pyvo 0.3

Astropy affiliated package for accessing Virtual Observatory data and services

PyVO is a package providing access to remote data and services of the Virtual observatory (VO) using Python.

The pyvo module currently provides these main capabilities:

• find archives that provide particular data of a particular type and/or relates to a particular topic

• search an archive for datasets of a particular type

• do simple searches on catalogs or databases

• get information about an object via its name