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<p>Dear HiPS users/contributors, dear Europlanet/VESPA members,<br>
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<p>We have progressed on HiPS planeto support "exploration" (in the
framework of VESPA Europlanet european project).<br>
The CDS is pleased to announce:<br>
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<li>The extension of the HiPS planeto collection (either based on
previous FITS conversions (Chiara Marmo/Université-Paris-Sud
work) or directly from JPEG CAR maps) => 17 HiPS maps and
panorama<br>
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<li>This collection is now publicly available in Aladin Desktop
beta ("Planet" branch in the data collection tree - see below).<br>
=> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/AladinBeta.jnlp">http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/AladinBeta.jnlp</a><br>
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<li>The Aladin Lite support of HiPS planeto (Thomas Boch's
development)<br>
=>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/API/examples/mars-visualisation/">http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/API/examples/mars-visualisation/</a></li>
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<p>These tools recognize the <b>hips_frame</b> keyword of the HiPS
properties file. We have extended the supported vocabulary
(equatorial, galactic, ecliptic => solar, mercury, venus,
earth, moon, mars, jupiter, saturn, ...). If the value is not the
3 celestial coordinate frames, by default, the longitude is
inverted for the display. Also, by default Aladin Desktop chooses
a spherical projection (SIN) like Aladin Lite.</p>
<p>These developments are still in test phase<br>
Pierre Fernique<br>
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<p><i><b>Aladin Desktop</b></i><i><b><br>
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<p><i><b>Aladin Lite </b></i><br>
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