TELESCOPIOS -/- TELESCOPES

Observatorios accesibles a astronomos españoles (Observatories available to Spanish astronomers) Satélites -/- Satellites Observatorio Virtual -/- Virtual Observatory

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Observatorios Astronómicos en España telescopios.org

The World's Largest Optical Telescopes

Astronomical Observatories (Yahoo)

Milkyweb Astronomical Observatory Guide

Automated Telescopes Remote and Robotic Telescopes

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OPTICON, the Optical Infrared Coordination Network

• Trans-national Access Programme

ASTRONET Towards a Strategic Plan for European astronomy

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Telescope Schedules Resources

• Calar Alto Observatory - Schedules for all telescopes
• La Palma - Isaac Newton Group Telescope Allocations (ING) ING Schedules
• La Palma - Nordic Optical Telescope - Schedules (NOT)
• La Palma - Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - Schedules (TNG)
• La Silla - ESO Schedules -- SciOps Schedule

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Fechas límites, petición tiempos observación (Deadlines for Observing Applications)

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Observatorio Norte Europeo / European Northern Observatory (ENO)

• Tiempo de Observación - Comité de asignación de Tiempos CAT
• CAT Nocturno - CAT Solar
• Sistema telemático de envío directo de propuestas al CAT

ORM, Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma)

ING, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (La Palma)

UK mirror

• ING Astronomy
• ING Instrumentation Options
• ING Newsletter -- [INGNEWS]
• ING La Palma Technical Notes
• SIGNAL (S/N for any ING telescope/instrument/detector combination)
• The ING SERVICE Programme

NOT (Nordic Optical Telescope) (NOT Home Page at La Palma)

NOT webcam

TNG, Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

GTC, Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GRANTECAN)
GTC (IAC)
GTC digital

• Consolider-Ingenio 2010 - GTC Primera ciencia con el GTC: la astronomía española en vanguardia de la astronomía europea

• Acto de primera luz del GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias) (13 de julio de 2007)
• Inauguración del GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias) (24 de Julio 2009) - Retransmisión en directo

• Webcams en el Observatorio
• Instrumentación (Día Uno)
  • OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) - OSIRIS home page
  • Canari-Cam (Cámara-Espectrógrafo en el Infrarrojo Térmico) - Canari-Cam home page
• Instrumentación (Segunda generación)
  • EMIR (Espectrógrafo Multi-objeto InfraRrojo) - EMIR home page
  • CIRCE (Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment) - CIRCE home page
  • FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) - FRIDA home page
• Instrumentación (Tercera generación)
  • MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía) - MEGARA homepage
  • MIRADAS (Mid resolution InfRAreD Astronomical Spectrograph) - MIRADAS
• Proyectos:
• GO-IRS (GTC Optical - Intermediate Resolution Spectrograph) - GO-IRS home page
• NIRINTS (Near-infrared Intermediate Resolucion Spectrograph) - NAHUAL home page (Near-infrAred High-resolUtion spectrogrAph for pLanet hunting)
• HORUS (High Optical Resolution Ultra-Stable Spectrograph)
• LT, Liverpool Telescope (2 m) (Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK)
• LT webcam

• Mercator Telescope (1.2 m) (IfA, Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
• Mercator Telescope webcam

• MAGIC (17 m) (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescope)
• MAGIC webcam

OT, Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife)

• OT webcam -- OT webcam today daylight movie
• Telescopios Nocturnos del Observatorio del Teide (TCS, IAC80, MONS)

• OGS, Estación Óptica Terrestre

• Bradford Robotic telescope

• STELLA (STELLar Activity) project Two 1.2m Robotic Telescopes
• STELLA WebCam

CONCAM night sky (fisheye CONtinuous CAMera) - Live from Canary Islands!

