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[Pierre Fernique <>]

The Aladin team is pleased to announce a new official Aladin release (version 7.5)
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=downloading

It integrates the following new features :

•     HEALPix all-sky new features:

•     Better performances (less RAM - 64MB), faster display)
•     "Build your own sky" facility
•     Stack control more adaptated to allsky mode
•     Crop full resolution improved (bilinear, faster)
•     Progressive catalogue density control
•     Multi-Order Coverage Map (MOC) support
  
•     HTTP URL direct access

    JSAMP Web profile support     DS9 region definition support (as simple Aladin script commands)
    PDS image support     Colored FITS cubes support     HTTPS connection support     ALMA footprint utility (Server selector => FOV)     TSV,CSV improvements (notably CSV Excel and IPAC-TBL support)     Pixel extraction tool as table     Bitpix image re-encoding tool     Overlay color map tool (more...)     Free rotation in allsky mode     New coordinate frames: B1900, B1875, XY image     New projections (Mollweide, SIP-TAN)     Properties of graphical overlays (Prop button)     Footprint STS-S definition support     Print improvements (automatic scale, multiviews...)     "macro" script command to launch a macro from a script     VOTable 1.2 STC coordinate reference support ("Referencing STC in VOTable" - IVOA Note 2010-06-18) Pierre Fernique.