Solar System Research, 1999, v. 33, N 3, pp. 247-251.
This is my translation. See Journal for the final English text. 

UDK 523...

      Accessing Astronomical Data over the Internet

      S.I. Ipatov

     M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow,
Miusskaya sq. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia

     @Abstracts@---The websites of astronomical journals,
scientific organizations, data bases and some scientists are
presented. A short description of the information that can be got
from these addresses is presented. The websites are mainly for
specialists in dynamical astronomy, but also may be interested
for other astronomers.


     Received September 8, 1998


     Of course, it is more convenient to have journals from
a printing--house in hands and to get personally announcements
about conferences. As this is not always possible, then one can
use Internet in order to read journals and information about
conferences and also to receive various astronomical data.

     Below there are sites of some servers, which can be useful
for astronomers. During the time elapsed after writing this
paper, the possibilities of some servers can be widen, the sites of
other servers can be changed, and the services of third servers
can become paid.

     Many scientists use the Netscape program for their work in
Internet. Clicking a corresponding icon in Windows 95 with a
mouse, you thereby call a menu and then print the address of the
server needed for you.

     In order to get data via ftp, it is enough to print "ftp"
and the address, then "get" and the name of the file needed for
you. You print "*.*" and use the command "mget", if you need all
files. The command "ls" can be used in order to see a list of the
files located at this site. You can put your file in this server
using the command "put".


     ADDRESSES OF SERVERS CONTAINING THE INFORMATION ABOUT
SEVERAL JOURNALS AT ONCE:


     http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ or http://adswww.harvard.edu/,
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The access to 190
astronomical catalogs and 125,000 abstracts.

     http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_articles.html, Articles
Service. From the menu of this page you can get to:

     Online Journals. Free viewing of texts of papers published
in some journals, including Astronomical Journal, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Meteoritics and Planetary
Sciences, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and
Baltic Astronomy. In summer 1998 there were texts of papers until
the end of 1996 for most of these journals and until the end of
1997 for several journals.

     Online Conference Proceedings. Here you can find proceedings
of several conferences.

     Table of Contents Service
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/toc_service.html), contents of
journals. Besides the journals noted above, one can read
abstracts from the journal 'Icarus' and with the contents of the
journals 'Planetary and Space Sciences' and 'Sky and Telescope'.

     Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract Service
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html). A list of
papers of the author needed for you can be got beginning from
1982. Abstracts of some publications also can be got. The service
contains about 200,000 abstracts.



     http://www.admin.ias.edu/mnlib/nsejour.htm, Natural Sciences
Electronic Journals. The full address including 'nsejour.htm' must
be printed.

     A list of journals with a full free access (a whole paper can
be got) includes:

     Astronomical Journal, v 115, 1998--

     Astronomy and Astrophysical Supplement, v. 116, 1996---

     Astrophysical Journal, v. 474, 1997---

     Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 447, 1995---

     Astrophysical Journal Supplement, v. 108, 1997---

     The scientist, v. 8, 1994---

     The access to the journals 'Nature' and 'Science' needed
payment.



     http://www.idealibrary.com/, a server in USA.

     http://www.europe.ideallibrary.com/, a server in United
Kingdom.

     IDEAL (International Digital Electronic Access Library). 175
journals published by Academic Press, including 'Icarus'. Guest
login from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. of Pacific time and at any time at
week--end. Only contents and abstracts are available for guests.
Full texts are available only for subscribers.



     http://link.springer.de/ol/total/list.htm, a list of the
journals published by Springer.

    http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00230index.htm,
the journal 'Astronomy and Astrophysics'. Clicking "Contents"
with a mouse, you can read contents of the journal and abstracts.
The access to papers is only for subscribers.



     http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cats/J.htx, CDS service for
Publishing Tables. Tables from some journals, including Astronomy
and Astrophysics, Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Solar System
Research, Astronomy Letters.



     http://www.elsevier.nl/, Elsevier Science publishing
company. More than 1000 journals. An access to journals is only
for subscribers.



