Useful Links

Work

• ADS Abstracts

• Astro-ph Abstracts

• Extrasolar Planets

• American Astronomical Society

• AAS Job Register

• Job rumours

• International astronomy meetings.

• HST

• SST (formerly SIRTF)

• UC Observatories

• Electronic ApJ

• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

• Nature

• Science

• ARAA

• Astronomy & Astrophysics

• Icarus

• and finally, what appears to the the Journal of Choice for many people these days.

Not Work

• Recent Dilbert

• Eye Magazine

• CNN/SI

• Yahoo and Google

• OED

• Wikipedia

• LA stuff

• More LA stuff

• Regular films

• Spooky Films and Pulp Films

• The Magic Castle

• Performing Arts at UCLA

• Bookstores in the LA Area

• Near Real-time Earthquake list

• Blogs: Cosmic Variance : Steinn Sigurdsson : Steve Thorsett : Rob Roberge : Tod Goldberg

• The New Yorker

• Slate

• Slashdot

• America's Finest News Source

• Yank News

• POM News

• TED

• John feeding dolphins and at Meteor Crater

• Ushma and I in Monterey

• The family in Yosemite

• The latest generation, my nephew , James Robert Bartel , getting acquainted with both theory and experiment.
  Here he is doing his version of the Continental , and here practicising his innocent face. This is a more
  characteristic look, rampaging with favourite spoon in hand.

• Tenure baby!

• Physics Soccer Team, Spring 2006

• I went to Lowell Observatory for Spring break, where even old Percy told me to stay inside.

• Steve and I admiring our new computing cluster, courtesy of the Sloan Foundation and hosted by the nice folks at ATS.

• The Magic Castle gives me free stuff and a chance to wear the suit.

• My baby

• And if you don't like how you look in pictures, you can just South Park it.

• Climbing Mt Shasta . The intrepid climbers at the bottom and the top . Cool view from the top too.

• Admiring alligators in New Orleans and road signs in Arizona

• Admiring the wonders of Mt Zion , Bryce Canyon and Yosemite National Parks.

• There is also the Grand Canyon featuring Sphincter Gulch (!) and Rainbow Bridge .

• Chasing Rhinos under big african skies .

• Summers in Aspen feature white water rafting .

• Canada has lovely Nova Scotia and Niagara falls .

• Click here to see the aftermath of a moose encounter.

• Hiking the grand canyon

• Yosemite - one of the most beautiful places I know
• Grand Canyon - my favourite big hole in the ground, although
• Meteor Crater was nice too.
• Mt Zion and Bryce Canyon were truly spectacular.
• The Gauley River in West Virginia is one of the longest whitewater stretches in the world.

• The official Manchester United Homepage.
• The latest international Cricket info.
• General Sports info from CNN/SI .
• South African sport from Supersport

• A very useful site
• Tracking my own listening

• Gratuitous Galaxies: M31 , M51 , M74 , Sombrero , Cartwheel , NGC 4526 with supernova, NGC 253
• A picture of Orion by David Malin.
• Aurora Saturnis ?
• The worlds biggest ball of heavy water.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day .
• Airmass calculator
• SIMBAD catalogues
• Skyview images
• White Dwarf Catalogue by McCook \& Sion
• 2MASS catalogue
• POSS images
• Planets encyclopedia
• Stars in NGC 6397
• Where "in" the world is the Hubble Space Telescope?
• These Hubble illustrators really need to get a life.
• I don't get the joke. This is actually how I work...