The Aladin interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS, is a service providing simultaneous access to digitized images of the sky, astronomical catalogues, and databases. The driving motivation is to facilitate direct, visual comparison of observational data at any wavelength with images of the optical sky, and with reference catalogues. The set of available sky images consists of the STScI Digitized Sky Surveys, completed with high resolution images of crowded regions scanned at the MAMA facility in Paris. A Java WWW interface to the system is available at: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0002109,
title = {The ALADIN Interactive Sky Atlas},
author = {Francois Bonnarel and Pierre Fernique and Olivier Bienayme and Daniel Egret and Francoise Genova and Mireille Louys and Francois Ochsenbein and Marc Wenger and James G. Bartlett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0002109},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, 3 Postscript figures; to be published in A&A