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Aladin Changelog

What's new in Aladin 12.0

Mar 31, 2023
  • Planetary data support : HiPS, MOCs, catalogues,...
  • Cone search update facility
  • Photometric tool and pixel extraction improvements
  • CASSIS VOTool/plugin integration (by IRAP)
  • VizieR "associated data" direct access
  • Hight DPI screen support
  • SExtractor service improvement: full local image support
  • VOObserver interface extension
  • New supported projections: Mercator, HEALPix
  • Fits improvement: PanSTARRs BOFFSET/BSOFTEN special coding supported
  • MOC improvements:
  • IVOA MOC 2.0 full compliance (STMOC, TMOC)
  • MocServer v2 deployement allowing resource Tree controlled both by space and time filters
  • STMOC highlight & selection
  • Support for planetary MOCs
  • HiPS improvements:
  • Faster thanks to gzip/nogzip automatic strategy for FITS tiles
  • Better display in any projection (notably ARC, CAR)
  • Hipsgen new coadd mode: SUM, DIV, MUL

New in Aladin 11.0 (Oct 25, 2020)

  • TAP: support for JOIN and UPLOAD functions
  • Data discovery tree: sort and hierarchy control
  • Compliance with FITS standard 4.0 (image internal compression)
  • Temporal support:
  • Time controller
  • Time plots
  • Time coverages (TMOC and STMOC)
  • Compliance to new IVOA standard:
  • TAP1.1 support (s_region definition)
  • MOC1.1 support (ASCII format)
  • VOTable1.4 support (TIMESYS)
  • New CDS HEALPix library:
  • Polygonal photometry tool for HiPS
  • Query by any kind of regions

New in Aladin 10.056 (Dec 7, 2017)

  • Derived products: access to coverages, density maps, progenitors...
  • Multi protocol support & integration: HiPS, CS, SIA, SSA, TAP, MOC, Datalink, SODA, remote X-match, MOCserver,...
  • HiPS improvements: mirror sites management, properties file direct support
  • Deprecated supports: applet, outreach mode, PLASTIC protocol
  • Data discovery tree:
  • Integrated access to all CDS and other VO collections (>20,000 data sets)(more...)
  • Fast data set filtering (by criteria and/or regions)
  • Query enhancement:
  • by criteria (TAP integration)
  • by regions (MOC based)
  • by X-match (thanks to remote CDS X-match)
  • User interface:
  • new theme,
  • splitable frames, menu for full screen mode

New in Aladin 10.054 Beta (Dec 2, 2017)

  • User interface:
  • Intuitive help in line

New in Aladin 10.026 Beta (Oct 16, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
  • User interface:
  • Target history control
  • Coordinate grid color and font control
  • Miscellaneous:
  • "applet" and "outreach" mode no longer supported
  • datalink, SODA supports

New in Aladin 10.020 Beta (Oct 4, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
  • HiPS (progressive survey):
  • HiPS WCS HEALPix keyword addition in HiPS FITS tiles)
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Full column control for source measurements
  • MAJOR FIXED BUGS:
  • Original epoch != J2000 bug fix
  • HiPS generation in ADD mode with a lot of overlays
  • MOC generation from clockwise polygons
  • Filter activation by script bug fix
  • Polarisation segment size normalized bug fix
  • Phot tool clic&drag bug fix

New in Aladin 10.016 Beta (Sep 19, 2017)

  • User interface:
  • history management (popup menu + arrow control)
  • TAP full support:
  • Generic TAP support
  • Simplified mode (based on GLU constraint rules)
  • Direct access via the data discovery tree

New in Aladin 9.504 Beta (Jan 16, 2017)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Collection Registry tree
  • Simbad + VizieR pointer improvements
  • HiPS properties file direct support
  • HiPS Store
  • Panel management improvement (JPane)
  • HiPS mirror sites management improvement
  • MOC perimeter drawing + set drawing=xxx script command
  • New script commands (cmoc, ccat, )
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • MOC stack bug introduced in v9.039
  • Fix to BLANK wrong value in Hipsgen MAPTILES action
  • Fix to radians unit support for table coordinates
  • Fix to pmra and pmde detection

