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What's New With MSSSO's Web

This document covers recent changes and additions that have been made to the Stromlo Web service. New resources and interesting additions are made to the list as I think of them, or discover their existence -- send suggestions to webmaster@mso.anu.edu.au.

11 September 1995
Rearranged all the main pages!

6 September 1995
Visit the Endeavour page.

15 August 1995
Added August Telephone Directory, including a table version.

14 July 1995
The Spring 1995 observing schedule is now available.

12 July 1995
Added link to the home page for the Heron Island Workshop on Peculiar Velocities in the Universe.

23 January 1995
The Stromlo Weekly Bulletin is available under administration on our Web Server.

9 January 1995
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer
Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
This server provides information about the near infrared camera and multi-object spectrometer (NICMOS), a second-generation instrument to be installed on the Hubble space telescope during the February 1997 on-orbit servicing mission. NICMOS will provide infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets between 0.8-2.5 microns.

13 December 1994
Theoretical Isochrones from Models with New Radiative Opacities
Astronomical Observatory, Padova, Italy
The large grid of theoretical isochrones of the Padova Stellar Evolution group is now available via the WWW server of the Astronomical Observatory of Padova. These isochrones are derived for various chemical compositions from stellar models computed with the recent radiative opacities by Iglesias et al. (1992).

August 16, 1994
The SL9 book project at Cambridge University Press are looking for photos for inclusion.

August 10, 1994
The MACHO team have their home page up and running.

July 20, 1994
Chris Benn's E-mail directory for astronomers has been updated. The e-mail addresses have also been wais-indexed. The index can be searched, and a link to it is available through the MSSSO Computing page. This is only the index to the e-mail addresses and does not include the institutional address nor the postal addresses.

July 4, 1994
The Gemini 8m Telescopes Project is pleased to announce the availability of their WWW server. The Gemini Project is an international project to build two telescopes, one on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the other on Cerro Pachon, Chile. The scientific goal of these telescopes is to produce near-diffraction- limited images at infrared wavelengths.

The AAO are pleased to announce their arrival on the WWW scene.

May 23, 1994
The Local User Notes (LUN), Local System Notes (LSN), Local General Papers (LGP) and Local User Guide (LUG) are all available as HTML files under computing on our Web Server.

May 9, 1994
The Bologna Astronomical Observatory is pleased to announce his WWW Server. The server includes also informations on his telescopes , and on the Department of Astronomy of Bologna University , and on the Museo della Specola (Museum of Astronomy). It offers also to various astronomical WWW servers.

April 5, 1994
Discovery images of supernova 1992bu in NGC 3690 are now available. This supernova was discovered during our 2-micron search for supernovae in starburst galaxies here at IPAC.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite Data Analysis Center (IUEDAC) is pleased to announce the availability of the IUEDAC Homepage . This homepage contains information about the IUEDAC, provides access to IUE data analysis software and documentation, as well as access to information and services provided by both other NASA Astrophysics projects and ground based observatories.

March 30, 1994
The 1.2 Meter Southern Columbia Millimeter Telescope (SCMT) at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) proudly presents its new WWW server. Even though pages are still under construction, you are more than welcome to browse through them. You'll find information on one of the world's smallest radiotelescopes as well as access to some nice other sites.

March 25, 1994
The University of Warsaw Observatory, one of the participants in OGLE (Optical Gravitation Lens Experiment), has made their results available via WWW. Just connect to the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory and look for the "OGLE" section on that home page. You can read a description of the experiment, see light curves of each of the six events (yup, a new one found last week) detected so far, and even display before/during pictures of the field around each lens candidate.

The Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team announces a WWW home page. See how astrometry, one of the oldest branches of astronomy, uses the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the newest tools of astronomy. Interrogate our home page to find out what we do, who we are, and what we've done. Look over our shoulder as we search for planets around a nearby star.

The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope, has a new WWW home page.

Following an agreement with the Editors of Astronomy & Astrophysics, the CDS, Strasbourg provides access to the abstracts from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, starting January 1994. These abstracts are made available to the CDS, by the Publisher (Editions de Physique), approximately four weeks before the publication of the corresponding issue.
January to April 1994 issues of A&AS are currently available.
Access is by keyword, author's name, or chronological order.

