| 2MASS | Two-micron All-Sky Survey - Infra-red (Caltech)
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| AAT | Anglo-Australian Telescope - archive
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| ADC | Astronomical Data Center (GSFC)
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| AEQ | ADC External Query engine (GSFC)
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| Aladin | Image archive and browser (Strasbourg)
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| AMASE | Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine (GSFC)
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| APM cat | Astronomical Plate Measuring engine catalogue site (Cambridge)
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| APS | Automated Plate Scanner (University of Minnesota)
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| ASCA | ASCA science archive (ISAS, Japan)
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| ASDC | Italian Space Agency (ASI) Science Data Centre
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| Astrobrowse | Astrobrowse query engine (GSFC)
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| CADC | Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (Victoria, BC)
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| CASU | Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
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| CDS | Centre de Donées de Strasbourg
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| CEUV | Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley)
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| Chandra | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (Harvard)
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| Chandra-UK | Chandra data archives - UK mirror (Leicester)
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| DAO | Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (Victoria BC)
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| DIANA | Distributed Italian Astronomy Network Achive
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| DPOSS | Palomar Digital Sky Survey (Caltech)
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| EGSO | European Grid of Solar Observatories
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| ESO-archive | European Southern Observatory archive (Garching)
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| FIRST | Faint Images of Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters (VLA)
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| GSC-II | Guide Star Catalog-II (STScI)
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| HEASARC | High Energy Astronomy Science Archive Research Center (GSFC)
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| HERA | HEASARC data analysis tool (GSFC)
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| IMPRESS | IMage PeRimeters of Sky Surveys - graphical database interface (GSFC)
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| INES | IAU Final Archive data (Strasbourg)
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| INT | Isaac Newton Telescope - wide field survey
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| IoA | Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge)
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| IoA-archive | Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge) archive
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| IPAC | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (Caltech)
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| IRSA | InfraRed Science Archive (Caltech)
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| ISO | Infrared Space Observatory (Vilspa)
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| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer archive (Vilspa)
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| jMAISON | Multi-wavelength Astronomical Image Service ON-line
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| LEDA | Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
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| LEDAS | Leicester Data Archive Service
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| MAST | Multimission Archive at STScI
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| NED | NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (Caltech)
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| NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center (GSFC)
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| NVSS | NRAO VLA Sky Survey
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| PDS | Planetary Data System (JPL)
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| protoPXC | Prototype positional cross-correlator (CDS)
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| Querator | Advanced multi-archive search engine
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| ROSAT | Rontgensatelit X-ray Data Centre (Garching)
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| SAO | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Harvard)
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| SDAC | Solar Data Analysis Center (GSFC)
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| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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| SIRTF | Space Infrared Telescope Facility
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| SSDS | Space Science Data System (GSFC)
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| SSS | SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
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| Starcast | Starcast interface to STScI archive
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| Starview6 | Starview database browser - (StSCI)
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| STScI | Space Telescope Science Centre - archive (Baltimore)
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| SuperCOSMOS | Wide Field Astronomy Unit (Edinburgh) sky survey
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| SX | Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive (Johns Hopkins University)
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| UKADC | UK Astronomical Data Centre (Cambridge)
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| VizieR | Catalogue archive with browser (Strasbourg)
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| WFAU | Wide Field Astronomy Unit (Edinburgh)
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| ATC | Astronomy Technology Centre (Edinburgh)
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| ClassX | Classifying the High-energy Universe
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| eSTAR | eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research
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| GAVO | Astrophysical Virtual Observatory http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~whv/
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| Gemini | Gemini observatory (UK mirror site)
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| IfA | Institute for Astronomy (Edinburgh)
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| MACHO | Massive Compact Halo Objects - survey (ANU)
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| MERLIN | Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (Jodrell Bank)
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| MSSL | Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL)
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| NRAL | Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory (Jodrell Bank)
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| PPARC | UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Reseach Council
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| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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| ROE | Royal Observatory Edinburgh
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| STECF | Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (Garching)
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| USNO | US Naval Observatory
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| VISTA | Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
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| WFCAM | Wide Field Infrared Camera for UKIRT
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| XMM-Newton | XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre (Vilspa)
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| XMM-SSC | XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (Leicester)
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| CNAP | PPARC Computing and Networking Advisory Panel
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| Condor | High throughput computing environment (Wisconsin)
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| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture
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| EGRID | European Grid Forum
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| EU datagrid | European Union Data Grid
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| GASS | Global Access to Secondary Storage (part of Globus)
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| GÉANT | pan-European Gigabit Research and Education Network
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| Globus | Globus Project
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| Grid forum | Global Grid Forum
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| GridPP | Particle Physics Grid
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| Gryphyn | US Grid Physics Network
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| GSC | UK Grid Support Centre
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| IPG | Information Power Grid (NASA)
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| MOCHA | Middleware Based On a Code sHipping Architecture (Univ. of Maryland)
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| MCAT | Metadata Catalogue (part of SRB)
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| NESC | UK National e-Science Centre
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| PBS | Portable Batch System
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| SpaceGRID | ESA Space Grid
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| SRB | Storage Request Broker (SDSC)
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| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
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| VML | Vector Markup Language
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| WSDL | Web Services Definition Language
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| XML | eXtensible Markup Language - for astronomy
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| AstroGLU | Database discovery tool (Strasbourg)
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| Astrores | Proposed XML terminology for astronomy (Strasbourg)
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| ASU | Astronomical Server URL (Strasbourg)
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| CatStd | Standard for documentation of astronomical catalogues (Strasbourg)
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| CDS tools | CDS tools collection
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| DSTP | DataSpace Transfer Protocol
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| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System
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| GIOD | Globally Interconnected Object Databases (Caltech)
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| GLU | Générateur de Liens Uniformes (Strasbourg)
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| HEALPix | Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelisation (ESO)
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| HFWG | HEASARC FITS Working Group
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| HTM | Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (JHU)
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| ISAIA | Inter-operable Systems for Archival Information Access (GSFC)
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| Level5 | Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
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| NGAST | Next Generation Archive Systems Technologies (ESO)
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| OGIP | FITS header conventions from GSFC/HEASARC
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| PICA | The Pittsburgh Computational Astrostatistics (PiCA) Group
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| UCD | Unified Column Descriptor - CDS standard
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| XDF | eXtensible Data Format - proposed standard from GSFC
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| Astro-wise | Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe
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| Astrovirtel | EU data archive access project
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| Astrogrid | Astrogrid - UK's Virtual Observatory project
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| AVO | Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
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| China-VO | Virtual Observatory of China
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| COST | Cooperations in Scientific and Technical Research (Action 283: Astronomical Datagrid)
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| Digital Sky | Digital Sky Project (Caltech)
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| iAstro | iAstro - Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid
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| NVO | National Virtual Observatory (USA)
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| OASIS | On-line Archive Science Information Services (Caltech)
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| Opticon | Optical Infrared Coordination Network
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| OST | UK Office of Science and Techology
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| RVO | Russian Virtual Observatory
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| SEA | Scientists Expert Assistant (GSFC)
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| Skycat | Skycat data visualiser (Garching)
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| SkyServer | Sloan Digitial Sky Survey server (JHU)
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| Skyview | Virtual Observatory image viewer (GSFC)
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| Urania | Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy
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