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Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas, created in
The Aladin Sky Atlas home page
* Free astronomy software Star atlases Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg 1999 software {{science-software-stub
Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas, created in France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
. It's allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the SIMBAD
SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar System. It is maintained by the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France.
SIMBA ...
database, the VizieR
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service and other archives for all known sources in the field.
Created in 1999, Aladin has become a widely used VO portal capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, visualizing multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are key topics allowing Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool as well as a science enabler.
Aladin is developed and maintained by the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
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Mathematics
*Center (geometry), the middle of an object
* Center (algebra), used in various contexts
** Center (group theory)
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(CDS) and released under the GNU GPL
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v3.
See also
*Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science
Basic research, also called pure research o ...
* Observatory of Strasbourg
The Observatory of Strasbourg is an astronomical observatory in Strasbourg, France.
Following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the city of Strasbourg became part of the German Empire. The University of Strasbourg was refounded in 187 ...
* SKY-MAP.ORG
* Stellarium
References
External links
The Aladin Sky Atlas home page
* Free astronomy software Star atlases Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg 1999 software {{science-software-stub