Department of Physics
AstroLab
Finding Objects
Listed below are various resources in order to find objects to observe for your project:
U.S. Naval Observatory's
Data Services
(Positions of the Sun and Moon, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, Twilight, Eclipses, etc)
Any
Solar System object
via
JPL's HORIZONS System
Minor planets/Comets
via
IAU Minor Planet Center
Lowell Observatory's
ASTFINDER
www.sky-map.org
AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS)
Recent
Supernovae
- Rochester's
Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies
The
ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A2.0 Server
The
USNO-A2.0 Server Catalog
Variable, moving
or
transient
objects at
SkyMorph
Access the
SIMBAD astronomical database
Retrieve an image from the DSS (
STScI
,
ESO
).
Information on
galaxies
at
NED -- The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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jrl
2013-Dec-22 23:33:39 UTC