Observing Related Stuff

This page contains links to information about a couple observatories I've used and a couple other interesting ones. There are also links here useful for observing standard stars.

Observatories

NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

Mauna Kea and its Telescopes

Wyoming Infrared Observatory - check it out while you still can...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

JPL Solar System Dynamics - A great tool to get planetary ephemerides in HTML format (Don't leave home without it!)

Standards information

NASA ADS Abstract Service

Simbad Query Form u1398uri/pahwfmje

Bright infrared Standard Stars

Flux density for VEGA

The "Faint" Elias Standard Stars

Data reduction related links

RSI's Home Page - the creators of IDL

The IDL Astronomy User's Library and its Contents

LANL IDL Home Page

JHU/APL/S1R - this is stuff from Ray Sterner

Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming by David Fanning - if there is a god of IDL, he's it; well, he and J. D. Smith of Cornell University

IDL Software by David Windt

IRAF Support Services

Astronomy: Software - archive of links to various programs