     http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/, publishing company 'Kluwer academic
publishers'. Via "Journals home pages" one can get to the journals
of this publishing company, including Astrophysics and Space
Science, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy; Earth,
Moon, and Planets; Experimental Astronomy, Space Science Reviews.
Via "Browse through the table of contents" one can get to
contents. Addresses of authors of papers are also available.



     http://www.blacksci.co.uk/uk/journals.htm, Blackwell
Science Ltd. About 200 journals published in Oxford, Boston,
Berlin, and Melburn, including Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

     In order to have a free look at contents and abstracts, one
can print "http://www.journalsonline.bids.com/JournalsOnline",
click "guest users" with a mouse, choose "Brouse" on the left
part of the appearing picture, and then choose the first letter of
a title of a journal and the title. There are contents and
abstracts of the journal 'MNRAS' for 1998 .

     The system allows to make a search basing on a title of a
paper, an author, and a title of a journal.

     Contents of the journal 'Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society' (from 1997) can be found also at the website
http://www.blackwell-science.com/products/journals/mnras.htm
by clicking "Table of Contents" on the left. There are no
abstracts here, but letters to the editor can be freely obtained
in the PDF format.


     SITES OF SERVERS OF SEVERAL JOURNALS


     http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/, Astronomical
Journal. Full texts of papers are freely available beginning from
vol. 115 (from January 1998).

     http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html, Service of
Abstracts at CDS. An access to abstracts of papers from
'Astronomy and Astrophysics' and 'Astronomy and Astrophysics
Supplement Series'.

     http://www.astronomynow.com/, Astronomy now. Contents.

     http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/, Astrophysical
Journal. Free access to full texts of papers beginning from vol.
474 (from January 1997).

     http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal, Publications
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Full texts of papers
are available freely from vol. 110 (from January 1998).

     http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/Icarus/Icarus.html, contents
of the journal 'Icarus'.

     http://www.nature.com/, Nature, contents.

     http://www.newscientist.com/ includes about 1/3 of printed
material from the journal 'New Scientist'. Clicking "contents" on
the left at the top of the page, you get into the contents of the
last issue.

     http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/epsl, Planetary and Space
Sciences.

     http://www.skypub.com/, Sky publishing corporation,
including websites' links to the journal 'Sky and Telescope', and
also a lot of other useful astronomical information.

     http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer/, The astronomer on line.
The home page of The Astronomer group, including links to the
journal 'The Astronomer'.

     http://www.maik.rssi.ru/journals/solsys.htm, Solar System
Research (Astronomicheskii Vestnik). Contents and abstracts of
papers.

     http://www.maik.rssi.ru/journals/asteng.htm, Astronomy
Reports (Astromicheskii Zhurnal). Contents and abstracts of
papers.

     http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/pazh/, the journal 'Astronomy
Letters' (Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal). Contents and
abstracts of papers.

     http://www.netclub.ru/~stargazer/, the journal 'Zvezdochet'
(stargazer), including links to a free access to websites of some
astronomical computer programs.

     http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/meetings/LPSC99/, abstracts of
annual conference "Lunar and Planetary Science Conference". Many
scientists send abstracts to this conference. Usually these
abstracts represent two large pages of small text and correspond
to a small paper.

     http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpec/, Minor Planet
Electronic Circular. This circular contains a current information
about observations of small planets and comets.

     http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/DisplayIAUC.html, IAU
circulars published more than a year ago.

     http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/, issues of the electronic
journal devoted to the objects of the Edgeworth--Kuiper belt, and
also various information about this belt and about conferences on
this problem.


     ORGANIZATIONS:


     http://www.iau.org/, International Astronomical Union (IAU).

     http://www.iau.org/bulletin.html, IAU Information
bulletins.

     http://www.aas.org/AAS-homepage.html, American Astronomical
Society. Subdivisons: Astron. J.; Astrophys. J.; Publications;
Grant program; Meeting Information (information about meetings of
the society, which take place twice a year).

     http://www.aas.org/JobRegister/, Job Register of American
Astronomical Society. It contains data about vacancies in
astronomical organizations.

     http://www.ras.org.uk/ras/, Royal Astronomical Society,
United Kingdom.

     http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~casca/, Canadian Astronomical
Society.

      http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/index.html, European
Geophysical Society.

      http://COSPAR.itodys.jussieu.fr/, Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR).

