST - Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (Chinese Academy of Science)

The Large Adaptive Reflector: A Giant Steerable Radio Telescope
(SKA, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada)

The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
(Mt. Graham International Observatory)

The Large High Dynamic Range CFHT (J. R. Kuhn et al., UH Institute of Astronomy)

Large Radio Telescope (Beijing Astronomical Observatory)

The Large Zenith Telescope Project (LMT at UBC)

Las Campanas Observatory (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

La Silla: ESO's first observatory (European Southern Observatory)

La Silla Paranal Observatory (ESO)

LBT (Large Binocular Telescope) Project - Ohio State Links

LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

-- Einstein's Messengers, LIGO Documentary (US National Science Foundation)

Liquid Mirrors (LMT at UBC)

Liquid-Mirror Telescopes (Paul Hickson, American Scientist 95(3):216-23, May-Jun 2007)

LMT Home Page (Liquid Mirror, Laval)

LMT: The Large Millimeter Telescope (Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico)

LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) Home Page (ASTRON, Netherlands)

-- Haystack LOFAR Site

-- NRL LOFAR Site

Long Wavelength Array (NRL)

Lowell Observatory Home Page

LSST (Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope) Observatory
(Dark Matter Telescope)

-- Taking astronomy to the next level (US National Science Foundation (NSF) Press Release 14-095, 7 Aug 2014)

LUNA - Laboratory for Undergound Nuclear Astrophysics
(Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy)

LWA - Long Wavelength Array (University of New Mexico)

McDonald Observatory (University of Texas at Austin)

Magellan Project: Two 6.5 Meter Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory (Matt Johns, Carnegie Observatories)

The Magellan Telescopes (Las Campanas Observatory)

MAGIC - The MAGIC Telescope Project (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften, Munich)

MAGIC - The MAGIC Telescope Web Server on La Palma (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescope)

The MAGIC Telescope (Ciro Bigongiari, astro-ph/0512184, 7 Dec 2005)

Mauna Kea Observatories (Richard J. Wainscoat, IFA)

MAXAT - The Maximum Aperture Telescope

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

MDM Observatory - Ohio State Links

MegaPrime: The CFHT Next Generation of Wide Field Imaging
(Christian Veillet et al.)

MERLIN Homepage (Jodrell Bank)

Michelle Mid-IR Imager/Spectrometer (Gemini Observatory)

Michelson Science Center (California Institute of Technology)

Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory Homepage (LANL)

Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner (University of Minnesota)

MIT Haystack Observatory

Mt. Graham International Observatory
(Anna Rosa Lampis & John M. Hill)

Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observatory Tour (Don Irving)

Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories
(Australian National University)

-- Mount Stomlo Fire of 28 January 2003

-- Astronomy projects in ruins as observatory obliterated (Richard Macey & Michael Bradley, Sidney Morning Herald, 20 Jan 2003)

-- Aussie Fires Destroy Mount Stromlo Observatory (J. Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope Online, 19 Jan 2003)

-- Fires in the Australian Capital Territory (NASA Earth Observatory)

-- Historic Australian observatory gutted (David Whitehouse, BBC News Online, 20 Jan 2003)

-- Mount Stromlo: A Phoenix from the Ashes (Morris Jones, SpaceDaily, 21 Jan 2003)

-- Pictures of the Aftermath of the Fire of Saturday, 18 January 2003, at Mount Stromlo Observatory (Matthew Colless)

Mount Wilson Observatory

-- Station Fire Threatens Mount Wilson (Hal McAlister, August-September 2009)

-- Station Fire (InciWeb Incident Information System)

-- Raging Fire Threatens Mount Wilson (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 30 Aug 2009, updated)

-- Mt Wilson Timelapse Sept 4th - 7th (YouTube)

The Mount Wilson Observatory Association (MWOA)

Mullard Space Science Laboratory (London)

Muse (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) [for the VLT]

-- A Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer - MUSE (ESO)

-- The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Blog

-- First Light for MUSE (ESO News Release eso1407, 5 Mar 2014)

NAAPO (North American AstroPhysical Observatory)

NanoGrav (North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves)

-- Galactic-scale observatory planned (Edwin Cartlidge, Physics World, 22 Sep 2009)

NAOMI - Adaptive Optics at the WHT (William Herschel Telescope)

NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Homepage (IFA)

National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)

National Optical Astronomy Observatory (US)

National Public Observatory (Radium Springs, New Mexico)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page

-- NRAO Home Page (Socorro)

-- NRAO Charlottesville

-- NRAO Green Bank

-- NRAO Socorro

-- NRAO Tucson

NEMO Collaboration Web Site (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory)

NESTOR Institute (Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research)

The Neutrino Oscillation Industry (Maury Goodman)

Neutrinos and Beyond: New Windows on Nature
(US National Research Council, 2003)