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Observatorio de Calar Alto CAHA (Centro Astronomico Hispano Aleman) MPIA
MPIA (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie)

Calar Alto Newsletter
Calar Alto Webcam

Application for Observing time at the Calar Alto Telescopes

CAST The Calar Alto Submission Tool for Observing Proposals

TAC, Time Allocation Committee Calar Alto Observatory

EOCA (Estación de Observación de Calar Alto), Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)

• Telescopio de 1,52 m

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OSN, Observatorio de Sierra Nevada (Granada)

IRAM (Instituto de Radioastronomia Milimetrica) (Pico Veleta, Sierra Nevada, Granada)

• WebCam

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OHP, Observatoire de Haute-Provence

Observatoire de Pic du Midi

Observatoire de Paris

• WebCam, Obs. Paris - Meudon

ESO, European Southern Observatory

• La Silla Observatory Chile (ESO)
  • 3.6-m and CAT Telescopes
  • NTT, New Technology Telescope
  • 2.2-m and 1.5-m Telescopes
  • Swiss 1.2-m Leonhard Euler telescope
• Paranal Observatory Cerro Paranal, Atacama, Chile (ESO)
  • VLT, Very Large Telescope Project four 8m Telescopes: ANTU, KUEYEN, MELIPAL, YEPUN
  • VLT Instruments
  • The VST Project, VLT Survey Telescope

Las Campanas Observatory Chile (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

• Magellan Project (Two 6.5m Telescopes)

CTIO, Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory Chile (NOAO)

• 4m Victor M. Blanco Telescope
  Cerro Pachón
• 4m telescope SOAR Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research
• Gemini Southern Telescope (8.1m) USA/UK/Canada/Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Chile

Mauna Kea Observatories Hawaii

• Keck Observatory (10m) Caltech/University of California USA
• Subaru Telescope (8.3m) Japan
• Gemini Northern Telescope (8.1m) USA/UK/Canada/Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Chile
• UKIRT (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope) (3.8m) UK
• CFHT (The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) (3.6m) Canada/France/UH
• IRTF (Infrared Telescope Facility) (3.0m) NASA

NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories) / NSO (National Solar Observatory)

KPNO, Kitt Peak National Observatory Tucson, Arizona, USA

• Mayal 4m Telescope
• WIYN Observatory (3.5m) W(isconsin)I(ndiana)Y(ale)N(OAO)
• 2.4-m Hiltner telescope MDO (Univ. Michigan, Dartmouth Coll., MIT)

MMT (Multiple Mirror Telescope) Observatory (6.5m) Mt. Hopkins, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Palomar Observatory California, USA

• 200-inch Hale Telescope (5m)

Mount Wilson Observatory California, USA

• WebCam, 150-Foot Solar Tower

Lick Observatory Mt. Hamilton, California, USA

• Shane 3-m Telescope

McDonald Observatory Texas, USA

• HET, Hobby-Eberly Telescope (9.2m)
• 2.7-m Harlan J. Smith Telescope
• 2.1-m Otto Struve Telescope

Apache Point Observatory New Mexico, USA

• ARC, 3.5-m Telescope
• 2.5-meter Sloan telescope Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS

Mt Stromlo (MSO) and Siding Spring Observatories (SSO) Australia

• 2.3m Telescope SSO
• 1.88m Telescope MSO

AAO (The Anglo-Australian Observatory) Australia

• AAT 3.9m Telescope
• UKST, UK Schmidt Telescope

SAOO, South African Astronomical Observatory Africa

• 1.9-m (Radcliffe) Telescope
• SALT, Southern African Large Telescope (11m) similar to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET)

SAO, Special Astrophysical Observatory Caucasus mountains, Russia

• BTA, Big Telescope Alt-azimuthal (6m)

Vatican Observatory Castel Gandolfo, Italy

Arecibo Observatory NAIC, Puerto Rico

NRAO, National Radio Astronomy Observatory USA

• GBT, Green Bank Telescope 100-m, NRAO
• VLA, Very Large Array NRAO
• VLBA, Very Long Baseline Array NRAO

Jodrell Bank Observatory (Univ. of Manchester, PPARC, Great Britain)

• The Lovell Telescope 76-m
• WebCam
• MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer)
• VLBI, Very Long Baseline Interferometry

ALMA, Atacama Large Millimeter Array

• ALMA ESO; - ALMA NRAO; - ALMA NAO

SKA, Square Kilometre Array

Large Millimiter Telescope (LMT) /
Gran Telescopio Milimetrico (GTM) INAOE, UMass, Mexico

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Very large telescopes (> 8m)

