NVO Tools & Software

Title Contact Description
Aladin Pierre Fernique Interactive federated sky atlas
Atlasmaker Roy Williams Grid software for bulk image resampling
Globular Cluster Theoretical Models Peter Teuben This prototype allows the user to select a globular cluster simulation and compare it to observed color-magnitude diagrams.
Mirage Tin Kam Ho Multi-dimensional visualization of data from VOTable source file
Montage Bruce Berriman Science-grade custom mosaics from a portal
Pegasus Ewa Deelman Workflow Management on the Grid
PHP VO Client Library Shui Hung Kwok A collection of PHP classes that implement interfaces to Cone Search, SIAP, SkyNode, SkyPortal, and VORegistry.
Python VO Client Library Shui Hung Kwok A collection of Python classes that implement interfaces to Cone Search, SIAP, SkyNode, SkyPortal, and VORegistry.
Specview Ivo Busko Visualization and analysis tool for 1-D astronomical spectrograms.
STC Metadata Arnold Rots Space-Time Coordinate metadata for the VO
TOPCAT Mark Taylor Viewer and editor for tabular information
VO Services Tamas Budavari A growing selection of VO services in production
VOPlot Sonali Kale Tool for visualizing astronomical data from VOTable sources
VOSpec Pedro Osuna A Tool to Handle VO-SSAP compliant Spectra
VOTFilter Chenzhou Cui XML filter for OpenOffice Calc to Read/Write VOTable Files
Web Enabled Source Identification with Cross Matching (WESIX) Simon Krughoff Upload images to SExtractor and cross-correlate the objects found with selected survey catalogs.

VO-enabled Science

Title Contact Description
Grist Roy Williams Grid services for data mining in astronomy
Palomar-Quest Sky Survey George Djorgovski A synoptic sky survey with VO-compliant data access

Data and Registry Services

Title Contact Description
Carnivore Matthew Graham VO registry with publishing, querying and harvesting.
DataScope Thomas McGlynn Discover and Explore Data in the Virtual Observatory
Filter Profile Service Laszlo Dobos Profiles of names astronomical filters
How to Publish to the NVO Ray Plante Find out how to make your data collection available to NVO users.
NVO Registration Portal at NCSA Ray Plante A portal where data providers tell the VO about their resources.
NVO Registry Portal at STScI Gretchen Greene Find source catalogs, observation logs, image archives, and other astronomical resources registered with the NVO.
Open Sky Query Nolan Li Cross match your data with numerous catalogues
SDSS Sky Server Alex Szalay Qury access to the Sloan catalogs
SkyView Thomas McGlynn Panchromatic image atlas
Spectrum Services Tamas Budavari Search, plot, and retrieve SDSS, 2dF, and other spectra.
Virtual Sky Roy Williams Panchromatic sky atlas
YourSky Custom Mosaic Server Joseph Jacob Custom image mosaics from DPOSS or 2MASS

 

Education & Outreach

Title Contact Description
Education and Outreach with the National Virtual Observatory Jordan Raddick The NVO's K-12 and college education website
ManyOne Bernard Haisch Internet-based information service
Project LITE Kenneth Brecher Light Inquiry Through Experiments

 

 


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