• The Night Sky Live - live images of the night sky above some of the world's premier observatories

• Anglo-Australian Observatory - Lots of images and other astronomy info
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT)
• Chandra X-ray Observatory - the "Hubble Space Telescope equivalent" for X-ray astronomy
• COBE Infrared Satellite - designed to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe
• European Southern Observatory - European observatorys in Chile run by several European Nations
• Galex - Galaxy Evolution Explorer
• Hobby-Eberly Telescope - a 9 meter telescope located at McDonald Observatory in Texas
  • More HET Links
• Hubble Space Telescope (STScI) - Baltimore, Maryland, operates the Hubble Space Telescope
  • HST
  • More HST Links
  • Data Archives
• Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) - operates the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope and the 1.0m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on behalf of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) of the Netherlands
• James C. Veen Observatory - Lowell, Michigan; owned and operated by the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association
• KPNO Links
• Lick Observatory - Santa Cruz, California
• Mauna Kea Observatories - Mauna Kea, Hawaii
• McDonald Observatory - located in the Davis Mountains of Texas, about 450 miles west of Austin
  • More McDonald Links
  • Night Reports
  • Observing Support
• MDM Observatory - on Kitt Peak, operated by U. of Michigan, Dartmouth College, Ohio State U., and Columbia U.
• Michigan State University Observatory - East Lansing, Michigan
• Mount Wilson Observatory - Pasadena, California
• The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association - Nantucket Island, Massachusetts; site includes programs, places to visit, and research opertunities at the observatory named after Maria Mitchell, the first woman Professor of Astronomy and the first woman elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories - operates several major observatories including:
  
  • Kitt Peak National Observatory - Tucson, Arizona
    • More KPNO Links
  • Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory - La Serena, Chile
  • IRAF Documentation
• National Radio Astronomy Obersvatories - operates several major radio telescope facilities in the U.S. including:
  
  • The Very Large Array - Socorro, New Mexico
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission - close-up images of an asteroid
• SOAR - 4m telescope currently under construction in Chile by a large collaboration including Michigan State University
• Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) - copy of the HET being built in South Africa
• Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - scheduled for launch in 2006, able to search for Earth-sized planets around other stars, accuratly determine distances to stars in our galaxy, and even remove the light from bright stars to look for faint companions
• Space Telescope Science Institute - Baltimore, Maryland, operates the Hubble Space Telescope
  • HST
  • Data Archives
• Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF)
• Swift - Gamma ray burst observatory approved by NASA, currently underconstruction, and scheduled for a 2003 launch. Penn State is a key player in the design, construction, and operation of this mission!
• U.S. Naval Observatory - Observatory responsible, in part, for maintaining the Master Clock for the US, and acuratly recording the motions of the Earth, sun, moon, and planets
• The Worlds Largest Optical Telescopes - size, location, description, comments, and links to the world's largest optical telescopes, includes those currently in operation and those under construction
• XMM-Newton - a new European X-ray observatory satellite
• Yahoo! List of Observatories
• Yerkes Observatory - Williams Bay, Wisconsin

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