New Planetary Telescope (IFA)

Next-Gen Adaptive Optics (John Bochanski, Sky & Telescope, 9 Sep 2014)

NIRSPEC Home Page (Near-Infrared Spectrograph, Keck Observatory)

Norman Lockyer Observatory and Planetarium (Sidmouth, England)

Northwestern University Astronomy

The Next Generation CFHT (NGCFHT)

NOAO Long Range Plan: FY 2002-2006 (US National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 30 Oct 2001)

Nottingham Astronomy Group (University of Nottingham)

OAPa Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana

Observatory and Planetarium Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic)

Observatory Tours (Gary Agranat, GCA7Sky)

OLBIN - Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News
(Peter Lawson, JPL Interferometry Center of Excellence)

100YSS: Building Tomorrow's Instruments (Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams, 27 Sep 2013)

The One Metre Initiative: A New Premier Imaging Telescope in Canada (Elektra Observatories, Ottawa)

The One-Square-Kilometre Telescope: The Future of Radio Astronomy (Helen Sim, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Onizuka Center for International Astronomy (Mauna Kea)

OPTICON: Optical Infrared Coordination Network (Europe)

The Origins of Structure in the Universe (Report of the NRC-NSERC Long Range Planning Panel, Herzberg Institute for Astronomy)

-- CASCA Mirror

OVRO (Owens Valley Radio Observatory) Home Page (Steve Scott)

OVRO Home Page (Erik M. Leitch & Steven T. Myers)

OWL Concept Study (Roberto Gilmozzi & Philippe Dierickx, ESO Messenger, Jun 2000)

OWL (OverWhelmingly Large Telescope): The ESO 100-m OWL Optical Telescope Concept (European Southern Observatory)

Oxford Astrophysics

PAIRITel (Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope) | Robotic Transient Astronomy for the 21st Century (J. Bloom, Fred L. Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona)

Palomar Adaptive Optics System

Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory Public Home Page

Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope
(Caltech Astronomy)

Paranal Observatory Home Page (ESO)

Paris-Meudon-Nancay Observatory

The Parkes Observatory (Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO)

Perkins Observatory (Ohio Wesleyan University)

Peyton Hall (Princeton Astrophysics)

Pierre Auger Observatory

Pises Observatory (France)

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (Rosman, NC)

PPARC Astronomy Programme (UK)

Proposal: The Neural Network Telescope (Ibrahim Semiz, astro-ph/0611027, 2 Nov 2006)

Purple Crow Lidar (University of Western Ontario)

Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis

RadioNet: Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe

RAL Astrophysics Starlink Node (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

The RCT Consortium (Kitt Peak)

Red Butte Observatory, Wyoming

Review of USAF-Supported Astronomical Research: Letter Report (Steven M. Kahn et al., US National Research Council, 6 Jul 2004)

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

The Royal Observatory Greenwich

Rutgers Astrophysics (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

SAO Telescope Data Center (Douglas J. Mink)

SARA: The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
(Tucson, Arizona)

Science from the Poles: South Pole Telescope
(The Exploratorium, San Francisco)

SCUBA Home Page (Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array)

SDSS Image Gallery: Telescope Photos (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)

The 2nd Coolest Observatory in the World (in Chile) (Michael Shermer, Skepticblog, 30 Jun 2009)

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory

SISSA Astrophysical Research (Trieste)

SKA Home Page (Square Kilometre Array)

-- Germany pulls back from international mega-telescope project (Richard Van Noorden, Nature News Blog, 9 Jun 2014)

SKAI Home Page (Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy)

SKA (Square Kilometre Array) South Africa

SKA 2002 (Groningen, Netherlands, 13-15 Aug 2002)

The SkyMapper Telescope (ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Sliding Spring Observatory (Australian National Observatory)

SMARTS (Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System) Consortium (Yale University)

The SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) Homepage
(SNOI, Queen's University at Kingston)

Solar Two X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Group

South African Astronomical Observatory

Southampton University Astronomy Group (Mike Merrifield)

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

Southern African Large Telescope (South African Astronomical Observatory)

The South Pole Telescope at the Center for Cosmological Physics
(University of Chicago)

The South Pole 10m Submillimeter-wave Telescope (SPST)

-- South Pole Telescope Provides New Insights Into Dark Energy and Neutrinos (US National Science Foundation Press Release 12-066, 2 Apr 2012)

SPIFI: The South Pole Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer
(Thomas Nikola, Submillimeter Astrophysics at Cornell)

Square Kilometer Array (SKA, Jodrell Bank)

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Home Page
(Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Calgary)

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Telescope (Australia Telescope National Facility)

Sternberg Astronomical Institute

Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory (Anna Rosa Lampis et al.)

