• A virtual observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools which utilize the internet to form a scientific research...
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  • The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) is a worldwide scientific organisation formed in June 2002. Its mission is to facilitate international...
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  • The Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) project conducted a research and demonstration programme on the scientific requirements and technologies necessary...
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  • The US National Virtual Observatory'-NVO- (nowadays VAO - Virtual Astronomical Observatory) was conceived to allow scientists to access data from multiple...
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    An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysics, oceanography...
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    gravitational lensing. All the data will be available through the National Virtual Observatory, providing access for astronomers and the public to very deep images...
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    WorldWide Telescope was designed to be the embodiment of a rich virtual observatory client envisioned by Turing Award winner Jim Gray and JHU astrophysicist...
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  • The European Virtual Observatory or EURO-VO project aims at deploying an operational virtual observatory in Europe. Its objectives are technology take-up...
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  • AstroGrid (category Virtual observatories)
    astronomy, forming part of the UK contribution to the International Virtual Observatory. AstroGrid announced its first full production release on 1 April...
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    served as the chairman of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) which oversees Virtual Observatory activities internationally. Kembhavi is...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Solar observatories. The Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) is a distributed access system for solar physics relevant...
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  • about. In 2012, the Millennium Run Observatory (MRObs) project was launched. The MRObs is a theoretical virtual observatory that integrates detailed predictions...
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    IUCAA, along with Persistent Systems, Pune, operates the Virtual Observatory project. The observatory provides users access to raw observational data along...
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  • Volcano Observatory, a hazard monitoring program Amplitude versus offset, a concept used in reflection seismology Astrophysical Virtual Observatory, a European...
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  • velocities of a robot that will result in a collision with another robot Virtual Observatory, in astronomy Visual Objects, an object-oriented computer programming...
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    Director of the National Virtual Observatory. In 2001, Jim Gray and Szalay wrote up a viewpoint article on the national virtual observatory project for Science...
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  • This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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    development efforts in 2007, porting the system to 64 bit and adding Virtual Observatory capabilities to it. This phase ended in 2013 with the release of...
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    Currently work on the creation of Mykolaiv Virtual Observatory as part of Ukrainian National Virtual Observatory is being conducted. Solar system dynamics:...
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    Binocular Telescope (Arizona, US) Italian Astronomical Archive Center VObs.it: Italian Virtual Observatory Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine v t e...
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    retrieval, data integration, and data mining in the astronomical Virtual Observatory initiatives. Further development of the field, along with astronomy...
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    The Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and...
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    PyFITS library instead of using this standalone release. The National Virtual Observatory Python integration includes support for the Astropy VOTable class...
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  • Astrovirtel (category Virtual observatories)
    (Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes, obs. code: I03) is a data archive used as virtual astronomical observatory. The project was funded from...
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    Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize...
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    application area is astronomy and it was initially designed to support virtual observatories. It is able to handle several digital file formats including FITS...
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  • 2015-02-22. "Virtual Observatories of the Future". aspbooks.org. Retrieved 2015-02-22. "Science Definition For The Virtual Observatory – US Virtual Astronomical...
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    the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She has chaired the executive committee of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. She was born in Palermo...
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  • language adapted for accessing the astronomical datasets of the virtual observatory, via the Table access protocol (TAP). ADQL is designed to handle...
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  • (Teleios), a near perfect radio circle supernova remnant TELEIOS, a virtual observatory featuring the TerraSAR-X archive Teleio, slang for teleiophile; having...
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