Links

ASTROMETRY

MPC Guide to Astrometry
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/info/Astrometry.html

Minor Planet Mailing List FAQ
http://www.bitnik.com/mp/MPML-FAQ.html

LONEOS Information for Amateur Astronomers
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/amateurs.html

Everstar Observatory PDF Manual
http://www.everstar.com/askcasteroids/Asteroids8.pdf

Common Observational Mishaps
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/kaspar/obs_mishaps/mishaps.html

Locations of Astrometric Stations around the world
http://www.projectpluto.com/mpc_stat.htm

Calculation of residuals of asteroid positions
http://astro.ago.uni-lj.si/asteroids/residuals.html

Asteroid Identifier
http://www-rcp.ijs.si/~jure/software/check.html

ASTEROIDS

Bill Bottke's Asteroid Research Home Page
http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/bottke/index.html

Asteroid Radar Research
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/

Radar-Detected Asteroids
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/index.html

Goldstone Asteroid Schedule
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/goldstone_asteroid_schedule.html

Arecibo Telescope Asteroid Schedule
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/arecibo_ops.html

SEDS small bodies page
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/smallbodies.html

JPL asteroids page
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/smb.htm

Asteroid satellites
http://members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/Moon_list.htm

Alphabetical list of asteroid names
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/kboc.html

University of Hawaii Kuiper Belt Page
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/kb.html

ORGANIZATIONS AND CLUBS

ALPO minor planets section
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/minplan.html

International Occultation Timing Association
http://www.anomalies.com/iotaweb/index.htm

CIRCULARS, BULLETINS AND ONLINE MAGAZINES

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/cbat.html

MPC Circulars
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPCSummary/MPCSummary.html

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/RecentMPECs.html

ALPO Minor Planet Bulletin
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/minplan/minplanbull.html

Tumbling Stones
http://spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/tumblingstone/

EPHEMERIS COMPUTATION SERVICE

JPL Horizons
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html

Lowell
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/

Minor Planet Center

NEODys
http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo

NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS

MPC NEO Page
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/NEO/TheNEOPage.html

JPL NEO Page
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

List Of The Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/Dangerous.html

COMETS

Basic Comet Information
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet/toc.htm

ALPO Comets Section
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/comet.html

JPL Comets Page
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

SEDS Comet Page
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/comets.html

ICQ Page
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html

Gary W. Kronk Comet Page
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/

MPC Lists and Plots: Comets
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/CometLists.html

JPL Comet Ephemeris
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/eph.html

Eurpean Asteroid Research Node
http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/earn/

PROFESSIONAL SURVEYS

The Spacewatch Project
http://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/

LONEOS-Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos_disc.html

LINEAR-Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research
http://www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR/

Neat-Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/

Catalina Sky Survey
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/

SCAP-BAO Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/~zj/scap/scap.html

Euneaso
http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/earn/euneaso.htm

UESAC-Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/uesac_eng.html

PRIVATE ASTEROID SURVEYS

Goodricke-Pigott Observatory
http://gpobs.home.mindspring.com/gpobs.htm

Desert Eagle Observatory
http://www.geocities.com/microplanet333/

The Amateur Sky Survey
http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/tass.shtml

Sky Survey
http://www.sky-survey.com

Stardial
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/stardial/

ASTEROID LIGHTCURVES

Minor Planet Lightcurve Parameters
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/LightcurveDat.html

Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Links (CALL)
http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/astlc/default.htm

OBSERVING REQUESTS BY PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMERS

Possible amateur astrometric contributions to flight project support
http://www.bitnik.com/mp/Links/JPL_Mission_Support.html

Radar Targets in need of Astrometric and Photometric Support
http://www.bitnik.com/mp/Links/Radar_Support.html

TERRESTRIAL IMPACT CRATERS

Earth Impact Database
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/

Terrestrial Impact Craters slides
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/impacts.html

SPACE MISSIONS TO COMETS AND ASTEROIDS

Comet Nucleus Tour
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/comets/contour.html

Deep Impact
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/comets/deepimpact.html

Deep Space 1
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/

NEAR
http://near.jhuapl.edu/

Star Dust
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/

Pluto-Kuiper Express
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ice_fire//pkexprss.htm

Rosetta
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/comets/rosetta.html

ASTROMETRY & PHOTOMETRY SOFTWARE

Astrometrica (Shareware, DOS version freeware)
http://www.astrometrica.at/

Computer Aided-Astrometry
http://www.camarilloobservatory.com/caawin.htm

Charon (DOS-based freeware)
http://www.projectpluto.com/charon.htm

Pinpoint (Automated astrometry engine)
http://pinpoint.dc3.com/

MPO Canopus (Asteroid astrometry and Photometry)
http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/htms/mpocanopus.htm

Circe
http://www.ulisse.bs.it/osservatorio/software/testi/circe.htm

IRIS (image processing freeware)
http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm

Win Scan (Drift Scanning Freeware)
http://home.t-online.de/home/05102909321-0001/astrone.htm

ONLINE IMAGE ARCHIVES

DANEOPS
http://earn.dlr.de/daneops/

NASA Sky Morph
http://skys.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/skymorph/mobs.pl

USNO Image archive
http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/data/FchPix/

ESO Schmidt Plate archive
http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/astrocat/eso_schmidt/form

STAR CATALOGUES

USNO A2
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/cgi-bin/koehn/webnet

GSC 2.2
http://www-gsss.stsci.edu/gsc/Copy%20of%20gsc2/GSC2home.htm

CCD IMAGERS

Build Your Own CCD Camera

Cookbook CCD Camera
http://www.wvi.com/~rberry/cookbook/cookbook.htm

Audine Camera
http://www.astrosurf.com/audine/English/index_en.htm

Genesis CCD Camera
http://www.genesis16.net/

Southwest Cryostatics
http://www.intricate-ms.com/resource/resource_swcryodatasheets.html

Commercial

SBIG Astronomical Instruments
http://www.sbig.com/

Starlight Express
http://www.starlight-xpress.co.uk/

Finger Lake Instruments
http://www.fli-cam.com/

Apogee Instruments
http://www.apogee-ccd.com/

Meade Instruments
http://www.meade.com/

ASTEROID HUNTING AWARDS AND PRIZES

Edgar Wilson Award
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/special/EdgarWilson.html

Planetary Society Gene Shoemaker Grant
http://www.planetary.org/html/neo/SocietyProjects/ShoemakerGrant/2002ShoeGrants.html

Benson Prize
http://www.spacedev.org/BensonPrize.html