First Light image from BOOTES-4 / / MET: the planetary nebula NGC 6543 at Dragon constellation (Draco), taken just in the begining of the Dragon Chinese Year

China-VO and Astroinformatics 2011 was held successfully in Guiyang from Nov. 9 to 13, 2011. All slides are available online here.

"Linux ABC and Practical Skills" training was organized The China-VO team organized one training course on Linux basic knowledge and practical skills at NAOC from Nov. 27 to 28, 2011. 128 graduates and young researchers from CAS institutes and universities attended.

More information about the training course, please visit the Chinese website.

China-VO and Astroinformatics 2011 will be held from November 9 to 13 in Guiyang. During the workshop, participants will be organized to visit FAST observatory. For more information about the workshop, please click here.

The May 2011 issue of the IVOA Newsletter is now available at http://ivoa.net/newsletter/. This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers and upcoming events. Comments and feedback are encouraged; you may contact the editors at ivoa-news-editors@ivoa.net.

 Probably,Virtual Observatory is an infrastructure not only for astronomers but also for non human beings.In cold weather of Beijing ,two cats are lying on air conditioner outdoor units of the China-VO data center,enjoying warmth from the vo.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 The November 2010 issue of the IVOA Newsletter is now available at http://ivoa.net/newsletter/. This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers, and upcoming events. Comments and feedback are encouraged; you may contact the
 

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        China-VO 2010 was held successfully at Lijiang, Yunnan from Nov. 25-28. China-VO 2010 is the 9th annual meeting organized by the China-VO project. The theme of the meeting is "From VO to Astroinformatics". About 80 representatives from nationwide observatories, universities and companies attended the meeting. For more information please visit:

www.china-vo.org/events/cvo2010/

China-VO 2010 is the 9th annual workshop organized by the Chinese Virtual Observatory project. China-VO 2010 will be held from Nov. 24-28 at Lijing, Yunnan. Online registration is open now. For more information, please visit the website at:

 http://www.china-vo.org/events/cvo2010/

        From Aug 1 to 3, a national wide teacher training was organized. Focusing on WWT guided tour design, concepts about Virtual Observatory, Data Intensive Astronomy and Citizen Science were introduced and experienced during the workshop. About 40 teachers and senior amateur astronomers attend the training. For more information, please visit:
http://wwt.china-vo.org/training2010/
      To take full use of GPU cluster (85 nodes, 158Tflops) at NAOC and raise HPC applications in astronomy, a parallel programing workshop was organized from Sep 14 to 16. More than 70 graduated students attended the workshop. Great interests were shown and very positive feedbacks were collected. In additional to computing intensive simulations, data
intensive projects are also planned for the GPU cluster.