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Aladdin is a poor but streetwise young optimist who dreams of a brighter destiny and is determined to find it. Aladdin, hero of one of the best-known stories in The Thousand and One Nights. The son of a deceased Chinese tailor and his poor widow, Aladdin is a lazy, careless boy who meets an African magician claiming to be his uncle. The magician brings Aladdin to the mouth of a cave and bids him enter.

Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known astronomical objects in the field.

Download
Aladin Desktop
on your machine		Preview with
Aladin Lite
in your browser

The Aladin sky atlas is available in two modes: Aladin Desktop, a regular application and Aladin Lite an HTML5 javascript web widget.

Aladdin Cast

Aladin Desktop is a widely-used java tool 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 Desktop is based on Java techonology. It requires a classical installation on the user machine. (→ more)Aladin lite is a lightweight version of the Aladin tool, running in the browser and geared towards simple visualization of a sky region. Aladin lite is powered by the HTML5 canvas technology, currently supported by any modern browser. Aladin lite is easily embeddable on any web page and can also be controlled through a Javacript API(→ more).

Available data

Aladin Desktop & Aladin Lite use reprocessed data based on HiPS technology (Hierarchical Progressive Survey) with the capability to zoom and pan on any regions of the surveys. There are about 550+ HiPS surveys available for 250TB of pixels provided by several collaborative servers.

Aladin Desktop provides direct data access to most of the astronomical servers over the world (CDS, NED, ESO, CADC, MAST, HEASARC, NRAO, ROE, IMCCE, etc), and obviously, local user data.

Documentation

  • Aladin Desktop documentation, notably the FAQ
  • Aladin Lite documentation, notably the API

Mailing list

  • Subscribe the Aladin mailing list by sending an e-mail to sympa@unistra.fr with this unique subject subscribe astro-aladin.
  • Browse the Aladin mailing archive through this link.

Copyright

Aladin Desktop & Aladin Lite are developed by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
 Both are distributed under GPL v3 licence.

Acknowledgement

If the Aladin Sky AtlasQartuladAladin was helpful for your research work, the following citation would be appreciated: This research has made use of 'Aladin sky atlas' developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France
→ 2000A&AS..143...33B and 2014ASPC..485..277B.

Aladin Us

TIME-BASED FEATURES

Aladdin Connect allows you to control and monitor your garage door opener through your smart phone or other device. Now it includes several time features, making it an even more essential product to have for any smart garage.

Features include:

Create a virtual key as it allows homeowners to provide temporary or permanent access to relatives, friends, or service workers. Simply have the person download the free app, add their name to your list of users and what time length of access you want to give, and you're all set. Their virtual key will expire in an hour, a day, a month, or whatever time frame you set.

Set your door to automatically close at any time. For example, maybe everyone in the house has been using the garage at different times and it's hard to tell if the last person using it closed the door for the night. So to be safe, you set it to automatically close at 10 p.m. in case the last person using it for the day forgets to close it.

Set your garage door to close after a set time frame. Let's say everyone in the house knows to close the door after they're done in the garage so it's not open too long for bugs or rodents to get in. But just in case they forget, you can set the door to always automatically close after one or two hours of being continually open, or whatever timeframe you set.