Thomas Boch
@bochthomas.bsky.social
Software engineer at CDS. Taking care of HiPS pixels in Aladin project
Rodrigo Ibata reçoit le prix Kavli 2026 en astrophysique. Spécialiste de l'archéologie galactique, il est récompensé pour l’étude des débris d’anciennes galaxies qui a permis de reconstituer l’histoire de la Voie lactée. @cnrs.fr @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @unistra.fr @kavliprize.bsky.social
Very proud of the whole Aladin team who made this possible.
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)@cdsportal.bsky.social · 10mo agoAladin Lite is the recipient of the 2025 Open Science Award for Free Research Software, in the "Community" category ! A well deserved recognition, beyond the astronomical community, of all the work done in the Aladin team. cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/12...
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...
No CDS oral presentation today at #ADASS2025, but can you spot #AladinLite usage in the talks given by Christophe Arviset and Erik Tollerud ?
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...
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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...
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...
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.
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_...
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...
An Exceptional Einstein Cross Reveals Hidden Dark Matter - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
An international team of astronomers, including Diana Ismail from Strasbourg astronomical observatory, has observed a galaxy in the early universe that is gravitationally lensed into the rare form of ...
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Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg@obsstrasbourg.bsky.social · last yr.Un spectaculaire résultat publié aujourd'hui dans l'Astrophysical Journal: cinq images de la même galaxie pour la première croix d'Einstein détectée en sub-millimétrique : astro.unistra.fr/fr/2025/09/1...
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!
@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
SkyMapper DR4 color HiPS has just been published in the HiPS network. Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...
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...
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
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
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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
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HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 i-band images is now available in the HiPS network: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR... #AladinLite
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
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