SKY SURVEYS AND TOOLS TO FIND PLANET 9

Hi, I use this page as a bookmark page so that I can access Astronomy surveys and tools online from any location or device I happen to be at in the world.  This is a tool to help me in the search for the hypothesized Planet 9.  Some of these surveys are not deep enough (not sensitive enough) to see Planet 9 as it is currently estimated to be in brightness, but some of these same weak surveys may help me in ruling out other objects.  See the Planet 9 information tab to see where I'm looking in the sky.

NASA Skyview Advanced Query
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/query.pl


NASA SkyView general page
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/titlepage.pl

SKYMORPH - NASA SkyMorph
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/skymorph/mobs.pl

SKYMORPH - Another type of NASA SkyMorph
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skymorph/obs.html

VIZIER - Lookup stuff on Vizier
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR

ALADIN LITE - See a bunch of survey images at once via Aladin Lite
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/

NOAO Search
http://www.portal-nvo.noao.edu/search/query

NOAO Archives Search
http://archive.noao.edu/search/query

Space Telescope Science Inst. Archive

https://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form

Another STSCI Search
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form

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Other tools:
FIND ORB - Calculate Keplerian Orbit
http://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm

FIND ORB ONLINE VERSION
http://www.projectpluto.com/fo.htm

MPC - Check with Minor Planet Center if its been seen before
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi

MPC -Another check with MPC
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/checkcmt.cgi

SIMBAD - Lookup the object identifier (see if it's cataloged by entering the coordinates you see on NASA SkyView tool above) once you've found something
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/



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