March 7, 1994
SkyView, an astronomical image retrieval facility at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is now on-line through the Web. SkyView lets astronomers see what the universe looks like at wavelengths running from the radio through the X-ray. Want to see what the sky looks like in the infrared? in radio? Come and find out.

The Department of Astronomy at New Mexico State University is now wired in to the World Wide Web. We are serving information about the Department's people, facilities, and research and educational activities to the Internet community.

A WWW information server for the 3 November 1994 Total Solar Eclipse is now available. Umbraphiles and eclipse chasers can find maps, charts, tables, meteorological information, ephemerides, local circumstances and other data related to the next total solar eclipse.

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) is now on the World-Wide Web. IPAC exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks as part of NASA's infrared astronomy program and to provide scientific and technical expertise on those projects to the astronomical research community. IPAC is part of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

February 24, 1994
STARLINK now have a WWW server.

February 23, 1994
The Astronomical Observatory of Padova has set up an experimental WWW server. Through this server you can reach the Astronet network which connects most of the italian Astronomical Institutes. Some of these nodes are WWW servers themselves.

February 22, 1994
The Space Shuttle Small Payloads Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has a new Web server which provides information and graphics for those interested in the "Hitchhiker" and "Get Away Special" (GAS) payload programs. Learn how your organization can fly its own experimental payload on the Shuttle.

The Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of Calgary is now on-line with its WWW home-page. The document includes information on a proposed high-resolution survey of galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (HI), documentation on user support software for the Russian Space VLBI project RadioAstron, information on graduate studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and a pointer to the University of Calgary's gopher server.

The University of Southampton Astronomy Group now provides an index of recent International Astronomical Union (IAU) telegrams. To avoid breaching the copyright on the circulars, the full text of the telegrams is only available locally. However, if you have your own legitimate source for these documents then this search tool will tell you which telegrams to look in for news on particular astronomical objects and events.

The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program now has Greek letters in place in their pages. A tar file containing these transparent bitmaps is available. If you haven't been there in a while, much has happened. Look in on their What's New Page.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has a new WWW server online. The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory to pursue studies in astronomy and astrophysics. Information about the research activities at the center, its facilities and achievements is available. Also soon available on the server the CfA preprint series and astronomical catalogs and images.

February 17, 1994
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) now has its Abstract Service available via WWW. It provides access to currently about 160,000 Astronomy and Astrophysics abstracts with a sophisticated searching system. Using Lynx, this now also provides access to this service from character based terminals. More information about this service is available in the Abstract Service Help Pages.

The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's Facilty Manual is now online. DAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Rsearch Council of Canada. The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is a group within the DAO which is responsible for the Canadian archive of data from the Hubble Space Telescope as well the archive of data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. You might also want to check out the DAO Virtual Library.

The Space Data and Computing Divison of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center now has a Web server. This server provides access to information about the NASA Center for Computational Sciences, the most active UniTree mass storage site in the world, the HPCC Earth and Space Science Applications Project, a project is to accelerate the application of high performance technologies to meet the Grand Challenge computational needs of the U.S. Earth and space science community, and NASA's Digital Library Technology Project, a project to support the development of new technologies to facilitate public access to NASA data.

February 11, 1994
The NASA Internet Connection provides links to NASA's Webs, Gophers, FTPs, WAISes, and Telnets by protocal/organization. This is to complement the already available NASA subject trees such as the NASA Information Sources by Subject page.

February 9, 1994
The University of Rochester's Near Infrared Astronomy Group has a new WWW server available.

The NASA Planetary Data System Infrared Subnode is now online. It will contain information about Infrared spectroscopy from both laboratory and remotely sensed (satellite/aircraft) sources. Currently online is the Mariner 9 Infrared Spectrometer (IRIS) data set.

The NASA - Kennedy Space Center WWW server is now online. You can take a tour of various Facilities at the Kennedy Space Center or find information on Every Shuttle Mission ever Launched including information about the STS-60 Shuttle Mission currently on orbit. Detailed hypertexed information about the Shuttle is also online in the form of the Shuttle Reference Manual or you can WAIS search for many Space related topics.

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, HEASARC, at NASA/GSFC can be accessed through the WWW. The HEASARC server allows access to a vast selection of data from X-ray and Gamma-ray astronomy missions including ROSAT, ASCA, Compton GRO, Einstein and EXOSAT. There is a beta-release astronomical forms interface to the HEASARC database management system, which allows browsing of various astronomical catalogs and archival datafiles. Best results can be obtained by following the configuration instructions, and by using NCSA's Mosaic ver 2.x, for forms support.

