Organization | Description | Link | Document* |
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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.html | AAS.xml |
ADS (Astrophysics Data System) | The ADS is providing a list of observation facilities | http://vo.ads.harvard.edu/dv/facilities.txt | |
AstroWeb | AstroWeb provides a web page containing a long list of observation facilities | http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroWeb/astroweb/telspace.html | Astroweb.html |
DSN (Deep Space Network) | List of the DSN antennas, as defined by NASA/NAIF/SPICE | https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/MATLAB/req/naif_ids.html#Ground%20Stations | DSN.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: | |
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) | IRAF is an astronomical data analysis tool | ||
NAIF (NASA Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility) | NAIF is developing SPICE (positional and attitude ephemeris of spacecraft), and provides a list of spacecraft codes | https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/MATLAB/req/naif_ids.html#Spacecraft | NAIF.xml |
NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) | NSSDC is archiving all data acquired from NASA spacecraft | NSSDC.xml | |
PDS (NASA Planetary Data System) | PDS is archiving all planetary data acquired on a NASA spacecraft or experiment. | pds-ppi-spacecraft.json | |
SANA (Space Assigned Number Authority) | SANA is a registry of spacecraft emanating from CCSDS | ||
Xephem | Xephem is tool to display the sky visible from a given location and time. It contains a list of ground observatories | http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ | xephem_sites.txt |
WMO (World Meteorological Organization) / OSCAR | The 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 | |
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 observatories | Nineplanets.org amateur list | http://obs.nineplanets.org/obs/obslist.html | |
NASA/PDS | NASA Planetary Data System | https://pds.nasa.gov/services/search/search/?q=&fq=facet_type%3A%221%2Cinstrument_host%22 | web content as of |
astropy | Used 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 |
* The attached document may not be up-to-date
Other Documentation
7 Comments
Baptiste Cecconi
go and check http://celestrak.com
Baptiste Cecconi
check also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number
Baptiste Cecconi
may be not use unofficial lists, such as Xephem ?
Baptiste Cecconi
On PDS4 registry:
Stéphane Erard
Related to the OPTICON prg: http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/followup/observatories
Stéphane Erard
(from Ann Raugh) Astronomical Almanac. Unfortunately, their observatory search page is nonfunctional and apparently abandoned: https://asa.hmnao.com/SecJ/Observatories.html.
Stéphane Erard
A future facility list / resolver should have a json output compliant with astropy, see here:
https://github.com/astropy/astropy-data/tree/gh-pages/coordinates