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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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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
- Java
- 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
