Astronomy

Data Archives and Catalogs

While ground-based astronomical observations are usually archived by the observatories, a number of sites archive multiwavelength and space-based astronomical data:

Astronomical Catalogs
ADF - Astrophysics Data Facility
- ADC - Astronomical Data Center, a repository of astronomical catalogs
- ADS - Astrophysical Data System
- NDADS - NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service; search using WISARD
Atomic Data for Astrophysics
CDS - Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg
Clementine data from the NSSDC
COHO - Coordinated Heliospheric Observations Data
Copernicus
ELCAT - Planetary Nebula Emission Line Catalog
EUVE - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
GEM - Geospace Environment Modeling
HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
HST - Hubble Space Telescope archive
- Multi-Mission Archive
- HDF - Hubble Deep Field
- MDS - Medium Deep Survey
- The Ultra Deep Field
- GCS - Guide Star Catalog
- Digitized Sky Survey
- COSMOS (HST) survey
- StarView (distributed version)
- archive hotseat
IRAS - InfraRed Astronomy Satellite archive, Spitzer, etc.
- DIRBE Dust Maps
IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer
LEDA - Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database from Lyon Observatory
LEDAS - Leicester Database and Archive Service
MAST - Multimission Archive at STScI
- MAST Catalog Cross Correlation
NED - NASA Extragalactic Database (telnet access)
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center
- Includes a Space Science Education Page
Postage Stamp Image server
SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography of Astronomical Data (US mirror)
SkyCat
SkyView, a virtual observatory
Standard Stars
- spectrophotometric standards
Stellar Spectral Flux Library
- NOAO/Coude Feed Stellar Spectra
- Indo-US Coude Feed Library
- ELODIE Spectral Library
Surveys
- 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
- DSS - Digitized Sky Survey
  - DPOSS - The Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
  - STScI server
  - ESO server
- EIS - ESO Imaging Survey
- FIRST - Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters
- OSU Galaxy Survey
- SDSS - Sloan Digital Sky Survey
UIT - Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
USNO A1 Star Catalog

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Last modified: August 5, 2005 by J.Cohen