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1. A Short Course on ADQL
ID:
ivo://org.gavo.dc/misc/adqlcourse
Title:
A Short Course on ADQL
Short Name:
GAVO ADQL course
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:03
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This is a course on the Virtual Observatory's main query language ADQL (short for Astronomical Data Query Language), which is a SQL dialect standardised so users do not have to learn new languages each time they want to use a new resource. We also introduce the basic aspects of the Table Access Protocol TAP, which transports ADQL queries, their results as well as the metadata necessary to write meaningful queries. The course comes with many exercises, most of which also have solutions. We hope it is suitable for both self-study and as lecture notes in teacher-led situations.
2. A Short Course On PyVO
ID:
ivo://org.gavo.dc/tutreg/gavo_pyvocourse/rec
Title:
A Short Course On PyVO
Short Name:
GAVO pyvo course
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:13
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This is a course on pyVO, an astropy-affiliated Python library implementing client parts for many protocols in the Virtual Observatory: Simple discovery protocols like SCS, SIAP, and SSAP as well as the sophisticated Table Access Protocol TAP, which allows users to send complex queries to remote tables and retrieve metadata-rich results. There is also an interface to the VO Registry to enable data and service discovery. The course comes with many exercises, most of which also have solutions. We hope it is suitable for both self-study and as lecture notes in teacher-led situations.
3. INAF-OATs SVAS Educational Images SIAP service
ID:
ivo://ia2.inaf.it/edu/inaf_oats/svas/C14/siap
Title:
INAF-OATs SVAS Educational Images SIAP service
Short Name:
svasC14siap
Date:
13 Mar 2019 11:32:09
Publisher:
IA2
Description:
INAF-OATs SVAS Educational Images SIAP service. Le Stelle Vanno A Scuola (SVAS) proposes a modern tool to support teaching of astronomy, through the study and experimentation of its observation methods. SVAS offers to schools and teachers a remote laboratory with which carry out real observation sessions, managed in real time by the students under the supervision of the teacher, in the classroom, and of an astronomer, at the OATs, thanks to the telematic link between the school and the observatory. Students and teachers experience real astronomical observations, through the interactive participation to the different steps of planning, observing and acquiring the data. The project is addressed to 13-18 yr students. Every observation is previously planned together with the teachers, according to age and curriculum of the students, with the aim to maximize the results. The observing activity, lasting about 90 minutes and led by an astronomer of the OATs, can be done during the morning (observation of the Sun) or in the evening (observation of stars, nebulae, clusters and galaxies). SVAS involves the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OATs), the school (of every level) and the University of Trieste. SVAS is supported by the Consorzio per l’Incremento degli Studi e delle Ricerche dei Dipartimenti di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Trieste and by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca.
4. Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute
ID:
ivo://opo.stsci/OPO-STScI
Title:
Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute
Short Name:
opo.stsci
Date:
04 Apr 2008 16:07:12
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute
Description:
The Institute created the Office of Public Outreach (OPO) to share the amazing discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope with the American public. OPO programs are the focal point of public attention for a NASA/ESA space science mission to which thousands of engineers, programmers, technicians, administrators and scientists have devoted their professional gifts.
5. The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
ID:
ivo://ned.ipac/NED
Title:
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Short Name:
NED
Date:
10 Jun 2021 18:18:18
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC
Description:
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) provides a comprehensive fusion of multi-wavelength data for hundreds of millions of objects located beyond the Milky Way galaxy. As new observations are published in NASA mission archives, journal articles and sky survey catalogs, they are cross-identified with prior measurements and integrated in a unified database. Numerous derived quantities are also provided to facilitate scientific research. For more information see http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/
6. The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
ID:
ivo://ned.ipac/Basic_Data_By_Reference
Title:
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Short Name:
NED_by_refcode
Date:
10 Jun 2021 18:17:21
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC
Description:
NED service to query for Objects by Reference Code: The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) provides a comprehensive fusion of multi-wavelength data for hundreds of millions of objects located beyond the Milky Way galaxy. This service searches NED's master list of extragalactic objects by (19 digit) journal reference code. It returns object names, positions, and redshifts if available. It also returns counts of bibliographic references, notes, photometry, positions, redshifts, diameters, and positional associations.
7. Using the Virtual Observatory
ID:
ivo://org.gavo.dc/tutreg/gavo_vocourse/rec
Title:
Using the Virtual Observatory
Short Name:
GAVO vo course
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:06
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This is a course on using the Virtual Observatory (VO), an international research data infrastructure in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Starting with a brief discussion of some general concepts, it introduces some of the major client programs like TOPCAT and Aladin, together with some simple discovery protocols. A first focus topic is the query language ADQL, which is treated within the equivalent of three lectures. The second major focus of the course is the premier Python interface to the VO, pyVO, which is used to also more deeply investigate the topics treated before. The course is complemented by a number of side tracks, brief discussions of more fundamental or more specialised VO topics. The course comes with many exercises, most of which also have solutions. We hope it is suitable for both self-study and as lecture notes in teacher-led situations. In the latter case, it is designed to work as a semester-long course with two hours of lectures and lab work each per week.