OrganizationDescriptionLinkDocument*
AAS (American Astronomical Society)The AAS is proposing a list of ground-based facilities, with short names to be used for citations in their journals.http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/facility.htmlAAS.xml
ADS (Astrophysics Data System)The ADS is providing a list of observation facilitieshttp://vo.ads.harvard.edu/dv/facilities.txt

ADS_facilities.txt

harvard.xml

AstroWebAstroWeb provides a web page containing a long list of observation facilitieshttp://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroWeb/astroweb/telspace.htmlAstroweb.html
DSN (Deep Space Network)List of the DSN antennas, as defined by NASA/NAIF/SPICEhttps://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/MATLAB/req/naif_ids.html#Ground%20StationsDSN.txt
IAU (International Astronomical Union) / MPC (Minor Planet Center)The MPC is maintaining a list of observatories with a unique obs code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union

(link at MPC is dead at time of writing)

In 2023: 

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/ObsCodesF.html

IAU-MPC.txt


obscodes_extended.json.gz

IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)IRAF is an astronomical data analysis tool

http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/iraf/rvsao/bcvcorr/obsdb.html

http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html

IRAF.txt

IRAF.xml

NAIF (NASA Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility)NAIF is developing SPICE (positional and attitude ephemeris of spacecraft), and provides a list of spacecraft codeshttps://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/MATLAB/req/naif_ids.html#SpacecraftNAIF.xml
NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center)NSSDC is archiving all data acquired from NASA spacecraft

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftSearch.do

NSSDC.xml
PDS (NASA Planetary Data System)PDS is archiving all planetary data acquired on a NASA spacecraft or experiment.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov


pds-ppi-spacecraft.json
SANA (Space Assigned Number Authority)SANA is a registry of spacecraft emanating from CCSDS

http://sanaregistry.org

http://sanaregistry.org/r/spacecraftid/spacecraftid.html

SANA-orig.xml

SANA.xml

XephemXephem is tool to display the sky visible from a given location and time. It contains a list of ground observatorieshttp://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem_sites.txt
WMO (World Meteorological Organization) / OSCARThe WMO (World Meteorological Organization) has recently set up a tool to search through space observation capabilities (dedicated to meteorological activities of Earth and to space weather)https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/spacecapabilities

Oscar - Satellites 2017-07-11.xlsx

SPASE (Space Physics Archive Search and Extract)SPASE Registry includes observatory and instrument lists

http://www.spase-group.org/smwg/explorer/

http://spase-group.org/smwg/search?words=*&authority=SMWG&category=Observatory&all=yes

spase.xml
List of amateur observatoriesNineplanets.org amateur listhttp://obs.nineplanets.org/obs/obslist.html
NASA/PDSNASA Planetary Data Systemhttps://pds.nasa.gov/services/search/search/?q=&fq=facet_type%3A%221%2Cinstrument_host%22

web content as of  

astropyUsed with 

astropy.coordinates.SkyCoord.from_name

(selection of terrestrial obs with source and some aliases). Often from IRAF, with additions

http://www.astropy.org/astropy-data/coordinates/sites.json

sites.json

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