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.

Our new software (V2008.1) was released on April 1st 2008.

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 !

News updates :

May 2nd 2008: Euro-VO/ Data Centres Workshop (deadline for registration 14th May 2008) - for those of you wanting to publish large data sets to the VO - then find out how by attending this workshop - details at http://www.euro-vo.org/dcaworkshop2008/ - AstroGrid tutors will be there to help with your queries.

April 28th 2008: EURO-VO / AstroGrid Research Initiative (deadline 15 June 2008) - full details at http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/fc/AIDA_call_2008.html

April 2nd 2008 : comments on the new AstroGrid software by a UK astronomer on this NAM blog.

April 1st 2008 : press release about the new software (V2008.1) released at the National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast.

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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.