SIMBAD User's Guide

SIMBAD User's Guide Version SIMBAD4 v1.8

This user's guide is currently incomplete. But most of the web pages are self-explanatory and contain a link to a dedicated help page.
  1. SIMBAD 4 releases
  2. What is SIMBAD?

    QUERIES

  3. How to query SIMBAD?
  4. SIMBAD's URLs?
  5. Query from identifiers
  6. Query from coordinates
  7. Query from bibcodes
  8. Query objects by criteria
  9. Query objects by script

    USER'S GUIDE

  10. Astronomical content of an object
  11. Object types
  12. Nomenclature of celestial object
  13. Display of an astronomical object
  14. List of astronomical objects
  15. Bibliography content

    Appendices

  16. Greek letters coding
  17. Constellation names
  18. Clusters and Cluster stars
  19. Morphological type coding
  20. Description of measurements
  21. Journals scanned for the bibliography

    Acknowledgements

    If the Simbad database was helpful for your research work the following acknowledgment would be appreciated :

    "This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France"

    2000,A&AS,143,9 "The SIMBAD astronomical database", Wenger et al.

Last realease of this documentation : 2025-04-13

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