Useful links

Databases and Archives

• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System

• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

• SIMBAD Astronomical Database - CDS

• WEBDA Cluster Database

• Gaia data releases

• Gaia Benchmark Stars

• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

• Gaia mission

• A collection of model stellar spectra for spectral types B to early-M

• Astro Better

Institutions, observatories and telescopes

• European Southern Observatory ESO

• Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes

• Nordic Optical Telescope

• Mercator Telescope

• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

• Australian Astronomical Optics

• Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica INAF

• INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Tools

• Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables TOPCAT

• Aladin Sky Atlas

• SAOImage DS9

• Overleaf

• FERRE: A code for spectroscopic analysis

Lectures

• Abundances and Kinematics from High-Resolution Spectroscopic Surveys E. Tolstoy at Third Chilean Advanced School of Astrophysics

Books

• Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres R.J. Rutten

Other

• IAU Recommendations concerning units (SI units)