GenovaFrançoise
François Bonnarel, Pierre Fernique, Françoise Genova, James G. Bartlett, Olivier Bienaymé, Daniel Egret, Joseph Florsch, Houri Ziaeepour (CDS), Mireille Louys (ENSPS, Strasbourg)
Reference URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Aladin.html
Aladin is the CDS interactive sky atlas, used for source identification and interpretation, multiwavelength cross-identification and data quality control.
Aladin provides an image server which contains reference images from Schmidt surveys: from DSS I, soon from DSS II, and images digitized by the MAMA-CAI machine, with a better resolution, for crowded fields. It allows the overlaying of information extracted from the SIMBAD database, the VizieR catalogue server, and private catalogues.
The XWindow interface available for french labs and CDS co-workers, includes a source extraction facility as well as image compression solutions for image transfer.
The new step (October 1998) is to give acces to images of objects from the various CDS services on the WWW. Linked to this quick view facility, a JAVA interface includes interactive graphical processing and source overlay.