AstroGrid Southampton Workshop 23 May 2008

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Workshop Aim

This short workshop will allow participants to gain knowledge of using the AstroGrid Virtual Observatory software (mainly VODesktop and python scripting) to help discover and work with astronomical data. The particpants will get a brief overview of AstroGrid, before spending afew hours in a hands-on session, where they will get to work through a number of examples. Help will be provided by AstroGrid 'tutors'.

Southampton Workshop Agenda

Workshop Location

Morning talk in the Physics seminar room (Level 5). Hands-on session in th computer teaching lab - Level 3.

Pre-Workshop Checklist

Pre-requistites for running AstroGrid software on your own laptop

AstroGrid Help Pages

During the hands-on session we will aim to work through a number of the worked examples contained within our on-line examples pages. Attendees will be able to work at their own pace, with AstroGrid tutors available to help out as required. We suggest that attendees have a look at the following help pages:

• Comprehensive AstroGrid help pages
• reference Help pages

The worked examples can be found at:

• Usage examples

and we suggest that you start with some of the simpler ones:

• Cone searches - in other words positional queries of catalogues
• Hipparcos - working with this astrometric data
• Data Access - an overview of data access.

In terms of tools on the desktop we'll make a fair amount of use of TopCat to visualise tabular data - thus do launch topcat and have a look at this and the *quickstart guide*

Pyhton Scripting

Those of you familiar with scripting might like to try out the Python scripting side of AstroGrid:

• Python help pages: read this for help on installing and working with Python.
• Look at the end of that page for a tar file with example python scripts which you can run

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