Other

Observatories

Metsähovi:

Metsahovi Radio Observatory
Quasar research in Metsahovi.
Restricted access, allowed from Metsahovi only: local pages

ESO:

ESO main
ESO council & committees
La Silla Paranal Observatory
Santiago
ALMA.


Radio to submillimeter observatories

A (fairly) complete list of facilities operating in the radio to submm domain

Some shortcuts:

Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden).
Univ. of Michigan, Astronomy Department.
RATAN-600.
The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment APEX
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, JCMT
Submillimetre Array SMA calibrator list.


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Optical

The Nordic Optical Telescope, NOT.
The Tuorla Observatory.
Perugia University Astronomical Observatory.
The Colgate University Observatory.
El Gran Telescopio Canarias GTC (was: Grantecan).
List of the world's largest telescopes.

Networks, Surveys...

The European Comission research training network on blazar research ENIGMA ("European Network for the Investigation of Galactic nuclei through Multifrequency Analysis").

The Whole Earth Blazar Telescope WEBT.
The GRB Coordinates Network GCN.


The ROSAT All-Sky Survey -- Green Bank Catalog RASSGB
The PMN Survey (The Parkes-MIT-NRAO Survey)
The VLA-FIRST Survey (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters).
The NVSS Survey (The NRAO VLA Sky Survey).


The Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

ESA

The ESA portal.
ESA space science.
ESA Science and Technology.
ESA Research and Scientific Support Department.
Astrophysics missions.
Planetary missions.
Solar-Terrestrial missions.
Fundamental physics missions.

NASA:

The International Space Station.
The Kennedy Space Center KSC.
The Johnson Space Center JSC.
The Space shuttle.
The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center HEASARC.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Ulysses mission.
NASA Planetary Photojournal.
NASA Comets and asteroids page.
NASA Solar photogallery.
National Space Science Data Center.


The Mars missions:

Mars Exploration web pages.
Chronology of Mars exploration.
Mars Pathfinder (a completed mission).
Mars Polar Lander (contact to the spacecraft was lost).
Mars Global Surveyor (arrived at Mars 1997-Sept-11).
Mars Mars Odyssey (Surveyor) 2001 (launched 2001-Apr-7, arrived at Mars 2001-Oct-24).
Mars Rover Missions Spirit and Opportunity, landed on 3.1.2004 and 24.1.2004
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (launched 2005-08-12, arrived at Mars 2006-03-10)
Phoenix Mars lander, launched 4.8.2007, landed 25.5.2008

Planck:

The Planck Surveyor, launched 14.5.2009. Planck site for the public
Planck documentation on Livelink (restricted access).
Metsähovi Planck Team, in Finnish and in English.
The Helsinki University Observatory's Planck pages.

Other satellite missions:

ESA
Astrophysics missions.
Planetary missions.
Solar-Terrestrial missions.
Fundamental physics missions.

Gamma

The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, CGRO, 5.4.1991-4.6.2000.
The High-Energy Transient Explorer HETE-2 gamma- and X-ray mission, launched 9.10.2001.
The International Gamma-Ray Laboratory INTEGRAL. Launched 17.10.2002.
Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero AGILE, launched 23.4.2007.
The gamma-ray burs mission SWIFT, launched 20.11.2004.
Fermi (was: The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope GLAST), launched 11.6.2008, lifetime 5 yrs.


X-ray

The ROentgen SATellite, ROSAT (1.6.1990-12.2.1999).
The Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics, ASCA (=ASTRO-D) (20.2.1993-2.3.2001).
The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, RXTE (1995-).
BeppoSAX (1996-2002).
Chandra X-ray satellite (formerly known as AXAF). Launched 23.7.1999, lifetime 5-10 yrs.
The X-ray Multi-mirror Mission XMM, launched 10.12.1999.
HETE-2 gamma- and X-ray mission, launched 9.10.2001.
Suzaku, formerly known as Astro-E2, launched 10.7.2005.
IXO(XEUS).
The Micro-Arcsecond X-ray Imaging Mission MAXIM (NASA).


Ultraviolet

The International Ultraviolet Explorer, IUE (1978-1996).
The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, EUVE (7.6.1992-31.1.2001).


