The various FTP archives for the National Optical Astronomy Observatories can be found in the following FTP directories. Please log in as "anonymous" and use your e-mail address as the password. Alternate addresses for the following archives are given in parentheses.
ftp ctios1.ctio.noao.edu (139.229.2.1), cd ctio
CTIO archivesArgus and 1.5-m BME information, 4-m PF plate catalog, TEX
template for e-mail proposals, filter library, instrument manuals, standard
star fluxes.
ftp ftp.sunspot.noao.edu (146.5.2.181), cd pub
Directory containing SP software and data products coronal maps, active
region lists, sunspot numbers, SP Workshop paper templates, information on
international meetings, SP observing schedules, NSO observing proposal
templates, Radiative Inputs of the Sun to the Earth (RISE) Newsletters and
SP newsletters (The Sunspotter).
ftp ftp.noao.edu (140.252.1.24), cd to one of the following directories:
catalogs - Directory of astronomical catalogues: the Jacoby et al. catalog,
"A Library of Stellar Spectra"; the "Catalogue of Principal Galaxies"; the
"Hipparcos Input Catalogue"; the "Lick Northern Proper Motion Program:
NPM1"; and the "Coud\'{e}é Feed Spectral Library."
fts (argo.tuc.noao.edu, cd pub/atlas) - Directory containing solar FTS
high-resolution spectral atlases.
gemini (ftp.gemini.edu, cd pub) - The FTP archives for the Gemini 8-m
Telescopes Project.
gong (helios.tuc.noao.edu, cd pub/gong) - Directory containing GONG
helioseismology software and data productsvelocity, modulation and intensity
maps, power spectra.
iraf (iraf.noao.edu) - IRAF network archive containing the IRAF distributions,
documentation, layered software, and other IRAF related files. It is best to
login to iraf.noao.edu directly to download large amounts of data, such as
an IRAF distribution.
kpno (orion.tuc.noao.edu) - KPNO directory containing filter lists and
transmission data, CCD and IR detector characteristics, hydra (WIYN)
information, LaTeX observing form templates, instrument manuals, KPNO
observing and monthly support schedules, 4m PF platelogs, reference
documents, and sqiid data reduction scripts.
kpvt (argo.tuc.noao.edu) - Directory containing various KP VTT solar data
products - magnetic field, He I 1083 nm equivalent width, Ca II Kline
intensity.
noao (gemini.tuc.noao.edu) - NOAO e-mail and phone lists, Royal Greenwich
Observatory electronic mail address databases, list of areacodes and
zipcodes for the US, various LaTeX tidbits, report from Gemini WG on the
high resolution optical spectrograph, etc.
nso (orion.tuc.noao.edu) - Directory containing NSO observing forms.
sn1987a - An Optical Spectrophotometric Atlas of Supernova 1987A in the LMC.
tex - LaTeX utilities for the AAS and ASP.
utils - Various utilities, but only contains some PostScript tools at this
time.
weather (gemini.tuc.noao.edu) - weather satellite pictures.
wiyn (orion.tuc.noao.edu) - WIYN directory tree containing information relating
to the WIYN Telescope including information relating to the NOAO science
operations on WIYN.
The following numbers are available for the machines mentioned above:
argo.tuc.noao.edu = 140.252.1.21
ctios1.ctio.noao.edu = 139.229.2.1
ftp.gemini.edu = 140.252.15.71
ftp.noao.edu = 140.252.1.24
ftp.sunspot.noao.edu = 146.5.2.181
gemini.tuc.noao.edu = 140.252.1.11
helios.tuc.noao.edu = 140.252.8.105
iraf.noao.edu = 140.252.1.1
orion.tuc.noao.edu = 140.252.1.22
Questions or problems may be directed to the following: Steve Heathcote (sheathcote@noao.edu) for the CTIO archives, Frank Hill (fhill@noao.edu) for all solar archives, Steve Grandi or Jeannette Barnes (grandi@noao.edu or jbarnes@noao.edu) for all others (and they will direct your questions as needed).
For further information about the NOAO observatories and projects see the World Wide Web URL: http://www.noao.edu/.
Jeannette Barnes