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    The Ultimate Deep Sky Observers Resource (UDSOR)

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    Research:

    ADS Home Page
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/index.html

    Aladin
    http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml

    Constellation Guide
    http://www.constellation-guide.com/

    Harold Corwin's website
    haroldcorwin.net/

    Galaxy Zoo
    http://www.galaxyzoo.org/

    Google Sky
    http://www.google.com/sky/

    Hubble Legacy Archive
    https://hla.stsci.edu/

    Hyperleda
    http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/

    Interactive NGC Catalog
    http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.html

    IRSA WISE (Caltech)
    http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/wise/

    Level 5

    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/

    NED
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/

    NGC/IC Project
    http://www.ngcicproject.org/
    http://www.ngcicproject.org/public_HCNGC/HCNGC.htm

    Photometric Reference Page
    http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn...ndex.html#wide

    RC3 - Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies
    heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/rc3.html

    SDSS DR8
    http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/navi.asp

    Courtney Seligman's Image Atlas of the NGC/IC/PGC
    http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc00.htm#ngcic

    SIMBAD
    http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

    Sky-Map.org
    http://server7.sky-map.org/

    SkyView
    http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/query.pl

    Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke - Deepsky Objects, Cosmology & Theoretical Physics
    http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm

    STScI Digitized Sky Survey
    http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form

    VizieR

    http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR

    Webb Deep-Sky Society
    http://www.webbdeepsky.com/

    Webb Deep-Sky Society Free Downloads
    https://www.webbdeepsky.com/publications/free/

    WikiSky
    http://www.wikisky.org/

    Ned Wright's Redshift Calculator
    www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
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    DSF Members pages:

    Paul Alsings page
    http://www.pnalsing.com/

    Uwe Glahns page
    http://www.deepsky-visuell.de

    Adventures in Deep Space (Steve Gottlieb)
    http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Advent...ace/index.html

    Alvin Hueys page
    http://www.faintfuzzies.com

    Akarsh Simha's page
    bas.org.in/dssdirect.php?id=M%2051

    Reiner Vogels page
    http://www.reinervogel.net/

    Victor van Wulfens page
    www.clearskies.eu

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    Weather:

    Clear Dark Sky
    http://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

    Next Generation Weather Lab
    http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/

    North American HODAR
    http://observatories.hodar.com/night.html

    SkippySky Astronomy Weather Forecast
    http://www.skippysky.com.au/

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    Observing Reports:

    Deep Sky Archive
    http://www.deepsky-archive.com/index.php

    Deep Sky Log (multilingual)
    http://www.deepskylog.org/ -> English
    http://www.deepskylog.fr/ -> French
    http://www.deepskylog.de/ -> German
    http://www.deepskylog.be/ & http://www.deepskylog.nl -> Dutch

    Deep Sky Observers Companion - the online database
    http://www.docdb.net/index.php

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    Observing Programs:

    Astronomy League
    http://www.astroleague.org

    TSP Observing Program Archives
    https://texasstarparty.org/activitie...ogram-archive/

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    Galaxies & Galaxy Clusters:


    Arps Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
    http://arpgalaxy.com/

    Arp Catalog images
    http://www.338arps.com/

    Arp Catalog Index
    arp.schoenball.de/index_e.htm

    Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ANDROMEDA_Atlas/frames.html

    Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy Globulars (PDF)
    http://www.observatoriotresjuncos.co...bmag stars.pdf

    Atlas of Local Group Galaxies (56mb 431 page pdf file. Recommended you save to hardrive upon downloading)
    http://genti.extremeshare.org/Pepi/D...XGalaxiesB.pdf

    Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/frames.html

    Galaxy Distances
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/NED1D/intro.html

    Galaxy Morphology
    http://bama.ua.edu/~rbuta/devatlas/

    M33 Mapped
    http://www.starkeeper.it/M33_Mapped.htm

    M33 Mapped (Adventures in Deep Space)
    http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Advent...ar.Clouds.html

    Milky Way Explorer
    http://galaxymap.org/mwe/mwe.php

    Photographic Atlas of our Milky Way
    http://www.library.gatech.edu/barnard/index.html

