Archives and Catalogues

The following Archives and Catalogues can be helpful for proposal preparation and for preparing an observing run.

Archives

• ESO Science Archive Query Form.
  For a comprehensive overview of the on-line ESO/ST-ECF archives and catalogues please refer to the Science Archive Facility.
• ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey (DSS)
• Interactive 2MASS Image Service for the NASA/IPAC Infrared Sciene Archive

Catalogues and Databases

• HST Guide Star Catalogue (GSC)
• ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A2.0 Catalogue Server

Standard Stars Data

Below follows a non-exhaustive list of on-line standard star catalogues. Note that the information might note be fully up-to-date and that some further improvements may be needed.

Optical

• Landolt's Standard Fields, with finding charts scanned
• The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD)
• Optical and UV Spectrophotometric Standards
• Spectrophotometric Calibration OBs for EMMI (gZipped PostScript, 1.6 Mb)

Infrared

• Photometric Standard Stars: NICMOS and ARNICA
• Spectrophotometric Standards
  • Mid-IR spectrophotometric standard stars
  • List
  • Maps
• Telluric star search tool
• Siebenmorgen MidIr Standards, and Siebenmorgen/Sterzik list