Welcome to the Southampton University Astronomy Group Home Page. This hypertext page is a collection of World Wide Web (WWW) links of use or interest to astronomers, and other information at the University of Southampton.

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Astronomical Information

Reference Search

provided by the Astrophysics Data System at the CfA to search astronomy periodical abstracts. You might also check out the ESIS bibliographical database.

Preprints and Papers

provides access to on-line copies of Southampton University preprints and other institutions' preprint databases.

Keyword search the I.A.U. telegrams archive

You can also examine the complete archive. (to avoid upsetting the I.A.U., the complete text of telegrams is only accessible from within the Southampton Astronomy group. Sorry.).

E-mail Addresses

Search a worldwide astronomical e-mail database (as supplied by GSFC). If this fails to turn up an address, you might try a search of Netfind for e-mail addresses (in the search window, type the name and approximate location of your quarry, such as Blandford Caltech Astronomy, and Netfind does the rest)

Up-coming Astronomy Conferences

A hypertext list maintained by the CFHT library.

AAS Job Register

This month's listing of astronomy jobs from the American Astronomical Society.

Starlink Services

WWW Pages concerning Starlink (including NEWS).

Astronomical Object and Observatory Databases

Search for the vital statistics of your favourite object or patch of sky.

Astronomical Software

Includes access to Starlink documentation, such as SUNs, etc..

Coded Aperture Imaging

An introduction to the gamma-ray imaging techniques employed in several of the hardware projects. in which Southampton Astronomy Group is involved.

Southampton University Information

Information about the astronomy group, and Southampton University as a whole.

Other Institutions and Observatories

From lists supplied by the WWW Virtual Library. We also have a shorter local list of astronomical institutions.

Other Resources

What's new on the WWW

Provides a list of what new wonders have appeared on the Web (now only available from the USA, so it's a bit slower).

CUSI index of almost everything

allows you to search for WWW pages on particular subjects, software on ftp sites, peoples' e-mail addresses, synonyms in Roget's Thesaurus, etc, etc...

Weather Images

Current satellite weather images and movies of the UK and its environs. (is it raining on your observing program in the Canary Islands?).

Worldwide WWW Information

accessed via a hypertext map, if ever you feel the urge to be a virtual tourist.

Cartoons:

Check out The Comic Strip for all your syndicated comic needs!

Dr Fun provides FarSide-esque entertainment on the internet (new every day).

Where the Buffalo Roam comes out once a week

The Borderline also looks like good value for money.

Expanding Horizons