Thursday, December 7 2006
AstroGrid workshop
Earlier this week, I went to the AstroGrid workshop, in Oxford. AstroGrid aims to provide a Virtual Observatory (VO). In particular, it makes it possible to put together catalogues, images and various data obtained from surveys, enabling astrophysicists to do e-astronomy (not sure if that e-word actually exists). Some of the astronomy bits were beyond my understanding, but the workbench happens to work and to be clear enough for someone who's not an expert in both computers and astronomy. Matching radio sources (obtained from radio-telescopes) with pictures ...continue reading