Where an institution has put many resources on the Web, or where the resource is unlikely to be of interest to most users, it may be found by looking at the results of a higher level Astrobrowse call. For example, a few of the most popular SkyView surveys are accessible directly from the topmost page. However if a user wishes to access one of the other SkyView surveys he or she can select the All SkyView Surveys resource. This is linked to another Astrobrowse page which describes all of the SkyView surveys. The keyword search interface provides a mechanism by which a user can specify some characteristics of the resources desired.
Users can specify keywords that are to be found in the description of the resources.
Some resources may support multiple bandpasses. The data available indicates the kind of data that are available either directly in the returned pages for this resource, or possibly through links from this page. Astrobrowse sends the user's query to all selected resources in parallel. The size is optional and is ignored by some services. Below this section is a list of services the user can query.