Documentation & Manuals
This is a list of user guides, reference manuals, and additional links to documentation about VO-aware applications and services. Many of these were developed and are hosted by other groups and are provided here as a convenience.
ADS - Astrophysics Data System (Center for Astrophysics)
Aladin - Image and catalog visualization Tool (CDS Strasbourg)
DataScope - Data discovery and display tool (NVO, NASA GSFC HEASARC)
Mirage - Data visualization (Bell Labs)
- User guide
- Reference guide
- Detailed description of features
- Overview and data formats
- Supported commands
- Visualization features
- Installation Instructions
- FAQ
Montage (FITS images into custom mosaics)
NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (Caltech)
OpenSkyQuery - Cross-match astronomical catalogs (Johns Hopkins)
Registries - Locate catalogs, specitra, images and other VO services
- User guide (STSci)
- 25-page PDF user guide (Caltech)
- FAQ (StSci)
- Download & installation instructions (Caltech)
SDSS Sky Server - Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Johns Hopkins)
SkyView - Image generator (NASA GSFC HEASARC)
Spectrum Services - Tools to access spectra from SDSS and 2dFGRS ( Johns Hopkins)
VOPlot - Tool for visualizing astronomical data (VO India)
VOSpec - VO-enabled tool for superimposing spectra (ESA/EuroVO)
WCS Fixers (Image coordinate repair)
- User guide (Pitt)
- Demos are available within the application (NOAO)
WESIX - Web Enabled Source Identification with X-matching (U of Pittsburgh)