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 : We are pleased to announce a new version of VODesktop (V1.2.3.1), released on June 5th 2009. There are a number of improvements including a new "Multi Query" capability to search archive(s) for a list of positions. AstroGrid Python remains at V1.04 (February 2009) for more advanced scripting. The most recent version of Topcat is V3.4-1 (27 March 2009). Technical users (data centres and developers) who are interested in our server component suite will find the latest version (V2008.2) 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

June 1st 2009 : new versions of user software : We are pleased to announce the latest release of the AstroGrid VODesktop, version 1.2.3.1. There are some new features and improvements, including improved descriptive information (metadata) for searching and filtering resources, and a new Multi-Query capability, for searching resources against a user-supplied list of positions, rather than just one position at a time. There are also a number of bug fixes and internal technical improvements. AstroGrid Python remains at V1.04. The latest version of Topcat is V3.4-1, March 2009. Important changes are listed at http://www.astrogrid.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes .

Note forthcoming Euro-VO Data Publishing Workshop for data centres at ESAC, Spain: June 22-26th 2009

See the previous news item.

Older news is in the Community section

Attachments

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.