ODC

Optical Data Centre

Australia’s Optical Data Centre (ODC) provides an astronomical data ecosystem that brings together Australia’s two key optical/infrared data centres – Data Central (AAO Macquarie) and SkyMapper (RSAA ANU) into one system. The overarching goal of the ODC is to make all optical and infrared surveys conducted using the many different Australian facilities publicly available. This will maximise the scientific return on the substantial public investment that has been and will continue to be made in facilities such as the Anglo-Australian Telescope and SkyMapper.

AAO Data Central (ADC) forms the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) Node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO). ADC is developing an archive infrastructure and interface that is extensible and scalable, designed to meet the current and future needs of the Australian astronomical community. This will be demonstrated by the .... More

SkyMapper's Southern Sky Survey is led by the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, in collaboration with seven Australian universities and the Australian Astronomical Observatory. The goal of the project is to create a deep, multi-epoch, multi-colour digital survey of the entire southern .... More