Optical

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) (25.4.1990-).
Corot (COnvection, ROtation & planetary Transits, a CNES minisatellite). (Launched on 27.12.2006, expected lifetime 2.5 years.)
Double Star, China & ESA, launched 29.12.2003 & 26.7.2004.
The James Webb Space Telescope (was: The Next Generation Space Telescope).
Gaia
Kepler
The Space Interferometry Mission SIM.
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA, LISA at NASA


Infra Red

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS (1983)
The Infrared Space Observatory, ISO (1995-1998).
The Spitzer Space Telescope (was: Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF), launched 25.8.2003, lifetime 2.5+ years.
The Infrared Imaging Surveyor (IRIS), or ASTRO-F, was launched on February 21, 2006 and was renamed Akari.
The Herschel satellite (was: Far InfraRed and Submillimetre Telescope, FIRST), launched on 14.5.2009 together with Planck.
The Infrared space telescope flotilla Darwin.
The Terrestrial Planet Finder TPF (NASA).


Radio

The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite SWAS (5.12.1998-)
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP (30.6.2001-)
Planck (14.5.2009-)

Gamma ray astronomy:

See also the section about gamma-ray satellites!

The Major Atmosperic Gamma Imaging Cerenkov Telescope MAGIC.
An array of imaging atmospheric cherenkov telescopes, the High Energy Stereoscopic System HESS.
The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System VERITAS.


The International Gamma-Ray Laboratory INTEGRAL. Launched 17.10.2002.
Integral Science Data Centre ISDC (access to some pages for consortium members only).
Integral short term observing schedule, long term observing schedule.

Compton Science Support Center,
The EGRET instrument.

AMS

AMS homepage (AMS-02)

AMS-01 homepage.
Publications of the AMS collaboration.
Metsähovi contribution to AMS.
Pictures:
1. AMS at MPPF (Clean Room) Kennedy Space Center, Florida;
2. Metsähovi research scientists working at the Payload Operations Command Center, Johnson Space Center, Houston.


The AMS test flight STS-91 (Discovery, launched June 2, 1998 6:10 p.m. EDT),

Interferometry

Ground-based radio interferometry

European VLBI Network EVN.
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, JIVE
The Global mm-VLBI Array GMVA.
VLBA.
ALMA, NRAO's ALMA page, The Japanese ALMA site.


Space-VLBI:

The VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) in Japan and in the USA. (HALCA 12.2.1997-30.11.2005).
VSOP-2
Radioastron.

Optical interferometry:

The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy CHARA
Keck Interferometer
The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer NPOI
The Infrared space telescope flotilla Darwin.

Journals:

Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The Astronomical Journal.
The Astrophysical Journal.
The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, MNRAS.
The preprint server astro-ph.
The American Astronomical Society AAS.
The Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Databases:

The ADS abstract service.

Astronomy And Astrophysics CDS Database.
The Simbad astronomical database,
The VizieR catalogue database, and its mirror in UK.
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database NED,
The CATS database.
Astronomical Source Catalogues

The MOJAVE project home page
Atlas of DRAGNs.
A Catalog of 157 X-ray Spectra and 84 SEDs of Blazars observed with BeppoSAX.


AstroWeb.
AstroSearch (for people, institutions, etc.).

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance IVO.
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory AVO, Europe.
US National Virtual Observatory NVO.
AstroGrid, UK.


ASTROVIRTEL

Optical astronomy & tools:

IRAF Project Home Page and documents
SAOimage.

Finding charts at SkyView, SkyView advanced.
Finding charts for AGN, at Heidelberg.


Landolt standard star fields:
1.: http://james.as.arizona.edu/~psmith/atlasinfo.html,
2.: http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/obsprog/images/atlasinfo.html.


The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
POSS 2.

Xephem home page at the Clear Sky Institute, Inc.

Manned spaceflight

NASA human spaceflight index.
ESA manned spaceflight and microgravity.
Manned spaceflight database by schwickie@hotmail.com.
X-prices foundation.


Space stations: Salyut, MIR, Soviet space stations, general.
International Space Station: site 1, site 2.

Apollo expeditions.

Astrobiology aka Bioastronomy:

NASA Astrobiology Institute
The Astrobiology Index
Astrobiology.com


Known planetary systems
California & Carnegie Planet Search exoplanets.org.
Exoplanet encyclopaedia
A brief history of exoplanet searches:

SETI Institute
SETI@home

Weather:

Weather in Finland, current conditions

Restricted access, for internal use only: Weather in Metsähovi Antenna & Weather parameters, weather monitoring data .

Weather on roads main page, Uusimaa, Varsinais-Suomi.
Weather at Helsinki Malmi.
Weather at Helsinki Vantaa, Other airports.
Vaisala Weather Station, Vantaa.
Online weather stations in Finland, links.


Rain and temperature in Southern Finland "Helsinki testbed".
Farmit.net pages, include extensive weather service for members.
Radar maps at FMI.
Lightning radars in Finland: Mikkeli, Tampere, Loviisa, Helsinki.
Clouds, Scandinavia
Rain radar at EMI (Tallinn).


