Useful links

Databases

• Simbad Database
• Webda Open Cluster Database
• Atomic Line List v2.04
• NIST Atomic Spectra Database
• Kurucz Atomic Spectral Database
• NASA HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Database

Jobs

• Astronomy jobs around the world
• TIPTOP - Physics jobs online
• AAS Job Register

Journals

• Electronic Ap J
• Electronic A J
• Electronic Pub. ASP
• Electronic MNRAS via Blackwells-Synergy
• Electronic Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Adelaide mirror of LANL server
• LANL Astrophysics - Adelaide Mirror Site
• LANL site
• NASA ADS,
• PASA
• Science
• Nature
• IAU Circulars

Modelling

• stellar models and programs section.

Nucleosynthesis

• The SINs group webpage
• A Table of the Nuclides
• Working Group on Abundances in Red Giants

Observing

• Your Sky Plots a sky map of your location.
• SkyView - Virtual Observatory
• Catalogue of Messier Objects

Pictures

• Images taken with the AAT
• Pictures of Planetary Nebulae at the University of Oregon's Physics Department pages
• Earth Observatory
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Hubble gallery
• Chandra Image Gallery
• Spitzer Images
• ESO Images
• ESA Images
• SOHO Images

Solar System

• See the Solar System Simulator
• The Nine Planets - A multi-media tour of the Solar System

Telescopes

• The The Anglo Australian Observatory
• Gemini
• The Mt. Stromlo Observatory
• The Australia Telescope National Facility
• The Space Telescope Science Institute
• Parkes
• University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory (NZ)

Research Institutions

• International Centre for Scientific Research Including listings for Astro departments across the world.
• NASA Headquarters
• The Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University

Societies

• Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA)
• The Astronomical Society of Australia
• The American Astronomical Society
• The Royal Astronomical Society
• The SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• The Astronomical Society of Victoria
• The Astronomical Society of Melbourne

Solar stuff

• Online info about the Sun
• The official SOHO Site
• IPS
• GONG
• CSPA Sunquake Database

Travel

• Exchange rates
• Qantas
• World Time server

Communicating Science

• Brains Matter Science Podcasts.
• Science-writing and media-skills workshops

Other stuff

• Scirus.com, a scientific search engine
• Astronomical Glossary
• The MACHO Project (The hunt for dark matter)
• A Multi-media ``textbook'' on Stellar Evolution
• Glossary of Statistical Terms
• Windows to the Universe (Basic science - designed for kids, but great for everyone!