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- The Star*s Family
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- * StarWays *
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- A database
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- of astronomy, space sciences
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- and related organizations of the world
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- ****
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- General presentation and fields covered
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- StarWays is one of the products of the Star*s Family encompassing
- databases, data sets, dictionaries, directories, mailing labels, and so
- on, compiled by Andre Heck of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory,
- France.
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- StarWays is an on-line database of astronomy, space sciences, and
- related organizations of the world made accessible through the public
- account of the European Space Information System (ESIS) at ESRIN. ESIS
- is an initiative undertaken by the European Space Agency (ESA) to
- provide the European space science community with uniform access to
- space data archives, value-added information services and scientific
- functions to support and facilitate data analysis.
-
- StarWays offers essentially the updated information listed in
- directories on paper published previously by A. Heck under the acronyms
- IDAAS, IDPAI, and ASpScROW. The next paper edition will be published
- under the homogenized name of StarGuides at the beginning of 1993.
-
- StarWays has however the advantage of being permanently updated. To
- date, about 6000 entries from about 120 countries are accessible.
-
- Besides astronomy and space sciences, related fields such as
- aeronautics, aeronomy, astronautics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry,
- communications, computer sciences, data processing, education,
- electronics, energetics, engineering, environment, geodesy, geophysics,
- information retrieval, management, mathematics, meteorology, optics,
- physics, remote sensing, and so on, are also covered when appropriate.
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- Data available
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- StarWays gathers all practical data available on associations,
- societies, scientific committees, agencies, companies, institutions,
- universities, etc., and more generally organizations, involved in
- astronomy and space sciences.
-
- Many other related types of entries have also been included such as
- academies, bibliographical services, data centres, dealers,
- distributors, funding organizations, IAU-adhering organizations,
- journals, manufacturers, meteorological services, national norms and
- standards institutes, parent associations and societies, publishers,
- software producers, and so on.
-
- The information is given in an uncoded way for easy and direct use. For
- each entry, all practical data returned by the organizations are
- available: city, postal and electronic-mail addresses; telephone, telex
- and telefax numbers; foundation years; numbers of members or staff; main
- activities; titles, frequencies, ISS-Numbers and circulations of
- periodicals produced; names and geographical coordinates of observing
- sites; names of planetariums; awards, prizes or distinctions granted;
- and so on.
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- Accessibility
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- Access to Starways is possible through the ESIS public account reachable
- - through SPAN: $set host ESIS (29617) with username ESIS (no password
- required);
- - through Internet: $telnet 192.106.252.127 with username ESIS (no
- password required);
- - through PSDN (+222 26500147 22 via public network international
- dialing).
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- Once in the system, the successive menus are self-explanatory. On-line
- tutorial and presentation are also available, as well as a dedicated
- mailbox system.
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- StarWays points to the various entries not only by their different
- designations and acronyms, but also by locations and major terms in
- names. Information can also be retrieved according to the categories
- mentioned above, as well as to thematic subindices corresponding to the
- various types of data provided for each entry.
-
- Selection criteria are also available, such as the geographical
- coordinates of a location around which one would like to list the
- entries (with available coordinates) within a given radius. Any string
- of characters can also be searched in any field.
-
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- Contacts
-
- For technical matters (connections to ESIS and StarWays, query
- techniques, and so on), please contact:
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- ESRIN - ESIS
- Via Galileo Galilei
- Casella Postale 64
- I-00044 Frascati
- Italy
-
- Telephone: +39-6-941801
- Telex: 610637 esrin i
- Telefax: +39-6-94180361
- Electronic mail: esis@ifresa51 (bitnet)
- esis::esis (span)
-
- For StarWays contents and data-related queries, as well as for
- information on the other products of the Star*s Family, please contact:
-
- Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.35.82.22
- Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.35.82.18
- 11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct) +33-88.49.12.55
- F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60
- France -+- * * Telex 890506 starobs f
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