Astronomical Data Archives - anjavdl/PHY517_AST443 GitHub Wiki

General databases

• SIMBAD - mainly galactic
• NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

An incomplete list of sky surveys

• SDSS - imaging and spectroscopy of the northern extragalactic sky
• PanSTARRS - imaging of everything at
• Dark Energy Survey - imaging of 5000 sq. deg. of southern extragalactic sky
• 2MASS - infrared all-sky survey
• Gaia - astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion stars, all-sky
• TESS - lightcurves of 200,000 stars, all-sky
• OGLE - lightcurves of stars in Galactic bulge and Magellanic Clouds
• LIGO - Gravitational Wave events

Transient alerts and data

• Zwicky Transient Facility - time domain survey, mainly northern hemisphere
• List of current supernovae - from multiple sources
• Transient Name Server - keeps track of all transient alerts
• AAVSO - database of the American Association of Variable Star Observers

An incomplete list of telescope archives

• Hubble Legacy Archive - images from the Hubble telescope, nice interface
• MAST - data from UV, optical, and infrared space telescopes; some High-Level Science Products; PanSTARRS
• ESO - data from ESO telescopes, including the VLT
• NOAO - data from NOAO telescopes; older site here
• KOA - some data taken with Keck telescopes
• Gemini
• CFHT
• telarchive - python tool to query a number of these archives at one