Useful links

General

• Science support pages at IRAM Granada
  
• CDS, Strasbourg - AstroWeb at CDS
  
• International Astronomy Meetings (DAO list)
• International Astronomical Union (IAU) home page
• ESO On-line Information System
• RadioNet Project (EC FP7)

Bibliographic services

• Online astronomical almanac (USNO/UKHO)
• A.D.S. Abstract Service (ADS)
• E-preprints: arXiv (master and French mirror)
• astro-ph (master and French mirror)
• CDS searchable database on A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, PASP and others. Please note that ADS may be more complete for generalized queries.
• Astronomy and Astrophysics online
• The Astrophysical Journal
• Recommended Rest Frequencies for Molecules (F.J.Lovas) online
• Spectral line catalog by NASA/JPLThe NIST reference on constants, units and uncertainty
• Online scientific unit conversion
• The A&A LaTeX style file documentation. Clic here  for the latest copy on the EDP Sciences site.
• Online documentation on LaTeX (thanks to Sheldon Green)

Telegrams and latest News

• CBAT - Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (IAUC's are not freely accessible any more).
  
• Information about recent specially selected Gamma Ray Bursts
• Le Monde (French)
• Der Spiegel (German)
  
• International Herald Tribune (English)
  
• Reuters (English)
  
• BBC (English)
  
• Courrier International (French)
• The Guardian (English)
  
• Daily news from Yahoo (English)
  
• MIT libraries Collection of foreign language news links, available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. 
  
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Weather forecast from Yahoo (5 days)
• Meteosat images from EUMETSAT.
• The Asymptotic Giant Branch Newsletter 
• The Star Formation Newsletter

Translations and Dictionaries

• Two-way multi-lingual online translation (with the usual warning about the weaknesses of automated translations):  Babel fish
• Two-way multi-lingual online translation, with more possibilities to obtain French versions of documents (but with same warnings as for Babel fish ...) is available at Voila.
• Two-way dictionary between English and French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Indonesian, Swahili and others: clic here.
• Two-way LEO dictionaries (in collaboration with the TU München, with many technical terms): German-English, German-French and German-Spanish.
  Further links for German vs. Italian, Chinese and Russian exist on that website.
• Interactive help on French conjugation (also on numbers in letters): Leconjugeur
• Collection of translation links by the BSZ (German) clic here.
• Collection of multi-lingual and specialized dictionaries: Erlanger Liste (page on German).

Phone books

• "Phonebook of the World" web site
  
• "Infobel" international phone book links
  
• Deutsche Teleauskunft (Gelbe Seiten, ...)

Campus

• University Joseph Fourier
• Observatoire de Grenoble  (our neighbours) and a list of Seminaries at  the Observatory
• SIUAPS Grenoble: Sports on the Campus, includes the opening hours of the nearby swimming pool.

Grenoble

• Groupe d'Astronomie du Dauphine
• Association Nationale pour la Protection du Ciel Nocturne
• Grenoble Tourist Office
• Public transport in the Grenoble region: TAG
• Cinema programs in Grenoble
• Local News and Events: Cinema - théatre - spectacles - musique - concerts - expositions - animations (in French).

France

• Service Public  French admininstration - answers to all kinds of questions (site in French)
• Road traffic information  for the Rhone-Alpes region
  
• Railway (SNCF) Information (in many languages)
• Michelin road maps and navigational help  for car trips in Europe (in French, English, ...)
• Atomic clock  time service (in French)
• Real time seismic activity  from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (CSEM/EMSC)
• Meteo France forecast (10-days information on France and its regions)
• Weather Channel free 10 day forecast (hourly option)
• Meteo surf weather forecast maps from various sources (free)
• France Telecom: Pages blanches et Pages jaunes online
  

Art

• Louvre (Paris)
• Prado (Madrid)
• Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin)
• National Gallery (London)
• Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)
  
• Webexhibits: Online exposition on Calendars, daylight saving time, pigments and colors, etc.

Literature

• Free World Literature  from the Gutenberg Project to read and/or download
• Bartleby online books
• Wikipedia: a free online encyclopaedia.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica online.