New in Aladin 9.501 Beta (Dec 8, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • HiPS Market tree
  • Panel management improvement
  • HiPS mirror sites management improvement
  • MOC perimeter drawing + set drawing=xxx script command
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • MOC stack bug introduced in v9.039

New in Aladin 9.039 Beta (Sep 23, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • MOC perimeter drawing
  • New script commands (cmoc, ccat, )
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • Fix to BLANK wrong value in Hipsgen MAPTILES action
  • Fix to radians unit support for table coordinates
  • Fix to pmra and pmde detection

New in Aladin 9.033 Beta (Jul 1, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Hipsgen improvements: local APPEND, MAP.

New in Aladin 9.031 Beta (Jun 24, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Fish-eye projection support (ARC) => planetarium usage
  • Full-screen mode improvements (global menu)
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • Fix to x,y tag coordinates in Huge FITS image
  • Fix to ZEA and ARC projection in HiPS context

New in Aladin 9.027 Beta (Jun 13, 2016)

  • Hipsgen improvements: HiPS color multithread code, local MIRROR.

New in Aladin 9.024 Beta (May 24, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • MOC script support (cmoc command)

New in Aladin 9.022 Beta (May 23, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • MultiCCD image support
  • File dialog window multi-selections
  • Copy-able propertie links
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • Graphical object mouse selection over a HiPS
  • HiPS catalog "ghost" source selection
  • File dialog window directory selection on MacOs and Linux
  • HiPS cache cleaning

New in Aladin 9.020 Beta (May 13, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Tags improvements
  • Hipsgen improvements: HiPS color multithread code
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • HiPS RGB -f flag

New in Aladin 9.017 Beta (Apr 7, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Probability sky map MOC extraction
  • Planetary HiPS (longitude inversion)
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • GLU watchdog timer (sesame mirrors)
  • Blink initial delay

New in Aladin 9.010 (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Colormap: new controller (localcut)
  • Fullscreen widgets: Easier fullscreen control
  • Projections: new projections: SCAMP PV, TPV, SINSIP
  • Constellations: constellation area display
  • MOC improvements: full MOC adaptative drawing, draw MOC script command
  • PDS: improvement of Planetary Data System image support (LSB,PREFIX,SUFFIX...)
  • IVOA support improvements: ObsTAP & SIAv2 result support
  • HiPS improvements:
  • Faster display (no more GC "stop all" effect)
  • Dynamical HiPS tree (highlights available surveys in current view)
  • Cube support
  • Colormap control for colored HiPS
  • HTTPS support
  • Hipsgen improvements: fully multi-thread, Obscore revamp, MIRROR and RGB actions, ADD mode, index.html, new parameters: tileOrder, maxRatio,shape & polygon, HEALPix FITS map support (any NSIDE, NESTED or RING)

New in Aladin 9.011 Beta (Mar 1, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • High Dynamic Range button

New in Aladin 9.008 Beta (Feb 11, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • High Dynamic Range button
  • HiPS improvements: Pix local cut/full dynamic button

New in Aladin 9.005 Beta (Jan 5, 2016)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Script console history via the location field (arrow control)
  • JSON catalog export
  • Constellation drawing
  • MOC improvements (Mocgen)
  • HiPS improvements:
  • properties display
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • Mocgen RICE support

New in Aladin 8.177 Beta (Nov 10, 2015)

  • HEALPix map crop save

New in Aladin 8.141 Beta (Mar 31, 2015)

  • HiPS improvements:
  • Obscore vocabulary support
  • Hipsgen ADD mode

New in Aladin 8.138 Beta (Mar 27, 2015)

  • HiPS improvements :
  • ADD mode
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • HiPS building by iterations

New in Aladin 8.135 Beta (Feb 13, 2015)

