(or the most useful, but unnoticed page)
During my work as a scientist I’ve realized that one can save a lot of time if you know where to find which information. Often enough it seems impossible to find the where until someone else tells you. That is why this page exists 😉 As described on the disclaimer I do not have any influence on the contents of the linked webpages!
Useful tools
http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu – search engine for astronomy and astrophysical related publications
http://www.wikisky.org – interactive map of the sky
http://www.calsky.com – calculation and forecast of several astronomical events
https://regex101.com/ – online tool for testing regular expressions
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html – interactive search for TeX-symbols
http://apod.nasa.gov – Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://isdc.unige.ch/heavens – ISDC HEAVENS – online analysis of data from recent high-energy missions
Databases
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov – data archive of high energy observations
http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/adp/phase3_spectral/form – data archive of UV- to IR-observations
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Radar/ – advanced searches for IR-objects
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad – scientific catalog of stars
http://www.atomdb.org – database of atomic energy transitions
http://atom.kaeri.re.kr – detailed table of nuclides
Sky monitoring
http://integral.esac.esa.int/bexrbmonitor – BeXRB monitor
http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/transients – Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Transient Monitor
http://maxi.riken.jp/top/index.php?cid=1 – MAXI Soft X-ray Monitor
http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/integral/nine-years-galactic-survey – INTEGRAL 9-year Galactic Survey
http://www.sat24.com – live weather maps
Free software
http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html – SAOImageDS9 – application for visualization of astronomical data
http://space.mit.edu/cxc/isis – ISIS – analysis of X-ray spectra, very flexible because it’s programmable
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/isis – ISISscripts – collection of useful ISIS functions
http://www.cpan.org – database and search engine for Perl-libraries
https://pypi.org – repository for Python packages
http://www.imagemagick.org – create, edit, and convert images from the command line
http://www.ffmpeg.org – record, convert, and stream audio and video (ffmpeg/avconv?)
Guides & Tutorials
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/wiki/doku.php?id=isis:start – ISIS Wiki
http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/docs.html – various S-Lang guides
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html – Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Institutes & groups
http://ecap.nat.uni-erlangen.de – ECAP – neutrino-, X-ray-, and gamma-ray astrophysics
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de – Remeis observatory – compact objects, active galactic nuclei, hot stars
http://www.srl.caltech.edu – Caltech Space Radiation Lab – cosmic rays, high energy astrophysics
http://space.mit.edu – MIT Kavli Institute – high energy astrophysics, cosmolgie, supernovae, exoplanets, …
http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de – Univ. Würzburg – multi-wavelength astronomy, AGN, astroparticle physics
http://cass.ucsd.edu – UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.aip.de/de/forschung – Leibniz-Institut for astrophysics Potsdam – X-ray astronomy, cosmologie, …
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de – Max-Planck-Institute for radio astronomy
People
http://pulsar.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/wilms – Jörn Wilms – X-ray astrophysics
http://www.arc.hokkai-s-u.ac.jp/~okazaki/index-e.html – Atsuo Okazaki – simulations of Be-disks and winds
http://mason.gmu.edu/~pbecker – Peter A. Becker – theory behind accretion columns on neutron stars
http://space.mit.edu/~mnowak/ – Mike Nowak – useful stuff about Chandra and ISIS
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~dauser – Thomas Dauser – relativistic reflection at ionized accretion disks
Journals
http://www.aanda.org – Astronomy & Astrophysics
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X – The Astrophysical Journal
http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org – Astronomer’s Telegram
http://www.arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph/ – arXiv astrophysics
http://www.sciencemag.org – Science
http://www.nature.com – Nature