Astrovirtel (Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes,
obs. code:
I03) is a data archive used as virtual astronomical observatory. The project was funded from 2000 until 2003 and supported by the European Commission's Access to Research Infrastructures action of the Improving Human Potential Programme and managed by the
Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
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The Space Telescope – European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) was an institution which provided a number of support and service functions primarily for European observers of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It was established in 1 ...
(ST-ECF) on behalf of
European Space Agency and
European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Its aim was to enhance the scientific return of the ST-ECF/ESO Archive, allowing European users to exploit the archive as a virtual telescope, retrieving and analyzing large quantities of data with the assistance of the archive operators and personnel. The Astrovirtel Selection Panel selected up to six proposals per year.
Astrovirtel was an initial step towards a proper virtual observatory, such as the
European Virtual Observatory.
External links
First Light for ASTROVIRTEL Project ESO, 10 April 2000
Virtual Telescope Observes Record-Breaking Asteroid larger than Ceres, ESO, 23 August 2001
ASTROVIRTEL: Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes Pierfederici, F., Benvenuti, P. (2001)
ASTROVIRTEL: Tools and Operations F. Pierfederici, M. Dolensky, Conference paper (2004), Springer Verlag
Virtual observatories
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