Hi All!! I have recently completed my PhD in theoretical astrophysics with work on accretion flow around black holes. Now I want to venture into some observational studies. I would like to know how I can make use of the VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES to start some good quality research work in observations. I would be very glad if you could share some useful links or documents. Thanking you all...
How do you distinguish between real observatories and virtual observatories? Could you set up an organic linkage?
A Virtual observatory provides user a virtual platform to get access to astronomical large data base, user friendly softwares for processing and analyzing the data. The Virtual Observatory India project (http://voi.iucaa.in/voi/abouVOI.htm) is one such platform. Link to other virtual observatory sites can be found at http://voi.iucaa.in/voi/linkstosites.htm.
Thank you Archana Bora Madam for the very helpful answer.
Dear P. K. Karmakar Sir, the concept of a Virtual Observatory (VO) has been very clearly explained by Archana Madam. Moreover, I want to specify that the VO is an accumulation of protocols that make it less demanding to fabricate applications against archival astronomical data (in addition to other things). It is a misnomer in that it isn't generally an observatory in any capacity. Nowadays, although we can access astronomical data online anywhere, the crucial aspect is to learn about the computational techniques and data analysing techniques.
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