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aladin-lite reviews and mentions

• Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2025

  With an opacity slider, for easy comparison:

  https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/?baseImageLayer=CDS...

• James Webb & The Two Micron All Sky Survey - J-H-K bands (2MASS color) of Herbig-Haro 211.
  1 project | /r/jameswebbdiscoveries | 16 Sep 2023

  2MASS colored

• where can I find a high quality image or images of the entire sky to study?
  1 project | /r/Astronomy | 30 May 2023

  Aladin (Lite) has a bunch of survey data in various wavelengths and the options to overlay the source names from SIMBAD or GAIA.

• strange google sky pictures pt 1(from ohio)
  1 project | /r/Astronomy | 7 Mar 2023

  And I might be worth looking at other sky viewers, such as Aladin Lite or the Legacy Survery viewer, often the images are cleaner for other surveys, e.g. in unWISE vs 2MASS.

• I read that there are high concentrations of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the galaxy that make it difficult to resolve stars. If Earth were orbiting a planet very near to the galactic center, would space appear “hazy” instead of clear and black?
  1 project | /r/askscience | 5 Jun 2022

  Most of the sky is not full of nebulae, sure, but if anywhere would be dense enough to completely cut off visible light, the galactic center would be that place. And indeed it is! See for yourself - in https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/ search the "galactic center" and see how it looks in DSS (visible light) 2MASS (near-infrared) and finally WISE (mid-infrared) - as you escape the dust clouds, the sky turns from a dark splotchy patch to a blindingly bright core.

• SgrA* black hole: Why can we see the orbiting stars in IR but not the accretion disk?
  1 project | /r/askscience | 16 May 2022

  The galactic center is invisible in optical due to dust. If you open Aladin Lite ( https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/ ) and plug in Sagittarius A*, you will find a tiny handful of stars in front of a dense dust cloud. Switching the image source to DECaPS, you can see a faint red glow as the cloud becomes less opaque in very-near-infrared. Moving just a bit further into infrared with 2MASS, you can see the galactic center showing up in the near-mid infrared bands H and K (green/red). By the time you get to proper mid-infrared observatories like WISE, the entire galactic center is a blinding white, saturating every single band.

• The James Webb Space Telescope's 1st target star is in the Big Dipper. Here's where to see it.
  1 project | /r/space | 29 Jan 2022
• Aladin Lite – explore telescopic imagery of the Universe
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
• Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes. Here we can scan the entire sky for hidden galaxies, and even decipher information about their stellar populations and evolution.
  1 project | /r/space | 28 Dec 2021
• 32 million light-years way from our home planet
  1 project | /r/space | 22 Oct 2021

  I've always liked this sky atlas site for looking up celestial objects. You can zoom in/ out and look up almost any 'static' object (stars, galaxies, nebulae, clusters, etc). OP's object is NGC 891 which you can directly search.

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