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	GTC, Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (10.4m) Spain (Obs. del Roque de los Muchachos, Spain)
	Keck Observatory (10m) Caltech/University of California USA (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
	HET, The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (9.2m) 11m, Texas/PSU/Stanford/Germany (McDonald Observatory, USA)
	SALT, Southern African Large Telescope (9.2m) 11m, (SAAO)
	Subaru Telescope (8.3m) National Astronomical Obs. of Japan (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
	Gemini Telescopes (8.1m) USA/UK/Canada/Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Chile Gemini Northern Telescope (Mauna Kea, Hawaii) Gemini Southern Telescope (Cerro Pachón Chile)
	VLT, Very Large Telescope (four 8m Telescopes, ANTU, KUEYEN, MELIPAL, YEPUN) ESO (Paranal Observatory, Chile)

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Telescope projects

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LBT, The Large Binocular Telescope Project (Arizona,USA)

• Web page at Arcetri, Italy .... Web page at AIP
• LBT live view

The VST Project, VLT Survey Telescope (2.5 m telescope dedicated to Wide Field Imaging)

VISTA, Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (Consortium of 18 UK Univ.)

LSST, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope, Cerro Pachón, Chile

LAMOST, Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope 4-meter, 5° field of view telescope, 4000 optical fibers, Xinglong Observing Station, Chine

Liquid-Mirror Telescopes, LMT

Liquid Mirror Telescopes (University of British Columbia)

• LZT, Large Zenith Telescope

Liquid mirrors at Université Laval

Liquid Mirror Telescope at NASA Orbital Debris Observatory

The 4m International Liquid-Mirror Telescope Project

UK Liquid Mirror Project

LAMA, Large Astronomical Mercury-mirror Array

Extremely Large Telescopes, ELT   (Giant Optical Devices, GODs)

Extremely Large Telescopes

TMT, Thirty Meter Telescope

• formerly CELT, California Extremely Large Telescope, 30m (UCO/Lick Observatory)

GMT, Giant Magellan Telescope

Euro50

OWL, OverWhelmingly Large, 100m Telescope (ESO)

E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope (ESO)

• E-ELT Design Study (OTRI-IAC)

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CCD

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The CCD-world, CCD Resources

The CCD-world, mailing list

The Cookbook Camera Home Page (Richard Berry)

SITe, (Scientific Imaging Technologies, Inc.)

Apogee Instruments

ING Detector Group (Isaak Newton Group)

Detectors and Optics ESA

Optical Detector Team ESO

Detector Physics Group MSSL (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK)

STJ (Superconducting Tunnel Junction) detectors

S-Cam (Superconducting Camera) ESA

Superconductor Radiation Detectors (STJ : Superconducting Tunnel Junction)

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SATELITES -/- SATELLITES

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Space Astronomy

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HST (Hubble Space Telescope) (page with HST related links)

JWST, James Webb Space Telescope (NGST, Next Generation Space Telescope)

IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer

EUVE (Extreme Ultra Violet Explorer)

The EUVE Observatory

ORFEUS (Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer)

Copernicus (OAO-3)

FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) --> Launched June 14, 1999

GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) A UV Space Imaging and Spectroscopic Mission

• GALEX Image Gallery

WSO/UV World Space Observatory / Ultraviolet

• WSO/UV Russia
• WSO/UV Spain
• WSO/UV Italy
• WSO/UV Germany
• WSO/UV Argentina

IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite, Archive Interface

ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) at Villafranca

ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) ESA/Estec/SAI

IPAC (Infrared Processing & Analysis Center) ISO services

Página ISO del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)

´Spitzer Space Telescope´, SIRTF, Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (NASA)

• First Light (sept 3, 2003)
• Release Images  (18 dec 2003)
• Spitzer Shares the Wealth  (11 May 2004)

`Herschel Space Observatory', FIRST, Far InfraRed and Submillimetre Telescope (ESA)

• Herschel Science Centre (HSC)
• Herschel Sci-Tech portal
• Herschel Public Information Site

AKARI, (formerly ASTRO-F) Infrared Imaging Surveyor (JAXA) -- AKARI (ESA)

WISE, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NASA)

SAFIR, Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory (NASA)

SPICA, SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ESA Cosmic Vision 2015 - 2025, JAXA)

• SPICA (ESA)
• SPICA (JAXA)

ROSAT (Röntgen Satellite) at MPE

ROSAT (Röntgen Satellite) at NASA

ASCA (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics)

