Welcome to the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
World Wide Web server.

From here you can find out about:

• the new JCMT home page;
• the new UKIRT home page (important news re: the port of the CGS4 data reduction system to Unix);
• the Edinburgh Astronomy Seminars (ROE/IfA) for Spring Term 1995;
• research opportunities at the Institute for Astronomy (University of Edinburgh);
• news items specific to ROE;
• recent research results (ROE E-prints);
• the latest news and pictures from the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia, and the SuperCOSMOS plate digitising facility in Edinburgh;
• The COSMOS/UKST catalogue of the southern sky (under development);
• the status of the Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project;
• library facilities at ROE, including the famous Crawford collection;
• the on-line ROE library catalogue (use password `library');
• a huge selection of colourful astronomical images from ROE Photolabs, together with instructions on how to obtain high-quality prints, and a new collection of mugshots of ROE/IfA staff and students;
• computing facilities at ROE;
• opening hours and news regarding the ROE Visitor's Centre;
• other astronomy home pages;
• the Starlink home page;
• the Starlink News system (c.f. the VMS NEWS facility);
• the Starlink Jobs News system (c.f. the VMS JOBSNEWS facility);
• astronomy-related resources on the WWW and the Internet;
• ROE/IfA personal home pages.

Our server currently copes with up to 10,000 requests for information each week, from over 50 countries.

Royal Observatory     Phone: +44-131-668-8100
Blackford Hill        Fax  : +44-131-662-1668
Edinburgh             Email: username@roe.ac.uk
EH9 3HJ                      (e.g. R.Ivison@roe.ac.uk
Scotland                           or   rji@roe.ac.uk)

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