     http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/library/website.html, Planetary
Science World Wide Sites. There are links to websites of the NASA
Centers, USA Agencies, Projects of Space Flights, Professional
Organizations and Journals, Data Archieves, Asteroids, Comets,
etc.

     http://www.nsf.gov/, National Science Foundation (a
foundation in USA).

     http://129.247.214.46/, European Asteroid Research
Node (EARN).

     http://129.247.214.46/map.htm, EARN Institutes, links to
websites of some European astronomical organizations, which
investigate asteroids.

     http://star.arm.ac.uk/, Armagh Observatory (Nothern
Ireland).

     http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IOA/IOA.html, Cambridge Institute
of Astronomy (United Kingdom).

     http://www.bdl.fr/, Bureau des Longitudes (France).

     http://www.fundp.ac.be/sciences/math/, The Department of
Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Namur (Facultes
Universitaires Notre--Dame de la Paix), Belgium.

     http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/, JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, USA).

     http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/brouse/comet.html, photos
of comets and asteroids.

    http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/, Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics.

    http://www.nyas.org/, New--York Academy of Sciences.

    http://www.rfbr.ru/, Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

    http://www.aispbu.spb.su/, Astronomical Institute of the
Saint--Petersburg University.

    http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/, Institute of Astronomy of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow.

    http://www.sai.msu.su/, P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical
Institute of the Moscow State University, Moscow.

    http://www.iki.rssi.ru/, Space Research Institute (IKI),
RAS, Moscow.

    http://www.msu.ru/russian/index.html, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow
State University.

    http://inet.Keldysh.ru/, M.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied
Mathematics, RAS, Moscow.

    http://www.prao.psn.ru/, Euro--Asian Astronomical Society,
the journal 'Astrocourier'.


     SMALL BODIES' DATA:


     http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/sst/table_list.html, Near--Earth
Asteroids.

     http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/sst/main.html, Asteroid and Comet
Impact Hazards.

     http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/sst/close.html, Predicted Close
Approaches. Predictions of close (up to 0.1 AU) approaches of
asteroids and comets with the Earth until 2020.

     http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html, Near--Earth
Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Home page. NEAT is an observatory
located on Hawaii, which detects and observes near--Earth objects
(NEOs). The aim of the program is to detect, in 10 years, most
the Earth--approaching asteroids larger than 1 km. Photoes of
NEOs are presented.

     http://cfa-www.harward.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html, Minor Planet
Center.

     http://cfa-www.harward.edu/cfa/ps/lists/TNOs.html, a list of
trans--Neptunian objects.

     http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/Centaurs.html, a
list of Centaurs.

     http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Unusual.html, a list of
unusual objects of the Solar System (near--Earth objects,
Centaurs, trans--Neptunian objects, et al.).

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/SoftwareComets.html,
orbital elements of comets.

     http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/CometLists.html, comets.

  http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/comets.html,
comets.

     http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/index.html, at this server
you can find, in particular, the information about short--periodic
comets and Sun--grazing comets.

     http://saturn.ias.fra.cnr.it/ias-home/comet/catalog.html,
Electronic Atlas of Dynamical Evolutions of Short--Period Comets.
The results of simulation of evolution of orbits of
short--periodic comets are presented.

    http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/, The Astronomical Data Center (ADC).
Astronomical catalogues.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html,
data for planets and small bodies.

    http://wwwusr.obspm.fr/planets/, data for planets around
other stars.

    http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/, Planetary Data System (PDS)
Small Bodies Node (SBN). Data for comets, asteroids, and
interplanetary dust.

    http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/sbnhtml/, SBN archives.

    http://earn.dlr.de/nea/database.htm, Data Base of Physical
Properties of Near-Earth Objects. Physical properties of
near--Earth objects.

     http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/, The Planetary Data System (PDC).
PDC archieves and distributes data about NASA space missions,
astronomical observations, and laboratory experiments. Photoes of
celestial objects are presented.

     http://riemann.usno.navy.mil/hilton/asteroid_masses.htm,
masses and densities of asteroids.

     http://lnfm1.sai.msu.su/neb/, information about satellites
of planets.



     http://www.lowel.edu/users/elgb/astorb.html, Asteroid
Orbital Elementary Database. In August 1998, file astorb.dat (11
Mb) contained data about the orbits of 41523 asteroids.
Compressed file is called astorb.dat.gz (3 Mb).

