Acknowledgements

The path from the original idea to observe a target to the value-added data delivered by APIS is long and complex, and involves a significant work from many persons and services such as : the principal investigators for requesting and programming the observations, the conceivers of observing instruments and the engineering teams of space agencies for operating the telescopes and collecting the data. The latter include the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci) and the ESA Hubble Science Archive (ESAC) for calibrating and archiving raw HST data, the NASA PDS archive for releasing the Cassini data and the UVIS team for processing them and the Japanese spatial agency (JAXA) and the Hisaki team for processing Hisaki data.

These effort also concern the teams developing interactive tools such as Aladin (developed at CDS) or Cassis (developed at IRAP), the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris) and the University of Iowa for providing planetary ephemeris and finally the APIS team for developing this service.