Resources

Below is a link to the Alliance’s press kit, which provides essential information about our mission, objectives, organization, as well as background details and media resources. We appreciate your interest in the AHO.

AHO PRESS KIT   

Please let us know of additions/edits to the following list:

Preservation and Heritage

• Outstanding Astronomical Heritage - part of the UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy (edited by G. Wolfschmidt)
• Working Group on the Preservation of Astronomical Heritage (WGPAH) - AAS Historical Astronomy Division (HAD)
• History of Astronomy - IAU Commission C3
• World Heritage and Astronomy - IAU Commission C4
• Scientific Instruments Commission - a constituent group in the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST) under the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST)
• Antique Telescope Society

Archival and Databases

• Astronomical Photographic Data Archive (APDA) - Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI)
• Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) - see also the Harvard Plate Stacks
• Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE (APPLAUSE) - plate archives/collections from Hamburg, Bamberg, Potsdam, Tautenburg, Tartu and Vatican Observatory
• Heidelberg Digitized Astronomical Plates (HDAP) - See also the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO)

Conferences/Meetings/Symposia

• 2025 SIC Symposium - Dunedin, New Zealand
• 2025 Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - organized by the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Cecilia's Celestial Centennial - A five day interdisciplinary conference in fall 2025 at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
• Timekeepers in Historical Observatories International Workshop - Palermo, Italy, 25 - 27 March 2025

Miscellaneous

• Gazing Into the Past and Future at Historic Observatories - New York Times article (7 Nov 2023)
• Friends of Historical Observatories - Facebook group (managed by John Adler)