    NGC Galaxies in the SDSS Data Release 2 (DR2)
    https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/PrettyPictures/NGC/

    Shapley-Ames Catalog
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/S..._contents.html

    VV Galaxy Atlas
    http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/VV_Cat/frames.html

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    Globular & Open Clusters:

    Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters
    physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat

    DAML02
    https://wilton.unifei.edu.br/ocdb/

    Milky Way Globs
    http://spider.seds.org/spider/MWGC/mwgc.html

    Top 125 Open clusters
    http://users.skynet.be/fc219947/openclusters.html

    Trumpler Classification
    http://www.astrophoton.com/trumpler_class.htm

    WEBDA Open Cluster
    http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/navigation.html
    http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/maps.html
    webda.physics.muni.cz
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    Planetary Nebula:

    100 Brightest PN
    http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/plannebs.html

    Atlas of the Universe Planetary Nebula
    www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/plannebs.html

    PN Halo Images
    www.deepsky-visuell.de/Projekte/Halo.htm

    PN Image Catalog
    http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/balick/PNIC/

    PN Observers Homepage
    http://www.blackskies.org/

    PN Spectra
    http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/research/PN/nebulae/

    Protoplanetary Nebula
    http://www.deepsky-visuell.de/Projekte/PPN.htm

    SEC PN Database
    http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/saldatabase/Sec.html

    Top 40 PN
    http://users.skynet.be/fc219947/top40pn/index.html

    MASH catalog of PN
    http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?V/127A

    Monochromatic PN Images IAAT
    http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/pn/

    White Dwarf Catalog
    http://www.astronomy.villanova.edu/WDCatalog/index.html

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    Nebulae:

    Barnard's DN Atlas
    http://www.library.gatech.edu/barnard/

    GUM Catalog
    http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/gum.py?s=1

    RCW Catalog
    http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/rcw.py?s=1

    Reflection Nebula
    http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~magnor/rnv.html

    Sharpless Catalog
    http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1

    Sharpless Catalog (CCD Images)
    http://www.sharplesscatalog.com/Sharpless.aspx

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    Light Pollution Maps:

    Blue Marble
    https://blue-marble.de/nightlights/2012

    Bortle Dark Sky Scale
    https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html

    Dark Sky Finder
    http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

    Light Pollution Atlas
    https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/dlorenz/...ronomy/lp2006/

    Light Pollution Map - The Best one we have found!
    https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#...ers=B0FFFTFFFF

    World Overlay atop Google Maps
    https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/dlorenz/...rlay/dark.html

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    Images & Sketching:

    Astrobin
    http://www.astrobin.com/

    Deep Sky Watch
    http://www.deepskywatch.com/

    Princeton Univ collection of pretty SDSS objects
    https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/PrettyPictures/
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    Miscellaneous:

    AGN's, Blazars & Quasars
    http://quasar.square7.ch/fqm/fqm-home.html

    AstroBin
    welcome.astrobin.com

    Comet Chasing by Skyhound
    https://cometchasing.skyhound.com/


    Filter Performance Comparison For Some Common Nebulae
    http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...ommon-nebulae/

    Heavens Above
    http://www.heavens-above.com

    High Redshift Objects (German)
    http://www.strnad-emskirchen.de/qso_beobachtungen.html

    In-The-Sky.org
    in-the-sky.org

    JW Inman
    http://www.jwinman.com/starcharts/index.htm

    Large Structure Applet
    http://areu.free.fr/univers/large.php

    Latest Supernovae Info
    http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/

    Limiting Magnitude Charts
    http://obs.nineplanets.org/lm/rjm.html

    TheSky Live
    theskylive.com/

    Things to view
    http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/Things-to-view.htm

    Shadow & Substance
    www.shadowandsubstance.com

    Vic Menards favorites (PDF)
    http://vicmenard.com/the_list.pdf

    Where is M13?
    http://www.thinkastronomy.com



    (We're sure there are plenty more so please, keep 'em coming and we'll add them to the list!)
    Last edited by Dragan; April 9th, 2021 at 08:46 PM. Reason: Added new links to Galaxy and Images sections
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