BeppoSAX (Satellite per Astronomia X "Beppo" in honor of Giuseppe Occhialini), Italian Space Agency (ASI)

RXTE Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer

Chandra X-ray Observatory, AXAF (Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility)

• Chandra X-ray Center Operated for NASA by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Chandra X-ray Center Science
• Chandra X-ray Center Public Information & Education
• Chandra NASA

XMM, X-ray Multimirror Mission - NEWTON

• XMM - NEWTON XMM Science Operations Centre
• XMM - NEWTON ESA Science on XMM

Astro-E

Suzaku (previously called Astro-E2) The fifth Japanese X-ray Astronomy Mission

IXO, International X-ray Observatory (ESO, NASA, JAXA)

• IXO formerly XEUS (ESA Space Science)
• IXO formerly XEUS (ESA Research & Science)
• IXO formerly Constellation X (formerly HTXS) (NASA)

Simbol-X (CNES, ASI)

• Simbol-X (ASI)
• Simbol-X (CNES)

MAXIM, MicroArcsecond X-ray Imaging Mission (NASA)

SXASS, Spanish X-ray Astronomy Support Service

INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory)

INTEGRAL

LEGRI (Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager)

GLAST, Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope

The MINISAT project

COBE Home Page (NASA)

Planck (formerly called COBRAS/SAMBA) image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field (ESA)

WMAP, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (NASA) launched June 30 2001

• WMAP Related Media Resources

SWAS (Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite)

Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

The HIPPARCOS Space Astrometry Mission (ESA)

• Access the HIPPARCOS and TYCHO Catalogues Data

GAIA, Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophisics (The Galactic Census Project)

• GAIA ESA's web site for the scientific community
• GAIA on the ESA Science and Technology web site
• Gaia DPAC, Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium
• ELSA, European Leadership in Space Astrometry (MC FP6)
• GREAT, Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training - Greatwiki
• REG, Red para la Explotación Científica de Gaia

SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory (formerly called Space Interferometry Mission) (NASA)

JASMINE Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exploration

OBSS Origins Billion Star Survey

OSIRIS Russian space optical interferometer project

COROT COnvection ROtation à Transits planétaires -- (Asterosismology and Search for Exoplanets)

• COROT (CNES)
• COROT (CNES-tv)
• COROT (ESA)
• COROT participación española
• COROT on its way (launched on Dec 27 2006)
• COROT sees first light! (24 January 2007)
• COROT enters fine-pointing mode (5 February 2007)
• COROT started its science mission (9 February 2007)
• COROT discovers its first exoplanet (‘COROT-Exo-1b’) - (3 may 2007)
• COROT surprises a year after launch - 2nd CoRoT transiting planet (‘COROT-Exo-2b’) (20 Dec 2007)
• COROT Exoplanet hunt update (‘COROT-Exo-3-5’) (21 May 2008)
• COROT finds exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star (‘COROT-Exo-4b’) (24 July 2008)
• COROT directly sees ‘Sun-quakes’ in other stars for the first time (23 October 2008)
• COROT discovers smallest exoplanet yet, with a surface to walk on (ESA, 3 Feb 2009)

MOST Microvariability & Oscillations of STars (Canada's First Space Telescope)

Kepler NASA mission to detect transits by extra-solar Earth-like planets (NASA)

Kepler Mission (NASA)

• Kepler spacecraft lifted off (March 6, 2009)
• Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths (March 6, 2009)

TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder), Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life (NASA) PlanetQuest

• TPF (JPL, NASA) PlanetQuest
• TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder)
• TPF-C Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph
• TPF-I Terrestrial Planet Finder Inteferometer
• NStED, NASA Star and Exoplanet Database

Darwin (Space Infrared Interferometer Project) (ESA) - search for Earth-like planets

• Darwin overview ESA Space Science
• Darwin mission proposal to ESA for its "Cosmic Vision" 2015-2025 program (Leger, et al., 2007)
• DAMA (Darwin Archive MAdrid) a VO-tool for the Darwin mission

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) ESA Cosmic Vision 2015 - 2025

SI, Stellar Imager previously SISP, Stellar Imager and Seismic Probe (NASA)

STARS (Seismic Telescope for Astrophysical Research from Space) (ESA)

SOHO The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory .. .. SOHO What's new ..

