Aladin

Astronomical Sky Atlas and star catalogue for astronomical images and datasets

Science

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Aladin in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own aladin package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Aladin should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Everything runs on the device's own processor, with no GPU compute, and instruments attached over USB are not visible to Linux apps. More about science apps in Breadstick.

About Aladin

From Debian's package description

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

Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.

From Debian's description of the aladin package, under that package's license.

Keywords
Catalog, VO
Menu categories
Astronomy, Data visualization, Viewers, Education, Science

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Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's aladin package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the aladin package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the aladin package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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