ORLA = Online Resources for the Layman Astronomer

This is my personal annotated page where I collect my top interesting sites.

Institutes :

Astronomy Departments
BdL
CNES
NGST
University of Maryland
UCSC
UVa
Argonne National Laboratory
Rutgers University
CFA
meetings
VLT
Sonneberg Observatory
Geneva Observatory
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
SIM
AJ office
NASA IR Science Archive
Denis
Catania
CfA
USNO
USNO Flagstaff
COSPAR
ASPS
Carlsberg Meridian Circle
Dutch Open Telescope
Nordic Optical Telescope
Swedish Solar Telescope
Isaac Newton Telescope
Galileo National Telescope
HEGRA
SALT
undergraduate programs
graduate programs
6df
Telescope data center
AVO
PDPP WG
Mount Wilson archive
Penn State
Sydney Observatory
Helsinki Observatory
Astrophysics at ESA
Minor Planet Center
Rutgers
Bureau des longitudes
Indiana
IAP
JPL
JHU
ENSTA
McDonald Observatory
Icomos
LPP
NexScI
NOAO
Yerkes observatory

Astronomy Links :

Information services
NASA Astrophysics Data System Mirror
ADS Query Form
WEBDA
Recherche thematique: Sciences & Technologies/Astronomie & Astrophysique
AstroWeb
Astronomy courses
High-school courses
College courses
Brown University
IJW International Jupiter Watch
IBVS Bulletin of Variable stars
Pluto Pluto as a transneptunian object
Astrobrowse
nearby open clusters
NEAR
recent publications
PEERS
IERS
Virtual Observatory
astrovirtel
Planet Quest
Mapmuse
exoplanets
astronet
spectra
T-Tauri stars
variable stars
project Pluto
astronomy on the web
callisto
History links
astronomy center
astronomy cafe
open directory
personal pages
websites
links
MPE History resources
space links
stars
library map resources
Constellations
star names
encyclopedia
AAVSO
RASNZ
ASSA
AAQ
IYA 2009
IAU
SkyNode
ConeSearch
ReStar
SDSS
SkyMapper
LBT
OTA
Gould's Belt Legacy
Skymaps
Lyot
NYU
OLBIN
LQAC
SKA
bad astronomy
CNFGG
IRMA

Software :

Astronomy software servers
Astrostatistics
PAS Physics Academic Software
NAG
WaveLab
Wavelet Digest
wavelets
Amara's wavelets
Reproducible Documents
MATLAB
XML
Math Markup Language
Xlink
RDF
ADC XML
star charts
gnuplot
cfa
enginering
physics
nuclear physics
math
demo
doc
gnu org
Wolfram
Wolframalpha
MISAO
celestrak
winjupos
Uranus
JPL
sighting
heavens above
space track
satobs
nvo
history
Arpanet
isoc
internet
Astrometry
computer-aided astronomy

Query form request :

ESO form
catalogs
ARIBIB
ARICNS
DSS
astro-ph
enrollments and degrees report
RAS archive
maps
google earth
VLBI images
Orion
stargazing
Ciel
Celestia
stellarium
wikisky
redshift
exoplanet
HLA
NSTED
Pheura2007
Phemu2009
SCID

A nice view of Mother Galaxy :

The Milky Way

Multi-wavelength sky surveys :

sky survey projects
SKY SURVEYS and CATALOGUES
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
AAO/UKST H alpha survey
Global Plane Survey
OBSS
Pan-STARRS
ps1
SDSS
SIM
SST
VISTA
WISE
GAIA
moving groups
open clusters
Neptune
GLIMPSE
Pan-starrs
eros
ogle
Barnard
LSST
RAVE
MCELS
IPHAS
Pann-starrs consortium
ESO public surveys
VST telescope
Omegacam
Wide Field Unit
Spitzer
GNAT
VST
selected links
selected links
selected links
SMUDGES
SkyMapper
SEGUE

Bookseller services :

