Aladin 7

[Pierre Fernique]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Aladin 7 official release:http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/

=> A quick overview: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/NewInV7.png
=> Screen dump gallery: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/Demo/AladinDemo.gml
=> Flash demo: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/DemoAladinV7.htm


It integrates the following new features:

- *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 extraction
- *Tag*: Label tag tool for annotating views
- *Scatter plots*: For easy catalog analysis
- *Tables*: Splitting, merging, metadata edition...
- *FITS integer 64 bits*: Support for 64 bits integer FITS 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 
writing astrometrically calibrated color images
- *Colormap*: Simultaneous adjustement of several images
- *Console*: New console managing history
- *Script*: Auto-synchronization, angular parameter for zoom (zoom 10arcmin), 
overlay control (setconf overlay=NE,label...), convolution kernel 
(kernel=gauss(fwhm=10arcmin))
- *New translations*: Spanish, Japanese

Note : The addition of new all sky surveys accessible in Aladin 7 is a quite 
easy process.
If you would like to distribute your own survey by this way, please contact us 
or try it yourself (/Menu Tools => Healpix tools => create your own all sky /- 
available in beta release only)

Best regards and happy Christmas !
Thomas Boch, François Bonnarel, Anaïs Oberto and Pierre Fernique
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