Einstein was a NASA X-ray astronomy satellite which flew from 1978 to 1981. Einstein data, and X-ray images of galaxies, stars and supernova remnants are available from the Einstein Data Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 27, 1994
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory homepage is now publicly accessible. DRAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. The observatory instruments are particulary suited to comprehensive studies of the interstellar environment, extended Galactic nebulae and star-forming regions, and of nearby galaxies.

January 14, 1994
The AXAF Science Center (ASC) is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The purpose of the ASC is to provide the support required by the science community to fully realize the potential of of the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics facility (AXAF) , a satellite due to be launched by NASA in 1998.

December 22, 1993
The The American Astronomical Society now has a World Wide Web server running. It contains information on the Society, meeting schedules, meeting abstracts (in HTML), staff directory and an HTML version of the AAS Job Register.

An incredible forms-based (but not required) archie gateway has been written by Guy Brooker, guy@jw.estec.esa.nl, for CGI compliant servers. It's similar to the ArchiePlex package by Martijn Koster. A demonstration of its function can be found here. It's a must see.

The Web server at Cambridge Astronomy has been extensively revised, with new home pages for the constituent organisations: the Institute of Astronomy, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. New services include Dave Green's Catalogue of Supernova Remnants, and a series of General Astronomy leaflets produced by the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

December 20, 1993
NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. This server provides access to PDS catalogs and on-line systems, the Planetary Science Data Dictionary, and other PDS information.

A new Web server is online at the National Solar Observatory facilities at Sac Peak, in New Mexico. The server has observatory use policies, ftp access, an exhibit, technical documents. In the future, the server will help manage, organize, and present the observatory resources and research.

The CDS (Centre de Donnes astronomiques de Strasbourg, France) is opening a public World Wide Web service. The CDS is a data center dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data. It is located at the Observatoire de Strasbourg, France. The CDS hosts the SIMBAD astronomical database, the world reference database for the identification of astronomical objects. Their Web service gives access to documents and files related to the SIMBAD astronomical database, the TOPBase of the Opacity project, the Star*s Family of directories, etc. It also includes a new feature allowing to select astronomical catalogues by keyword or author's name, among the library of more than 600 catalogues currently available (for a total of about 3 gigabytes of observational data), and to actually retrieve the corresponding files.

A Web server is up for the United Kingdom/Canada/Netherlands Joint Astronomy Centre in Hilo, Hawaii. The user guides for the 3.5-metre United Kingdom Infrared Telescope and the 15-metre James Clerk Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope are now online, with other documentation to follow.

November 5, 1993
The European Space Information System project, located at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy in the Information Systems Division of the European Space Agency is a service to the Astronomical and Space Physics communities to provide access to data of all kinds, including images, spectra from a number of space missions. A comprehensive bibliographic reference from all the major Astronomical and Space Physics journals is also available on-line.

October 27, 1993
A server designed to show how Mosaic can be used as a front end into a very distributed astronomy image archive is now online at the National Solar Observatory, courtesy Jim Fullton (CNIDR).

October 25, 1993
A new Web server is running at the Center for EUV Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley. The Center supports the Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) satellite.

October 5, 1993
There is now a Web server at the NASA Lewis Research Center.

A Web server is now available for information pertaining to the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The ADS is a distributed processing software which provides its users with access to over 190 astronomical catalogs and approximately 125,000 astronomical abstracts. It also provides direct access to the HEASARC Browse tool, NSSDC's Online Data and Information Service (NODIS), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), and access to SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data).

A new Web server is up and running at the Astronomy Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

September 23, 1993
A new Web server at the Institute of Astronomy and Royal Greenwich Observatory, located in Cambridge UK, is now up.

September 14, 1993
A Preliminary IRAF home page is here.

August 31, 1993
Information and abstracts for the upcoming Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems '93 conference are now on the Web.

A new Web server is up at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. It includes information on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and more.

NASA Langley Research Center is running a Web server here; their intention is to collect as much NASA related information together as possible.

August 26, 1993
A prototype preprint is here.

The Spring 1993 observing schedule is here, together with links to a postscript copy, and the time application form.


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