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Type: desktop-application
ID: aladin.desktop
Package: aladin
Name:
C: Aladin
Summary:
C: Astronomical Sky Atlas and star catalogue for astronomical images and datasets
Description:
C: |-
<p>Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical
images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access
related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all
known sources in the field. Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS),
Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing
challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising
multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other
visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics
which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.</p>
en: |-
<p>Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical
images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access
related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all
known sources in the field. Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS),
Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing
challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising
multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other
visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics
which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.</p>
Categories:
- Science
- Astronomy
- DataVisualization
- Education
- Viewer
Keywords:
C:
- VO
- Astronomy
- Viewer
- Catalog
Icon:
cached:
- name: aladin_aladin.png
width: 64
height: 64
stock: aladin
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- aladin.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- application/x-votable+xml
- application/fits
- image/fits
