.. _astropy_vo:

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Virtual Observatory Access (``astropy.vo``)
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Introduction
============

The ``astropy.vo`` subpackage handles simple access for Virtual Observatory
(VO) services. Current services include:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   conesearch

.. _astropy_vo:

*******************************************
Virtual Observatory Access (``astropy.vo``)
*******************************************

Introduction
============

The ``astropy.vo`` subpackage handles simple access for Virtual Observatory
(VO) services.

Current services include:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   conesearch

There are two third-party Python packages related to ``astropy.vo``:

* `PyVO <http://pyvo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_
  provides further functionality to discover
  and query VO services. Its user guide contains a
  `good introduction <https://pyvo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pyvo/vo.html>`_
  to how the VO works.

* `Astroquery <http://www.astropy.org/astroquery/>`_
  is an Astropy affiliated package that provides simply access to specific astronomical
  web services, many of which do not support the VO protocol.

Add links from astropy.vo docs to PyVO and AstroQuery.
Add links from astropy.vo docs to PyVO and AstroQuery.

Based on the discussion in issue #1341.
