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.