CVO Canadian Virtual Observatory

If you have used CADC facilities for your research, please include the following acknowledgment:

This research used the facilities of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre operated by the National Research Council of Canada with the support of the Canadian Space Agency.

Observation Catalog Exploration Tools (Octet)

With Octet, CVO has developed advanced observation query capabilities to help users fully exploit the broad wavelength coverage of our collections. We have also included data from select external collections to increase wavelength coverage from radio (FIRST) to X-ray (RASS).

System Requirements

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4 or later

Java Webstart

NOTE: You will be prompted to accept certificates from both CADC and CDS (Aladin is bundled). You must accept the certificates for the application to work properly.

Help

Complete on-line help is available on this web site. The web page(s) are also accessible from within the application (open the Help menu and select Documentation).

IVOA Standard Services

CVO provides SIA 1.0 compliant services for CFHT (CFH12k and Megacam), CGPS (HI continuum images), GEMINI, HST (WFPC2 and ACS), IRIS, and JCMT (SCUBA).

The CVO project and all CVO services are registered in the NVO Registry.