SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an

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database of objects beyond the

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. It is maintained by the

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(CDS),

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. SIMBAD was created by merging the

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(CSI) and the

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as they existed at the

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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

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stations at the Volgograd Observatory, was released in 1990. Fall of 2006 saw the release of Version 4 of the database, now stored in

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, and the supporting software, now written entirely in

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. JP11 is a star catalogue containing about 4,000 objects. Currently it exists only as a part of the SIMBAD database. , 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 was named in its honour.

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* * {{official website, http://simbad.cfa.harvard.edu/simbad/, SIMBAD, Harvard
SIMBAD database search page
Astronomical databases Astronomy websites Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg

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