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NVO Summer School Accepting Applications
- Monday, April 21 2008 @ 09:47 PM GMT
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In this nine-day, hands-on program, participants will work with experienced NVO users and software specialists to become familiar with how to discover, access, visualize, and analyze data with the Virtual Observatory. Those attending will be introduced to VO tools and utilities by using them to accomplish a variety of research goals. Some of the research tasks that will be addressed include data mining, multiwavelength analysis, and temporal astronomy. In the latter part of the summer school, small teams will pursue their own VO-enabled projects.
Update: 06/17/08 Applications are now closed.
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NVO Book Now Available
- Saturday, February 16 2008 @ 02:19 AM GMT
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This volume is a collection of the NVO Summer School lectures and tutorials. It includes a complete set of software libraries and worked examples to guide the astronomer/software developer through the process of developing VO-enabled programs in a variety of programming languages and scripting environments. It is an essential guide for those interested in combining data from diverse and distributed astronomical data collections, for accessing large astronomical survey databases, and for making available to the research community one's own data collections and catalogs. In addition, the introductory material describes the origin of the Virtual Observatory and its potential role in astronomical research. Several chapters that describe research results obtained by participants in the NVO Summer Schools using VO tools and technologies are also included.
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VO for the iPhone/iPod Touch
- Friday, December 28 2007 @ 07:35 PM GMT
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A web page description with a test interface and screenshots is also available. This app provides access to hundreds of image and catalog services, and thousands of published journal tables, from a mobile device. Image displays and table scrolling use the native interfaces of the device.
See below for a full list of features.
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New VO Command-Line Tools -- Available for Testing
- Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 09:23 PM GMT
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A new set of tools for easily accessing Virtual Observatory data from the command-line (and thus scripting environments) is now available for testing. These tasks permit searching for VO resources and the query/access of image and catalog data from more that 15,000 sources. A key design point is the use of astronomer-friendly terms in specifying resources, general search capability (e.g. all X-ray image services), and a variety of output formats (default is CSV for easy manipulation by other tools).
The VO-CLI Project Home Page contains additional information, runnable examples, download instructions, as well as a guided tour of the software. These tools were developed as part of a larger VOClient project designed to provide a multi-language interface to VO data and services. They will be used in the upcoming IRAF NVO package but as host tools can be used from any environment. Examples of what you can do include: keyword searches to find relevant VO resources, process queries for lists of positions, easily find all HST data for a given object, or simply resolve and object name to its coordinates.
Since this is a testing release, feedback in the forums or comments is especially appreciated. Detailed examples of how to use the main data query/access task are shown in the main body of the story.
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Joint VOEvent and HTN Workshop - Registration now Open
- Wednesday, March 21 2007 @ 05:15 PM GMT
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Details and links (and a rather unique astronomy conference poster) available on the workshop website.
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Aladin V4 Now Available
- Thursday, February 22 2007 @ 06:58 PM GMT
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Aladin V3.7 Released
- Thursday, August 17 2006 @ 05:03 PM GMT
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2006 NVO Summer School -- Application Deadline June 5
- Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 02:22 PM GMT
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[Update June 6, 2006: Registration is now closed.]
Applications are now being accepted for the 2006 NVO Summer School to be held in Aspen, September 6-14. Application instructions and details are posted on the NVO website and below. The deadline for applications in June 5, notification of acceptance will be made by July 1.
If you're reading this site, you might be interested to know the use of IRAF in the VO is one of the covered topics.- read more (424 words)
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TOPCAT V2.1 Released
- Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 06:23 PM GMT
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TOPCAT V2.0 Released
- Friday, February 03 2006 @ 07:14 PM GMT
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Mark Taylor has announced the release of TOPCAT V2.0. A full description of the many graphics upgrades is included in the announcement below, or the project web page. TOPCAT is a tabular data viewer and editor and one of the only projects to survive the Starlink shutdown. I'm a big fan and recommend it for your FITS bintables every bit as much as VOTable xml.
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