• W. M. Keck Observatory -- Mauna Kea, HI
• European Southern Observatory -- La Silla, Chile
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories -- includes huge image gallery
• Lick Observatory -- Mt. Hamilton, CA
• Mount Wilson Observatory -- Mt. Wilson, CA
• Palomar Observatory -- Palomar Mtn., CA (home of the 200" Hale telescope.)
• Griffith Observatory -- Mt. Hollywood, CA
• National Solar Observatory -- Sunspot, NM
• Apache Point Observatory -- Sacramento Peak, NM
• McDonald Observatory -- Fort Davis, TX
• Lowell Observatory -- Flagstaff, AZ. (where Percival Lowell observed Mars and Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.)
• Multi-Mirror Telescope Observatory (MMT) -- Mt. Hopkins, AZ
• Lund Observatory -- Lund, Sweden
• Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) -- Mauna Kea, HI
• Arecibo Observatory -- world's largest radio dish; in Puerto Rico
• Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab -- participates in running the millimeter interferometer at Hat Creek, CA
• Owens Valley Radio Observatory -- Owens Valley, CA
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
         Very Large Array (VLA) -- Socorro, NM (as seen in the '97
         movie 'Contact.' No SETI research there, though.)
  

Orbiting Space Telescopes
(selected satellites)

• Current JPL Space Missions
• HEASARC -- Based at Goddard Space Flight Ctr., MD; info. for many high-energy missions including Astro-E, Chandra (AXAF), Advanced Sat. for Cosmology & Astrophysics (ASCA), Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute
• Infrared Space Observatory
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) -- info. on HALCA satellite