Welcomme to the Observing Assistant page, the OA team is formed by Ken Barton, John Hamilton, David Woodworth and Marie-Claire Hainaut. We intend to gather here our favorite links at work, and any other that might be of use to the observers.

WEATHER

Most used satellite images

• IR image (updated hourly)
• Hawaii IR MPEG movie (updated hourly)
• Full disk GOES IR image

  and, if the above sites are down,

• USA IR West (GOES 9) (updated every 15 minutes)

Direct pictures from Mauna Kea

• Gemini picture, from the CFHT catwalk (updated every 15 minutes, from 6:00 am to 6:45pm)
• Mauna Kea south flank, from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (updated every 10 minutes

Plus the current UKIRT weather (15 minutes average).

Relative Humidity

• NW-SE cross section

Forecasts

• Hilo Weather Forecast
• Hawaii State Forecast Discussion

More on the University Of Hawaii Meteorology Local Weather site and John page on Mauna Kea weather (fun!).

CFHT

• Operations/Observing Schedule
• Astronomical Calendar for Mauna Kea
• Observing Runs Communications

ASTRO

Calendar, Sky Maps,...

• CADC Archives and Tools,
• Digitized Sky Survey Search,
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey,
• Astronomical Sky Calendar.

Other Observatories

• Mauna Kea Observatories,
• European Southern Observatory,
• NOAOand Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory,
• Space Telescope Science Institute,
• Multiple Mirrors Telescope,
• Vatican Observatory.

And search for more in Star World.

Astronomical groups, conferences,meetings...

• International Astronomy Meetings, a list prepared by Liz Bryson,
• International Astronomical Union,
• American Astronomical Society,
• and a neat amateur site Peoria Astronomical Society.

More Astronomy on the Web!

• AstroWeb,
• Urania, a distributed digital library for astronomy and astrophysics,
• Informations and On-line Data in Astronomy,
• NASA Astrophysics Data System,
• Canadian Astronomy Data Centre,
• Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg.

Of course there is here some redundancy, pick the one you like best!

Copyright 1995,Loch Ness Productions, starfield by Tim W.Kuzniar.

Any comment?

Last update: 08/30/97