VOEvent as Atom Feed

[Alasdair Allan]

In the lead up to the Workshop in Tucson I just thought that I'd point 
people at,

    http://www.estar.org.uk/atom.xml

which is a combined eSTAR/TALONS Atom (RSS) feed of GCN alert messages 
in VOEvent format.

You can subscribe to this in the normal way via your favourite feed 
aggregator (such as NetNewsWire), although it's actually meant for 
programatic access, as right now the content of each feed entry is the 
raw VOEvent XML message. I may tidy this up later and offer two feeds, 
one of which will be human readable. The feed doesn't validate entirely 
cleanly right now, but I'm working on that, and most feed readers will 
make a good enough stab at parsing it that you can get the data back 
out (so that's all right!).

While live, and should update with each GCN message, this is under 
(heavy) development so may not be 100% reliable right now, I wouldn't 
go pointing telescopes using the information contained in this feed 
quite yet. The location of the feed is also subject to change without 
much notice.

Let me know if you actually do start using it for anything so I can let 
you know what's going on with it...

Cheers,
Al.