VirGO Browser from ESO Science Archive

clipped from archive.eso.org VirGO VirGO is the next generation Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility developed by the VO Systems Department. It is a plug-in for the popular open source software Stellarium with added capabilities for browsing professional astronomical data. for Linux i386 32bits VirGO-1.4.4-linux32.tar.gz (50mb) for Windows 32 bit VirGO-1.4.4-win32.zip (66mb) for MacOSX Intel VirGO-1.4.4-macosx-universal-leopard.dmg (54mb) User Guide (New!) VirGO-UserGuide-1.4.4-1.pdf (0.3mb) On Windows: download the zip file, uncompress it and double click on stellarium.exe A 32 bit linux machine (i86 architectures only) or MacOSX or Windows 32 bits. A large fraction of ESO's non proprietary science products are already accessible through VirGO and more are to come: It superimposes DSS background images and allows to view the sky in a real life mode as seen from the main ESO sites. It is possible to add some extra star catalogs to allow seeing more than the default 2.3 million stars (up to 210 millions)