GOES radar animation for Northern Europe.
Radar maps for Scandinavia TV4, Sweden.
vaski.net weather page with NOAA images.
Otso Laakso's weather page.
Satellite image of Helsinki.
Webcam Helsinki, YLE.
Other Helsinki webcams.


Weather in Finland, forecast

Forecast for Finland (FMI) and Foreca.
Forecast for Helsinki, FMI.
Numerical weather forecast at ICM.
ICM weather in FInnish, for Finland.
YLE weather pages
MTV3 weather pages.
A detailed 10-day forecast for Helsinki by Intellicast
4-day forecast Helsinki by CNN,
10-day forecast for Helsinki by Weather Channel,
Forecast for Helsinki by Weather Underground,


Other

Medium-range GFS forecasts for Europe, National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
6000 weather links for Europe.
Hirlam Meteoservices Forecasts for Europe: precipitation and clouds.
Estofex Convective Forecast
Myrskyareena


Cloudman cloud and weather pages.
PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique.
NOAA Space Weather Now.
Myrskybonagreiden säälinkit.
Suomalainen Sääfoorumi.(Ulkoasultaan ja toiminnaltaan erittäin huonot sivut, valitettavasti.)
Lightnings in Europe

Sun:

NOAA Space Weather Now.
Australian IPS Solar Site
Geomagnetic activity at Nurmijärvi


Jan Curtis's Aurora photos. More aurorae by Jan Curtis!

Yohkoh (30.8.1991 - end 2001)
SOHO (launched 2.12.1995)
Ulysses (launched 6.10.1990).
GOES Solar X-ray Imager (2001-- ).

Education:

My Radio Astronomy Courses page.

Radio astronomy courses at HUT, lectured (at least partially) by MT:

The biannual course Radio Astronomy. Newest: fall 2006.
The post-graduate seminar on Space Technology II: Space Astronomy, spring 1999.
The post-graduate seminar on Space Technology II: Radio Astronomy: New Challenges for the New Millennium, spring 2001.
The post-graduate seminar on Space Technology II: Unsolved Probelms in Astrophysics, spring 2003.
The post-graduate seminar on Space Technology II: Practical Aspects of (sub)millimetre-wavelength radio astronomy, spring 2005.
The post-graduate seminar on Space Technology II: Satellite Astronomy, spring 2007.


The Nordic-Baltic Summer School in Radio Astronomy 2001: Radio Universe
My own AGN-lectures given at the summer school.

Finnish Graduate School in Astronomy and Space Physics.
The European Comission research training network on blazar research ENIGMA ("European Network for the Investigation of Galactic nuclei through Multifrequency Analysis").

General information about quasars and quasar research in Metsähovi, in Finnish.

Falling into a black hole.
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars.
Dr. Bill Keel's Galaxies and the Universe - WWW Course.


Images of radio galaxies and quasars.
AGN gallery & the inferred structure of a quasar.
AGN slide set.
UA Astronomy image collection.
A commercial site for astronomical images, browsing the thumbnails is free of charge and requires no registration.


Fact Files at the National Maritime Museum
Imagine the Universe! Dictionary
Dr. Johnny B. Holmes: NSCI 111 Introduction to Astronomy


Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
John Hawley and Katherine Holcomb: Foundations of Modern Cosmology
"Making Sense of Modern Cosmology" by P. James E. Peebles, published in Scientific American.
John A. Peacock's Cosmological Physics.
Suomenkielinen artikkeli aikamatkasta: Aikamatka - faktaa vai fiktiota?

Plagiarism and How To Avoid It:
The Complete Plagiarism Resource
Plagiarism: How to avoid it (by C. Barnbaum).
David Gardner's site


Bad Astronomy.

Other:

International astronomy conferences and meetings.

Coordinate conversion tools: Precession tool ,
Rami Rekola's Coordinate Converter
World Clock.


Unit converter .
Height & weight converter.

Calendars, world clock, etc..

Your Sky
Ephemeris Generator
Astronomical and Space Calendar CalSKY
The Messier catalog on-line.
Constellations


International Meteor Organization
Leonid campaign home page.

International Earth Rotation Service IERS.
USNO Time Service Department.


Finnish Astronomical Society.

The International Union of Radio Science, URSI.

Protected radio frequency bands (in Finnish).
Radio interference and adaptive filters.

Astronomy from the Moon.

Amateur astronomy in Finland,
The amateur astronomy association Ursa.


1/f noise.

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