Introduction
The astropy.vo subpackage handles simple access for Virtual Observatory
(VO) services.
Current services include:
There are two third-party Python packages 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.