Virtual Observatory on Digital Planet

I've just been catching up with some podcasts and noticed an item on the BBC World Service's Digital Planet about the Virtual Observatory. The programme's presenter, Gareth Mitchell, talks to Alasdair Allan about the gamma-ray burst alerts (VOEvents) which he ported into Google Sky. That reminds me that I was going to put my simple telescope XML into practice.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Friday 02nd Nov 2007 (21:35 GMT) | 2 Comments | Permalink

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I shall be talking about both of these things tomorrow at Uni at our weekly Astrolunch session.

In preparation I was trying to create a working example of your telescope xml but ran out of time. I shall send any interested parties to your blog if you expect to have one up and running anytime soon.

Posted by Robert Simpson on Sunday 04th Nov 2007 (12:37 UTC)

Rob, I've got some almost fully working examples at: http://www.jodcast.net/stml/

Posted by Stuart on Sunday 04th Nov 2007 (13:23 UTC)

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