Virtual Observatory Software for Astronomers

Software Download Page

The links here will download the three applications in the AstroGrid Desktop Suite.

To get an overview of what the applications do, visit the About AstroGrid Desktop page.

To check out what you need to do with the downloaded files, visit the Step-by-Step page.

To understand how to use the software, visit the Help pages.

VO Desktop
jar file 		Version 2008.1
19.6MB		 This is the core application, and contains several tools : VOExplorer, Astroscope/Helioscope, File Explorer, Task Runner, and Query Builder. It also loads the necessary background software - Astro Runtime and PLASTIC. Read Release Notes
TOPCAT
jar file 		Version 3.2
14.5MB 		With TOPCAT you can manipulate tables and make plots; crossmatch catalogues; and many more related tasks. Read Release Notes
AstroGrid Python
egg file 		Version 1.0.1
0.6MB 		With AstroGrid Python you can call VO services inside your own scripts. Requires Astro Runtime to be running, which comes with VO Desktop. Note that this link takes you to the AstroGrid / Python code repository as the version you require depends on the version of Python you are running - check the Python scripting page for information on how to set this up.

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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.