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Thomas Boch
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Software engineer at CDS. Taking care of HiPS pixels in Aladin project
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cdsportal.bsky.social
A lot of new planetary HiPS surveys are presented by @bochthomas.bsky.social in the #IVOA interoperability meeting's Solar System Interest Group session in Görlitz.
Try the Mars roulette demo page to explore Mars MRO CTX data (6m/pixel resolution !).
aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/s...
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reposted by Thomas Boch
cdsportal.bsky.social
No CDS oral presentation today at #ADASS2025, but can you spot #AladinLite usage in the talks given by Christophe Arviset and Erik Tollerud ?
Christophe Arviset's presentation during #ADASS2025 Erik Tollerud's presentation during #ADASS2025
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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cdsportal.bsky.social
In today's #ADASS2025 BoF1, "Just for Fun? How Techniques from Entertainment Computing Can Help with Astronomical Data Analysis", Thomas Boch will talk about lightcurve hack &
gamification in Aladin.
Starting at 17:30 in Synagogue.

indico.dzastro.de/event/4/cont...
The 35th annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems 2025 in Görlitz, Germany
Registration is closed. Please note: you have to create an INDICO account in order to register and/or submit an abstract for a poster presentation. ADASS provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical and planetary science data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the...
indico.dzastro.de
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
Fresh from Mars! 🔴

Updated Mars MRO CTX HiPS with V01 data from @caltech.edu Murray Lab now available:
👉 alasky.cds.unistra.fr/CDS_P_Mars_M...

If you want to explore the Red Planet in a fun way, try Mars Roulette, every reload creates new random:
🎲 aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/s...
Mars roulette snapshot: thumbnails of random Mars regions
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
bochthomas.bsky.social
We just published at @cdsportal.bsky.social a color HiPS for Hubble Space Telescope images, combining 18 individual HiPS.
This data product gives an accurate preview of the HST archive content, spatially and spectrally.

Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/HST-hips/col...
Preview of HST color HiPS
September 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
WIP:

Plan oblique HiPS map of Alsace region.

Elevation data from @ignfrance.bsky.social RGE ALTI - Water ways data from @openstreetmap.bsky.social

High-resolution image of the map: filesender.renater.fr?s=download&t...

Final goal is to deliver a similar interactive map for the whole France.
September 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
bochthomas.bsky.social
While at CDS, the Aladin project mainly deals with deep sky images, we also map planetary surfaces.

We released the HiPS of China's Tianwen-1 MoRIC images, a true-color map of Mars at 76m resolution.

Interact with this awesome dataset in Aladin Lite at alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Planets/CDS_...
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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cdsportal.bsky.social
A nice press release. Check the #AladinLite visualization in the web page, comparing the Einstein cross of the background galaxy as seen by ALMA with the HST near-infrared image of the foreground galaxies.
astro.unistra.fr/en/2025/09/1...
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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pinakographos.bsky.social
I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com.

There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...

If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
A black and white sketch of Mount Hood, seen from a roughly ground level view. It is in a black frame, and on a blue background. Off to the left are a vertically stacked series of smaller images, too small to read. Each is different-looking, but all are black and white miniature versions of posters. The miniature version of the Mount Hood poster is highlighted in white. Sample images of three monochrome posters each prepared in a line drawing style. One shows Mount Rainier, another Katahdin, and the last one shows Devil's tower. The posters are stacked on top of each other and the Mount Rainier one is partially rolled up. A detailed zoom in of a hachured representation of the Presidential Range, with peaks labeled. A vertical-orientation poster titled "The Seven Summits" — it shows black and white sketches of seven different peaks, the highest on each continent. The peak sketches alternate between being positioned on the left and the right side of the poster. Next to each is a label naming the mountain and giving its location. The poster is framed on a blue background.
November 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
@vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look images are amazing.
We created a page with image cutouts of all 80,000+ SIMBAD objects in the published fields:
alasky.cds.unistra.fr/rubin-firstl...

Click on an object thumbnail to explore further interactively in Aladin Lite.

cc @lsst-france.bsky.social
Cutouts of objects in Rubin first look images
July 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
bochthomas.bsky.social
SkyMapper DR4 color HiPS has just been published in the HiPS network.
Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite:
alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...
July 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Thomas Boch
obsstrasbourg.bsky.social
Vous avez probablement vu les premières images spectaculaires du Vera C. Rubin telescope publiées cette semaine. Mais saviez-vous que leur visualiseur Skyviewer repose sur #AladinLite, développé par le @cdsportal.bsky.social ?
Plongez-vous dans ces nouvelles données :
cds.unistra.fr/fr/news/2025...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory's view of the Virgo Cluster. Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
bochthomas.bsky.social
The HiPS for V. Rubin observatory @VRubinObs First Lookup images is available in the HiPS network.
It encompasses the two fields "Cosmic Treasure Chest" and "The Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae".

alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Rubin/CDS_P_...

#IVOA #AladinLite
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
Very nice visualization of Rubin first images, powered by Aladin Lite
chrislintott.bsky.social Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · Jun 23
I strongly recommend playing with @vrubinobs.bsky.social's just released Skyviewer app, which has a tour and the Virgo data loaded. Go play here: skyviewer.app
Skyviewer
skyviewer.app
June 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
I strongly recommend playing with @vrubinobs.bsky.social's just released Skyviewer app, which has a tour and the Virgo data loaded. Go play here: skyviewer.app
Skyviewer
skyviewer.app
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
Euclid Q1 images, released 2 months ago, can be explored from your browser with Aladin Lite:
alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Euclid/Q1/
Euclid Q1 HiPS visualisation
CDS has generated 5 image HiPS from Euclid Q1 datasets. This page enables their visualisation with Aladin Lite
alasky.cds.unistra.fr
May 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
bochthomas.bsky.social
HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 i-band images is now available in the HiPS network: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...
#AladinLite
All-sky view of SkyMapper DR4 i-band HiPS
May 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
bochthomas.bsky.social
HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 g-band images is live and available at alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...
Snapshot of HiPS SkyMapper DR4 g-band
April 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Reposted by Thomas Boch
cdsportal.bsky.social
If you missed Manon Marchand's recent #ADASS2024 talk on #iPyaladin, you can access it from here !
youtu.be/E98vouSlbU4
ADASS 2024 presentation by Manon Marchand on iPyaladin
YouTube video by CDS - Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
youtu.be
December 2, 2024 at 9:53 AM