Virtual Observatory Software for Astronomers

Welcome to AstroGrid

Launch of Space Shuttle sts-82-1 (NASA) AstroGrid is the doorway to the Virtual Observatory (VO). We provide a suite of desktop applications to enable astronomers to explore and bookmark resources from around the world, find data, store and share files in VOSpace, query databases, plot and manipulate tables, cross-match catalogues, and build and run scripts to automate sequences of tasks. Tools from other Euro-VO projects inter-operate with AstroGrid software, so you can also view and analyse images and spectra located in the VO.

These web pages hold our software for downloading, as well as links to other people's software. They also provide the help documentation, and other support material such as FAQs and the Helpdesk ticket system.

Latest software : A new version of VO Desktop (V1.3.2) was released Feb 10th 2010. This has various improvements, including a new method of querying table data, using a new IVOA standard (TAP).

Technical users (data centres and developers) who are interested in our server component suite will find the latest version (V2009.1 July 2009) at deployer.astrogrid.org.

Previous versions of our software will still be available for some time: see previous Astrogrid releases.

GETTING
STARTED		 Read a little about the Virtual Observatory
Read a little about the AstroGrid Desktop suite.
Go to the Install area and download the software.
Have a look at the documentation in the Help area.
Start trying it out !

Latest News

February 10th 2010 : new version of user software : We are pleased to announce the latest release of the AstroGrid VODesktop, version 1.3.2 There are a number of improvements to functionality. The main one is the addition of the ability to send queries to services using a new IVOA standard, the Table Access Protocol (TAP). At the moment, there are only a few such services, but over time this will become the normal way of sending queries to databases and other kinds table data. The changes are listed at http://www.astrogrid.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes . AstroGrid Python remains at V1.04, and and Topcat at V3.5, November 2009.

Previous news items are available in the Community section.

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Acknowledging AstroGrid. If you make use of the AstroGrid system or tools, we would be grateful if you could acknowledge this use in any resulting publications. You could use these words: 'This research has made use of data obtained using, or software provided by, the UK's AstroGrid Virtual Observatory Project, which is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and through the EU's Framework 6 programme.' Use of any data discovered or accessed through AstroGrid should of course be mentioned as noted by the data providers.

Licensing and Copyright. AstroGrid software is released under the Academic Free License.. The copyright on the text used in these web pages is owned by the contributing authors. Copyright on images used are assumed to be with the indicated or implied source as appropriate.