Arnold
Kluwer
Springer
IOP
Elsevier
Chapman and Hall
Cambridge University Press
University of Arizona Press
BIDS
NISS
BRO Books and Reviews Online
Articles in Physics
Gordon and Breach
Best com
Academic Press
Academic Press Ltd
Baltzer Science Publishers
College Physics books
Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Institute of Physics
Copernicus
Lavoisier
Berkelouw
Spektrum
Harcourt Brace College Publishing
EDP
NYU Press
Technip
World Scientific
MIT Press
AMS bookstore
Wadsworth
Dawson
Taylor and Francis
McMillan
EiQ
Annual Reviews
O'Reilly
Princeton University Press
Cepadues
Oxford University Press
Harri Deutsch Verlag
Ellipses
EDP
Editions Gabay
Antiquar Renner
Universal Academy Press
Vieweg
Prentice Hall Europe
Schulz, Freiburg i. Brisgau
National Academy Press
Ellipses
Burillier Editions
Paragraphe
Gallica
Cavendish press
W.H. Freeman
Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes
ENSMP
Birkhauser
Books Agency
history
rare books
Hermes
CNRS Editions
bookworld
Heffers
google
Schiklerart
Amazon
bedilib
calvage-et-mounet
justbooks
encyclopedia of Astronomy
antique maps
alibris
DUNOD
EdiScience
Altea Gallery
Antiquariat Struck
Antiquariat Berg
The Antiquarium
Antique Maps
George Glazer Gallery
Gowrie Galleries
Iris antiques
Potter antiques
Le Bail-Weissert
Antiquaria Perini
Old Maps
Map House
Martayan Lan
Murray Hudson
Old Print Shop
Philadelphia Shop
Putnam Antique
Tim Bryars
Arader Galleries
Antiquariaat Plantijn
Anybook
zubal
ENSMP
Dissertation

Professional societies :

AAS
DDA
ASP
AG
IAG
SPIE
AIAA
OSA
AMS
IEEE
SIAM
AIP
Computer Society
New York Academy of Sciences
SF2A
PEERS
SETI league
ET phone home
SETI
BETA
SERENDIP
BAMBI
Optical Seti
Adagio
IAU comm.8
Cartographic Society
California
Map's collectors
Map Society
SFP
SFC
SMF

Learning centers :

High Energy Astrophysics
Planetary Rings
Radio-Pulsar
Theoretical astrophysics
Fluid Dynamics
Relativity
High Energy Physics
HEPICs
Physics abstracts
Earth images
Earth sciences
Ocean sciences
Earth sciences resources
COBE
Iridium constellation
Satellite constellations
Astronautics and spacecraft design
SNR 1006 in X rays
Physics Lab Tour Guide
PPARC
X-ray emission
CoDAS web
SOHO
Kitty Hawk flies Mars
ALPO
AERO leonids
IMO leonids
leonids
Spinning stardust into planets
Eclipses
Solar corona
CNAM
Clear Skies
Molecules
Converter
Green Flashes
Star of the Week
Moon explorers
Star Lore
Universe Today
Newtonian Mechanics
Visualization Group
Starburst 99
Eddington
planetquest
SuperNovae
Astrometry Hall
Astronomy courses in the US
skyGX
Heavenly math.
CLEA
standard candles
Cepheids
distance scale
galaxies
pulsating stars
variables
PMS
stellar evolution
Cepheids
galaxy
home galaxy
H-R
HST story
Old World
Map auction
LSST SRD
LSST
Cassini
Cornell
Galaxy Zoo
Histoire de la Physique
OHP
OAS
astronomy
astronomy place
mastering astronomy
Paris Tech
GeoStat
Astrometry
Interferometry
Images
RECONS
HAL
VLTI
galileoscope
dark skies
LF model
Astronomy and Philosophy
Space photos

Mathematical activities :

level set maths
Maths
archives
Math. search
Mega-Math.
Math. Tutor
Mathlab scientific portal
Mathlab complementary products
Math archives
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
math. lectures
jussieu
central black hole
E8
Lie
MV 2009

Geosciences :

geosciences
gis
earth science data
ORES
IAG
Center for Space Research
ISES
Living earth
Earth and Moon viewer
Mars Global Surveyor
High Resolution Imagery
Public Eye
environment
Topography
Mother Earth
GPS
GPS info
IGN
NGI
SHOM
ENSG
USAF
Coast Guard
NOAA
international service
Boulder
USGS
tools
maporama
RTCM
nmea
Vancouver
ENVISAT
geoportail
VSOHP
Cartography
Acronyms

Java-based interactive data analysis :

Voronoi diagrams, Delaunay triangulations
Kiohonene SOFM
minimal spanning tree
Direct Least Square Fitting of ellipses
Coordinate mapping
demos
DORUS
astrolinks
Statcodes
Kalman filter
curves and surfaces
ATNF
GeoAstro applets

Professional newspapers :

AJ
AJ new home
ApJ
PASP
Computer in Physics
New Scientist
Nature
Astronomy
SIAM publications
SIAM recent papers
JHEP
CSIRO Publications
Chaos
ESO libray catalog
Electronic journals
Astron Astrophys.
Astron Astrophys. Supp.
Astron. J.
ApJ
MNRAS
PASP
Australian Journal of Physiscs
Europhysics News
IAU Circulars
New Astronomy
PASA
Applied OPtics
Bulletin of the atomic scientists
Computers in Physics
JOSA A
JOSA B
Nouvelle revue d'optique
Measurement and Trechnology
Optics letters
Physical Review Letters
Pure and applied Optics
Reports on progress in Physics
Review of scientific instruments
Reviews of modern Physics
Waves in random media
ISAS preprint archive of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sterne und Weltraum
Palomar testbed interferometer
New Journal of Physics
Urania
Newsletter
SCYON
Science magazine
STScI Newsletter
Revista mexicana
Acta historica astronomiae
The cartographic Journal
IMCoS
MapForum
The Portolan
le mensuel

