Welcome to our collection of potentially useful weblinks. Knowing where to find which information within the world wide web may save a lot of time. Thus, a collection of links on a web site might turn out to be one of the most useful pages, although often unnoticed.
University
- Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Faculty of Sciences
- Physics Department
Journals
- Astronmy & Astrophysics
- Astrophysical Journal
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Astronomer’s Telegram (ATel)
- arXiv astrophysics (astro-ph, de mirror)
- Science
- Nature
Abstract services
i.e., literature databases
Astronomical catalogs and databases
- Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) – collection of astronomical data and services
- Simbad – star and object catalog
- NED – NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
- HEASARC – NASA archive of high energy observations
- ESASky – ESA interactive sky and data archive
- ESO archive of UV- and IR-objects
- NASA/IPAC IRSA – IR science archive
- INTEGRAL 9-year Galactic Survey – hard X-ray sky map and data
- AtomdDB – atomic data for astrophysics
- Nuclear Data Center at KAERI – tables of nucleids, decay diagrams, …
Sky monitoring
- Swift-BAT hard X-ray transient monitor
- MAXI soft X-ray monitor
- Fermi GBM Pulsar Project
- BeXRB monitor
- NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
- live weather map
Observatories
Optical
X-ray/γ-ray
Astronomical societies
- Astronomische Gesellschaft
- American Astronomical Society
- Förderverein der Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte e.V.
Useful tools
- Remeis Wiki – Our own collection of information
- Wikisky – interactive sky map
- Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
- CalSKY – forecast of several astronomical events
- Detexify – interactive TeX-symbol identifier
- Regular Expression Tester
- CPAN – Perl-library database