Virtual Observatory Access (astropy.vo)

Warning

The astropy.vo module has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. The SAMP functionality has been moved to astropy.samp, and the conesearch functionality has been moved to Astroquery.

The astropy.vo subpackage handles simple access for Virtual Observatory (VO) services.

• VO Simple Cone Search (deprecated)

Other third-party Python packages and tools related to astropy.vo:

• PyVO provides further functionality to discover and query VO services. Its user guide contains a good introduction to how the VO works.
• 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 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).