Steward Observatory 12 Meter Telescope

Strange Neutrinos from the Sun Detected for the First Time (Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 27 Aug 2014)

-- Neutrinos spotted from Sun's main nuclear reaction (Ken Crosswell, Physics World, 27 Aug 2014)

Subaru Telescope, NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan )

The Submillimeter Array (SMA Mauna Kea)

Submillimeter Wave Astrophysics at Caltech

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - SNO (Laurentian University)

Super-Kamiokande at UC Irvine

Super-Kamiokande Official Home Page (Kamioka Observatory)

Super-Kamiokande: U.S. Collaboration Home Page
(R. J. Wilkes & H. G. Berns)

-- Japanese Mirror

Super-K at Boston U.

Sydney Observatory - Powerhouse Museum

Szeged Observatory, Hungary

TASCA Tololo All Sky Camera

The Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP)

The Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) Project (Caltech Astronomy)

Thirty Meter Telescope (Gary H. Sanders, TMT Project Manager)

--- Thirty Meter Telescope Selects Mauna Kea (Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy/California Institute of Technology/University of California, 21 Jul 2009)

-- A Megascope for Hawaii (Ivan Semeniuk's Embedded Universe, Sky & Telescope Blog, 30 Jul 2009)

-- Work Begins on Thirty Meter Telescope (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope, 10 Oct 2014)

Thirty Meter Telescope Project Pages (Caltech Astronomy)

Thirty Metre Telescope, Canadian Aspects of the
(Ray Carlberg, University of Toronto)

24-armed Giant [KMOS] to Probe Early Lives of Galaxies (ESO Release eso1251, 12 Dec 2012)

UBC Liquid-Mirror Home Page (University of British Columbia)

The UBC Liquid-Mirror Observatory

UCLA Physics & Astronomy

UCO/Lick Observatory (University of California)

UC Santa Barbara Astrophysics Home Page

UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility (Stephan Rosswog et al., Theoretical Astrophysics Group, University of Leicester)

The UK 4x4-m Liquid Mirror Telescopes Project

UKIRT | United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (Mauna Kea)

UK Schmidt Telescope Unit (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

United States Gemini Program

University of Alabama Astronomy Home Page (Bill Keel)

The University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory

University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy (Richard Wainscoat)

University of Michigan Department of Astronomy

The University of Michigan Detroit Observatory
(dir. Patricia S. Whitesell)

University of St. Andrews Astronomy Group Home Page

University of Toronto Astronomy Department (Marlene Cummins)

The University of Washington Astronomy Department
(Luis Mendoza)

USAFA Astronomy Home Page

USNO: The United States Naval Observatory

-- USNO Astronomical Applications Department

USNO AC 2000 Home Page

USNO Flagstaff Station

USNO Library

US SKA (U.S. Square Kilometer Array Consortium, MIT)

UT Astronomy - Research (University of Texas at Austin)

UVic Astronomy: A Window to the World Beyond
(University of Victoria, BC)

-- The Astro Gang

Van Vleck Observatory (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)

Vatican Observatory (Chris Corbally)

VELA (Observational Astrophysics Group, Liège)

-- Telescopes and Instrumentation

VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System)

VERITAS at the University of Chicago

The Very Large Array (NRAO Socorro)

The Very Large Telescope (ESO)

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer - VLTI (ESO)

The Very Large Telescope Project (ESO)

-- The Perfect Science Machine (ESO 16/08 - Organisation Release, 27 May 2008)

Very Long Baseline Array (NRAO Socorro)

VIMOS | VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph (VLT)

VISIR | VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid Infra Red
(Pierre-Olivier Lagage et al., ESO)

The VISTA telescope (ESO)

VISTA - Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (ESO)

-- Images of VISTA (PPARC)

-- VISTA: Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work (ESO 49/09 - Organisation Release, 11 Dec 2009)

VLOT - Very Large Optical Telescope
(Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

VLOT - The Very Large Optical Telescope for Canada
(Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

VLT Information (ESO Very Large Telescope)

VST: VLT Survey Telescope

-- First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope (eso1119 Press Release, 8 Jun 2011)

Wake Forest Astronomy (Mathew Binkley)

Watch Out: 15 Eerie Abandoned Observatories (WebUrbanist, 8 Jul 2013)

WFCAM Home Page (Wide Field Infrared Camera for UKIRT)

A Wide-Field 8 meter Telescope for Canadians
(Ray Carlberg, Proposal to the LRPP, 9 Mar 1999)

Wilhelm-Foerster Observatory and Planetarium (Berlin)

Williams College Astronomy (Williamstown, Maine)

WIRO | Wyoming InfraRed Observatory

WIYN 3.5m Observatory (Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO)

W.M. Keck Observatory

-- Keck Interferometer (Planet Quest)

-- W. M. Keck Observatory News

Woodlands Observatory Home Page (Adelaide)

Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago

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