Comet
=====

`VOEvent <http://www.voevent.org/>`_ is the `International Virtual Observatory
Alliance <http://www.ivoa.net/>`_ standard for describing transient celestial
events.  Comet is an implementation of the `VOEvent Transport Protocol
<http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/Notes/VOEventTransport/>`_, which provides a
mechanism for fast and reliable distribution of VOEvents to the community.
Comet enables you to subscribe to and act upon real-time streams of ongoing
events, to use filters to select only events relevant to your science case,
and to publish your own events to the global VOEvent backbone.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   installation
   usage/index
   filtering
   handlers
   history
   credits
   appendix/index

Released versions of Comet are available for :doc:`download <history>`,
while the latest development version can be obtained from the `GitHub
repository <https://github.com/jdswinbank/Comet>`_.

Feedback is always welcome. For bug reports and feature requests, please use
the `issue tracker <https://github.com/jdswinbank/Comet/issues>`_.

Comet
=====

`VOEvent`_ is the `International Virtual Observatory Alliance`_ standard for
describing transient celestial events. Comet is an implementation of the
`VOEvent Transport Protocol`_, which provides a mechanism for fast and
reliable distribution of VOEvents to the community.  Comet enables you to
subscribe to and act upon real-time streams of ongoing events, to use filters
to select only events relevant to your science case, and to publish your own
events to the global VOEvent backbone.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   installation
   usage/index
   filtering
   handlers
   history
   credits
   appendix/index

Released versions of Comet are available for :doc:`download <history>`,
while the latest development version can be obtained from the `GitHub
repository <https://github.com/jdswinbank/Comet>`_.

Feedback is always welcome. For bug reports and feature requests, please use
the `issue tracker <https://github.com/jdswinbank/Comet/issues>`_.

.. _VOEvent: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOEvent/index.html
.. _International Virtual Observatory Alliance: http://www.ivoa.net/
.. _VOEvent Transport Protocol: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOEventTransport/index.html

Update links; link to modern VTP standard.
Update links; link to modern VTP standard.

Thanks to Bob Denny for pointing this out.