  • New features and performance improvements:
  • Astrometrical calibration improvements (SCAMP PV)
  • Widgets in fullscreen mode
  • New colormap controller
  • Full MOC adaptative drawing
  • Improvement of Planetary Data System image support (LSB,PREFIX,SUFFIX...)
  • ObsTAP VOTable result support
  • Pixel autocut estimation around the reticle (localcut)
  • HiPS improvements :
  • Colormap control for colored HiPS
  • HEALPix FITS map support (any NSIDE, NESTED or RING)
  • Cube support
  • index.html HiPS directory description
  • tileOrder Hipsgen parameter
  • maxRatio Hipsgen parameter
  • shape & polygon Hipsgen parameters
  • Major fixed bugs:
  • Astrometrical calibration ZPN & SIN bugs
  • "Match" mode bugs (colormap, phot and fov tools)
  • AVM XML bug.
  • HiPS generation with PNG black pixel bug
  • Some grid drawing bugs (missing segments or labels)
  • Contour parameter bug refresh on HiPS planes
  • DS9 region multi plane bug
  • HiPS catalog object selection bug (allsky level 2)
  • Very extended catalogs bug display
  • Solar image v8 bug
  • VOTable dedicated NULL value
  • Polygon phot tool bug (cube + multi-segments)
  • FITS table GLON/GLAT coord system error
  • Undesired deselection of tables generated by a MOC filtering
  • HiPS generation "." directory bug

New in Aladin 8.040 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Proper motion: dynamic display (epoch slider)
  • VizieR photometry tool: phot.graph on current position
  • IVOA VOTable 1.3 standard support (BINARY2 + LINK + Note STC in VOTable 1.2 & 2.0)
  • ASCII catalogs in GLON/GLAT, ELON/ELAT or SLON/SLAT
  • JPEG large image: required RAM divided by 2
  • Progressive Survey (HiPS) improvements:
  • Faster display,
  • Faster generation (x5),
  • Access to the original images and associated metadata,
  • Orignal JPEG or PNG image support,
  • PNG tiles,
  • Progressive zoom,
  • Mirrored servers auto-switching,
  • Batch mode support (-hipsgen option)
  • Coverage map (MOC) improvements:
  • Catalog & pixel survey MOC access,
  • MOC generator from local images or catalogs,
  • Logical operations,
  • Filtering by MOC,
  • Faster display (via adaptative resolution),
  • IVOA MOC 1.0 standard support
  • Batch mode support (-mocgen option)
  • Miscellaneous:
  • New menus: "Recently open file", "Copy/Paste"...
  • New basic tools: coordinate & pixel toolboxes, distance measurer,
  • STC-S region support (as a script command),
  • Source tagging facility
  • Solid shapes,
  • Transparency pixels.

New in Aladin 7.0 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • All sky mode: Zoom and pan through surveys, catalogs, HEALPix maps
  • HEALPix: Support for HEALPix FITs maps, multifield, polarisation...
  • GPL: Distributed under GPL V3 licence (sources available)
  • Bookmarks: Store and reuse your usual jobs
  • Crop: Crop tool for images or HEALPix maps
  • Phot: Phot tool for local source extractions
  • Tag: Label tag tool for annotating views
  • Scatter plots: For easy catalog measurement analysis
  • Tables: Splitting, merging, metadata edition...
  • FITS 64 bits: Support for FITS 64 bits integer images...
  • VOTable 1.2: Support for VOTable 1.2 including coordinate system frame support
  • Calibrated PNG: AVM and FITS keywords support in PNG images for reading and writting astrometrical calibrated colored images
  • Colormap: Simultaneous adjustement of several images
  • Console: New console managing history
  • Script: Auto-synchronization, zoom angular parameter (zoom 10arcmin), overlay control (setconf overlay=NE,label...), convolution kernel (kernel=gauss(fwhm=10arcmin))
  • Translation: Spanish (Spanish VO), Japanese (M.Ohishi)