SIMBAD (the S et of I dentifications, M easurements and B ibliography for A stronomical D ata) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar System . It is maintained by the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France .
4-609: SIMBAD was created by merging the Catalog of Stellar Identifications (CSI) and the Bibliographic Star Index as they existed at the Meudon Computer Centre until 1979, and then expanded by additional source data from other catalogues and the academic literature. The first on-line interactive version, known as Version 2, was made available in 1981. Version 3, developed in the C language and running on UNIX stations at
8-842: The Henry Draper Catalogue , the AGK2/3 , the Cape Photographic Catalogue , the Cape Zone Catalogue, the Yale Zone Catalogue, the Cape Catalogue of Faint Stars, and the Boss General Catalogue . It contains stellar coordinates, magnitudes, spectral types, proper motions, and cross-references to designations in the previously mentioned catalogs. It also gives cross-references to many other catalogues, such as
12-746: The Volgograd Observatory, was released in 1990. Fall of 2006 saw the release of Version 4 of the database, now stored in PostgreSQL , and the supporting software, now written entirely in Java . JP11 is a star catalogue containing about 4,000 objects. Currently it exists only as a part of the SIMBAD database. As of 1 June 2020, SIMBAD contains information for 5,800,000 stars and about 5,500,000 nonstellar objects (galaxies, planetary nebulae, clusters, novae and supernovae, etc.). The minor planet 4692 SIMBAD
16-493: Was named in its honour. Catalog of Stellar Identifications The Catalog of Stellar Identifications ( CSI ) is a star catalog which was constructed to facilitate cross-referencing between different star catalogs. It contains designations and basic data for, as of 1983, approximately 440,000 stars , and was created by merging the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog ,
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