• VIRGO Variability of solar IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations

Ulysses /ESA WWW Home Page

Ulysses Mission home page (JPL)

ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) (launched August 25 1997)

YOHKOH Soft X-Ray Telescope

TRACE, Transition Region And Coronal Explorer

RHESSI, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (UCB)

RHESSI, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (NASA)

SXI, Solar X-ray Imager

HINODE (Solar-B)

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) - The Sun in 3D

SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

Solar Orbiter A High-Resolution Mission to the Sun and Inner Heliosphere

Cluster II The Cluster Quartet: Rumba, Salsa, Samba, Tango

Double Star (effects of the Sun on the Earth's environment)

Genesis (catching atoms from the solar wind) NASA

Voyager Project Home Page

Galileo Mission to Jupiter (JPL) .. Galileo What's new ..

Galileo to Jupiter

Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan (JPL)

• Movies of Jupiter by the Cassini probe, (22-Nov-2000)
• Saturn Details Become Visible To Cassini Spacecraft (5-Dec-2003)
• Cassini's Radar Shows Titan's Young Active Surface (29-Oct-2004)

Mars Express ESA

• Mars Express enters orbit around the Red Planet Contact awaited with Beagle 2 (25 dec 2003)

Mars Exploration Rover mission NASA

• Color Picture from Spirit is Most Detailed View of Mars Ever Seen  (6 ene 2004)
• Mars Exploration Rover images

2001 Mars Odyssey (launch on April 7, 2001)

• 2001 Mars Odyssey in Orbit Around Mars (October 23, 2001)
• 2001 Mars Odyssey, First Image of Mars (October 30, 2001)

NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter is believed to be lost (September 23, 1999)

Mars Global Surveyor

Mars Surveyor Program

Mars Pathfinder Mission

Mars 96 project Russian flight mission

NASA Solar System Exploration Launch and Events: 1998-2009

MESSENGER “MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging,”

PKE, Pluto-Kuiper Express to explore Pluto/Charon and the fringes of our Solar System

Lunar Prospector (NASA)

SMART-1, Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology (ESA) to orbit the Moon

KAGUYA (SELENE) (JAXA)

NEAR Shoemaker, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

• NEAR in orbit around asteroid 433 Eros (14 Feb 2000)
• NEAR Descent to Eros (12 Feb 2001)

Stardust NASA Comet sample return mission (Launched, February 7, 1999)

• Stardust successfully navigate through the particle and gas-laden coma around comet Wild 2 (2 Jan 2004)

ROSETTA (rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko)

Dawn Mission going to the heart of the Asteroid Belt

ORIGINS Program NASA

ESA Astrophysics Missions

ESA Cosmic Vision 2015 - 2025

ESA Space Science

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Missions In the Works (The Galaxy Page)

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GSOC Satellite Predictions

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Observatorio Virtual -/- Virtual Observatory

IVOA, International Virtual Observatory Alliance

• EURO-VO, The European Virtual Observatory (EU)
  • VOTECH The first project under the VO Technology Centre (VOTC)
  • EuroVO-DCA Data Centre Alliance (DCA)
• SVO Spanish Virtual Observatory
• ESA VO European Space Agency, Virtual Observatory Portal
• AstroGrid UK contribution to a global "Virtual Observatory"
• ASTROVIRTEL Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes
• DataGrid
• GAVO, German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
• DRACO – the Italian Data Grid for Astrophysical Research

• NVO, National Virtual Observatory (USA)
  • NOAO and the National Virtual Observatory (NVO)

• CVO, Canadian Virtual Observatory

• Aus-VO, Australian Virtual Observatory

• China-VO, Virtual Observatory of China
• JVO, Japanese Virtual Observatory
• KVO, Korean Virtual Observatory

• RVO, Russian Virtual Observatory

• VOI, Virtual Observatory-India

Virtual Observatories of the Future (conference, Caltech June 13 - 16, 2000)

Toward an International Virtual Observatory (June 10 - 14, 2002 Garching, Germany)

IVOA Interoperability 2003 (12-16 May 2003: IoA, Cambridge, UK)

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Pequeños Observatorios

Pequeños Observatorios en España

Astronomía Internacional / International Astronomy

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