Animation :

GIF animation
Clip2Gif animated GIFs
Virtual Laboratory A Goldmine
Virtual experiments pedagogical value
an example of Virtual Lab
instructions
demo
VQM Visual Quantum Mechanics
VRI Virtual Radio Interferometer

Search engines :

AMASE
Astrobrowse
IMPReSS
National Undergraduate Research Observatory
POSS I plate scans
POSS I calibrated database
Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy
WISARD
Hypatia
Centre de Ressources Universitaires
yahoo-Astronomy
galaxy
AMASE
Google
Blackle
All the web
webhelp
scirus
Yahoo
Altavista
Dejanews
Dogpile
Excite
Hotbot
Infoseek
Looksmart
Lycos
Search.com
Webcrawler
google earth
gSky

Satellite Tracking :

NSSDC Query form
Obitessa web site
Florida Today space online
Satellite tracking
Sat Spy
Sat Track
Shuttle tracking
GSFC orbital data
satellite tracking
NASA spacelinks
Iridium
spacewarn
SKYSAT
visual satellites
SOR=satellite observer resources
Georgia State University predict serie
USSC
Brian Well
leonids
IMO
GSOC
INMARSAT
ISS visibility
J-Track
MIR reentry

Various Sites :

Yellow Pages
La Poste
Open University Press
ORSTOM
Council of Europe
National Institute for Discovery Science
NCGIA National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
CNIG Centre d'information geographique
CNAP Comite National d'Astronomie
AWiSE
UREC
CNES
CIES
NSF
FnAK
NDSEG
HAR
linkexchange
project colony
ISI
SIM
SDAC
TGB
weather forecast in Strasbourg
Indoex
Bougainville
OLE
CNES
ARIANESPACE
ESRIN
A. Goodman
Living with a star
SOHO
Travels
Nine Planets
Picture of the Day
Moon
Que Tal
Heavens
Lunar and planetary observations
geocities
resource guide for space
Spaceflights
bizarre happenings
News
Safaris
CIAL
Photos
rent-a-home
PICS France-Australie
HCR
musterrolls
photo1
Astronomy photos
Astronomy stock images
banque d'images
photo
BBC
Harvard library
Rhine valley
Air France
Herbier
Metro
Strascity
Alsace
Strasbourg
infos geo
hobsons
Financial Times
MBA
CGE
guide lamy
Erasmus Mundus
masters
enseignement supérieur
MEN
MEN
CoreIndex

Coming Workshops :

Astrometry of next generation of large telescopes
THAPA
Forum stellaire
Working on the Fringe
Physique et dynamique des systemes
Gordon Research Conference
Supercomputer
Goutelas
GAIA
Solar Research
Astrochemistry
Stellar clusters and associations
Galaxy disks
Darwin
Pacific Rim conference
KDD
Darwin
Dynamics
IAU 180
Tetons 4
Disks
IAU GA 2000
wide field astronomy
galaxy evolution
GAIA 2002
Bubbles
Eddington
D'Alembert
Kapteyn
VO in Sofia
island universes
StscI May symp.
communicating
Astrometric education
SIM astrometry
Statistical problems
Non extensive systems
stellar dynamics
planet-disc connection
Formation and evolution of galaxy disks
Hydrodynamics of young circumstellar disks
Canaries winter school
IAU 248 meeting
ION
ASMDA
RCMRD
Cyber
ASA 2007
IAU 254
IAU 258
PARI
list of meetings
semantic
IAU 252
MW Star Formation
GSD2008
Astronet
classification
SSSW
Dynamics of discs and planets
MASH
Potsdam thinshop
Great08
Cosmologie
WII09
VLBI2009
towards other earths
women in astronomy
MW2009
Chandra
dynamics
IAUS 272
ADA 6
Disc galaxies
Gaia 2010
Milky Way

Travels:

EZTrip.com Hotels-Cars-Flights
BT online
the trip
traveler
change currency
frommer's
Yemen
Yemen Explorer Tours
TGB
Cash and Go
Any Way
flea market
consulat francais
Travelprice
roadmap
map
monuments
charts
Y2K
flights

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last update: April 15, 2010 A. Fresneau