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Ricardo Hueso has sent details of the updated PVOL data base as described below
Regards
Mike Foulkes
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Dear all,
I am very glad to write that today we are releasing the second version of our database of amateur observations of Solar System planets: PVOL (Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory). The new database is PVOL2: Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory and substitutes the former database of the International Outer Planets Watch (PVOL). PVOL2 is aimed to contain all previous data in the PVOL database (images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) and new images from these planets and others (specially Venus).
PVOL 2 is available in the following link: http://pvol2.ehu.eus
Data from Mercury, Mars and Venus is still scarce in the database and we will upload images of previous years over the following months after specific calls to amateur observers. The current database contains more than 23000 images of Jupiter, 7000 images of Saturn, 340 images of Uranus and 180 images of Neptune. Jupiter data is available since 2010 and we plan to incorporate more data of past years (as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars) in "calls" to the amateur community in the next few weeks.
PVOL is compatible with professional databases currently under development and is fully searchable through its own interface. In the near future it will be also available through the VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) portal (http://vespa.obspm.fr/planeta
Amateur astronomers can send new observations to the following e-mail address: pvol@ehu.eus
We sincerely thank you for your collaboration making your observations available to the scientific community. You will see that much of this data is actually used for scientific research in the "Publications from PVOL data" tab by different research groups internationally. Note that researchers may use your data for their particular research field but individual observers retain all the copyrights of their images (see the copyright statement in the footer of the webpage).
You can search planetary images in the PVOL2 website in the "Search data" tab. Note that many searchable parameters can be incorporated and you may play with the search options proposing many different combinations, including selection of only maps or animations, or images by a single individual observer or observations in a given time-frame, or the latest additions to the database. The new "Feature" option works only on tagged images which are currently only a few, but will be improved in the near future and tagged by volunteers after a specific call for collaborators. Besides downloading individual images, you will be able to download large amounts of images (up to 100) in a single zip file.
In a few weeks we will start to give some observers permission to upload their images but for the moment all image submissions will be through e-mail: pvol@ehu.eus
The former webpage of the IOPW PVOL database will still be online but it will no longer be updated.
How to contribute? Please send us your current observations of solar system planets (including Mars, Venus and Mercury) in image files with information on the acquisition time. In the next few weeks we will make specific "calls" to amateur astronomers to send images of solar system planets obtained over the past but for the moment we are starting slowly since each image has to be uploaded individually by one of us.
Please keep on collaborating with other research projects like the Juno mission to Jupiter (https://www.missionjuno.swri.
Gradual release: We are expecting that some observers may play with the database at a much higher rate in the first hours of this release than any time in the past 10 years. We are planning a gradual release of the PVOL2 service. You are kindly invited to use the system but please do not publish news on social media about PVOL2 in the next few hours to avoid too many simultaneous connections to the server from a large list of potential users. This particular e-mail is only sent to British amateur astronomers and I would feel grateful if the BAA could diffuse this information over the day. We will also be very glad to share links and notes concerning the Jupiter activity reports compiled by John Rogers at the BAA in the new "Reports" tab.
Acknowledgements: PVOL 2 has been made possible by Europlanet 2020 RI, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208 and is hosted at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. This work has been made possibly by the programming efforts of Jon Juaristi Campillo, hired under a Europlanet-2020 RI contract at the Planetary Sciences Group in the University of the Basque Country (Spain).
Best regards,
Ricardo Hueso,
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,
Jon Josu Legarreta,
Jon Juaristi Campillo,
Planetary Sciences Group – UPV/EHU
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Ricardo Hueso has sent details of the updated PVOL data base as described below
Regards
Mike Foulkes
*********************
Dear all,
I am very glad to write that today we are releasing the second version of our database of amateur observations of Solar System planets: PVOL (Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory). The new database is PVOL2: Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory and substitutes the former database of the International Outer Planets Watch (PVOL). PVOL2 is aimed to contain all previous data in the PVOL database (images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) and new images from these planets and others (specially Venus).
PVOL 2 is available in the following link: http://pvol2.ehu.eus
Data from Mercury, Mars and Venus is still scarce in the database and we will upload images of previous years over the following months after specific calls to amateur observers. The current database contains more than 23000 images of Jupiter, 7000 images of Saturn, 340 images of Uranus and 180 images of Neptune. Jupiter data is available since 2010 and we plan to incorporate more data of past years (as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars) in "calls" to the amateur community in the next few weeks.
PVOL is compatible with professional databases currently under development and is fully searchable through its own interface. In the near future it will be also available through the VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) portal (http://vespa.obspm.fr/planeta
Amateur astronomers can send new observations to the following e-mail address: pvol@ehu.eus
We sincerely thank you for your collaboration making your observations available to the scientific community. You will see that much of this data is actually used for scientific research in the "Publications from PVOL data" tab by different research groups internationally. Note that researchers may use your data for their particular research field but individual observers retain all the copyrights of their images (see the copyright statement in the footer of the webpage).
You can search planetary images in the PVOL2 website in the "Search data" tab. Note that many searchable parameters can be incorporated and you may play with the search options proposing many different combinations, including selection of only maps or animations, or images by a single individual observer or observations in a given time-frame, or the latest additions to the database. The new "Feature" option works only on tagged images which are currently only a few, but will be improved in the near future and tagged by volunteers after a specific call for collaborators. Besides downloading individual images, you will be able to download large amounts of images (up to 100) in a single zip file.
In a few weeks we will start to give some observers permission to upload their images but for the moment all image submissions will be through e-mail: pvol@ehu.eus
The former webpage of the IOPW PVOL database will still be online but it will no longer be updated.
How to contribute? Please send us your current observations of solar system planets (including Mars, Venus and Mercury) in image files with information on the acquisition time. In the next few weeks we will make specific "calls" to amateur astronomers to send images of solar system planets obtained over the past but for the moment we are starting slowly since each image has to be uploaded individually by one of us.
Please keep on collaborating with other research projects like the Juno mission to Jupiter (https://www.missionjuno.swri.
Gradual release: We are expecting that some observers may play with the database at a much higher rate in the first hours of this release than any time in the past 10 years. We are planning a gradual release of the PVOL2 service. You are kindly invited to use the system but please do not publish news on social media about PVOL2 in the next few hours to avoid too many simultaneous connections to the server from a large list of potential users. This particular e-mail is only sent to British amateur astronomers and I would feel grateful if the BAA could diffuse this information over the day. We will also be very glad to share links and notes concerning the Jupiter activity reports compiled by John Rogers at the BAA in the new "Reports" tab.
Acknowledgements: PVOL 2 has been made possible by Europlanet 2020 RI, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208 and is hosted at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. This work has been made possibly by the programming efforts of Jon Juaristi Campillo, hired under a Europlanet-2020 RI contract at the Planetary Sciences Group in the University of the Basque Country (Spain).
Best regards,
Ricardo Hueso,
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,
Jon Josu Legarreta,
Jon Juaristi Campillo,
Planetary Sciences Group – UPV/EHU
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