     The same files can be obtained by ftp
(ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb). In order to do it, you must
print:

ftp ftp.lowell.edu

Name: anonymous

Password: your e--mail address

ftp> cd pub/elgb

ftp> get astorb.txt

ftp> get astorb.dat.gs

ftp> quit


     TUNGUSKA PHENOMENON:


     http://www.galisteo.com/scripts/tngscript/defalt.prl, the
USA server on the Tunguska phenomenon.

     http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/, Tunguska, the server on the
Tunguska phenomenon at the Department of Physics in the University of
Bologna (Italy).

     http://omzg.sscc.ru/tunguska/, the Siberian server on the
Tunguska catastrophe.


     LIBRARIES:


     http://ben.irex.ru/, Library of Natural Sciences, RAS,
Moscow. One can find out what issues of journals are in the
library.

     http://www.gpntb.ru/search/, GPNTB (State Public Scientific
and Technical Library, Moscow).

     http://uwh.lib.msu.su/, Library of the Moscow State
University.

     http://www.loc.gov/, the Library of Congress, USA.


     SERVERS OF SOME SCIENTISTS WITH PUBLICATIONS AND SOME OTHER
USEFUL INFORMATION:


     http://www.lowell.edu/users/elgb/bowell.html, Edward Bowell.

     http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html, David
Jewitt, data about objects of the trans--Neptunian belt.

     http://adams.dm.unipi.it/~paolof/preplist.html, Paolo
Farinella.

     http://k2.space.swri.edu/~hal/papers.html, Hal Levison.

     http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~alan/papers.html, Alan
Stern.


     USEFUL ASTRONOMICAL INFORMATION:


     http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/net-resources.html, AstroWeb:
Astronomical Internet Resources.

     http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/net-www.html, the server
contains a lot of websites of astronomical organizations.

     http://www.tiac.net/users/mvz/mcd/, Astronomical Formulas
Electronic Book.

     http://cadcww.dao.nrc.ca/meetings/meetings_without.html,
information about astronomical conferences.

     http://scorpio.tn.cornell.edu/ACM, information about the
conference "Asteroids, comets, meteors" to be held at the Cornell
University (USA) on 26--30 July 1999.


     INFORMATION USEFUL FOR FOREIGN TRIPS:


     http://www.dertravel.com/, various information about
European trips.

     http://www.cvjm-muenchen.org/hotel/ehotels.html, Information
about YMCA hotels in various countries.

     http://www.hostels.com/hostel.menu.html, information about
hostels through out the world.

     http://www.vision.de/, information about 47,000 hotels though
out the world.

     http://www.hotelstravel.com/, information about more than
100,000 hotels through out the world and about airports and
airlines.

     http://www.jnto.go.jp/03welcome/accommodations.html#WIG,
Welcome Inn Reservation Assistance (reservations of hotels in
Japan).

     http://www.bahn.de/, German railways (time--tables, prices,
etc.).

     http://www.nmbs.be/, Belgian railways.

     http://www.thalys.com/, European railway company 'Thalys'.

     http://www.xe.net/currency/, The Universal Currency Converter
(information about currency relationships).


     OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION:


     http://altavista.digital.com/, a search using key words.

     http://web.ortge.ufl.edu/fyi/v23n14/fyi009.html, International
grant opportunities (information about international grants).

     http://www.relcom.ru/, a server of the Relcom company.
Besides network services of this company, in particular, one can
read about Internet and find different ftp sites and websites of
organizations in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

     http://www.rating.ru/, the Rating company, including
information about reliability of banks.

     http://www.maik.rssi.ru/index.html, IAPC Nauka (Nauka
International Academic Publishing Company).

     http://tds.lpi.ac.ru/, URSS Publishing Company.

     http://www.price.ru/, data for various companies selling
computers.


     This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic
Research, project no. 96-02-17892, and by the Russian Federal
Scientific and Technical Program "Astronomy", project 1.9.4.1.