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Thomas Boch

@bochthomas.bsky.social

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Software engineer at CDS. Taking care of HiPS pixels in Aladin project

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Testing HiPS 3D with NASA Mars Color Imager (MARCI) temporal data.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Testing our new HiPS 3D standard on earth observations data. It's hypnotic

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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...

Mars roulette snapshot: thumbnails of random Mars regions

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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...

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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_...

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The image seems to be flopped left-right. If you want an high-res interactive view of the region, Aladin Lite provides access to MRO CTX images : aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/p...

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@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

Cutouts of objects in Rubin first look images

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

SkyMapper DR4 color HiPS has just been published in the HiPS network. Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Yes, you can change contrat and brightness in Aladin Lite, look at this video.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 i-band images is now available in the HiPS network: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR... #AladinLite

All-sky view of SkyMapper DR4 i-band HiPS

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 g-band images is live and available at alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...

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