• Overview
• Examples
• Source code
• Acknowledging usage
• Developers
• Contact

ipyaladin is a widget allowing one to use Aladin Lite visualization capabilities in Jupyter notebooks.

Special care has been taken to facilitate usage of Astropy objects such as Astropy tables, regions, SkyCoord.

Installation instructions can be found here.

Several example notebooks are available on this page.

ipyaladin source code is available on Github.

If you use ipyaladin for your work or research, we kindly ask you to cite it with the following acknowledgment:

This research made use of ipyaladin, developed by CDS, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France (DOI: 10.26093/kpaw-kb74 ).

2020ASPC..522..117B - ipyaladin: Enabling Aladin Lite in Jupyter Notebooks (Boch T. et al.)

ipyaladin is developed and maintained by M. Marchand, M. Baumann and T. Boch

Significant contributions has been done during internships:

• J. Desroziers has started the initial development in 2017.
• T. Czekaj has enriched the existing API, supporting notably astropy regions and SkyCoord (2024).

Send your feedback, comments, feature requests and bug reports to this email address.

You are also welcome to open an issue on Github.