For the latest additions see the What's New page, updated 13th April.

• Contact details for the group.
• Details of the members of the group, and personal home pages.
• Current local preprints.
• This terms remaining Univ. of Manchester Astronomy Seminars.
• Postgraduate courses offered.
• Starlink news.
• Details of this Starlink node. Next SLUG meeting : TBA

• The Hyperguide to Manchester (from Geology Dept.).
• The Manchester Web Pages commercial server in the city.

Starlink and Other Software

Includes access to the Starlink homepage and documentation. Also FITS, AIPS and IRAF information.

Starlink site list

Our neighbours :-

• Jodrell Bank
• UMIST

Main Index of Everything Astronomical on the Web

BIG list of observatories, astronomical institutions and data sources on the network.

Publication Searching

Use the Astrophysics Data System at the CfA to search journal abstracts.

Or the STELAR abstract database at NASA.

Also BIDS assuming you can remember our ID and password.

Electronic preprints database at SISSA - ISAS (Trieste).

Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal abstracts from current and future editions.

E-mail Addresses

Search the astronomical world e-mail database (supplied by Cambridge University).

Or for anyone, anywhere, try Netfind (enter the name and likely site or area into the window, for example Holloway Manchester UK.)

Jobs Register

Maintained by the A.A.S.

Conferences

A list maintained by the CFHT library.

National Astronomy Meeting 1995

Object and Catalogue Databases

Search for the vital statistics (RA,DEC,Mag,Redshift etc) of an object or patch of sky, including how to make finder charts.

ST-ECF / ESO Archive databases

Search the HST observations database, includes preview images.

HST-UK Support Facility

Local info on proposals, catalogues etc.

Observatories

For La Palma, the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Schedules and service time details.

From Epping, the Anglo-Australian Observatory.

Schedule.

Miscellaneous Astronomical Items.

• SL9/Jupiter Impact Images.
• Archives of the Comet SL9 - Jupiter collision from JPL.
• Missed the May 1994 partial solar eclipse? Watch a digitized film , from U.of Indiana.
• The latest HST images locally or from the STSCI press office.
• Salford Astronomy Society home page

What's new on the WWW

From NCSA, Netscape and Yahoo.

Reference Sources

provides a dictionary, thesaurus, German-English dictionary (and vice versa), software searching, catalogs of WWW pages, and the CIA World Factbook.

UK World Wide Web Map

A graphical index of all the sites in the UK with WWW pages, click to select.

UK WWW Directory

An alphabetical list of all WWW servers in the UK.

World-Wide World Wide Web Map

A global graphical index of WWW sites, click to select.

BBC Info Server

Including TV & Radio Listings, find out when 'The Sky at Night' is on. ;-)

Overseas Info

Weather Images

Current satellite weather images of the UK, Europe, Canary Islands and Australia.

Local Times

Around the world.

The GNN/Koblas Currency Converter

Check out the exchange rates.

Underground Navigator

Route planner for tube systems around the world.

Useful Information

Pearls of wisdom, and some computer tips.

Local Users

See who is logged on and load values on the main machines.

Server Information

Server Statistics

Updated hourly and weekly.