1. INTRODUCTION
Due to the nature
of HST data, a brief revision of data formats is presented, followed by
a description of the major sites that contain information and astronomical
data.
The topics discussed are:
(a) Astronomical Data
- FITS format description
- HST data
- Group format extension
- Reading HST science data
- Other HST files
- Associations
- Additional programs that read FITS files
- Other file formats
(b) Optical and UV information
- Preprints and paper
- NED
- CDS (SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin, Dictionary of Astronomical Nomenclature,
Information & On-line Data in Astronomy
Star's pages, Other services)
- NSSDC
- LEDA
- Data
- Miscellaneous images and catalogs
- Scanned Data (DSS, APS, Plate Database)
- Optical and UV surveys
- Multiwavelength maps
- Astrometry
- Artificial Data
- Meta-databases
- Planetary information
- Organizations
- Summary
(c) Optical and UV archives
- Optical (ESO, CFHT, ING, NOAO)
- UV archives (IUE, EUVE, Astro missions, FUSE)
(d) The Hubble Space Telescope
- Brief description
- On-board instruments (Faint Object Camera (FOC), Fine Guidance Sensors
(FGS), Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS),
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
(STIS), Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2))
- Archival instruments (Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), Goddard High
Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), High Speed Photometer (HSP)))
- Future instruments (Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), Cosmic Origins
Spectrograph (COS))
(e) The Hubble Data Archive (HDA)
- Description
- Contents
- Browsing and extracting
(f) Surfing for multiwavelength data