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.. _astropy_vo:
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Virtual Observatory Access (``astropy.vo``)
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.. module:: astropy.vo
Introduction
============
The ``astropy.vo`` subpackage handles simple access for Virtual Observatory
(VO) services.
Current services include:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
conesearch/index
samp/index
Other third-party Python packages and tools related to ``astropy.vo``:
* `PyVO <http://pyvo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__
provides further functionality to discover
and query VO services. Its user guide contains a
`good introduction <https://pyvo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyvo/vo.html>`__
to how the VO works.
* `Astroquery <http://www.astropy.org/astroquery/>`__
is an Astropy affiliated package that provides simply access to specific astronomical
web services, many of which do not support the VO protocol.
* `Simple-Cone-Search-Creator <https://github.com/tboch/Simple-Cone-Search-Creator/>`_
shows how to ingest a catalog into a cone search service and serve it in VO
standard format using Python
(using CSV files and `healpy <https://github.com/healpy/healpy/>`__).
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