Useful Links
Astronomy
Institutions
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC)
- Stanford University
- Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- X-ray Astronomy Group (Cambridge)
- Department of Astronomy & Physics, Saint Mary's University
- NASA
- ESA
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Institute of Physics
Reference
X-ray Astronomy
- XMM-Newton – European X-ray telescope
- XMM-Newton Science Archive
- Chandra – NASA X-ray telescope
- Suzaku –JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope
- HEASARC – NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive
- XSPEC – X-ray spectral fitting package
Interest
- Institute of Astronomy - Public Outreach
- IoA All-Sky Camera
- AstroPod – astronomy podcast
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- HubbleSite
- NASA Human Spaceflight
- Portal to the Universe
- Space Weather
- WorldWide Telescope – Microsoft interface to the VO
- Stellarium – desktop planetarium software
Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Jesus College
- Jesus College MCR
- JCSU – the Jesus College Students' Union (JCR)
- Institute of Astronomy
- Physics Department
- Talks.cam
- Newton Catalogue – Cambridge University Libraries
Rowing
- Jesus College Boat Club
- Christ's College Boat Club
- The Fairbairn Cup – head race in the Michaelmas term, organsied by JCBC
- Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs – including information about the Bumps
- Cambridge Rowing Messageboards
- British Rowing
- OARSport
- The Tideway Slug
Computing
Software
- Apple - Downloads
- MacPorts – open source software repository for Mac OS X
- Smultron – good text editor (Mac)
- Notepad++ – text editor (Windows)
- gfortran for Mac OS X
- Veusz – plotting tool
- XSPEC – X-ray spectral fitting
- NVIDIA CUDA Zone
- openSUSE
- openSUSE Build Service - Search – search packages for openSUSE
- Fedora Project
- Fedora YUM Package Database
- RPM Fusion
Reference
- cplusplus.com – C++ reference
- PHP Manual
- Python Documentation
- Bash Scripting
- Regular Expressions - QuickStart
- MPI Tutorial – parallelisation