Astrophysics
Physics and Astronomy 307 and 590

This page may be useful for undergraduate and graduate students in our astrophysics courses, or for those interested in self-study.


Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Moore Observatory will not be available for on-site visits, but we will have opportunities for remote sessions there and elsewhere through Zoom when weather and our schedules permit. If you are in one of our astronomy or astrophysics classes please check Blackboard for more information. Use the high resolution images from the GOES-16 satellite to see weather patterns for yourself.

Star Charts
Maps of the visible sky

Observatories
Moore Mt. Kent and Mt. Lemmon observatories

Observables in Astrophysics
What light reveals

Stellarium
Sky simulator on the web


Projects and Resources

Overleaf
Online collaborative LaTeX

Overleaf template
Zip and LaTeX source

Satellite tracker
Based on two-line elements (TLE)

Two-line elements
Earth satellite TLE

Sky and Telescope
Observing geosynchronous satellites

Transit Finder
Known Exoplanets

Exoplanet Transits
Observations

Exoplanet
Database

Supernovae
Latest Information

Sky Tonight
Messier and Caldwell Lists

Observable Comets
Images and Observations


Observatory Access

Selected data
From our observatories

Astronomy website
Moore Observatory and Shared Skies

Directions
To Moore Observatory


Astronomical Coordinates


On-line Public Astronomical Data

NASA ADS
NASA Astrophysics Data System publication index and archive

Aladin-Lite
View Astronomical Image Databases

Simbad
SIMBAD Astronomical Database

VizieR SED
Spectral Energy Distribution

SDSS
Sloal Digital Sky Survey

MAST
Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes

ESO Archive
Science archive from ESO telescopes


Ground-based Observatories and Telescopes

Vera Rubin
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will have an 8.4-meter diameter mirror and a 3.5 degree field of view

VLT
ESO's Very Large Telescope is 4 8.2-meter telescopes

Keck
The University of California's twin 10-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea

Siding Spring
4-meter and 2.3 meter telescopes in Australia

WIYN
An observatory with a 3.5-meter telescope operated by a university consortium and offering community access

Moore, Mt. Lemmon, and Mt. Kent
Small telescopes in Kentucky, Arizona, and Australia operated by the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland


Software

AstroImageJ
Astronomical photometry, data reduction, and image processing

AstroCC
Celestial coordinate converter and object locator

ds9
FITS image display

Aladin
Data base visualization

Stellarium
Sky simulator

Partiview
3D visualization from NCSA

OpenSpace
3D universe from AMNH

Cosmographia
3D space simulator

Python
A Python tutorial for physics and astronomy students

Julia
High performance programming language


Links

Sky-Map
Color version of the DSS

Exoplanet Transits
Ephemerides for observable known exoplanets

In-the-Sky
Any time and place

Heaven's Above
Louisville sky simulation

SAO/NASA ADS
Abstracts and articles

astro-ph
Astrophysics arXiv

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amateur and professional

Lunar Picture of the Day
From ground and space

News from ESO
Black hole in M87