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Expand Up @@ -22,16 +22,15 @@ Virtual observatory (VO) using Python.

Its development was launched by the NSF/NASA-funded Virtual Astronomical
Observatory (VAO) project (formerly under the name VAOpy) as part of its
initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. The VAO website has since
gone offline; an archived snapshot is available at
https://web.archive.org/web/20190106160759/http://usvao.org/.
Its goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and
initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop.

PyVO main goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and
services from remote archives and other web resources. It takes
advantage of VO standards to give access to thousands of catalogs,
data archives, information services, and analysis tools. It also
takes advantage of the general capabilities of Astopy (and numpy), and
so a secondary goal is to provide a development platform for migrating
more VO capabilities into Astropy.
so a secondary goal is to provide a development platform for prototypes for
functionalities that are under development and not yet accepted as a VO standard.

Source code can be found `on GitHub <https://github.com/astropy/pyvo>`_

Expand All @@ -47,28 +46,6 @@ thus, it and its prerequisites can be most easily installed using ``pip``:
Releases are also conda packaged and available on the ``conda-forge``
channel.


PyVO requires Python 3.8 or later.

The following packages are required for PyVO:

* `astropy <https://astropy.org>`__ (>=4.1)
* `requests <https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/>`_

The following packages are optional dependencies and are required for the
full functionality:

* pillow
* defusedxml

For running the tests, and building the documentation, the following
infrastructure packages are required:

* `pytest-astropy <https://github.com/astropy/pytest-astropy>`__
* requests-mock
* `sphinx-astropy <https://github.com/astropy/sphinx-astropy>`__


To install from source use ``pip``:

pip install .[all]
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