Created: July 03, 2012 - 10:10 CEST
The Aladin team is pleased to announce a new official Aladin release (version 7.5)
In addition to a lot of improvements (see detail list), this new version allows you to create your own HEALPix all-sky survey from a set of local images, for your own usage, for your collaborators, or for the whole community (more)
aladin V7.5 integrates the following new features :
*HEALPix all-sky new features:
*Better performances (less RAM - 64MB), faster display
*"Build your own sky" facility
*Stack control more adaptated to allsky mode
*Crop full resolution improved (bilinear, faster)
*Progressive catalogue density control
*Multi-Order Coverage Map (MOC) support
*HTTP URL direct access
*JSAMP Web profile support
*DS9 region definition support (as simple Aladin script commands)
*PDS image support
*Colored FITS cubes support
*HTTPS connection support
*ALMA footprint utility (Server selector => FOV)
*TSV,CSV improvements (notably CSV Excel and IPAC-TBL support)
*Pixel extraction tool as table
*Bitpix image re-encoding tool
*Overlay color map tool (more...)
*Free rotation in allsky mode
*New coordinate frames: B1900, B1875, XY image
*New projections (Mollweide, SIP-TAN)
*Properties of graphical overlays (Prop button)
*Footprint STS-S definition support
*Print improvements (automatic scale, multiviews...)
*"macro" script command to launch a macro from a script
*VOTable 1.2 STC coordinate reference support ("Referencing STC in VOTable" - IVOA Note 2010-06-18)