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02-07-2018
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LAB survey (and many more) in Stellarium

Submitter: Tammo Jan Dijkema
Description: The latest version of the (free, open source) planetarium program Stellarium has the great new feature of showing surveys in the HIPS format.

HIPS (Hierarchical Progressive Surveys) is a standard developed by CDS but adopted as a standard by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) in 2015. This standard also allows Aladin to render various surveys in a responsive way.

Many many surveys are available, notably WENSS, the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey, and LAB, the Leiden-Argentina-Bonn Galactic HI survey (Kalberla et al 2015). The latter was used to show the galactic hydrogen above ASTRON, as measured by the Dwingeloo Telescope. This uses the custom Stellarium background that is freely available.
Copyright: CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema
 
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