VOEvent Manual Injection

The eSTAR (www.estar.org.uk) and Thinking Telescopes (www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov) projects would like to announce the beta release of a joint project to allow manual generation and submission event messages into the emerging VOEvent network (for more information on VOEvent see http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ IvoaVOEvent).

The VOEvent manual injection system makes use of Web 2.0(ish) technologies and is available from;

   http://vo.astro.ex.ac.uk/voevent/cgi-bin/index.cgi

and

   http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov/voevent/cgi-bin/index.cgi

and shares the same code base at the two sites (with minor tweaks and tucks as a nod to local sensibilities).

In time we would like to tie this service into the official Registry, and do SSO, but right now we're using our own user database. However the user DB is shared between the two sites, once you have an account with one service you can inject VOEvent messages using either endpoint (within a business day to allow for synchronization). Registration to use the system is unfortunately required, if you would like to register please email either Robert White
<rwhite-at-lanl.gov> or myself <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk> with the following
information;

Author IVORN e.g. estar.ex

   (doesn't have to be registered as yet, if you don't have one make one up and register it later, or we can do it for you)

Contact Name		e.g. Alasdair Allan
Contact Email		e.g. aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk
Contact Phone		e.g. +44-1392-264160
Project				e.g. eSTAR
Institution			e.g. University of Exeter
Default Facility		e.g. Robonet-1.0
Facility URL			e.g. http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/RoboNet/

Some screen shots of the service running in Exeter and Los Alamos are attached.

Cheers,
Al.

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